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MSDN: Visual C# Headlines
2/9/2010
Microsoft has shipped the RC for Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4! The RC will be made available to the public on Wednesday, February 10, 2010.
A few years back I wrote a post on the size of the .NET Framework . There's historically been a lot of confusion on the site of the .NET Framework. If you search around on the web for ".NET Framework" or ".NET Framework Redistributable" you'll oft...
ADO.NET Team Blog
2/8/2010
The "Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack" is a downloadable addition to Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 which includes some new database generation technologies. The original Database Generation feature in the Entity Designer in VS 2010 is ex...
Fabulous Adventures In Coding
2/8/2010
As I mentioned a while back, there are some bugs in the compiler code which analyzes whether a set of classes violates the “no cycles†rules for base classes. (That is, a class is not allowed to inherit from itself, directly or indirectly, and not...
[ In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This is the fifteenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post co...
In the past several months Visual Studio and I have been really busy stress testing each other. This post is a general overview on what we've been up to and what kind of testing we're doing. I've learned a lot about stress testing and I have to sa...
I’m sitting here in the Memphis airport at the terminal gate for New Orleans. Having gone 17 weeks without seeing a single Saints fan, you’d think each person wearing a Fleur de Lis football jersey was a long lost family member of mine, as I run u...
My one-hundred-and-ninety-ninth podcast is up . I chat with Jeremy Zawodny , a developer at Craigslist on how the system is put together. How many servers do they have? How does it all fit together and what are the major technology problems they h...
Last year I linked to a screencast that shows off many VS2010 features delivered by the Parallel Computing team. There have been requests for the code used to demonstrate the features. Like with all my screencasts, you can see all the code in acti...
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Earlier this evening the ASP.NET team shipped ASP.NET MVC (Release Candidate 2) for VS 2008/.NET 3.5. You can download...