Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Roadmap(blogs.msdn.com)

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Now that the release of Visual Studio 2010 is just around the corner, the next thing to consider is when will the updated release of Entlib ship? Check out this blog post by Grigori Melnik where he reveals that April 14, 2010 is the magic target date…http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2010/01/20/announcing-enterprise-library-5-0-and-unity-2-0-roadmap.aspx For those of you who may not be familiar with what Enlib is - The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges. read more...

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Using Open XML SDK 2.0 to Create Office Solutions on Windows 7(blogs.msdn.com)

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With Open XML SDK 2.0, it becomes much easier to create Microsoft Office (2007 and 2010) based solutions with managed code than to work with VSTO (Office runtime for Visual Studio through interop) directly. The December 2009 Community Technical Preview (CTP) of the SDK, available for download here, is supported on Windows 7, Vista, XP and Windows Server 2003 and 2008. You can watch this 8-minute video to learn more about how to work with the SDK, including three handy tools for developers here. read more...

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Bing Maps Moves Forward with Silverlight Innovation(blogs.msdn.com)

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On January 19, the "Beta" tag was removed from the Silverlight version of Bing Maps - along with a couple of new features and Bing Maps Application Gallery mash-ins – like the ability to choose a custom map – like the “treasure Map” view shown above. Here’s a screenshot of the Map Apps you can check-out at the Bing Maps Silverlight site at http://www.bing.com/maps/explore read more...

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ARCast.TV - An Overview of MVC4WPF - Part 3 of 3(blogs.msdn.com)

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Brian H. Prince talks with Stephen Giffin and John Hannah about their new open source project called MVC4WPF. It is a new framework and guidance package that helps you quickly build enterprise WPF applications. They have seen a dramatic improvement in productivity, ability to leverage entry level developers, and a massive reduction in development costs. The framework helps your developers follow the right path and do the right thing. read more...

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ARCast.TV - An Overview of MVC4WPF - Part 2 of 3(blogs.msdn.com)

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Brian H. Prince meets with Stephen Giffin and John Hannah about their new open source project called MVC4WPF. It is a new framework and guidance package that helps you quickly build enterprise WPF applications. They have seen a dramatic improvement in productivity, ability to leverage entry level developers, and a massive reduction in development costs. The framework helps your developers follow the right path and do the right thing. read more...

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ARCast.TV Special - An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3 featuri(blogs.msdn.com)

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Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and in particular Silverlight. In this session we will step back from a detailed implementation technology and take a higher level look at Silverlight from the architect’s perspective. We will discuss the types of applications where Silverlight makes sense and some scenarios where Silverlight may not be the appropriate technology. We will also delve into some of the architectural decisions that the architect must consider when writing applications for this platform and where some of the tradeoffs may lie. - Tim Heuer read more...

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Connecting PHP to Microsoft Excel using LINQ with PHP(blogs.msdn.com)

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Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability. Check out episode 22 PHP LINQ Fest. Peter interviews Maarten Balliauw (Microsoft ASP.NET MVP) from Real Domen about two PHP-related open-source projects he has been working on. read more...

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Windows Azure goes live in January(blogs.msdn.com)

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At Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in November it was announced that the Windows Azure Platform will go live in January but it will be free for subscribers until February. This article by Kathleen Richards for Visual Studio Magazine gives a good overview of the offering, where it stands now and a peek ahead into it’s future. read more...

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Pick your Windows Azure Operating System version!(blogs.msdn.com)

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The Windows Azure Platform is currently based on a modified version of Windows Server 2008 R2. The Windows Azure philosophy is for Microsoft to take care of all the infrastructure requirements and let you focus on solving your business problem. One requirement that has had customers curious is how we will handle the issue of operating system versioning, in other words, do they automatically have to have their application run under a recently upgraded or patched version of the OS without their approval? Now we have an answer. With the addition of a new Service Configuration file parameter osVersion, you can now specify the version of the OS that you want your application to run under. read more...

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How Data, RIA, and Workflow Services all work with WCF(blogs.msdn.com)

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The .NET Framework 4 makes it easier for developers to work with services from their managed code applications. With .NET 4, the WCF technology provides several different types of services to start from, based on your particular needs, but they all share the same underlying infrastructure. read more...

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Creating Ribbon Applications on Windows 7(blogs.msdn.com)

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The ribbon concept was first introduced with Office 2007 and is now natively supported on Windows 7. Developers can create ribbon applications with rich user interface with either C++ or managed code such as C# or VB.NET. To get started with creating Windows 7 ribbon applications, you can review the ribbon guidelines and the ribbon roadmap available on MSDN and the PDC08 presentation on Windows Scenic Ribbon at Channel9. For C++ developers, this color picker sample app provides a quick look at how to work with color schemes using the ribbon framework. For C# developers, this ribbon library along with 18 sample applications shows how to add the ribbon feature to your Windows Forms applications. A good resource for all developers including VB.NET developers is this Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers, where you can find samples on ribbon and all other areas. It is worth noting that if all these sample applications require a ribbon compiler, uicc.exe, which is available in Windows 7 SDK. If you try to run them on a 64-bit computer, you may run into some errors that may be caused by the incorrect pre-build event command line which you can find on the project properties. You will have to fix the command line by fixing the %ProgramFiles% environment variable, or manually run the command line to generate required ribbon binary file, header file, and resource file. In some cases, you may be able to find a quick fix by copying three files, uicc.exe, uiccDLL.dll, uicc.xsd, to the same folder where the ribbon markup xml file resides. However, this quick fix requires that you copy these three files for each ribbon project, therefore it is not a very desirable solution. read more...

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Silverlight 4 – How to Capture Audio and Video from a Web Cam(blogs.msdn.com)

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One of the coolest new features in Silverlight 4 is the ability to capture audio and video input from Web Cameras. With a few simple lines of code, you can request permission to your users to leverage their capture devices and then capture both the audio and video streams. So far, there have been some great examples of how to capture the video and use it as a background “brush” to paint a screen in the browser to show what the camera sees along with a few samples for enabling “snapshot” images from the webcam. But no one has actually taken it all the way to saving the captured video and audio streams locally (in isolated storage) to allow for a later file upload of the captured video segment – Until now… Check-out this post from Mike Taulty's Blog – where he shows you how to successfully save the streams to disk: http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2009/12/30/silverlight-4-webcams-oncemorewithaudio.aspx read more...

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Visual Studio Myth Buster(blogs.msdn.com)

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Need help justifying to the boss why you need to explore all the cool new features that are releasing soon in Visual Studio 2010? Stuck in a rut on an older version of Visual Studio and feeling the “need for speed” when it comes to increasing productivity for architects, developers, testers, and all the other IT folks involved in the ALM process? The Visual Studio 'Myth Busting Matrix' reveals the benefits of upgrading to Visual Studio 2010 and helps dispel some widely held myths. read more...

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SEO Improvements in ASP.NET 4(blogs.msdn.com)

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Looking to increase your web site's "discoverability" on the web to ultimately drive more traffic to your site? ASP.NET 4.0 has a few new features coming to help you improve the SEO of your web site: Page.MetaKeywords and Page.MetaDescription properties One of the nice improvements with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms is the addition of two new properties to the Page class: MetaKeywords and MetaDescription that make programmatically setting the “keywords” and “description” <meta> tags within the <head> section of your HTML much easier and cleaner. read more...

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IE8 Accelerator Creation Guide(blogs.msdn.com)

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Ever wanted to see how truly simple it is to configure an accelerator for Internet Explorer 8? Ever wonder how much more traffic you could drive to your web site with something as easy as an IE8 search accelerator (since almost every web site has at least some level of “Search” capabilities on their web site?) An IE8 accelerator is really just short and simple XML file – here’s an example one below for doing a search on MSDN: This one is REAL handy if you happen to be a .NET Architect / Developer): read more...

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ARCast.TV - An Overview of MVC4WPF, Part 1(blogs.msdn.com)

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Brian H. Prince meets with Stephen Griffin and John Hannah about their new open source project called MVC4WPF. It is a new framework and guidance package that helps you quickly build enterprise WPF applications. They have seen a dramatic improvement in productivity, ability to leverage entry level developers, and a massive reduction in development costs. The framework helps your developers follow the right path and do the right thing. read more...

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