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.NET RIA Services V1 Roadmap

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:44:19 GMT

Dinesh Kulkarni, from the RIA Services team, has published a roadmap for RIA Services. No guarantees here, but they hope to release a beta at PDC in November. The next CTP will be in July.

Resources for Developing Silverlight/Prism Applications

Sat, 30 May 2009 12:41:52 GMT

Links to Prism resources

Adventures in MVVM - Commanding with List Boxes

Sat, 30 May 2009 01:39:22 GMT

Continuing in my series of "Adventures in MVVM", I want to talk about a few different approaches to working with List Boxes with the MVVM pattern...

Silverlight in Visual Studio 2010

Wed, 27 May 2009 05:24:59 GMT

Preview of usage of Silverlight Project Template in Visual Studio 2010

Testing, Module Catalog and Unity in Prism

Sat, 23 May 2009 04:09:45 GMT

Modularity allows applications to be broken down into discrete pieces. This allows easier testing, better maintainability and the ability to distribute an application across multiple teams. This video explores the modularity support in Prism. The first part of the video covers Unity and Unit Testing. Inversion of Control using Dependency Injection and Service Location are both covered. The second part of the video details modules and how they're loaded by the Module Catalog.

Will Visual Studio 2010 put Expression Blend out of business?

Sat, 23 May 2009 02:12:45 GMT

Not according to Jesse Liberty. You will want Blend 3 for its terrific designer and animation capabilities and VS for its development capabilities. Microsoft is trying to make these tools the best for their target audience, rather than one tool that does everything merely adequately.

Good news and bad news for Silverlight 3 development

Sat, 23 May 2009 00:57:39 GMT

The bad news: .NET RIA Services will not install on VS 2010 Beta 1.

VS 2010 / .NET 4 Beta 1 now generally available

Thu, 21 May 2009 01:47:39 GMT

You can find documentation here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386063(VS.100).aspx The next release of ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF) will be numbered 4.0 to sync to the .NET version and will be part of .NET 4.0

Visual Studio 2010 (.NET 4.0) Beta 1 released

Tue, 19 May 2009 08:15:14 GMT

The first Beta release of VS 2010 is available starting today for MSDN subscribers.

Authorization Strategies for the Business Layer

Thu, 07 May 2009 20:41:42 GMT

Security is a cross-cutting concern and should not be embedded in your business logic. The strategies presented here will extract the authorization component from the business logic and embed it as a separate concern within the Business Layer.

WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit

Mon, 04 May 2009 22:11:38 GMT

The WPF team at Microsoft has released a toolkit (version 0.1) that addresses developing UIs with the M-V-VM pattern. It's definitely a first-pass (e.g. no VB.NET support), but they are looking for feedback on this effort.

Speed Up you MSDN Library Experience

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:17:51 GMT

Access a low-bandwidth version of MSDN Library.

Single-responsibility-principle? One method per class?

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:08:10 GMT

Single-responsibility-principle-Does-it-mean-I-cant-have-more-than-one-method-in-my-class?

Making Unity work more like the others

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:16:14 GMT

I love MS Unity as an IoC container, it has some great features. Though I found it to function incorrectly at two points (it's not that the path chosen by the Unity team is incorrect, I just want/excpect it to act differently). The first thing that bothered me was the fact that Unity throws an exception when Resolve<T> is not able to resolve the given type: I'd prefer it to return null instead, hence most containers do that. The second, even more irritating point, was that ResolveAll<T> only returned the named instances/types instead of all registered types

LINQ Links

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:13:45 GMT

Set of links about LINQ.

5 Random Gotchas with the WPF DataGrid

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:37:58 GMT

Tips from Vicent Sibal of Microsoft.

Building Out of Browser Experiences with Silverlight 3 (Video)

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:16:08 GMT

This is video of the MIX 09 presentation by Mike Harsh. It shows how easy it is to create Silverlight 3 applications that install locally, yet remain sandboxed.

How Do I: Learn to use LINQ to Entities?

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:12:15 GMT

Nice 10 minute video on using LINQ to Entities (from MSDN).

Jumpstarting your ASP.NET MVC Skills

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:07:20 GMT

Allan highlights the ASP.NET MVC Training Kit.

Integrating Unity with WCF

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:19:55 GMT

Shows how you can use Unity to resolve dependencies within a WCF Service.

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.

Lambdas

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:31:03 GMT

Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. Read this post to get an easy to understand overview of a topic is not really so terribly difficult to understand.