Earlier this week the Office team released a video that showed some of the new features of PowerPoint 2010, part of the Office 2010 suite. The latest version is hardware-accelerated with new transitions and animations. All of this means that you can better use PowerPoint to not just present bullet points or graphs, but to really tell your story.
Here is that video, all of which was done with PowerPoint 2010.
Software Transactional Memory is no longer a pipe dream or the stuff of academics. STM.NET, as it’s called, is ready for your experimentation.
The goal of STM.NET is to be able to exploit concurrency by using components written by experts and consumed by application programmers who can then compose together these components using STM. Transactional memory provides an easy-to-use mechanism to do this safely. STM.NET is of course not a concurrency silver bullet and this is an experimental rrelease of the .NET Framework that allows C# programmers to try out this technology, specifically a particular implementation of STM.
The STM team really needs your feedback to understand if they’re doing the right things to meet your needs. Traditionally, using STM for simple trasactional tasks didn’t make sense. The overhead was too high. Is this still the case? What needed to change in the .NET Framework to enable STM.NET? Remember, this is a .NET Framework experiment to enable STM for managed code.
Here, we meet most of the team responsible for STM.NET: Chris Dern, Yossi Levanoni, Sasha Dadiomov, Weirong Zhu, Sukhdeep Sodhi and Lingli Zhang.
Tune in, meet the team and get a good sense of what this very small team has accomplished with STM.NET and learn about some of the paths taken to get there. This represents really great engineering. Congratulations to the STM team! Now, Niners, go get the bits!
Enjoy.
Visual Studio Team System 2005 saw the introduction of the Team Edition for Database Professionals product, which allows database developers to perform such functions as version control, unit testing, test data generation, refactoring and more against SQL Server databases. In Visual Studio Team System 2010, Microsoft made this area of the product extensible in order to support 3rd party databases. Quest Software is hard at work on a database schema provider to support Oracle database development from within Visual Studio Team System 2010.
In this 10-4 episode I sat down with Daniel Norwood of Quest Software to get an early look at “Project Fuze.”
To access more information about Project Fuze, visit:
http://www.teamfuze.net
For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4
Visual Studio Topic Area on Channel 9:
http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio
Visual Studio 2010 Beta:
http://tinyurl.com/VS2010Beta1
10-4! Over and out!
My role at Microsoft changed slightly this morning. I’ve got from being a dude on a team to being a dude with a team. I’m not sure if it’s a big change or a medium change. There’s no sack of money, although I think they put “Lead” at the end of my title and I get a copy of Halo 4*.
I wasn’t sure if this would be a big deal or not, so I figured I’d ask a guy I respect a great deal, Chris Sells. Chris is a guy who has been in the community for years and is well though of. He gets lots done so I figured I’d ask him how my life will change by managing a team. Here’s what he had to say, over lunch at the food court. (Note that Chris and I are both remote and live in Oregon, so that’s ANOTHER reason I wanted to talk to him.)
* not really.
This week on C9, Brian and Christian “Littleguru” Liensberger review the week’s top developer stories including:
- Dan on paternity leave – welcome to Gavin Xavier Fernandez!
- MSDN & Technet availability of Windows 7 (Correction to the video: Windows Server 2008 R2 not available just yet… team says “available in the coming weeks”)
- Windows 7 on 9 and Windows 7 on Edge
- Windows 7 Physical and Virtual Deployment Options
- Windows 7 Remote Desktop with multi-mon
- Windows 7 Bing Desktop Wallpaper
- PDC 2009 Registration Launched
- Silverlight SDK for Bing
- Customizing TFS Process Guidance
- Team Review for Team System
- Using VSTS 2010 to catch string formatting bugs
- 31 Days of Refactoring
- Clint Rutkas’s Drunktender 1.0 Demo
- AI in C# and LINQ
Picks of the week:
- Christian’s pick-of-the-week, RoombaSCI
- Brian’s pick-of-the-week, Russ’s Toolshed on Channel 9