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Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Launch: New Designer Capabilities (Silverlight TV 27)

May 17, 10 //
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Mark Wilson-Thomas joins John to announce the launch of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010! Mark shows off several impressive, new features in the Visual Studio 2010 designer that work for both Silverlight and WPF development. Some key new features that are covered include:

  • New interactive design surface
  • Working with Styles and Resources
  • Go To Value Definition lets you directly locate nested styles
  • Using the new “Data Can” to pinpoint data hookups
  • Moving stuff around in complex Grid panels using the new right click “goodies” 

You can learn more about the new features from the Cider Designer blog, too.

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Behind Windows Phone Tools for Developers – The Emulator

May 12, 10 //
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While Silverlight and XNA Framework enable developers to create new and innovative applications and games for the Windows Phone (WP), these are just sets of libraries. In order to complete the development experience, a set of powerful tools is required. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone is a free express version of Visual Studio tailored to the Windows Phone. It includes Visual Studio Express to write great software, but more importantly for our purposes, it also includes the Windows Phone Emulator, which allows you to test and debug your application without even having a WP device. This enables you to create your software with high predictability and ease.

 Join Amit Chopra, Raghuram Lanka, and Mukund Bhoovaraghavan from the Windows Phone and Tools team, and Yochay Kiriaty, Senior Technical Evangelist, for a tour of the internals of the Windows Phone Emulator.

Tips & Tricks with Business Data Connectivity Model Deployment in Visual Studio 2010

May 6, 10 //
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I’m back with Boris Scholl, the Program Manager who designed the BDC Model designer in Visual Studio 2010. Boris is a SharePoint expert, and in this interview he shares some tips and tricks having to do with BDC model deployment to SharePoint 2010. He provides insight into what the designer is doing behind the scenes, what happens when you deploy the package, and how you can configure it to do exactly what you need.

Boris and I are good friends and in this interview we joke around a bit as he explains to me (a total SharePoint n00b!) how BDC models work. Hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please see:

For more SharePoint 2010 interviews with the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools team members see:

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Array and Collection Initializers in Visual Basic 2010

May 3, 10 //
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In this interview Spotty Bowles, a tester on the VB Compiler team, shows us a couple of new language features: Array and Collection Initializers. He gives us insight into how they are implemented in the compiler and best practices on how to use them in our code. Additionally, he discusses how to extend Collection Initializers with your own extension methods.

For more new Visual Basic language features in Visual Studio 2010 see:

Also, stop by the Visual Basic Team Blog and the Visual Basic Developer Center.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Ch9Live at VS2010 Launch – Stephen Toub on Parallelism

April 30, 10 //
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Stephen Toub and Charles Torre discuss Parallelism at DevConnections 2010 as part of the Visual Studio 2010 Launch in Las Vegas.

This session was recorded live as part of Channel 9 Live at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch from the Bellagio Hotel & Casino on April 12th 2010.

Concurrency Visualizer High Speed Tour

April 22, 10 //
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This 75-second video provides a quick introduction to the Concurrency Visualizer, a new profiling tool available in Visual Studio 2010. The Concurrency Visualizer enables you to look under the hood of your parallel applications and quickly discover performance bottlenecks. If you’re hungry to learn more, visit http://blogs.msdn.com/visualizeparallel.

Best Practices on Building SharePoint 2010 Web Parts with Visual Studio 2010

April 20, 10 //
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In this interview, Boris Scholl, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development, shows off the new SharePoint 2010 tools in Visual Studio 2010 for web parts. He discusses the differences between “Visual Web Part” and “Web Part” item templates in Visual Studio, as well as best practices on when and why to use each of them. He also (patiently) teaches me the differences between sandbox and farm solutions.

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please see:

Also if you missed them, check out these interviews as well:

And please give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Lap Around .NET 4 with Scott Hanselman

April 15, 10 //
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In this session, Scott Hanselman gives a deep and broad tour of the .NET 4 release, with a focus on making your development experience easier. See lots of demos (and very few slides) showcasing the key new features in the .NET Framework 4 including MEF, improvements in ASP.NET, threading, multi-core and parallel extensions, additions to the base classes, changes and additions to the CLR and DLR, what’s new for the languages (Visual Basic and C#), and of course, what’s new in Windows Presentation Foundation and System.Web. Come and see how all these new features and capabilities improve your overall .NET experience! 

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This session is presented by Scott Hanselman during Microsoft DevDays 2010 in The Hague in The Netherlands.

Visual Studio 2010 Code Visualization Tools

April 14, 10 //
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Visual Studio 2010 is a fairly important release of the developer tool of choice for writing Windows applications. One of the important advancements in the new update is how it enables developers and architects to better visualize the assets and dependencies through UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams.

In this episode, Cameron Skinner gives us a quick overview of how Visual Studio 2010’s new UML visualization tool’s design might help you with better understanding the overall structure of your applications.

You may also find the following links useful:

Ping 55: Visual Studio 2010 Launch, Kin Unveiled, GLO for women

April 12, 10 //
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Holy lots of announcements Batman! Let’s just get to it since this week was jam-packed!

Dan Fernandez dishes about the VS 2010 Launch
Check out the FIRST Kin demo!
Microsoft loves the ladies…
Forever immortalized in Country Music! Yee Haw!
Deep Zooming
“Get a Mac” ads are over

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