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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

Tanagram Partners: Making multi-touch easier with touch.codeplex.com

April 24, 10 //
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The APIs in WPF4 plus the Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch make building common touch scenarios easy. However, implementing many of the same touch scenarios using WPF3.5SP1 or Silverlight 3/4 involves writing a fair bit more code. Furthermore, the touch APIs across WPF4, WPF3.5SP1, and Silverlight are different. 

 

The goal of this project is to simplify building common touch scenarios when using WPF 3.5 SP1 or Silverlight 3/4 by using Expression Blend Behaviors to provide a consistent way to implement these scenarios across WPF & Silverlight. Expression Blend Behaviors can be used within Visual Studio without a dependency on Expression Blend by downloading the Expression Blend 3 SDK. You can also find more Expression Blend Behaviors athttp://expressionblend.codeplex.com/ and http://tinyurl.com/ExpressionGalleryBehaviors. 

 

Go to http://touch.codeplex.com/ to learn more about this project.  Go to http://tanagrampartners.com/ to learn more about Tanagram Partners.

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

Doug Seven: Improving Developer-Tester Collaboration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

April 13, 10 //
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Effective collaboration between developers and testers is paramount and can make the difference between shipping quality applications on time, or slipping because bugs are found late.

In this session you will discover the six mechanisms in Visual Studio 2010 that enable more effective collaboration between developers and testers. These mechanisms include tools to create actionable bugs, debug historical events, and automate functional testing.

Doug Seven: Code Understanding and Systems Design with Visual Studio 2010

April 12, 10 //
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Visual Studio 2010 introduces an entirely new set of architecture tools to aide in both understanding the code you already have and in defining how new systems will be built.

In this session, you will discover how you can use new tools like the Architecture Explorer to better understand and comprehend complex systems before making any changes to them. You will see how graphically modeling the code makes it easier to understand the impact of a potential change. We’ll also show you how you can use modeling tools for UML and layer diagramming to describe and communicate the design of a new system—including how these tools can be used to validate the software being developed against its intended architecture.

Sam Gazitt: SharePoint and Office Development with Visual Studio 2010

April 12, 10 //
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Many customers are turning to SharePoint as a way of meeting changing business needs and managing IT costs and complexity. Visual Studio 2010 provides new support for SharePoint 2010 development, including tooling for Web Parts, Lists, Workflows, and Events and more, so you can bring great new customized collaboration tools to your company. 

In this session we will cover connecting SharePoint to external data, enhancing customizations with Silverlight, and leveraging SharePoint data from Office client extensions. You will see how to leverage your existing .NET skills to deliver new functionality on a platform that is readily familiar to end-users.

Cloud Cover Episode 7 – Dallas

April 2, 10 //
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Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this episode:

  • Check out the new information marketplace for producer and consumers called Codename “Dallas”
  • Find a PowerShell one-liner for monitoring your instances in Windows Azure 
  • Discover how to build and deploy to the cloud from Visual Studio using MSBuild tasks – all automated! 

Show Links:

Windows Azure deployment for your Build Server
Windows Azure Firestarter Event (April 6th!)
Windows Azure Storage Team Blog
Monitor Windows Azure PowerShell One-Liner

endpoint.tv – Install/Uninstall AppFabric & Referencing Caching Libraries

March 8, 10 //
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Last week we saw the release of Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 and came up with some interesting issues related to setting it up. We posted a great endpoint.tv episode, in which I talked through the setup experiences with Byron Tardif, and to follow up I added some blog posts.

In this episode of endpoint.tv we look at

  1. How to install AppFabric with the Web Platform Installer
  2. How to uninstall AppFabric
  3. How to reference the AppFabric Cache client libraries from Visual Studio 2010

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