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Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010

Beth Massi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:07:00 GMT

This time I interview a good friend of mine, Boris Scholl, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development. Boris shows off the new Business Data Connectivity designer in Visual Studio 2010 and how it allows you to describe data coming from multiple data sources and how to work with them in SharePoint. He builds a master/detail association across entities coming from separate data sources (a database and a service) and demonstrates how the entities can be displayed and edited.

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

10-4 Episode 36: Windows Server AppFabric and Workflow Services Lab

Ron Jacobs — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:37:00 GMT

Have you heard about the new Windows Server AppFabric? In this episode we take you through the new Beta 2 version of the Introduction to Workflow Services Hands On Lab in .NET 4 which now includes a look at portions of Windows Server Application Fabric.

Look for this lab in the next update to the Visual Studio 2010 training kit and Visual Studio 2010 learning center on Channel 9.

Reactive Extensions API in depth: Until and WaitUntil

Jeffrey van Gogh — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:51:00 GMT

Now that we have explained "Marble Diagrams", we use this representation to describe what Rx's Until and WaitUntil behavior is.

You can watch all of the Rx tutorials here.

Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 - Out of Browser Evolves [Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 - Out of Browser Evolves]

Charles — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:19:00 GMT

Joe Stegman, Director of Program Management on the Silverlight team, joins us to discuss Silverlight 4's Out of Browser improvements (OOB means you can run Silverlight applications on the desktop, outside of, well, the browser...). Of note, you can now interop with COM objects in SL4's OOB. We also touch on the the future of Silverlight and clearly define the distinctions/differences between Silverlight and WPF. When to use SL? When to use WPF?

Enjoy.

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Wes Dyer and Stephen Toub: Rx and Px - Working Together

Charles — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:56:00 GMT

Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) released this week during PDC09. Rx uses Parallel Extensions for .NET (Px) for all of it's concurrent and parallel computing needs. How is it using Px, specifically? What's going on here and why?

Stephen Toub, PM on the Px team, and Wes Dyer, developer on the Rx team, tell us all about this partnership the experience of collaborating on two very compatible technologies that, taken together, create something beautiful. Some many xs, so little time.

Enjoy.

C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer - Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 8 of 13 [C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer - Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 8 of 13]

Charles — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:55:00 GMT

We've kicked off C9 Lectures with a journey into the world of Functional Programming with functional language purist and high priest of the lambda calculus, Dr. Erik Meijer (you can thank Erik for many of the functional constructs that have shown up in languages like C# and VB.NET. When you use LINQ, thank Erik in addition to Anders).

We will release a new chapter in this series every Thursday.

In Chapter 8, Functional Parsers, it's all about parsing and parsers. A parser is a program that analyses a piece of text to determine its syntactic structure. In a functional language such as Haskell, parsers can naturally be viewed as functions.

type Parser = String -> Tree

A parser is a function that takes a string and returns some form of tree.

You should watch these in sequence (or skip around depending on your curent level of knowledge in this domain):

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7

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SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010

Beth Massi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:06:00 GMT

In this interview I sit down with Lily Ma, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development. Lily shows off the new SharePoint feature and package designers in Visual Studio 2010 and how they make packaging up and deploying your SharePoint customizations easy. As she dives deeper into the tools, she also demonstrates the flexibility and control you have in specifying what features go in what packages across projects in your solution as well as how to modify the manifests to meet a variety of developer needs.

Also if you missed it, check out Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010.

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

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Walkthroughs

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Samples

SharePoint 2010 Development Resources

SharePoint Team Blog

Office Development in Visual Studio Team Blog

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

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Outlook Social Connector for Outlook 2010

Larry Larsen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:20:00 GMT

One of the new features we're announcing today at PDC is the Outlook Social Connector SDK. This is a new way to integrate social networking data into Office Outlook 2010. Too busy with the @Ch9Live show to tell you too much more but check out the video. :)

Introducing the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta

James Senior — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:56:00 GMT

During PDC 09 I grabbed some time with Stephen Walther to talk about some of the exciting new developments with the ASP.NET Ajax Library. There were a number of new things to talk about including:

The ASP.NET Ajax Library is now in Beta
Merging the Ajax Control Toolkit and the ASP.NET Ajax Library
There is now a pure client-side version of the Ajax Control Toolkit as well as the server-side version
Microsoft donating the ASP.NET Ajax Library into the CodePlex Foundation
There is now full product support of ASP.NET Ajax Library from Microsoft (including Ajax Control Toolkit

We then walked through some demos of the ASP.NET Ajax Library that brings the following exciting capabilities to developers:

Power

Build data-centric web apps using advanced client-side data access libraries and controls
Keep your markup clean and standards-compliant with imperative coding
Make it easier to code using JavaScript intellisense in Visual Studio
Keep loading and execution of your scripts simple with the Script Loader with advanced management and execution features

Performance

Use the ASP.NET Ajax Library CDN for lightning fast downloads of ASP.NET Ajax Library and jQuery
Reduce the number of requests to the server using script combining in the Script Loader
Reduce the size of your scripts using the ASP.NET Ajax Minifier Tool

Interoperability

Works across all browsers and any platform; ASP.NET, PHP, Ruby on Rails etc
Explore the code and make modifications, it’s open source
Use powerful jQuery selection syntax and Ajax Control Toolkit controls together
Create your own controls by extending ours like the DataView

Check out my full blog post about the news here: http://www.jamessenior.com/post/News-on-the-ASPNET-Ajax-Library.aspx

Check out the docs and samples on the wiki here: http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary
Download the code from http://ajax.codeplex.com

IE 9: Surfing on the GPU with D2D [IE 9: Surfing on the GPU with D2D]

Charles — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:58:00 GMT

The IE team is busy working on the next version of the world's most popular browser. IE 8 is the most widely used browser on Windows. IE 9 is currently in the oven and the IE team is ready to talk about what they're working on. Here, IE GM Dean Hachamovitch leads us through the halls of IE (literarally) and takes us to meet graphics developer Christian Fortini and test lead Anjali Parikh. They're taking IE to a new level with all graphic rendering taking place on the GPU via the DirectX technology D2D. So, IE 9 will take advantage of the power of the GPU for all page rendering and, further, enable web developers to exploit this power in ways they already understand (CSS, DHTML, JavaScript). The increase in performance and smooth rendering is stunning as you will see in the demos that are part of this conversation. This is incredible news for web developers and web surfers. IE 9, surfing the GPU! Oh yeah.

Be sure to check out interviews on IE 9's new JS engine and the importance of testing to achieving interoperable standards.

Enjoy.

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IE 9: First look at the new JS Engine [IE 9: First look at the new JS Engine]

Charles — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:22:00 GMT

The IE team is busy working on the next version of the world's most popular browser. IE 8 is the most widely used browser on Windows. IE 9 is currently in the oven and the IE team is ready to talk about what they're working on. Here, JavaScript engine team members John Montgomery, Steve Lucco and Shanku Niyogi give us an early look at the new JS engine that will ship with IE 9. As of the interview, it is on par with the latest performance numbers of the latest Firefox beta and making progress in catching up to Chrome's latest V8. Again, this is a really early look at where the JS engine is and where it's going (and what they've done, architecturally, to speed up IE's JS engine). Enjoy!

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IE 9: Standards and Interoperability

Charles — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:22:00 GMT

The IE team is busy working on the next version of the world's most popular browser. IE 8 is the most widely used browser on Windows. IE 9 is currently in the oven and the IE team is ready to talk about what they're working on. Here, IE GM Dean Hachamovitch introduces some of the key advances his team is making and leads us through the halls of IE (literarally) to learn from the engineers who are building the future of IE. John Hrvatin and Kris Krueger talk to us about where they are with improvements in IE 9's interoperability and standards support.

PDC09: John Durant on newly announced SharePoint features

Robert Hess — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:13:00 GMT

John Durant just returned from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference where a number of new SharePoint features were announced. In this episode he shares some of those features with us and describes how they can help developers in a variety of ways.

John will be doing a couple sessions at PDC09 which will also cover some of these features:

And here are some PDC09 sessions based on some of the other topics we discussed:

Manuvir Das: Windows Azure One Year Later [Manuvir Das: Windows Azure One Year Later]

Charles — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:47:00 GMT

Manuvir Das discusses the current state of Windows Azure. The last time we spoke was at last year's PDC when we announced Azure to the world. Here, we dig into hat's new today with Azure. How have people used Azure over the past year? What worked? What didn't work? Tune in. It's always great to chat with Manuvir and there's a lot of great info in this conversation.

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Getting Started with Rx Extensions for .NET [Getting Started with Rx Extensions for .NET]

Charles — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:57:00 GMT

Reactive Extensions for .NET, Rx, is here!!!

Reactive Extensions team member and software developer Jeffrey Van Gogh shows us how to get started with Rx, how to install the bits, find the help documentation and add Rx into your visual studio project - all in 2 minutes!

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Erik Meijer: Rx in 15 Minutes - Rx is Here!!!!! [Erik Meijer: Rx in 15 Minutes - Rx is Here!!!!!]

Charles — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:53:00 GMT

Reactive Extensions for .NET, Rx, is here!!!

Erik Mejier explains what Rx is and why it matters in 15 minutes or less!

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Writing your first Rx Application

Jeffrey van Gogh — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:44:00 GMT

Today we released Reactive Extensions for .NET on DevLabs.

Rx is a .NET Library that allows programmers to write succinct declarative code to orchestrate and coordinate asynchronous and event-based programs based on familiar .NET idioms and patterns.

In this video, Wes Dyer goes through the steps of writing your first Rx Application. The Hello World equivalent of Rx is Drag-and-Drop.

Building on Azure: Siemens

Charles — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Siemens, a Microsoft Partner, is using Azure for a remote service use case. By using Azure, Siemens doesn’t need to create a new IT department to manage clusters all over the world: Azure spins up the instances. This allows Siemens to only worry about computation, and Microsoft addresses the hardware, people, and IT costs. Gerald Kaefer, Siemens Architect, explains...

Windows Identity Foundation Ships!

Vittorio Bertocci — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:23:00 GMT

The wait is over!
Today at our Professional Developer Conference Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF), a new extension to the .NET Framework that makes it easier for developers to create applications with open, identity-based access capabilities.
Vittorio interviewed Conrad Bayer, Director of Program Management for Identity and Access, to record his three-minutes take on the importance of this release.

Go get WIF while it's hot!

Introducing "Dallas" [Introducing "Dallas"]

Charles — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:18:00 GMT

Christian Liensberger, Moe Khosravy and Microsoft introduces a new information service, Microsoft Codename “Dallas,” also available through Pinpoint and built completely on the Windows Azure platform that enables developers and users to access premium commercial and reference datasets and content on any platform. Datasets currently available through “Dallas” include those from the Associated Press, Citysearch, DATA.gov, ESRI, First American Corp., infoUSA.com Inc., NASA, National Geographic TOPO!, NAVTEQ, RiskMetrics Group, the United Nations, WaveMarket Inc. and Weather Central Inc. Starting today, “Dallas” is available as a limited community technology preview (CTP).

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Azure, High Performance Computing and Identity Training Courses!

Andy Gammuto — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:00 GMT

We published three new developer training courses today. Enjoy!

Windows Azure Platform Training Course. A comprehensive set of technical content including samples, demos, hands-on labs, and presentations that are designed to expedite the learning process for the set of technologies released as part of the Windows Azure Platform.
Windows High Performance Computing (HPC) Course. Explore conceptual basics of HPC Server 2008, what can it do for you and how can you start using it. Administration, development patterns and techniques, and tools for tracing, tuning and debugging are addressed.
Identity Developer Training Course. Learn about how to take advantage of technologies such as Windows Identity Foundation to easily solve authentication, authorization and identity-driven personalization challenges.

As we mentioned in the kickoff of the Channel 9 Learning Center on October 22, we will routinely update these courses as new information becomes available.

Your opinion matters! If you have suggestions on how we can improve, let us know by posting comments here.

Channel 9 Live at PDC09 Schedule - Updated (Day 3)

Nic Fillingham — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:56:00 GMT

Channel 9 Live at PDC09 Schedule

All sessions run for 30 minutes. Broadcast begins immediately following the PDC09 Key Notes (Day 1 & Day 2). All times Pacific Standard Time

Day 3 (Nov 19th 2009)

10:30 AM - Welcome to Channel 9 Live at PDC09 (Day 3)
Mike Swanson, Dennis Angilletta and Jennifer Ritzinger with Nic Fillingham

11:00 AM - Clint Rutkas, Brian Peek and Tim Higgins with Scott Hanselman

11:30 AM - Stephen Toub with Charles Torre

12:00 PM - .NET Rocks LIVE at PDC09. Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin with Scott Hanselman and Scott Stanfield

1:00 PM - Dr. Brian Brooks (3M) with Robert Hess

2:30 PM - Wei Zhu (Facebook) with Dan Fernandez

3:00 PM - This Week On Channel 9 - PDC09 Daily Show Edition (Day 3)
Dan Fernandez and Special Guests

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Day 2 (Nov 18th 2009)

11:00 AM - Welcome to Channel 9 Live at PDC09 (Day 2)
Nic Fillingham and Dan Fernandez with Adam Kinney and John Papa

11:30 AM - Stephan Friedl (Quark) with Adam Kinney and John Papa

12:00 PM - Kurt DelBene with Robert Hess

12:30 PM - Scott Guthrie with Robert Hess

1:00 PM - Vittorio Bertocci & Stuart Kwan with Scott Hanselman

2:30 PM - Don Box and Chris Anderson

3:00 PM - Mike Angiulo with Scott Hanselman

3:30 PM - Dean Hachamovitch with Charles Torre

4:00 PM - Doug McCuiston, Director of Mars Exploration Program, NASA with Charles Torre

4:30 PM - Gary Flake with Charles Torre

5:00 PM - This Week On Channel 9 - PDC09 Daily Show Edition (Day 2)
Dan Fernandez with Special Guest

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Day 1 (Nov 17th 2009)

10:30 AM - Welcome to Channel 9 Live at PDC09 (Day 1)
Charles Torre, Nic Fillingham and Dan Fernandez

11:00 AM - Dr Jeff Norris, NASA Supervisor, Plannning Software Systems Group with Charles Torre

11:30 AM - Mark Russinovich and Patrick Dussud with Charles Torre

12:00 PM - Steve Marx with Scott Hanselman

12:30 PM - Martin Cron (Pet Holdings) with Scott Hanselman

1:00 PM - Bob Muglia with Scott Hanselman

2:30 PM - Dave Campbell with Charles Torre

3:00 PM - Yousef Khalidi with Charles Torre

3:30 PM - Ray Ozzie with Jeff Sandquist

4:00 PM - Erik Meijer and Thomas Lewis with Charles Torre

4:30 PM - Loic Le Meur (Seesmic) with Dan Fernandez and Jeff Sandquist

5:00 PM - This Week On Channel 9 - PDC09 Daily Show Edition (Day 1)
Jeff Hadfield with Dan Fernandez

Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010

Beth Massi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:44:00 GMT

In this interview I catch up with Mike Morton, a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing tools for SharePoint development. Mike gives us a great introduction and overview of these tools from the Visual Studio Developer perspective.

Mike shows us how easy it is to build, package, deploy and debug SharePoint 2010 customizations by walking through a site workflow, event receiver, visual web part, the feature and package designers as well as other goodies. This is a great intro for Visual Studio developers looking to get into SharePoint development, but seasoned SharePoint developers will also appreciate the new tools presented here.

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

SharePoint 2010 Development Resources

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Walkthroughs

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Samples

SharePoint Team Blog

Office Development in Visual Studio Team Blog

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

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Ping 38: Facebook SDK, MSN Video, Bing, Bill Gates, IE8

Laura Foy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:40:00 GMT

It's PDC week and trust me, that's what everybody is talking about- but the 'Softies did manage to stir up quite a bit of buzz for these stories:

Microsoft gives out Facebook SDK
MSN Video --> Bing Video
Tag n Tweet
Bill Gates- where are you?
Dolly Parton loves IE8!

Also-- we had a technical crash while recording so we are missing the main camera (two shot)- apologies in advance for the bouncy camera edits- best we could do!

TWC9: C9 Live at PDC, Teamprise, SDKs galore,

Dan Fernandez — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:28:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Clint Rutkas where we discuss the week's top developer news, including:

- Channel 9 Live at PDC - Three days of live streams with big names including Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia, Scott Guthrie, and many more.
- Microsoft PressPass - Microsoft acquires Teamprise which means Martin Woodward is a blue badge!
- Microsoft SDK for Facebook, now officially supported by Facebook
- Bing Maps Silverlight Control Interactive SDK
- New Amazon Web Services .NET SDK, via Greg Duncan
- Channel 9 adds Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, and Windows Server R2 Developer courses with videos and hands-on labs
- Thomas Lewis - Devil's Field Guide to the PDC (2009 Edition)
- Steve Marx - How to use the Azure CDN for a custom domain
- Anders Hejlsberg - the Visual Studio Documentary
- Sync Toy 2.1 Available for download
- Access 2010 - Access for SharePoint Web databases

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: Dragon Age Origins the game and the awesome toolset and developer wiki for building your own adventures.
- Clint's pick: Clint's Iron Bartender contest at PDC. It'sman versus machine in this blind taste test to see who builds the better drink, the Drinktender or an actual bartender.