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10-4 Episode 34: Debugger Enhancements and Improvements

Jason Olson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:12:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, Jason Olson is joined by Andrew Hall and Brad Sullivan to take a look at some new enhancements and improvements made to the debugger and debugging experience in Visual Studio 2010.

[2:10] - Sticky Data Tips

[3:13] - Adding more values (including notes) to data tips

[4:44] - Breakpoints Window enhancements

[8:04] - Export and Import of Breakpoints and Data Tips

[10:40] - Threads Window enhancements

[14:39] - Dump debugging improvements

[24:50] - Integrated IL Interpreter

For more information on the Debugger and to stay up to speed with all sorts of goodness, make sure to check out the Debugger Team's blog.

For more information on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4, make sure to download and check out the latest release of the Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit along with the Visual Studio 2010 Training Course right here on Channel 9.

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

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Parallel Computing [Parallel Computing]

Jason Olson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:35:08 GMT

Developing applications that can take full advantage of today's multi-core, multi-processor is a difficult challenge, usually requiring a company's best developers. The new parallel computing technologies in the .NET Framework 4 gives developers some new tools to make developing these applications easier. Jason Olson describes what these new technologies are and how you'll use them in your application to spread workloads across multiple processor cores.

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Parallel Extensions: Building Multicore Applications with .NET [Parallel Extensions: Building Multicore Applications with .NET]

Jason Olson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:35:08 GMT

Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform (PCP) is providing tools enabling developers to leverage the power of Multicore processors in an efficient, maintainable, and scalable manner. Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework brings several important concepts into this toolset. In this Hands-On Lab, you will learn how to parallelize an existing algorithm by using the static Parallel helper class, create and run Tasks, use the Future class to create and run Tasks that return a value and use Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) to optimize LINQ queries to exectue in a parallel environment.

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What's New in Managed Languages [What's New in Managed Languages]

Jason Olson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:34:59 GMT

In this release of Visual Studio, C# and Visual Basic continue to evolve, providing new features to speed up development and add integration with dynamic languages. In addition, a new functional programming language called F# joins the set of managed langauges included in Visual Studio 2010. In this video, Jason Olson goes over the enhancements to C# and VB and the significance of F#.

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Visual Studio 2010: Test Driven Development [Visual Studio 2010: Test Driven Development]

Jason Olson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:34:59 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 brings with it several enhancements to help cut development friction and enable the developer to focus on the task at hand: writing high-quality code. In the following exercises we'll highlight several of the new features that the TDD developer can use to enhance his/her development cadence. Visual Studio helps your cadence by cutting the number of keystrokes to accomplish frequently performed tasks, speeds navigation through your solution, and enables you to use test frameworks other than MSTest.

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Visual Studio 2010: Office Programmability [Visual Studio 2010: Office Programmability]

Jason Olson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:34:58 GMT

In this lab you will see how new features in Visual Studio 2010, C# 4.0, and Visual Basic 10 make it easer to develop applications leveraging Microsoft Office. Additionally, you'll see a number of other powerful features which speed other elements of Office development.

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Introduction To F# [Introduction To F#]

Jason Olson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:34:57 GMT

This Hands-On Lab is comprised by the following exercises. Examine the basic F# types including tuples and functions. Discover how the "let" keyword allows values to be bound to identifiers. See that in F# funcations are the same as any other value, and are handled the same way. Demonstrate how this allows advanced langage features such as parially-applied or "curried" functions. Discover how F# lists are built and the power that can be achieved by F#'s "Head + Tail" approach. Demonstrate the powerful pattern matching and recusion capabilities of F#. Demonstrate the power and usefulness of discriminated unions in F#.

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Introduction To Managed Extensibility Framework [Introduction To Managed Extensibility Framework]

Jason Olson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:34:54 GMT

The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) allows developers to provide hooks into their .NET applications for extensions by first and third parties. MEF can be thought of as a general application extension facility. In this Hands-On Lab, you will learn how to define extensibility points for components, perform conditional binding and component creation and import extended assemblies while an application is running.

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10-4 Episode 32: MEF Preview 7

Jason Olson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:22:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we revisit the Managed Extensibility Framework and take a look at all the new improvements made in the latest available release, Preview 7.

For more information on the Managed Extensibility Framework, make sure to check out its home on Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/mef.

Resources from this episode:
- [Nicholas Blumhardt] Analyze MEF Assemblies from the Command Line
- [Laurent Bugnion] MVVM Light Toolkit

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

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This Week on C9: .NET Micro Framework, Azure, and PHP

Jason Olson — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:22:00 GMT

This week, Jason Olson and Jonathan Carter review the week's top developer stories including:

- .NET Micro Framework Dare To Dream Different Winners
- .NET Micro Framework v4.0 on ChipworkX module
- Oomph 2
- LEGO Mindstorms Sudoku Solver
- PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services
- Coding 4 Fun - Windows 7 Taskbar
- ASP.NET MVC Virtual Labs
- Has The OOP Train Left The Building?
- SQL Azure CTP Available
- First Graduating Class of School Of The Future Begins
- JavaScript MVC

Jason’s pick of the week: Larry Osterman's "N Years Ago Today"

Jonathan’s pick-of-the-week: Fun with Method Missing and C# 4.0

For those twits out there (you know who you are):
- http://twitter.com/jolson88
- http://twitter.com/lostintangent

10-4 Episode 26: Creating Extensible Applications with the Managed Extensibility Framework

Jason Olson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:24:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we take a look at a new library in .NET Framework 4 and how it helps developers write applications that are more extensible and easier to maintain than before.

For more information on the Managed Extensibility Framework, make sure to check out its home on Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/mef.

Source code for demo: http://cid-1b51ad25aad8fc86.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/ManagedExtensibilityFramework.zip

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

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10-4 Episode 25: Fixing PIA Pains with Type Equivalence

Jason Olson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:14:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we take a look at a new feature in CLR4 called "Type Equivalence" and how it helps address the pain points normally associated with Primary Interop Assemblies and COM Interop.

There have been several videos as of late here on Channel 9 covering Type Equivalence. For a more "behind the scenes" look, make sure to check out the following videos:

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

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10-4 Episode 17: F# Intro

Jason Olson — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:25:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we take a quick look at F#, a new addition to the family of managed programming languages in Visual Studio 2010. F# is a multi-paradigm programming language. Though its focus is at functional programming, it's capable of producing object-oriented code like other .NET languages. Since it is a .NET language, it can interop just fine with other existing .NET languages.

There is a lot to F#, more than we could possibly cover in a single 10-4 episode. So in this episode, we are just taking a brief look at the basic data types in F# as well as some more intermediate features like recursion, pattern matching, and partially-applied functions.

For people wanting to following along with this episode, you can grab the latest F# CTP directly from the F# MSDN Dev Center:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/fsharp/default.aspx

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

hubFS: THE place for F#:
http://cs.hubfs.net/

Don Syme's Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/

Dustin Campbell's Blog:
http://diditwith.net/

Chris Smith's Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith/default.aspx

Luke Hoban's Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/lukeh/

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10-4 Episode 12: Simplifying Your Code With C# 4.0

Jason Olson — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:04:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we take a look at some features coming with C# 4.0 that will help you simplify your existing code (as well as making new code you write more simple). There's already a plethora of C# 4.0 content you can find out there (including here on Channel 9 itself), so we will dive in specifically to how the combination of named and optional parameters will help you simplify your code.

While we aren't specifically using the CTP, most (if not all) of the code shown in this video should work in the CTP as well.

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

C# Dev Center:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/default.aspx

Community Convergence Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/default.aspx

Managed World Blog:
http://www.managed-world.com/

Visual Studio Topic Area on Channel 9:
http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio

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10-4 Episode 9: Visual Basic 10 [10-4 Episode 9: Visual Basic 10]

Jason Olson — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:04:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we introduce some of the new features and functionality coming to the Visual Basic language with the release of Visual Basic 10. We'll cover a whole range of features from Auto-Properties, to Multiline Lambdas, Statement Lambdas, Collection Initializers, Array Literals, and Implicit Line Continuation.

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

Visual Basic Team Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam

Generic Variance in Visual Basic:
http://tinyurl.com/VBGenericVariance

Visual Studio Topic Area on Channel 9:
http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio

Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC:
http://tinyurl.com/GetCTP

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10-4 Episode 6: Parallel Extensions [10-4 Episode 6: Parallel Extensions]

Jason Olson — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:18:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we start taking a look at Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. We'll look at some of the surface-area of the Parallel Extensions API and provide you with enough information to start working with it yourself in the Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC.

Remember that we are running these bits within a virtual machine with a single virtual processor, so you won't be able to see the performance improvements from the library. However, you will be able to start get a feel for the API itself. In future episodes, we will dive into deeper details of the various parts of Parallel Extensions.

Also, in next week's episode, Jonathan Carter will be back to talk about another new feature in ASP.NET 4.0, so make sure to stay tuned for that!

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 CTP VPC:
http://tinyurl.com/GetCTP

Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit
http://tinyurl.com/VS10Kit

Concurrency MSDN Dev Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/concurrency

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10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010 [10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010]

Jason Olson — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:04:00 GMT

Happy Holidays, everybody! First of all, thanks to everybody who helped get the word out on the launch of this new show on Channel 9 by blogging, tweeting, or spreading the word using other ways. There is no doubt in our minds that the launch of this new show wouldn’t have been nearly as successful without all of you!

In this second episode of 10-4, we’ll take a very high-level look at Visual Studio 2010. We’ll discuss what types of features you can expect to see in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 depending on what type of developer you are. And lastly we’ll go ahead and dive into a revised area of Visual Studio: the Start Page. The Start Page in Visual Studio 2010 has been revised to be XAML-based and allows full customization.

In future episodes we’ll dive more deeply into the technical underpinnings of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, but for this second episode we want to make sure everybody gains an understanding of what different areas are being focused in Visual Studio 2010. While an overview is given, there is only so much time and so many features we can talk about. So if you don't see something mentioned, don't worry as we have a lot more information to dive into in the coming weeks and months.

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/10-4/

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Sharepoint Development with Visual Studio 2010 [Sharepoint Development with Visual Studio 2010]

Jason Olson — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:30:00 GMT

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Reza Chitsaz, Senior Program Manager working on Office and Sharepoint tooling.

In this video, Reza gives us a quick sneak-peak on some of the tools coming in Visual Studio 2010 around supporting Sharepoint as a platform. You can expect to hear a lot more about this in the future!

Enjoy!

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

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Visual C++ 10: 10 is the new 6

Jason Olson — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:29:00 GMT

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Amit Mohindra, Program Manager on the C++ team.

In this video, Amit takes us on a tour of Visual C++ 10. Covered are topics like the new msbuild-based build system, the new intellisense engine, some new C++0x language features, and more.

Enjoy!

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

Web Development and Deployment with Visual Studio 2010 [Web Development and Deployment with Visual Studio 2010]

Jason Olson — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:29:00 GMT

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Vishal Joshi, Senior Program Manager on the Web Development Tools team.

In this video, Vishal shows us what is being done in Visual Studio 2010 around web development and deployment. Covered are topics like JQuery support, HTML code snippets, better Intellisense, and a whole slew of new features around web deployment.

Enjoy!

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

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Debugging Parallel Applications with Visual Studio 2010 [Debugging Parallel Applications with Visual Studio 2010]

Jason Olson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:37:00 GMT

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Daniel Moth, Senior Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform team.

In this video, Daniel shows us what is being done in order to make debugging of parallel applications easier than it has been before. Covered are features like the new Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks windows, among others.

Enjoy!

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

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Native Parallelism with the Parallel Patterns Library

Jason Olson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:37:00 GMT

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Rick Molloy, Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform team.

Rick takes us on a tour of the new parallelism features coming with C++ 10 via the Parallel Patterns Library. Covered are features like task groups, structured task groups, and agents-based parallelism, among many others.

Enjoy!

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

Using the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework [Using the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework]

Jason Olson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:37:00 GMT

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Stephen Toub, Senior Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform team.

Stephen takes us through a whirlwind tour of many different Parallel Extensions features, showing them in action. Covered are features like Parallel LINQ, Parallel.For, the Task Parallel Library, and some of the new Coordination Data Structures.

Enjoy!

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

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Code-Focused Development with Visual Studio 2010 [Code-Focused Development with Visual Studio 2010]

Jason Olson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:17:00 GMT

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Karen Liu, Lead PM on the C# and Visual Basic IDEs.

Karen shows us what is being done around code-focused development: making it easier for all us developers to understand and navigate our code. Covered are features like Highlight References and View Call Hierarchy, among others.

Enjoy!

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

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Test-Driven Development with Visual Studio 2010 [Test-Driven Development with Visual Studio 2010]

Jason Olson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:31:00 GMT

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Karen Liu, Lead PM on the C# and Visual Basic IDEs.

Karen shows us improvements being made to better enable test-driven development. Covered are features like Generate From Usage and Quick Search, among others. There is also a "sneak peek" on some of the work being done to open up the Visual Studio test runner.

Enjoy!

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

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