.NET Framework

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,…

In this episode of 10-4, we look at the new code editor in Visual Studio 2010. We'll try out some of the new code navigation features that make it easier to move around in your source code. Then we look at how Visual Studio 2010 makes Test Driven Development a lot easier. Finally, we'll see how…

In this video, Mark Marron, who is visiting the Research in Software Engineering group (RiSE) for the summer, describes some work and gives a short demo on a technique for visualizing and understanding a program’s runtime memory structure (which data structures are built, how big they are, how…

For most of their lifetimes, C# and VB.NET have evolved at their own pace and in their own ways (C# added iterators, VB.NET didn't. VB.NET added XML Literals, C# didn't. etc, etc...). Today, Luca Bolognese and team have embarked on a new approach to how .NET's premiere languages will evolve going…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 2 Performance Monitor is oftentimes an overlooked tool when troubleshooting application issues.  But in the production environment, it can be invaluable to helping you determine just what kind of application issue you have.  Perfmon has a lot to offer,…

Welcome back to the WCF screencast series! After a short vacation covering WF topics, we return to WCF for the latest video in the weekly WF/WCF Screencast series. In this short video, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight guides the viewer through how to create your first WCF…

In this episode of 10-4, we introduce some of the new features and functionality of ASP.NET AJAX 4.0. We’ll see how ASP.NET AJAX can be leveraged in a complete client-side environment, making it easier to develop rich web applications. This episode demonstrates the new client templates, data…

Despite all of the advances in automated testing tools and frameworks over the last decade, manual testing still constitutes the lion's share of testing effort within most software development organizations. This episode of 10-4 will introduce the new capabilities in Visual Studio Team…

Margus Veanes, a Researcher from the RiSE group at Microsoft Research, gives an overview of Rex, a tool that generates matching string from .NET regular expressions. Rex turns regular expressions into symbolic automatons, then gives them to a constraint solver to find matching strings.…

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…