Orcas

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: When you install Visual Studio 2008 you also get the additional assemblies that make up version 1.0 of ADO.NET Sync Services. More importantly, there is a nice wizard in VS2008 that does the hard work for you. In this 18' video we create from…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: User Account Control is the top compatibility hurdle for some applications moving to Windows Vista. It is relatively easy to comply with some elements of UAC (e.g. embedding a manifest in your app) and with Visual Studio 2008 it is even easier as I…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: While we all love focusing on language and framework features, sometimes it is nice to get small aesthetic and usability enhancements. The Visual Studio 2008 IDE has plenty of those as you can see in this video. Related to that, VS2005 does the job…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: There is much confusion about what .NET Framework 3.5 is and how it relates to v3.0 and v2.0. In this video I try to explain that and also show you the entire list of the new assemblies with a sentence or two on what each one contains and where they…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: The coolest IMO feature of the Visual Studio 2008 IDE is that it supports the ability to target multiple versions of the .NET Framework, including using the new language features and also taking advantage of all project templates out of the box. In…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: The Managed AddIn Framework (MAF) is a set of assemblies that are part of .NET Framework v3.5. They offer a platform for developers to build extensibility into their client applications by enabling addins (aka plugins) to be written for a host. In…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Partial Methods is a new language feature of both C#3 and VB9, available via Visual Studio 2008 for projects targeting .NET Framework v2.0/3.0/3.5. Watch the 15' video for more. Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: The Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is the headline feature of the Visual Studio 2008 release. Most of LINQ is based on the new C#3 and VB9 language features. In this video, I demonstrate the association between the compiler features and…

I built my own MIX'07 video player last night and recorded a 15 minute screencast to give you an idea of what's possible with all the new releases that came out last week. See the blog post at  http://smarx.com/posts/my-own-mix07-video-player-using-all-the-new-stuff.aspx.

In part 1, I used the Visual Studio Orcas Sync Designer to configure and synchronize 3 lookup tables to be cached locally in SQL Server Compact Edition using the Sync Services for ADO.NET CTP. In part 2, I take the cached lookup tables and split up the client and server sync components using…