Orcas

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…

In this interview Lisa Feigenbaum, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Editor, shows us all the improvements made to the Intellisense support in Visual Basic including keyword and local variable Intellisense, new language feature support, and top customer requests. Although every feature is…

Got VS 2008 Beta 2?  In this screencast, we walk through the new project templates to rapidly create a WCF service that is implemented in WF using the Send and Receive activities in .NET 3.5.  This is one of the biggest asks we have had from customers, and in this short 3 minutes of your…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Separating structure from style is a goal that nobody disagrees with and neither does anybody disagree that CSS can be a bit hard to work with, with yesterday's tools. In this 16' video find out about the new CSS support in VS2008 which some say is…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Assuming you understand how LINQ to objects works and assuming you know how DataSets work, this 18' video shows you how LINQ to DataSet can be used in your projects. Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming…

In this screen cast I demonstrates the new Sync Designer for caching data locally in SQL Server Compact Edition.  This is part 1 showing the basics.  In part 2 I'll demonstrate how to split the code from client to server using WCF to synchronize data across internet protocols. For more…

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…

If you’ve ever slugged through an installation of Team Foundation Server (TFS) or pondered how you would configure TFS for disaster recovery then this interview is for you. Sudhir Hasbe, Program Manager for Team Foundation Server, talks us through some of the improvements to TFS Administration and…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: With Visual Studio 2008 you can debug right into the .NET Framework libraries source code. Watch this video to learn how. You can read more about this by following the links from my blog post here. Video download: Click on the image to play the…

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…