10-4

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

10-4! Over and out!

10-4 Episode 24: Monitoring Workflow Services

rojacobs — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:28:00 GMT

One of the great advantages to building services with WCF and Windows Workflow 4 is that the environment is instrumented with loads of events that allow you to track what exactly is happening. This is useful for health monitoring, troubleshooting and other scenarios like auditing and compliance. In this episode I’ll take you through the monitoring lab from the Visual Studio 2010 training kit and show you how you can take advantage of these powerful capabilities.

10-4 Episode 23: An Introduction to Manual Testing

Brian Keller — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:20:00 GMT

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 System 2010 for supporting manual testing. You will see how these capabilities will not only help manual testers do their jobs more effectively, but this approach also helps developers by providing detailed diagnostics information about tests when they fail.

Over and out!

10-4 Episode 22: Simplifying Data-Driven Web Applications

Jonathan Carter — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:24:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we discuss how the development of data-driven web applications has evolved in ASP.NET and how in the .NET Framework 4 it becomes even easier. Whether you're working on a new or existing application, getting your UI to light up model-level metadata/validation becomes as simple as a single line of code.

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

10-4! Over and out!

10-4 Episode 21: Web Tooling Improvements

Drew Robbins — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:20:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, Drew Robbins covers some of the new web tooling features in Visual Studio 2010. There is new Code Snippet support for both HTML and JavaScript. In addition, Visual Studio now has a new dynamic JavaScript IntelliSense engine that infers the return type from functions and provides appropriate intellisense. This makes working with JavaScript libraries a lot easier.

More detail about the web deployment features is covered in Episode 10: Making Web Deployment Easier.

Be sure to check out all of the 10-4 episodes where we cover many of the features in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1.

10-4 Episode 20: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

Brian Keller — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:49:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is here! In this episode of 10-4, Brian Keller takes us through downloading and installing Visual Studio 2010 Team Suite Beta 1 and Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 1. This time-compressed video will take you through all of the key things you need to know to get up and running quickly with beta 1.

This video references several important URL's. Those URL's, as well as some other handy links for beta 1, are as follows:
- Download instructions for all files in this video
- More information about the Windows Server 2008 VHD
- Beta 1 home on MSDN
- Beta 1 forums
- Visual Studio Connect site (report bugs / suggestions)
- Common TFS 2010 Beta 1 Installation Problems
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit

Special thanks to Charles Sterling, program manager for Visual Studio Team System, for his tireless efforts behind the scenes to help make this video happen.

10-4 episode 19: Service Discovery with WCF

rojacobs — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:39:00 GMT

WCF in .NET 4 includes an implementation of the WS-Discovery protocol. Sounds exciting right? Actually it is very cool because it allows you to build applications and services that can discover other services using UDP multicast messages or via a discovery proxy. In this episode I'll walk through the Service Discovery lab where we build a messenger style application I call "ChatWOW". In this lab you will see how to make your service discoverable and how you can discover other services. Later when Beta 1 is released, you can try it yourself.

Update: The WCF/WF4 Training Kit is now live at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfwf4 so you can try it yourself.

10-4 over and out!

10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Brian Keller — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:57:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4 we look at a new type of test coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010 known as the coded UI test. Coded UI tests can be created to automatically navigate through your application's UI, which in turn can be used to verify that the paths your users might take through your application are working properly. You can also add validation logic along the way to verify the properties of objects within the UI. Much like unit tests can quickly surface regressions on a method or function level, coded UI tests can bring the same level of rapid automated testing capabilities to the UI layer.

This demo is based on an early build of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1.

For some relevant team blogs check out:

Amit Chatterjee's Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee/

Mathew Aniyan's Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/mathew_aniyan/

10-4! Over and out!

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/

10-4! Over and out!

10-4 Episode 16: Windows Workflow 4

rojacobs — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:09:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4 we build a "Hello Workflow 4" application. You might have heard that .NET 4 includes an all new Workflow engine - learn how you can not only use Workflow but also do test first style development with it.

10-4 Episode 15: Model-First Development with the Entity Framework 4.0

Jonathan Carter — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:05:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we introduce a new tooling enhancement coming with Visual Studio 2010 and the Entity Framework 4.0: model-first development. This feature allows you to create your Entity Data Model from scratch and then generate a database from it, as opposed to reverse engineering your EDM from an existing database.

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

10-4! Over and out!

10-4 Episode 14: Sentient DSLs

Jonathan Carter — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:22:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we introduce a new feature coming along with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0: sentient DSLs. If you've become intrigued with all the hype around leveraging domain-specific languages, but you're concerned about the added complexity that comes with having to learn a bunch of different grammars, then sentient DSLs are for you. Write the code that you think makes sense, and allow the application to create itself. Coding should be fun, and most importantly, it should be easy.

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

10-4! Over and out!

10-4 Episode 13: No More Late Surprises

Brian Keller — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:02:00 GMT

One of the core capabilities of Team Foundation Server is that of reporting - being able to correlate your source control with work items (bugs, requirements, etc.), builds, and people in a meaningful way can really help a development team steer a project towards a successful trajectory. But one of the challenges with Team Foundation Server today is that generating new reports, or even customizing existing reports, isn't as easy as it needs to be for most teams.

In this episode of 10-4, we will take a look at how Team Foundation Server 2010 will enable you to more easily generate dynamic reports that can give you quick insights into how your project is running. In just a few minutes you can create your query and use Microsoft Excel to quickly create a set of graphical reports based on your query. You can even save these reports and publish them to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for easy access by the rest of the team.

This video is based on the September 2008 CTP, and there will be even more reporting features coming in the upcoming beta release of Visual Studio Team System 2010.

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

10-4! Over and out!

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

10-4! Over and out!

10-4 Episode 11: Bi-Directional Routing with ASP.NET WebForms 4.0

Jonathan Carter — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:30:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we introduce another new feature of ASP.NET WebForms 4.0: Routing. The ASP.NET Routing engine was added in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 release and is heavily leveraged by both ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Dynamic Data to provide bi-directional routing functionality. With the release of ASP.NET WebForms 4.0, you can take full advantage of the common route engine that allows you to customize the URLs that your application exposes. In addition, new expression builders allow you to generate dynamic URLs that are based on your route definitions, alleviating you from having to hard code static links.

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

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

ASP.NET Routing:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668201.aspx

10-4! Over and out!

10-4 Episode 10: Making Web Deployment Easier

Drew Robbins — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:04:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we'll look at new features coming in Visual Studio 2010 that make deploying web applications a lot easier. We'll look at web.config transformations, the Microsoft web deployment tool and web one-click deployment.

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

Information on the Web Deployment Tool:
http://www.iis.net/extensions/WebDeploymentTool

PDC Session by Vishal Joshi on Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment:
http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC33/

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

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

10-4! Over and out!

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

10-4! Over and out!

10-4 Episode 8: Pure Client-Side Development with ASP.NET AJAX 4.0

Jonathan Carter — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:40:00 GMT

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 binding and command bubbling behavior that makes creating data-centric applications using JavaScript simpler. We’ll also see the new ADO.NET Data Services integration which makes performing CRUD operations, complete with change-tracking, very trivial.

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

ASP.NET AJAX 4.0:
http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Wiki/View.aspx?title=AJAX&referringTitle=Home

10-4! Over and out!

10-4 Episode 7: No More Planning Black Box

Brian Keller — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:44:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we look at how Team Foundation Server 2010 will help you more easily plan the work and iterations which make up your project. We'll first examine the new work item hierarchy which supports such relationships as parent/child and successor/predecessor. Then we'll look at how Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project can interact with Team Foundation Server 2010. Finally we'll plan an iteration using the new iteration planning workbook.

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

10-4! Over and out!

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

10-4! Over and out!

10-4 Episode 5: Code Focused in Visual Studio 2010

Drew Robbins — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:25:00 GMT

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 you can extend the new editor with your own functionality.

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

Managed Extensibility Framework Project
http://codeplex.com/MEF

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

Over and out!

10-4 Episode 4: No More Parallel Development Pain

Brian Keller — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:34:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we'll examine how the improvements to branching and merging in Team Foundation Server 2010 will help eliminate the pain associated with parallel development. Brian Keller demonstrates the new "first class branches," branch visualizations, and the improved conflict resolution experience.

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

Branching and Merging Guidance:
http://tinyurl.com/BranchAndMerge
http://tinyurl.com/BranchAndMerge2

Visualization Interview with Matthew Mitrik:
http://tinyurl.com/C9BranchingVisualization

Over and out!

10-4 Episode 3: ASP.NET WebForms 4.0

Brian Keller — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:26:00 GMT

Happy New Year everyone! In this episode of 10-4 we’ll begin seeing how Visual Studio 10 and the .NET Framework 4.0 offer compelling new functionality for web developers. In this episode we’ll be specifically focusing on ASP.NET WebForms 4.0, and what enhancements it offers. We’ll be diving into the new client ID feature being introduced and see how it can be leveraged in web applications that have a high-reliance on client-centric development.

In future episodes we’ll take a deeper look at the remaining features of WebForms 4.0 including: viewstate control, data control enhancements, and routing integration. If you’d like to see something particularly emphasized, let us know, and we’ll take it into account for upcoming shows.

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

Over and out!

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/

Over and out!

10-4 Episode 1: Working with the Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC

Brian Keller — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:58:00 GMT

Update: Please see 10-4 Episode 20 for a tutorial on downloading and installing beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010. It's much newer than the CTP described in this video and contains several new features and fixes.

For this first episode of 10-4, we’ll look at how to download and use the Virtual PC image of the Visual Studio 2010 September CTP. We’ll give you tips on how to download this massive (7GB+ compressed) VPC, show you how to get past some pesky expiration issues, and get you started with the CTP walkthroughs. Lastly we’ll cover where to get assistance and provide your feedback about this release.

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 first episode we wanted to make sure everybody could get the CTP and follow along at home as we explore new features.

URL's referenced in this episode:
http://tinyurl.com/GetCTP
http://tinyurl.com/VSFeedback
http://tinyurl.com/CTPActivation

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

Over and out!