Entries tagged with .net framework 4.0 - Channel 9

MSDN Flash Podcast 010 – Paul Jackson on Memory Mapped Files in .NET 4, Oslo and more

Eric Nelson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:30:00 GMT

This podcast accompanies the October 8th edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter.

It is an interview with Paul Jackson which is meant to be about the article he wrote on Memory Mapped Files in .NET Framework 4.0 but tends to go off in different directions – but we both certainly enjoyed doing it :-) I was interested to hear how he was getting on with Oslo and why he was revisiting ASP.NET after many years of focus on XAML.

Show Notes:

WebsiteSpark Program
Microsoft Ajax CDN
Web Platform Installer Version 2
Web Toolkits series of screencasts
Casestudy on F#
Poll How many lines of code did you write yesterday?
Memory Mapped File .NET 4.0 preliminary MSDN documentation
Microsoft Oslo
Book Pro ASP.NET MVC by Steven Sanderson
Book Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (with nerddinner sample) and the free chapter (pdf) from Scott Guthrie

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MSDN Flash Podcast 007 – Mike Ormond discusses ASP.NET 4.0

Eric Nelson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:10:00 GMT

This podcasts accompanies the UK MSDN Flash newsletter. The normal format of the podcast is a few minutes summarising the contents of the newsletter and then a 20 to 30 minute interview with the author of the technical article which appears in the newsletter.

The podcasts were originally published on the blog of the editor of the Flash, Eric Nelson but Channel 9 could potentially make a much better home.

This podcast accompanies the August 12th, 2009 edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter. It includes an interview with Mike Ormond discussing the new stuff in ASP.NET 4.0 plus an opportunity to ask Mike “Which are you? MVC or WebForms?”. Other areas discussed in the intro section include the RTM of Windows 7, the UK launch event of Expression 3 and Silverlight 3 plus the results of the poll of how developers scored in the Joel test.

Show Notes:

Silverlight 3 LOB applications in the UK
Silverlight 3 training videos from Mike Taulty and others
Sketchflow and Blend 3 session from MIX earlier in the year
Tool Shed: Episode #4
Building Testable ASP.NET MVC Applications
New development platform Kodu ... for your children on their Xbox 360!
UK SOA/BPM User Group
ASP.NET 4.0 Whitepaper
+ lots more links in the original newsletter

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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.

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10-4 Episode 33: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Brian Keller — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:56:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is here! In this episode of 10-4, Brian Keller takes us through downloading and installing Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 and Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 2. 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 2.

This video references several important URL's. Those URL's, as well as some other handy links for beta 2, are as follows:
- Download instructions for all files in this video
- Compatibility hotfix for Team Explorer 2008 connecting to Team Foundation Server 2010
- Enable Lab Management
- More information about the Windows Server 2008 VHD
- Beta 2 home on MSDN
- Information on "Go Live" license
- MSDN Forums
- Visual Studio Connect site (report bugs / suggestions)
- Team Foundation Server 2010 Deployment Guidance
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course

You may also be interested in viewing 10-4 Episode 20, which provides more details on configuring your base operating system.

deCast - Introducing parallelism into your applications

Rob Bagby — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:20:00 GMT

The trend in hardware has shifted from scaling up (faster processors) to scaling out (more processors). In order for our applications to take advantage of these additional processing power, we need to introduce parallelism into our applications. In this screencast, Rob Bagby illustrates 3 approaches you can take when introducing parallelism to your applications: 1) Fine-grained parallelism, 2) Structured parallelism and 3) PLINQ. The approach Rob takes is to start with an a sequential application and parallelize it using each of the 3 approaches.
You can read Rob's blog post on Introducing parallelism into your applications and download the sample code here.

Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0

Matthijs Hoekstra — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:16:00 GMT

Presentation from Scott Guthrie on September 25 2009.

Scott gives a presentation with lots of demos of our new development environment VS2010 with our new .NET 4 framework.

Organized by DotNED developer community

AFAS Theatre, Leusden, The Netherlands

Daryl Zuniga - Viewing Code Contracts.NET in Visual Studio

Peli de Halleux — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:59:00 GMT

Daryl Zuniga gives a fast and furious demo of the new editor extensions for Code Contracts.NET. When a developer overrides a method with Contracts, the rewritter would automatically insert the pre-conditions and post-conditions in the method body. Unfortunately, the editor is not aware of that - leaving the developer confused... Not anymore, Daryl's extension mines the Contracts on the fly and hosts them in the shiny new WPF editor of Visual Studio 2010.

The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.

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

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Daryl Zuniga and Mike Barnett - Xml Documentation from Code Contracts for .Net

Peli de Halleux — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:55:00 GMT

Mike Barnett and Daryl Zuniga, a high school intern at RiSE, sit down to talk about Code Contracts for .NET and documentation. Daryl has been working this summer on a tool that inserts contracts elements into the Xml Documentation files generated by the C#/VB compiler. Daryl also updated the Sandcastle stylesheets so that the contracts appear in the documentation pages.

Code Contracts for .NET home page - forums
See more Channel 9 videos on Code Contracts

Update: the xml comment generation is now available for download!

The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.

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

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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:

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10-4 Episode 24: Monitoring Workflow Services

Ron Jacobs — 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.

Rich Client Applications and Windows 7 for Developers

Nigel — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:18:00 GMT

Windows 7 contains many new features for developers that allow you to create very rich applications for your users, including the ability to touch-enable your own applications. This session will cover how you can take advantage of new Windows 7 features using .NET 3.5 to build rich client applications and we’ll also take a look at what’s coming in .NET 4.0. Presented by ISV Developer Advisor, Mike Zeff (http://blogs.msdn.com/mikezeff)

This session was delivered as part of the NZ MSDN Unplugged events http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/unplugged/msdn-may09.mspx

Inside the Windows Application Server Enhancements known as Dublin (1/2)

Johan Lindfors — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:44:00 GMT

Session 1: Walkthrough of Windows Application Server Enhancements code named Dublin

In this session we will review the features of the Windows Application Server Enhancements code named Dublin. This session will show how to use new and enhanced concepts in the .Net 4.0 framework to empower Services hosted in Windows allowing users insight into service health and activity.

Stephen W. Thomas started his career with a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Iowa. After realizing his passion was actually in software, he went to work for a major consulting firm where he worked on his first Microsoft BizTalk project in early 2001. Since then Stephen has done consulting work for a number of different clients including many in the Fortune 500. He was fortunate to get to work with the beta release of BizTalk 2004, BizTalk 2006, and BizTalk 2006 R2 and BizTalk 2009. Stephen now focuses on all Connected Systems Technologies including the latest improvement in .Net 4.0 (Window Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow) and Dublin.

Currently, Stephen is an independent consultant focused solely on Microsoft based integration solutions using BizTalk and other Connection System Technologies. Stephen runs the BizTalk community site www.BizTalkGurus.com and is a 5 year Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in BizTalk Server. Recent speaking engagements are at the Microsoft’s SOA and BP Conference in January 2009 in Seattle, WA and at Tech Ed in Orlando in 2007. Book credits include tech reviewer of the BizTalk 2006 Recipes book published by APress.

WPF 4 Beta 1 video series on Channel 9 is now complete

Adam Kinney — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:29:00 GMT

Posting the final few pieces today on the new Visual Studio Designer for WPF and Silverlight, we are up to 7 videos spanning 79 minutes and 5 seconds of content covering WPF 4 Beta 1.

Videos include:

WPF 4 Beta 1 Designer - Generating Master Detail Forms

Adam Kinney — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:05:00 GMT

UPDATE: there's a new WPF Designer video showing the features added to Beta 2 now available. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Mark Wilson-Thomas demonstrates how the new WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010 enables rapid application development for business applications.

The WPF and Silverlight Designer in .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 has been through some major reconstruction. This is part 1 of a three part series. Check out part 2 covering Styling Improvements and part 3 discussing the future of the Designer.

And Mark would like you to know he is not a WPF Program Manager as the title video implies, rather he is a PM on the WPF and Silverlight Designer team in Visual Studio.

WPF 4 Beta 1 Designer - Styling Improvements

Adam Kinney — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:04:00 GMT

UPDATE: there's a new WPF Designer video showing the features added to Beta 2 now available. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Mark Wilson-Thomas demonstrates the new Styling and design features in the WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010.

The WPF and Silverlight Designer in .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 has been through some major reconstruction. This is part 2 of a three part series. Check out part 1 covering Form Generation and part 3 discussing the future of the Designer.

And Mark would like you to know he is not a WPF Program Manager as the title video implies, rather he is a PM on the WPF and Silverlight Designer team in Visual Studio.

WPF 4 Beta 1 Designer – Looking Forward

Adam Kinney — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:03:00 GMT

UPDATE: there's a new WPF Designer video showing the features added to Beta 2 now available. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Mark Wilson-Thomas and Jaime Rodriguez discuss the current state and the future of the WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010.

The WPF and Silverlight Designer in .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 has been through some major reconstruction. This is part 3 of a three part series. Check out part 1 covering Form Generation and part 2 covering Styling Improvements.

And Mark would like you to know he is not a WPF Program Manager as the title video implies, rather he is a PM on the WPF and Silverlight Designer team in Visual Studio.

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!

Deployment in .NET 4 Beta 1

Adam Kinney — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:08:00 GMT

Jossef Goldberg explains how the deployment of your client applications will be easier in .NET 4. The new Client Profile and improved Visual Studio feature integration are shown off as we walk through building a simple application and deploying it to a non-developer's computer. Form more information check out Jossef's blog on WPF Performance and the .NET Framework Client Profile.

This Week on C9: VS 2010 Beta 1, Windows API Code Pack, & a WPF Jukebox

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:06:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the top developer news, including:

- Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available for anyone to download!
- Dan's Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet
- Brian's 10-4 episode on how to download and install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
- Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit
- Favorite VS 2010 Features from Jason Zander's VS 2010 Post
- WPF Designer for RAD Data
- HTML Snippets + jQuery Love
- Visual Studio Extension Manager
- New Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility features
- Yochay Kiriaty - Windows API Code Pack released
- Corey Schuman - 3 essentials to quickly learning Blend, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Roy Osherove - The Art of Unit Testing book + two free chapters
- MVVM for Dummies, via Greg Duncan
- Charles Torre interviews the BCL Team
- Kyle Baley - TeamCity.CodeBetter Project List
- 25 Best ASP.NET MVC Tutorials, via DotNetKicks

Picks of the week
- Brian's pick of the week: Brian Harry - Security Development Lifecycle
- Dan's pick of the week: Coding4Fun - Rudi Grobler's WPF-Based Electric Jukebox

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

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

Update: Beta 2 is here! Check out 10-4 Episode 33: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.

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.

geekSpeak Recording - Parallel Computing APIs in .NET 4.0 with Mark Michaelis

Brian Johnson — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:42:00 GMT

We are approaching an asymptote for processor speeds using current technology. To overcome this, computer power is increasing by scaling the number of processors used within a system. This increase in multithreading capabilities, however, complicates development considerably. In this geekSpeak, we'll chat with Microsoft Regional Director Mark Michaelis about how .NET 4.0 simplifies this paradigm with new APIs that leverage the power of recent .NET language extensions and .NET 4.0 API enhancements - Task Parallel Library and ParallelLINQ. Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Lynn Langit and Mithun Dhar.

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.

Presenters: Mark Michaelis, Enterprise Software Architect, Itron, Inc.

Mark Michaelis is an Enterprise Software Architect at Itron Inc. Additionally, Mark recently started intelliTechture, a software engineering and consulting company with high end skills in Microsoft VSTS/TFS, BizTalk, SharePoint, and .NET 3.0. Mark also serves as a Chief Software Architect and Trainer for IDesign Inc. Mark holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Illinois and an MS in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is also recognized by Microsoft as a Regional Directory. Starting in 1996, he has been a Microsoft MVP for C#, Visual Studio Team System, and the Windows SDK. He serves on several Microsoft software design review teams, including C#, the Connected Systems Division and VSTS/TFS. Mark speaks at developer conferences both nationally and internationally and has written several articles and books, in addition to maintaining a blog at http://mark.michaelis.net/Blog/. His most recent book is Essential C# 3.0 (Addison-Wesley, 2008). When not bonding with his computer, Mark is busy with his family or training for the Ironman.

endpoint.tv - Service Discovery with WCF

Ron Jacobs — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:51:00 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 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

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http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/

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

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