Entries tagged with .net framework - Channel 9

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.

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

10-4! Over and out!

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

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

10-4! Over and out!

Consuming data over the web between PHP and .NET with REST and ADO.NET Data Services

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:32:00 GMT

Claudio Caldato, Senior Program Manager in the Interoperability Technical Strategy team and Pablo Castro, software architect of ADO.NET Data Services introduce a new project that bridges PHP and .NET: the Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services.

The PHP Toolkit is an open source project available on Codeplex at phpdataservices.codeplex.com. The goal is to make it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of the ADO.NET Data Services (ADO.NET Data Services offer a simple way to expose any sort of data in a RESTful way, more details here).

The video starts with a quick introduction and architecture white boarding session, followed by a demo.

Enjoy!

Additional resources:

Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services on Interoperability Labs & Bridges
Codeplex Project site: phpdataservices.codeplex.com
Blog post "A new bridge for PHP developers to .NET through REST: Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services"
ADO.NET Data Services on MSDN

endpoint.tv Screencast - Implementing the CourseFeed service in Litware Training

ksharkey — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:03:00 GMT

In this short video, Ben Dewey, from twentysix New York, looks at the code for implementing the CourseFeed service in the LitWare Training sample mashup app, which is implemented as an AtomPub feed using WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2.

For additional information on WCF REST capabilities, please check out the REST in WCF Dev Center on MSDN and the .NET Endpoint team blog.

endpoint.tv Screencast - Overview of Litware Training

ksharkey — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:00:00 GMT

In this short video, Ben Dewey, from twentysix New York, gives an overview of the functionality in the LitWare Training sample mashup app built with WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2. Later videos will drill into specific features and the code.

For additional information on WCF REST capabilities, please check out the REST in WCF Dev Center on MSDN and the .NET Endpoint team blog.

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

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

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Hanselminutes on 9 - The .NET Micro Framework with Colin Miller

Glucose — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:42:00 GMT

Scott's in Building 42 today and stopped by the offices of Colin Miller. He runs the .NET Micro Framework, which is a "Tiny CLR" and supporting libraries that run on embedded systems in as little as 32K! (although usually more).

This means that C# developers with little or NO background in electronics can create very sophisticated hardware systems including sensors, servos, whatever! Colin gives me the whole scoop and explains how the whole thing works from Virtual Machine to Firmware to Hardware.

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!

Toolshed Tooltip #13 - MSBuild talks to Twitter from Episode 2

Russell Fustino — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:31:00 GMT

There is more to building an application than pressing F5. MSBuild comes with the .NET Framework and is extensible. See how Microsoft MVP Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi extends the build process programmatically, by talking to Twitter upon a successful build. This is an incredible demo. Consistency is a good thing.

What is it? MSBuild Extensibility... this example keeps everyone updated on the status of the build via MSBuild and Twitter!

Download Site: MSBuild is included with the .NET Framework and can be installed from http://www.microsoft.com/web/

Example Problem(s) it solves:
MSBuild allows developers and build masters to completely customize their build process.

Installation Notes: Use the Web Application Installer: www.microsoft.com/web

This is the sixth of Tool Shed Tooltips released from Epsode 2 of the TV Show Russ Tool Shed presents... "It's All About The Tools" hosted by Russ Fustino and Co-Host Stan Schultes. Download code, ppt and demo script from http://code.msdn.com/toolshed for all episodes. Also, use the links on http://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed to download tools. Finally, check out some more great videos on the Developer Evangelist East site: http://channel9.msdn.com/dpeeast

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.

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!

Jimmy Schementi: Inside IronRuby

Charles — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:31:00 GMT

Jimmy Schementi is a Program Manager (and developer) on the IronRuby team. IronRuby is an Open Source implementation of the Ruby programming language for .NET, heavily relying on Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime. IronRuby is Ruby, but implemented on top of the DLR (which of course provides the capability for dynamic languages to interact with the BCL and CLR).

You've learned about the details of the DLR here on 9, which provides dynamic runtime support for .NET. IronRuby targets compatibility with the 1.8.x branch of Ruby modulo continuations. IronRuby is an implementation of Ruby version 1.8.6.

Here, Jimmy explains the thinking behind the IronRuby project. Why are we doing this, anyway? When/Why would Ruby developers use IronRuby? What's the current status of the project? What's the future hold for IronRuby? Tune in and learn about the past, present and future of IronRuby.

Useful Links:

IronRuby Homepage: http://ironruby.net/

CodePlex project (downloads, issue tracking): http://ironruby.codeplex.com/

Developer info (source code, developer docs): http://github.com/ironruby

Ian Carmichael: The History and Future of the CLR

Charles — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:18:00 GMT

Ian Carmichael has been working on the CLR team since before Microsoft came up with the .NET branding for our managed platform and the virtual machine that powers it all, the Common Language Runtime. Well, we're getting close to the third major release of the CLR, CLR 4 (V3 was really a service or minor release, but who's counting?).

Back in the good old days prior to V1, Ian was an engineer and a peer of Chris Brumme, Vance Morrison and other top of the line engineers working through the architecture, design and implementation of the CLR. Now, Ian is the GM of CLR and he's at the helm plotting out the course for CLR's future. Necessarily, we had to sit down with him to pick his brain about CLR then, now and tomorrow. Tune in. Get a glimpse into the past and future of the CLR from somebody who's been deeply involved with the advent and evolution of Microsoft's now ubiquitous managed runtime.

Raja Krishnaswamy and Vance Morrison: CLR 4 - Inside Type Equivalence

Charles — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:12:00 GMT

You recently learned about CLR 4's support for type equivalence in a conversation right here on C9 with Raja Krishnaswamy and Jesse Kaplan. The idea of type equivalence and its potential usefulness beyond simplifying and de-bloating COM interop that employs Interop Assemblies (CLR 4's No-PIA feature) led to the need to sit down with Raja and Vance Morrison to really dig into the thinking behind the technology. How does type equivalence actually work? What are the semantics and why? In the VS 2010 timeframe, what should developers expect to be able to do with this new programming abstraction? What types make sense to mark as equivalent? Why? Where does Type Embedding fit into this picture and what role does the compiler play in the No-PIA dance? What impact may this have on the future of managed-to-managed type "interop"? What's the story here? What's next?

This is a great conversation with the primary minds behind type equivalence support in CLR 4. Enjoy.

Rick Byers and Simon Hall: CLR 4 - Side-by-Side In-Process - What. How. Why.

Charles — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:16:00 GMT

CLR hosting has always been a hot topic. Consider the case of Windows Shell Extensions and the inability to load more than one CLR version per process being the dagger in the heart of the very idea of scalable managed shell extentions. With CLR 4, consuming applications will be able to host both a CLR 2 and CLR 4 in the same process. Again, gone are the days of single instance CLR per process. The implications here are profound. On the one hand, this means that applications can run code targetting an older CLR version and code targetting CLR 4 in the same process. How does this work, exactly? What are some of the key supported scenarios for mulitple CLRs per process? What does CLR In-Proc Side-by-Side mean for the future of CLR hosting, generally?

Meet two of the CLR SxS In-Proc developers, Simon Hall and Rick Byers. They explain exactly what went into the SxS In-Proc design, the challenges and opportunities. Tune in to get insight into the thinking behind the thinking in CLR 4's side by side in process hosting.

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.

CLR 4: Debugging and Profiling API Enhancements

Charles — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:07:00 GMT

Developers Thomas Lai and David Broman join Program Manager Jon Langdon to share with us some of the new debugging and profiling enhancements in CLR 4. They've done a lot work in the upcoming release and besides evolving debugging and profilining capabilities and semantics (APIs), they've implemented (or fixed) many things customers have been asking for.

The managed debugging and profiling story with CLR 4 is based on a new core architecture (they are moving to an out of process model which means you'll be able to debug multiple threads rather than being stuck to the same thread(s) attached to the main context. Something like that. Watch, listen, learn.).

Tune in to learn about some of the design decisions made to support moving out-of-proc, improving debugger and profiling reliability, enhanced core APIs, future directions and meet some of the people who design and implement these important engineering components for the managed (.NET) world.

Enjoy.

Esurance: Developing for the Mobile Web

Charles — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:48:00 GMT

Deepak Srinivasan, Director of Systems Engineering, and Paul Sykes, Development Manager (both from Esurance) join Raj Ramabadran to talk about the new Esurance Mobile Services offering. In this video, Deepak and Paul talk about some of the Microsoft technologies and Software + Services strategy that has helped them accelerate Esurance's software delivery cycle for the mobile applications-- providing consumer-friendly functionality in less than 6 weeks.

Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Tutorial

Adam Kinney — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:27:00 GMT

Brian Keller posted a great walkthrough video on Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. he includes a bunch of handy links, references and more help in the comments thread. Install VS2010 and check out new UI based on WPF 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

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.

Small and Mighty - Community Talk with Bill Wolff

Brian Johnson — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:19:00 GMT

In this first episode of Community Talk, Microsoft Developer Evangelist Danilo Diaz interviews Bill Wolff. Bill is an MVP and is President of the Philly .Net users group. According to Dani, Bill has been involved in community longer than Dani has been coding.

Bill's passion for community has become a true family affair. His wife and Kids are typically part of the crew that makes the Code Camps possible.

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/

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Interview - Aaron Skonnard on Current Shiny Toys

Mike Taulty — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:12:00 GMT

At the recent DevWeek conference in the UK I managed to catch up with Aaron Skonnard of Pluralsight fame who was keynoting the conference with a talk on Cloud Computing and also delivering some sessions on WCF and REST. Here, Aaron talks about what he's currently playing with in his spare time - the WCF REST Starter Kit.

endpoint.tv Screencast - Processing Message Content using HttpClient class

Cliff Simpkins — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:00:00 GMT

In this short video, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight guides the viewer through different techniques for processing messages using the new HttpClient class that ships with the new WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2.

In this screencast, Aaron builds on the simple Twitter command shell application started in the previous HttpClient screencast and used through this series. To process the messages (both XML and JSON), Aaron layers a data contract over the incoming message, to allow the .NET developer to work with the content in a strong typed, dot-notation fashion. After demonstrating how to hand-craft the .NET objects, Aaron demonstrates how to use the new 'Paste XML as Serializable Type' command to automatically generate the .NET classes from a sample Twitter XML response.

For additional information on the WCF REST Starter Kit, please check out the REST in WCF Dev Center on MSDN and the .NET Endpoint team blog. For more information on classes offered by Aaron and the PluralSight folks, check out their catalog of instructor led courses and new online courses that cover a variety of Microsoft technologies, ranging from .NET v3.5 to WSS to BizTalk server.

ARCast.TV - Krzysztof Cwalina on Creating Reusable Frameworks

Bob Familiar — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:36:00 GMT

When designing and developing frameworks, it can be challenging to create them in a fashion that enables them to evolve over time. Krzysztof Cwalina, a Program Manager on the .NET Framework team, discusses strategies for designing reusable libraries with Bob Familiar.