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Don't look now, but there's a new pattern in town - Model-View-ViewModel or MVVM. Within the last year or so, this architectural model has been building up a significant following among Silverlight and WPF developers. In this session, Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist, will cover what MVVM is,…

There are many places to find help for developers, but there are some programs that aren't widely known. This screencast, based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow, briefly reviews some of these. From reporting bugs and feature requests, to finding support from Microsoft and the…

It's been over two years since LINQ was released as part of .NET 3.5, but there's still a lot of mystery in terms of how LINQ works. This session, originally delivered as part of the Northeast Roadshow, starts off with a brief overview of the motivation and history of LINQ, and then goes into…

One of the highlights of the Big Room floor at PDC 09 was an Azure IT PAC (Pre-assembled container), the unit of deployment within the Azure Data Centers. This particular model is the newest, Generation 4, and built to be deployed outside (versus the indoor models used in the Chicago and San…

This installment of the Northeast Roadshow screencast series covers a number of core concepts in the CLR. Beginning with a discussion of the differences and nuances between reference and value types, the topics quickly move into concepts such as boxing, immutability, performance of String versus…

In this episode, Developer Evangelist Jim O'Neil, walks through a example of updating a legacy MDI application to take advantage of most of the features of the Windows 7 taskbar all the while maintaining backwards compatibility to Vista and XP. You'll get a detailed look into using the managed…

Microsoft is all about options, and there's no shortage of options when it comes to data access! You've got ADO.NET DataSets and DataReaders, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services just to name a few. Each of these technologies can be used - and abused - depending on the context,…

Jim O'Neil concludes his three part series on Windows 7 for Developers with an overview of the new APIs that allows applications to take advantage of cool new features like libraries, jump lists and thumbnails on the taskbar, multi-touch, sensors, the Windows Ribbon, and native Web Service…

Jim O'Neil continues his three part series on Windows 7 for Developers by looking at a variety of features to enhance end-user and developer productivity. He shows how new features such as the window manager's "snap, shake, and peek", libraries, jumplists, federated search,…

In this first of a three part series on Windows 7 for Developers, Jim O'Neil discusses the guidance and tools available for smoothly migrating applications from Windows XP and Vista to Windows 7. Included in the discussion is the Windows 7 Application Quality Cookbook, Application Compatibility…