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WPF Model - View - View-Model Screencast

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:46:09 GMT

A really helpful screencast from Jason Dolinger showing how to use the M-V-VM pattern in a simple WPF application. He starts off with the code that a Windows Forms developer might use and refactors it to M-V-VM. Also includes a demonstration of how it is nicely unit testable utilising Moq and how to use the Unity IoC container. 1 hour 30 mins long.

Community Convergence XLVII

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:46:36 GMT

Welcome to the 47th Community Convergence. We had a very successful trip to PDC this year. In this post I'll outline some of the highlights, and give you a chance to share in some of the excitement by linking to online versions of the talks from the C#, VB, IronRuby, IronPython and F# teams. Speakers at these talks include Anders Hejlsberg, Luca Bolognese, Paul Vick, Lucian Wischik, Dustin Campbell and Alex Turner. Several of these talks were among the top rated events at the conference, with Anders' talk once again garnering the most attention and generating the most excitement.

What happened to the WCF Extensions for Visual Studio 2005

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:18:45 GMT

What happened to the WCF Extensions for Visual Studio 2005. They made it up to CTP 3, but when Visual Studio 2008 came out they were stopped. And now the links are avialable for download. So those using Visual Studio 2005 need to upgrade to 2008 just to use Wcf and other .Net 3.0 components.

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:46:04 GMT

public beta of upcoming .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases is published

Hacking Visual Studio to Use More Than 2Gigabytes of Memory

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:01:02 GMT

Got more than 2GB of RAM in your machine? Get around the 2GB memory limit by making Visual Studio large address aware.

ScottGu: April 28th Links

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Someone had to submit this sooner or later... :)

Video: Intro to Spec# - Future of development

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:53:35 GMT

The future of development. True design by contract. Even less time in the debugger. I'm excited!

MIX'08 Session Recordings Now Available Online

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:01:02 GMT

The MIX'08 Session Recordings are now available online. So far, its just the recordings from yesterday, but all the recordings for the entire event should be up by Monday. This is really awesome, you can almost attend the event for free online. Go check it out.

.NET Rocks! Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton on Mono

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:01:02 GMT

Miguel is back to talk Mono with Geoff Norton. Many things have changed since we last talked to Miguel about the Mono project, an open-source port of the .NET Framework that runs on Windows, Linux, and the Mac. The focus is mostly about running .NET apps on the Mac.

Resharper 3.1 released!

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:31:02 GMT

The popular Visual Studio tool has an update released by creator JetBrains.

Microsoft Reschedules PDC for October 2008

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:21:57 GMT

Microsoft has scheduled its Professional Developers Conference for next year after canceling a meeting that was to be held in October.

Windows 2008 Moves to RC1 Status

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:30:53 GMT

Windows 2008 Moves to RC1 Status

ScottGu and his team strike again

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:31:04 GMT

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project for VS2008

MIX UK 2007 Videos

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:31:02 GMT

The videos of all the MIX UK sessions are available for download or viewing online. Lots of good stuff on Silverlight & Dynamic Languages

Microsoft Expression Blend 1.0 Service Pack 1

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:00:28 GMT

Brings VS 2008 -compatibility among other fixes.

Parallel Extensions to the .NET FX CTP

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:16:03 GMT

Today we released an early preview of the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework (ParallelFX) technology, available for download on MSDN. This release contains new APIs to make programming on the .NET Framework simpler as well as supporting documentation and samples.

Speed Coding with Regionerate, GhostDoc & Visual Studio's Refactoring

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:46:02 GMT

A short screencast I created that demonstrates how I use free productivity enhancers such as GhostDoc, Regionerate and Visual Studio's built-in refactoring tools.

Re-throwing an exception in .NET; the right way.

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:46:02 GMT

This is one of those "Yeah I've always seen people use it differently but I don't know why!" questions. Re-throwing exceptions can be misused, although it may not cause any harm to your application - there are multiple ways of re-throwing an exception, most likely for the purpose of bubbling it up to a higher level. Note to Java developers: It is different in your world.

Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:16:03 GMT

Scott's announcement on the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.

New code protection and licensing solution from Microsoft

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:16:02 GMT

Microsoft recently shipped several products that form a new software family called SLP Services. It's aimed to help software vendors tighten security of their code and ease development of licensing infrastructure (effectively allowing to skip that step). New solution based on several new concepts - "SKU Agility", "Code Transformation", SVM (Secure Virtual Machine) and SVML (Secure Virtual Machine Language).

Videos, Podcasts on Microsoft Technologies

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:50:03 GMT

List of different sites publishing videos, podcasts, screencasts on Microsoft Technologies.

64bit Optimizations and C# Method Inlining in Release Build CallStacks

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:07:24 GMT

Important information about method inlining, JIT optimizations, and how to solve your actual problem.

Decorator pattern - Generic and interface implementation

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:15:38 GMT

There is no problem with default GoF decorator implementation, as long as inheritance relationship between the Decorator and Car is acceptable. But if we would like to inherit Decorator from some class different then the decorated base one or if you want to decorate just its part , you would have to do some variations in the decorator GoF implementation with utilizing interfaces and generics.

Introduction to the Standard Annotation Language (SAL) for VC++

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:09:32 GMT

SAL is a powerful mechanism to help find real bugs in your code. MSDN Reference http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235402(VS.80).aspx

Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection: Working with Windsor

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:56:52 GMT

MSDN article on how to use Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection, generic specialization, the decorator pattern, chains of responsibilities, and extensible software to build robust, extensible software