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Visual Studio Lightswitch - Welcome Advanced Amateurs by Ken Cox [MVP]

There are a lot of people in business who are wizards with tools like Excel, even though their primary job isn’t software development. Sometimes their apps become essential to the business process. Lightswitch , announced at VSLive!, will appeal to advanced...

Fix: WCF - The type provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found by Ken Cox [MVP]

I wanted to expose some raw data to users in my current ASP.NET 3.5 web site project. I created a subdirectory called ‘datafeeds’ and added a WCF Data Service. I wired the dataservice up to the Entity Framework class and, on running the ItemDataService...

Make Parallel APIs Seamless and Almost Invisible by Ken Cox [MVP]

Microsoft Canada’s Adam Gallant gave an excellent presentation today on ‘What’s New with Visual Studio Team System and MSDN’. Among Adam’s demonstrations were the new APIs to support so-called manycore architectures. Most of us are still writing code...

VS 2010 Product Release Date? March 22, 2010 by Ken Cox [MVP]

I don't recall Microsoft announcing a Visual Studio release date this far in advance. The official launch is March 22, 2010 . In the past there have been two product release dates for Visual Studio. The first was soon after release to manufacturing (RTM...

Enabling JavaScript IntelliSense in External Libraries by Ken Cox [MVP]

To get JavaScript IntelliSense working in VS 2008 SP1, you need to tell IntelliSense the location of the libraries that you're using. You do that by adding a special comment at the top of the .js file. It's three slashes followed by the reference in an...

DevTeach: Getting Control Over VStudio 2008 by Ken Cox [MVP]

After Aaron Marten's talk on Visual Studio 2008 extensibility this afternoon, we were chatting about some possible examples and power tools for the shell. I piped up that I'd like something that would give me some control over the recent files/projects...

Speed Test: A No-Code LINQ-Based ASP.NET 3.5 Page by Ken Cox [MVP]

How fast can you create a single-page, coding-free, AJAX-enhanced, Linq-driven Web application from scratch in VS 2008v2/VWD? Very fast, I'll bet. I've prepared these instructional steps. Your challenge is to follow them closely and report back how many...

Component Toolsets for WPF and Silverlight Coming by Ken Cox [MVP]

I see where ComponentOne has announced Studio Enterprise for WPF and Microsoft Silverlight‎. They're stepping up to Visual Studio 2008 with Grid, Carousel, Charting, Scheduling and Input components for the new environments. Can't wait to try these!

Jim Fawcette and 1105 Media Keep Their Word by Ken Cox [MVP]

I've done a lot of articles and product reviews for Visual Studio Magazine over the years, mainly because I enjoy technical writing but also for some pocket change for new toys. When Fawcette Technical Publications ran into financial trouble a few...

Using the ASP.NET Small Business Site Starter Kit by Ken Cox [MVP]

I just put up my new web site at KenCox.ca which is based on Microsoft's Small Business Site Starter Kit . One of the problems with sample sites is that they're often too elaborate and completely undocumented. By the time you reverse engineer...
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