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Make Parallel APIs Seamless and Almost Invisible
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...
Posted 19 November 2009 03:33 PM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 1 comment(s)
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It Works On My Virtual Machine - So Ship My VHD!
With advances in virtualization technology, it seems like the old quip, “It works on my machine - so let’s ship my machine!” is becoming reality. In the old days, people would configure a physical box in their shop and send it out to the client or host...
Posted 14 November 2009 10:42 AM by Ken Cox [MVP] | with no comments
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VS 2010 Product Release Date? March 22, 2010
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...
Posted 19 October 2009 05:41 PM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 1 comment(s)
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Fixing the System.Data.UpdateException – DefiningQuery and no <InsertFunction> Error
Here’s another in my never-ending series of fixes for dumb mistakes. In this episode we lose time with an Entity Framework error. Here’s the error message: System.Data.UpdateException was unhandled by user code Message="Unable to update the EntitySet...
Posted 09 September 2009 06:56 PM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 8 comment(s)
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Automated Web Testing
A quick note of interest to ASP.NET developers and testers: Visual Studio Magazine has posted my review of Automation Design Canvas , a fine Web testing product from ArtOfTest . I see that Telerik is also selling this as Telerik WebUI Test Studio . Visual...
Posted 02 April 2009 09:59 PM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 2 comment(s)
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Windows Server 2008 R2 For Developers, Please
I notice Microsoft is releasing Windows Server 2008 Foundation for small businesses which doesn't include Hyper-V. How about a workstation version * with * Hyper-V? There's a lot of interest among developers in using Windows Server 2008 (and of course...
Posted 01 April 2009 10:40 AM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 4 comment(s)
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Silverlight 3 Tools Available on Downloads
The MIX 09 avalanche is hitting Microsoft Downloads: Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Software Development Kit Beta 1 The Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Software Development Kit provides libraries and tools for developing Silverlight applications. Silverlight 3 Tools...
Posted 18 March 2009 08:55 AM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 3 comment(s)
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Silverlight 2 Update - Get the Developer Version
The latest Silverlight 2 update (Silverlight 2 GDR 1 (2.0.40115.0)) failed to install on my machine because it detected that I already had the developer version. The error message and redirect to the correct file are well engineered, but developers can...
Posted 18 February 2009 10:57 PM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 6 comment(s)
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Source Code for Creating a Silverlight 2 Data Form Released
I've release the source code from my screencast series on Creating a Silverlight 2 Data Form at the MSDN Code Gallery . On the Downloads tab, you'll find several files for VB and C# projects. The basic source code is the same, but the large downloads...
Posted 06 February 2009 12:36 PM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 7 comment(s)
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Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 8: Client Storage
In Episode 8 , we continue working with the AutoCompleteBox control that we implemented in Episode 7 . This time, we fetch a long list of country names as XML from a third-party Web service, cache the file on the client using isolated storage, and harness...
Posted 04 February 2009 09:26 PM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 4 comment(s)
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