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http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live!

Brad Abrams — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:03:03 GMT

We have been working for a while to get a community site together where we can aggregate all the great buzz, resources and discussions about .NET RIA Services. We hope you enjoy the content we already have up there and help us get more good stuff up there. http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ Read More......(read more)

November Conferences

ScottGu's Blog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:05:20 GMT

I’m doing keynotes at two big conferences later this month: ASP.NET Connections in Las Vegas: November 9th to 12th I’ll be doing a keynote talking about ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 at the ASP.NET Connections conference next week. I’ll also be doing an evening Q&A session together with the ASP.NET team. ASP.NET Connections is a great conference that is jointly hosted with the VS, SharePoint, SQL and Windows Connections conferences (enabling you to choose from tons of great sessions). The speakers at the event are also really top-notch. You can learn more about the conference and register online here . PDC in Los Angeles: November 17th to 19th I’m also doing a keynote at the Microsoft PDC conference in two weeks. The PDC is Microsoft...(read more)

JavaScript class browser: once again with jQuery

Tales from the Evil Empire — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:43:26 GMT

I’ve already posted twice about that little class browser application. The first iteration was mostly declarative and can be found here: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2009/09/14/building-a-class-browser-with-microsoft-ajax-4-0-preview-5.aspx The second one was entirely imperative and can be found here: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2009/10/15/entirely-unobtrusive-and-imperative-templates-with-microsoft-ajax-4-preview-6.aspx This new version builds on top of the code for the imperative version and adds the jQuery dependency in an attempt to make the code leaner and simpler. I invite you to refer to the imperative code (included in the archive for this post ) and compare it with the jQuery version, which shows a couple of ways...(read more)

We Need Your Feedback on the Documentation

Brad Abrams — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:49:25 GMT

The doc teams are looking for your feedback on the .NET Framework and Visual Studio docs. Help us improve the developer documentation by taking the Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey . This survey will give us a better understanding of the type of applications you are developing as well as how you use Help and how we can improve it. The survey takes only 10 minutes, and we really appreciate your feedback! Feel free to forward the survey link. Read More......(read more)

Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:49:00 GMT

Differences between Web Site Projects (WSP) and Web Application Projects (WAP) are highlighted in blogs such as this one . Based on that, if you feel a WAP would be better for your particular needs than a WSP, but have already created a WSP, you may be asking yourself, “Can I convert my WSP into a WAP, without starting from scratch?”. This posting explains how to convert an existing Web Site Project to a Web Application Project in Visual Studio 2010. The most striking differences to a Web Site Project are that WAPs have a project file to include and exclude files, and compile to a single assembly. The guidelines below include several of the basic steps detailed in the Walkthrough: Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project in...(read more)

Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

ScottGu's Blog — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:12:09 GMT

[In addition to blogging, I am now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)] This is the twelfth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers a small, but nice, change coming with VS 2010 – an “Add Reference” dialog that loads fast. Add Reference Dialog in VS 2008 The slow performance of the “Add Reference” dialog in previous releases of Visual Studio has been a common complaint that many a developer (including yours truly) has ranted about. Previous releases of VS opened the “Add Reference” dialog on the “.NET” tab by default – and when that tab was loaded VS would synchronously scan the global assembly cache...(read more)

Lightweight Linq Parser

Brad Abrams — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:28:30 GMT

Jason Allor , dev manager for my team, recently posted about a cool lightweight LINQ parser . The idea was to make it much easier to create a LINQ provider over any arbitrary data source (a web service, custom business objects, etc). This makes it much easier to get all the sorting, paging, filtering benefits of RIA Services for any arbitrary data store. Check it out, and be sure to subscribe to Jason’s blog as I expect he will have more goodies coming in the future! LinqLite Read More......(read more)

New Silverlight Tooling Support in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:57:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will bring full support for developing applications in Silverlight 3. There’s a few things that have changed since VS2010 Beta 1, and we hope you enjoy the new beta release! Silverlight 2 is no longer supported – long live Silverlight 3 Now that Silverlight 3 has released (including a GDR; the latest version is currently 3.0.40818), VS2010 has moved the minimum supported version to Silverlight 3. The new installation experience will include the latest Silverlight 3 developer runtime and Silverlight 3 GDR 2 SDK. If you already have the Silverlight 3 RTW version of the SDK installed, this component may fail during VS installation , but not to worry – it won’t affect anything outside Silverlight. If this...(read more)

Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update

Brad Abrams — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:46:21 GMT

Thanks to all of you who asked… I had to take a sick day today, so this was nice mindless work to get done. Hope you enjoy it! Part 1: Navigation Basics Part 2: Rich Data Query Part 3: Authentication Part 4: SEO, Export to Excel and Out of Browser Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms Part 6: Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store Part 8: WCF Based Data Source Part 9: POCO and Authentication Provider Part 10: LinqToSql Part 11: The Client-Only World Part 12: DataSet Part 13: The New Class Library Project Part 14: Visual Basic (VB) and WPF Support Part 15: ASP.NET MVC Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service Part 17: Evolving an Application Part 18: Custom Linq Provider Part 19...(read more)

WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

ScottGu's Blog — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:11:49 GMT

[In addition to blogging, I am now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. You can follow me on Twitter at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)] This is the eleventh in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers WPF 4. WPF 4 Improvements WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is one of the core components of the .NET Framework, and enables developers to build rich, differentiated Windows client applications. WPF 4 includes major productivity, performance and capability improvements – in particular in the areas of Controls, XAML, Text, Graphics, Windows 7 integration (multitouch, taskbar integration, etc), Core Fundamentals, and Deployment. This is...(read more)

ASP.Net MVC in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:15:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 contains ASP.Net MVC 2 in the box so there is no need to install an out of band update to Visual Studio 2010 to develop ASP.Net MVC applications. Phil Haack posted about the in-box experience for Beta 2 andd also provides some info on how to upgrade your ASP.Net MVC 1 apps to ASP.Net MVC 2. From a tooling perspective, all of the new functionality released in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Orcas is available in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 including support for Single Project Areas . Additionally, if you look in the Scripts folder of a new ASP.Net MVC application, you will notice that jquery.validate is included as well as a vsdoc file to go with it. I'll post more on how to use jquery.validate in the coming weeks but...(read more)

Dev10 Beta2, Import from web.config file and other changes for DB deployment UI

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:09:36 GMT

Dev10 Beta2 DB Deployment property page has some changes from Beta1. Please provide your valuable feedback for us to make it better for you. Thanks. 1. Tab page name changed from “Deploy/SQL” To “Deploy SQL” 2. Customer can use “Import from Web.config” button to import all the connection strings defined in root web.config to the database entries list. For example, if web.config contains the following connection strings: < connectionStrings > < add name = " ApplicationServices " connectionString = " data source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=SSPI;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|\aspnetdb.mdf;User Instance=true " providerName = " System.Data.SqlClient " /> < add name = " AdventureWorksConnection...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Intellisense Issue in Javascript/HTML.

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:39:00 GMT

If by any chance you are not seeing intellisense in your JavaScript or HTML after installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 you might be running into a known bug that we can show you how to fix. The bug is related to user settings which we don’t remove when Beta 1 is uninstalled. One particular setting under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\HTML Editor\ TargetFriendlyName . For Beta 2, this setting does not match the schema’s we know about. As a result, JScript intellisense will fail to load and most items will be missing in markup as well. The minimum fix is to manually repair the TargetFriendlyName setting in the registry (change it to be just "XHTML 1.0 Transitional”) but due to the fact that more settings could be affected the recommended...(read more)

VS 2010 Code Intellisense Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

ScottGu's Blog — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:47:54 GMT

This is the tenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. In today’s blog post I’m going to cover a small but really nice improvement to code intellisense with VS 2010 – which is its ability to better filter type and member code completion. This enables you to more easily find and use APIs when writing code. Code Intellisense with VS 2008 To help illustrate this intellisense improvements coming with VS 2010, let’s start by doing a simple scenario in VS 2008 where we want to write some code to enable an editing scenario with a GridView control. We might start off by typing “GridView1.Edit” to bring up intellisense to see what Edit members are available on the control. Doing this with VS...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Performance

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:15:01 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is out and we at the Web Development Tools team are pleased to let you know that we have fixed a lot of the performance issues from Beta1. It took a considerable amount of time and effort but we feel it was well worth it. We would like to thank the community for your feedback and in helping us identify a lot of these issues. There has been some good improvements to Add Reference dialog, first switch to design view etc. Please try using Beta2 and let us know if you find any of the Web Scenarios to be particularly slow. We would like to hear your issues and concerns around performance for Web Scenarios. You can help make the product better by providing us with early feedback. If you encounter a performance issue please...(read more)