Darryl Burling @ Work : Screencast

VS2008 Screen cast #4 - Client Application Services

dburling — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:41:35 GMT

If you are familiar with smart clients, you'll know that they allow you to use the full capabilities of the desktop including the screen real estate and connected devices as well as allowing a richer user experience.

We are continuing to build on our smart client story, and Client Application Services are part of this. Client Application Services allows you to use the authentication and role management of your web application (exposed via web services) inside your smart client application.

This saves considerable plumbing code that you'd have to write yourself and creates efficiencies for developers working to the Software + Services model.

In this screen cast I show the new extensions inside Visual Studio 2008 and walk through implementing it.

Enjoy!

Visual Studio 2008 screen cast #3 - WCF & WF

dburling — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:53:03 GMT

In my last screen cast I showed how easy it is to use WCF in Visual Studio 2008. During my user group tour, I was asked whether we had done any work to integrate Windows Workflow with WCF. The answer is yes.

In this screen cast you'll see how easy it now is to consume a WCF service from a Windows Workflow using Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5

Visual Studio 2008 screen cast #2 - WCF

dburling — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:24:36 GMT

This is the second in my series of screen casts of new features in Visual Studio 2008.

WCF has been out since we released .Net 3.0 in October 2006, however, with Visual Studio 2008 we introduce very good tool support for creating, configuring, debugging, testing and consuming WCF Services.

Of course it all starts with the new project templates, but there is lots more to it - in Visual Studio 2008, WCF comes of age and is easy to work with.

See for yourself - this screen casts covers most of the new features at a high level. Click the image to play the video.

Visual Studio 2008 - Multi-targeting

dburling — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:00:04 GMT

As promised, here is the first of my screen casts on Visual Studio 2008. This one focuses on Multi-targeting which allows you to target one of three versions of the .Net Framework in Visual Studio 2008.

These screencasts will generally weigh in at around 5 mins long. The video is 1024x768, so you can read the text, but this means that the stream is larger and will take some time to stream down to your machine.

Enjoy