May 2009 - Posts

Azure: New Support for the Cloud, New Skills Not Required
Last October at PDC, the Windows Azure team released the first CTP of Windows Azure along with the first SDK for developers who are interested in pushing their apps to the cloud.  The team committed to releasing regular SDK updates, and today we Read More...
Posted 28 May 09 11:00 by Jasonz | 1 Comments   
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VS2010 Tutorial: Testing Tutorial (Step 2)
Last week I posted the Step 1 tutorial for creating a WPF application from scratch using Visual Studio 2010.  In this post, I’m going to create a test plan and test case for the application using the new Visual Studio Test and Lab Manager project. Read More...
Posted 26 May 09 08:00 by Jasonz | 11 Comments   
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VS2010 Tutorial: Build a WPF App (Step 1)
For this post I’m going to build a WPF application from scratch using VS2010 Beta 1.  Along the way I’m going to show off a few new features of the product.  I built this demo using the Beta 1 build on Windows 7 RC, but it should work fine on Read More...
Posted 22 May 09 08:00 by Jasonz | 15 Comments   
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General Download of VS2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1
On Monday I posted a detailed walk through of Beta 1 here .  Beta 1 has been available to MSDN subscribers since Monday and will be available to everyone as of 10 AM PST today (Wednesday May 20).  I’m about to catch a plane from JFK to Seattle Read More...
Posted 20 May 09 03:54 by Jasonz | 7 Comments   
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Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1!
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that Beta 1 was imminent and now it is ready for download for all MSDN subscribers!  You can download the beta here .  General downloads will be available on Wednesday, stay tuned here for the formal announcement. Read More...
Posted 18 May 09 09:50 by Jasonz | 71 Comments   
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VS2010: On Triangles and Performance
In February I blogged about the new look for VS2010 .  You gave us a huge amount of feedback which I really appreciate.  I wanted to follow up on a couple of the themes that popped:  the outlining mode with triangles and performance. Outlining Read More...
Posted 12 May 09 06:55 by Jasonz | 34 Comments   
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New Name for Test and Lab Tools
At the Professional Developers’ Conference (PDC) in October last year, we disclosed information on a generalist testing tool (codenamed “Camano”) within Visual Studio® Team System 2010 that focuses entirely on test case management. Today we have formally Read More...
Posted 12 May 09 04:56 by Jasonz | 24 Comments   
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