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General availability is 21st October. Visit the Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Fx 4 Beta site for more information, downloads, forums and to submit feedback. There have been significant changes to the SKU line-up / packaging and licensing to simplify the SKU
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If you’re not sure what Windows Azure is, may I recommend Steve Marx excellent hand drawn video . The easiest way to get yourself setup to build an Azure application is: Enable Yourself Get yourself a Windows Azure token. This allows you to deploy to
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Just a quick post to provide hooks to the various posts in this series. I’ll add more as I expand on my last post about AJAX features: Visual Studio 2010 Enhancements for ASP.NET ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls
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Another in my unpredictable series on ASP.NET 4.0 , let’s take a look at one of the biggest areas of investment, AJAX. You can break this down into 3 key areas: Refactoring of the ASP.NET AJAX libraries The ability to declaratively instantiate client-side
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I recorded the Vista Squad session with ScottGu from last Friday and have now managed to transcode it, upload it and make a trifle out of it. The screen quality captured from the dedicated camera wasn’t very good so I’ve gone with the single shot from
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Blend, Encoder, Web, Design, Media, Studio – it’s easy to get confused by the plethora of Expression family products but given we’re nearing another release I thought it might be worth a few posts to try and to try and simplify things as well as provide
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I’ve realised that despite all the noise about it , I’ve pretty much managed to ignore the Web Platform Installer (WebPI) to date. Which is a shame because I know it does some pretty cool things, takes a lot of the drudgery out of configuring your machine
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I mentioned in my Developer Day Scotland session that ASP.NET MVC enjoys the benefits of the underlying ASP.NET platform such as caching, membership, profiles and localization. Guy Smith-Ferrier politely questioned the accuracy of that statement wrt localization
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Download Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Fx 4.0 Technorati Tags: visual studio 2010 , .net fx 4.0
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As I blogged earlier , VS2010 will be available to MSDN subscribers later today (and everyone else later in the week). I’ve just finished installing and thought I’d share a few screen captures of the experience (and the F# templates). Performance is *much*
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One of the many benefits of being an MSDN Subscriber is early (and sometimes exclusive) access to early bits. Today the long awaited beta of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Fx 4 will appear on the MSDN Subscribers site . It’s not there yet but it will appear
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I did a session at DevWeek on ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 and I’ll be doing a similar session on Saturday at WebDD and again in Glasgow on the 2nd of May at Developer Day Scotland . I thought it might be worth distilling some of the content into
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Thanks to everyone that came along to my ASP.NET Roadmap session yesterday at DevWeek . I’ve attached a copy of my slides or you can browse the deck below from Slideshare.net. I’ll follow up with some blog posts over the next week or two with sample code
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Quite a few people started reporting having issues connecting to Cassini earlier in the week. I’ve seen blog posts , tweets and internal mail threads as people who had a working environment one day found the could no longer connect the next. The solution
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There I was considering whether a series of introductory blog posts on ASP.NET MVC was called for (yes, I know there are various videos and tutorials on www.asp.net but somehow they never seem to answer all the questions I have) modelled around building
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