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In order to access the new Team Foundation Server 2010 from your current Team Explorer 2008 you will need to install the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. Several customers were complaining that even with the service pack installed they couldn't manage
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Another interesting new feature of the CLR 4 comes from the Garbage collection team. On this version, they are adding some performance enhancements on the memory allocation process. The feature is commonly called “Background GC”. But what does it actually
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I have been exploring different new features that come with the .NET 4, beyond the most popular ones like dynamic types and covariance; I was interested in performance enhancements. For this reason I am going to publish a couple of blog entries were I
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We have been collecting the best articles on the MSDN flash communication and we have compiled them in an eBook format. Here you can find articles from many Microsoft Consultants, inlcuding myone on the sync framework. You can download you copy here:
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In this second instalment we are going to review another set of frames. This guideline should help you to understand what is involved on each one of them as well as considerations and known patterns. You can find the first part following this link. The
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At Microsoft we are working hard in putting together the different components that are involved deciding the architecture approach. One of these components is the architecture frame, which together with the architecture style and application type creates
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The first thing that ASP.NET developers ask themselves is how to reuse the current existing JavaScript functionality with Silverlight applications. The good news is that the Silverlight team has delivered what they have promised regarding the interaction
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An essential part of the SOA Governance is to properly identify the requirements in order to introduce or upgrade a service within your SOA model, this is commonly known and service and integration planning within the SOA lifecycle. This is all good in
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After months of writting, testing and understanding the inners of the hidden bugs, myself and my colleagues Jonathan Swift, Dan Wahlin and Chris Barker are finishing the last bits of the next book about Silverlight 2. The title will be "Silverlight 2
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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is nearly here (out at the end of this week), I want to highlight key announcements in TechEd and give you an overview on the competitiveness area. User Interface Changes: Beta 2 includes improvements in animation support, error handling
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With the new entities framework to be released in the next service pack some of our customers and team members are starting to discuss what is the correct pattern. I wanted to extract my position around the choices. I am big supporter of having options,
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As many questions are usually asked regarding how to interact between Silverlight and JavaScript I am going to spend some lines showing an example so you can keep it as a reference. The sample below works with Silverlight 2 and is based on the Beta 2
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For those that can't wait to print and stick a Silverlight 2 wallpaper to the wall here you can find a high resolution picture: You can download the high resolution one here
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If you have missed one of my sessions during the EMEA Windows Mobile Briefing you can find the recordings of our last Finland event. During this event I was covering also the first session and we had a large attendance, upon the demo using the orientation
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Note: This code has been updated using Silverlight 2 RTM With Silverlight 2 a new set of components have been introduced into the equation, the most important one is the CLR Execution engine, that support in this case the dynamic language runtime (DLR)
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