Software

  • VS2010/TFS2010 VM Refresh Downloads now available – Greg Duncan highlights the replacements Virtual Machine image for the previous VS2010 / TFS 2010 virtual machine images which expire on the 15th December 2010. This updated version is patched up to date, includes a vast array of samples and hands on labs, and won’t expire until 1st June 2011.
  • Released: GhostDoc and GhostDoc Pro v3.0.10340 – SubMain announces an updated release of GhostDoc the free documentation generator for the Visual Studio IDE, and introduce a commercial offering GhostDoc Pro which adds additional features and is licensed for commercial use.
  • Mono: What we are Cooking – Miguel de Icaza shares some details of all the fun and exciting things that the Novell Team are working on for the Mono Project which will be released over the next few months, including packaging IronPython, Iron Ruby, F# and UnityScript, improved WCF support, Mono support on Android, and much much more.
  • Visual Studio Explosion! – VS2010 SP1 *BETA* Released and Context – Scott Hanselman talks at length about the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta release, now generally available, discussing the risks of Beta Software, what works well together (including a link to the yet to be released ASP.NET MVC 3 RC2) and discusses the features the Service Pack introduces.

Information

  • Now Available: Windows 7 Phone Guide – J.D. Meier announces the release of the Patterns and Practices Windows Phone 7 Guidance, now available on MSDN. This 7 Chapter guide looks at design patterns for developing on the Phone device, discusses the hardware capabilities and provides advice on the key design decisions you will face when developing on this platform.
  • Now Available: Windows 7 Phone Guide – J.D. Meier announces the release of the Patterns and Practices Windows Phone 7 Guidance, now available on MSDN. This 7 Chapter guide looks at design patterns for developing on the Phone device, discusses the hardware capabilities and provides advice on the key design decisions you will face when developing on this platform.
  • Checking for Network connectivity in Windows Phone 7 SDK – ‘A Ninja’ takes a look at how you easily check for the presence of a network connection when executing code on the Windows Phone 7 platform, allowing you to handle missing connections nicely in your application rather than waiting for connections to fail.
  • Class-Level Model Validation with EF Code First and ASP.NET MVC 3 – Scott Guthrie takes a look at the Entity Framework validation support via Data Annotations, and shares a worked example of using this functionality in an ASP.NET MVC3 application.
  • Efficient Paging with WebGrid Web Helper – ASP.NET MVC 3 RC – Malcolm Sheridan takes a look at working with the ASP.NET MVC WebGrid helper, exploring how to implement paging in the grid.
  • How to use T4 templates in WP7, Silverlight, Desktop or even MonoDroid apps – Daniel Cazzulino takes a look at how T4 templates can utilised applications on any framework without requiring an additional runtime dependencies.
  • Dependency Injection with Windows Workflow Foundation 4 an answer – Daniel Marbach follows up from a previous post about injecting dependencies in Windows Workflow Foundation activities taking a look at using his Ninject extension which provides this functionality. In this post he looks at its use sharing plenty of code samples.
  • Fluent Builders, Part 1 – Peter Ritchie starts a series of posts on the builder pattern and creating a Fluent API for it, exploring the background to the patterns, the principles and exploring implementations.
  • Writing Cross-Platform XAML Applications – Mike Ormond shares a guest article from Colin Eberhardt who discusses some of the key considerations, pitfalls, and tips to help you build cross platform applications using XAML to target web, desktop and phone.
  • WCF and AppFabric AutoStart – Ron Jacobs discusses the difference in first call duration on a WCF Service that the AppFabric Auto Start functionality provides, talks about what Auto Start does, and highlights the IIS Warmup Module for IIS7.5 which provides similar benefits.

Community

  • Register now for the FREE Tech Days Online Conference January 20th – Eric Nelson highlights a free online Tech Days event being run on the 20th January 2011 which looks at building applications with Windows Phone 7, Windows 7 or for the web browser. With an agenda spread over 3 tracks and running from 3pm GMT to 8:30pm GMT there will be plenty of good and interesting content there.

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