Software
- Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta – Jason Zander announces the beta release of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1, available now for MSDN Subscribers, with general availability coming on Thursday. This release focuses on addressing the most requested features including IntelliTrace for 64bit and Sharepoint, along with including the Silverlight 4 tooling. Somasegar also discusses the release in his post Visual Studio 2010 momentum. Brian Harry also has a nice post highlighting the major changes, along with the details of all the changes for TFS users in his VS/TFS 2010 SP1 Beta has Released announcement post.
- "Going Live" with the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta – ‘selkins’ of the Visual Studio Product Feedback team discusses the support available for you if you choose to put the Service Pack 1 beta into your production development environment, and also highlights the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta Survey
- Announcing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack Beta – Christophe Fiessinger highlights beta of the second feature pack for Visual Studio TFS which brings integration between TFS 2010 and Microsoft Project.
- Windows 7 Phone Database Rapid Repository – V2.0 Beta Released – Sean McAlinden announces the beta release of V2 of his Windows Phone 7 Database and Repository implementation. This version addresses reported bugs and also adds new View features
- EF Feature CTP5 Released! – The Entity Framework Team have pushed out their 5th Technology Preview edition containing the latest cut of the Code First features along with its simplified DbContext API
Information
- Entity Framework Tutorials for ASP.NET Developers – Tom Dykstra of the ASP.NET User Education Team highlights a new series of tutorials for ASP.NET developers which covers the Entity Framework, hosted on the main ASP.NET site.
- NuGet Roundup December 2010 Edition – Phil Haack turns link blogger providing a short link list of soem great content about the NuGet Project, ranging from podcasts to step by step walkthroughs there is some great content there.
- Back To Basics: Sorting – John Sonmez continues his Back To Basics series with a look at the general background to sorting, discussing the various different ways of performing sorts
- Exploring Reactive Extensions – Subscription Management – Alex Ullrich continues his exploration of the Reactive Extensions, discussing in this post how you look after the IDisposable Subscription object you get when subscribing to an event stream.
- Dependency Injection with Windows Workflow Foundation 4 Introduction – Daniel Marbach kicks off a new series of posts looking a Dependency Injection in Windows Workflow Foundation 4, and in this post sets the scene by outlining the various problems.
- Generating Random Dates – Bj Rollison shares some simple ways of generating random dates within a date window for testing purposes.
- An easy approach to adding user notifications to ASP web applications – John V. Petersen shares an implementation of user notifications for Web Applications in an ASP.NET MVC2 sample. John bases his work on an article from the Java world, and aims to make common notification tasks easy to implement in your applications.
Community
- DDD9 – voting now open for the UK’s premier community event – Liam Westley reminds us all that the community session voting is currently under way for the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 9 event to be held in Reading at the end of January 2011. This is your chance to shape the agenda for the event, so if there is something you are interested in seeing, get voting for it.
- Last chance to see … Virtualisation for Developers at NxtGenUG Cambridge, Tuesday 14th December – Liam is also taking his Virtualisation for Developers and Hyper-V for Developers presentations on the road for the last time, visiting the Cambridge NxtGenUG on Tuesday 14th December. Liam is an excellent and entertaining speaker, and this event promises to have some extra Christmas sparkle – well worth checking out if you are in the area.