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- Announcing ALM Roadmap in Visual Studio vNext at Teched – The big talking point of TechEd so far seems to be the revealing of some features which will be in Visual Studio vNext and the Application Lifecycle Management Roadmap, and in this post Jason Zander outlines those features. Good coverage also from:
- Visual Studio vNext mentioned at TechEd 2011 – David Jung
- Next Version of Visual Studio ALM Announced at TechEd – Bruce Kyle
- TechEd Keynote: Sneak Peek at Visual Studio vNext – Susan Ibach
- Announcing a Java SDK for TFS – Brian Harry announces the release of the Team Foundation Server SDK for Java providing options for developers working with TFS on ‘the other platform’ to extend their development environment.
- Introducing the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus May 2011 CTP & Announcing the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP May and June Releases – Clemens Vasters and The Windows Azure AppFabric team announce the release of their May 2011 CTP of the Service Bus Service and the forthcoming June CTP which includes AppFabric Developer Tools and Application Manager.
- JUST ANNOUNCED: Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2 – The Windows Azure team announce the release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 providing easy to use integration between the phone and access control, push notifications, storage, etc provided in the cloud.
- Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) Extension for SAML 2.0 Protocol Community Technology Preview (CTP) – Alik Levin highlights the release of the CTP of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) Extension for SAML 2.0 Protocol, an extension which allows .NET Developers to create SP-Lite compliant applications that use SAML 2.0. Vittorio Bertocci also shares some details in his post Attention ASP.NET Developers: SAML-P Comes to WIF
- Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008 SP1 & SP2 are available – Aaron Bertrand highlights two cumulative update packages for SQL Server 2008 SP1 and SP2 which include all the current patches to those versions making it easy to get your servers patched up to date.
- FubuMVC Beta (0.9) is Released – Jeremy Miller announces the 0.9 release of the FubMVC framework. This release carries the ‘beta’ label and is the final release in the build up to the 1.0 release planned for 31st May
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- Optional argument corner cases, part three – Eric Lippert continues this series of posts looking at the use of optional arguments in methods in .NET 4, discussing in this post how the optional arguments actually work at the call site, and not, as may people think, by generating methods at compile time for all possible signatures,
- Outercurve Foundation: Partnering with the open source community – Somasegar discusses the work of the OuterCurve Foundation (previously known as the CodePlex Foundation) over the past 18 months, and highlights te Orchard and NuGet Projects as two successes where Microsoft have worked with the community to produce great results.
- Announcing Xamarin – Miguel de Icaza talks about the continuation of the Mono project following the closing down of all work on the project by Attachmate. The Project (and team) live on and will be producing an equivalent product line (MonoTouch, MonoDroid, etc) and continuing work on the Open Source aspects of Mono. Good Luck to them – this is important work.
- Speed up Visual Studio Builds – Arik Poznanski discusses some tips to help improve the performance of the build in Visual Studio when you are working with solutions with large numbers of projects.
- Windows Phone Choosers – Paul Sheriff continues exploring some of the key features of the Windows Phone platform, looking this time at the use of Choosers, outlining the background and showing the PhoneNumberChooserTask in use.
- Publish 5 Windows Phone apps, get free advertising – Glen Gordon highlights an offer of free advertising from Microsoft for anyone publishing 5 Windows Phone applications between April and the end of June
- Playing with dapper Micro ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3.0 – DotNetJalps – Jalpesh P. Vadgama takes a look at the use of the Dapper Micro ORM project in an ASP.NET MVC 3 setting walking through a simple use case.