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If you are interested in the history of LINQ to SQL and how it works internally, go watch Charlie Calvert's video with Matt Warren and Luca Bolognese . The first 30 minutes of this video are primarily about the internals. The last 10 minutes focus on the history of LINQ to SQL and how it relates...
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Hi folks, earlier Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 are available for download, get the latest bits here... Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 .NET Framework 3.5 If you experiance problems with the download let Brad Abrams help you.
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WPF comes with great support for animation using XAML without needing to code this in for example C#. With Silverlight (fka "WPF/E") you can also do animations from XAML. If you want to perform custom animations in code that you can't do using XAML, you need timers. In the full blown WPF you have several...
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If you haven't heard the news yet, you must be living under a rock ;) There is a new CLR in town. Silverlight (fka "WPF/E") 1.1 comes with its own CLR. And the best news is that it runs both on the Mac and the PC. Go check it out at silverlight.net . One of the greatest achievements is that the download...
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Microsoft has some great news today: the new Expression Web (already RTM) and Expression Blend (RTM later in Q2 2007) tools will be included in the MSDN Premium Subscription. Soma announced this on his blog . This is the result from strong feedback from the developer community. Although I am not a graphical...
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Why do we need virtual machines. A virtual machine (VM), sometimes called a hardware virtual machine, is that of a number of discrete identical execution environments on a single computer, each of which runs an operating system. This can allow applications written for one OS to be executed on a machine...
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Like the most of you I wanted to have a close look at some new features of Orcas. While starting with the newer applications I became more and more frustrated by the minute. In the most basal screens I got al kind of strange errors. The funny part is, I'm using the VPC Microsoft is delivering on their...
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Who isn't interested in the new features of Orcas. I really am and especially all the features of TFS. Brian Harry posted a couple of months ago a great blog about all the new features. Since the latest CTP of Orcas you can check it out yourself. In this blog I explain the new features of Team Build...
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Who isn't interested in the new features of Orcas. I really am and especially all the features of TFS. Brian Harry posted a couple of months ago a great blog about all the new features. Since the latest CTP of Orcas you can check it out yourself. In this blog I explain the new features of Version Control...
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finally the orcas CTP is out... i guess the second release will be in beta.. anyway you can get it from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cf76fcba-07af-47ac-8822-4ad346210670&DisplayLang=en
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Theres words around the internet that Orcas CTP delayed to March! http://linqinaction.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/02/02/orcas-february-ctp-delayed-to-march.aspx
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Earlier this month on Channel 9 , Scott Guthrie alluded to some great new functionality coming for web development in Visual Studio "Orcas". Today, the details are revealed on ScottGu's blog and on Mikhail Arkhipov's blog . Mikhail blogs about the new web forms designer in "Orcas", codenamed "Sapphire...
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Earlier on Friday I played around with January 2007 CTP of Visual Studio "Orcas" . Lots of things are still missing from this CTP. But more is coming soon. Scott Guthrie reveals that lots of new web development stuff will be included in the next CTP which is scheduled for February 2007. He tells us that...
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Or is it the Visual Studio "Orcas" December 2006 CTP? The product itself is confused. The about dialog shows both monikers. You can download this CTP here . It has been awhile since the October 2006 CTP of "Orcas" that I wrote about previously. Here are my first observations about this CTP. Integration...
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Microsoft has released the October 2006 CTP of Visual Studio Codename "Orcas". If you have the available bandwith go download it here . It is a bit larger than the September 2006 CTP . This time it is a 4.05 GB self-extracting EXE split over 6 parts for the Orcas differencing disk . This works on top...