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Connected Show #21 – PDC 2009 Pizza Party

peterlau — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:28:00 GMT

In this episode guests Sumit Chawla (Microsoft Interop Team) & Tim Wise (Dominos Pizza) join Peter to discuss offloading a Java/Tomcat server infrastructure to Windows Azure to save Dominos money (Interview starts at 40:31). Sumit also covers the latest Azure interoperability announcements from Web 2 Expo in NYC.

Guest hosts Gary Russo and Sara Chipps also join Peter for a wrap up of PDC 2009, including Azure, Silverlight 4, MEF on Mono, and Dallas.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!

Show Notes & Resources:

Gary’s Blog: http://pocketxp.spaces.live.com/
Sara’s Blog: http://girldeveloper.com
Sara’s New URL aggregator: http://bundl.it

Join the WAN Parties!
Sara hosts a WAN party each Wednesday at 7:30 PM Eastern where they discuss and debate current development topics and issues. For more info join us at http://TinyChat.com/wanparty every Wednesday.

Items Discussed during the PDC 09 Wrap-up with Gary & Sara:

Check out the PDC website for recordings of all the keynotes and breakout sessions: http://microsoftpdc.com/

Microsoft Web PI & Application Gallery:

Microsoft Web PI: http://www.microsoft.com/web

Microsoft Web Gallery: http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/

Java deployment on Windows Azure:

Steve Marx: http://blog.smarx.com/

Steve’s Sessions @ PDC: http://blog.smarx.com/posts/windows-azure-at-pdc-2009

Managed Extensibility Framework:

Glenn Block on MEF + Mono @ PDC: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT24

Glenn talks to Tim Heuer about MEF + Silverlight: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/30/glenn-block-on-mef-in-silverlight.aspx

Silverlight 4 Stuff:

Tim Heuer’s monster post on Silverlight 4 Features: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx

Tim Heuer’s list of Silverlight 4 links: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/22/pdc-silverlight-resources-link-dump-learn-silverlight.aspx

VS 2010 Coded UI Test Videos:

http://blogs.msdn.com/dannawi/archive/2009/05/06/visual-studio-2010-function-ui-testing.aspx

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/TheOliver/Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010-Manual-Test-To-Coded-UI-Test/

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles_Sterling/UI-Automation-Testing-with-Visual-Studio-2010/

WCF RIA Services:

Brad Abrams Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/BradA/

Brad Abrams PDC Sesssion on SL4 + RIA Services: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL21

Brad’s Blog ‘monster’ post detailing his PDC talk: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/11/27/pdc09-talk-building-amazing-business-applications-with-silverlight-4-ria-services-and-visual-studio-2010-now-in-visual-basic.aspx

Microsoft + Open Source Birds of A Feather @ PDC: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/BOF109 (no content)

Microsoft Codename “Dallas”:

http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/Dallas

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/developers/dallas/

http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsAzure/dallas/

NYC Big Apps Contest: http://www.nycbigapps.com/
Open Government NYC Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/opengovnyc/
NYC.Gov: http://www.nyc.gov

Items discussed during Sumit & Tim’s Interview:

Interoperability @ Microsoft Team Sites:

http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com

http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability

Interoperability News @ PDC 09 - Recap: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/11/20/interoperability-at-pdc09-azure-php-java-ruby-mysql.aspx

Sumit Chawla & Tim Wise @ Web 2 Expo NYC:

http://www.web2expo.com/webexny2009/public/schedule/detail/10924

http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/11/18/php-developers-get-more-choices-with-windows-azure-bing-and-sql-azure.aspx

Domino’s Demonstrates Tomcat Site on Windows Azure: http://blogs.msdn.com/jonbox/archive/2009/11/17/domino-s-demonstrates-tomcat-site-on-windows-azure.aspx

Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK for PHP: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/11/18/php-developers-get-an-sdk-for-the-windows-azure-platform-appfabric.aspx

Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/11/18/bing-search-helps-php-developers-remedy-404-error-pages.aspx

SQL CRUD Application Wizard for PHP: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/11/18/building-php-simple-database-applications-for-sql-server-windows-azure-storage-and-sql-azure.aspx

Семинар «Microsoft Windows Embedded: будущее устройств уже сегодня!»

Daniel Kornev [MSFT] — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:25:11 GMT

Компания «Кварта Технологии» приглашает принять участие в бесплатном семинаре «Microsoft Windows Embedded: будущее устройств уже сегодня!». Семинар пройдет 15 декабря в Санкт-Петербурге.

Мероприятие организовано для производителей интеллектуальных устройств и сборщиков аппаратных платформ на базе встраиваемых операционных систем и представляет интерес как для бизнес-руководителей: директоров компаний, директоров по развитию бизнеса, менеджеров проектов, продакт менеджеров, так и для технических специалистов: ведущих инженеров и разработчиков, начальников производств, главных технологов, технических директоров.

Подробнее…

Kompletna biblioteka graficzna oparta na WriteableBitmap w SL

danieb — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:23:43 GMT

W poprzednim wpisie wspomniałem o swoich eksperymentach w rysowaniem bezpośrednio na tablicy pixeli w WriteableBitmap.

Tęgi głowy entuzjastów Silverlight na całym świecie nie śpią. Na Codeplex pojawił się nowy projekt:

http://writeablebitmapex.codeplex.com/

Projekt ten zawiera gotową bibliotekę z bogatą funkcjonalnością.
Więcej szczegółów na blogu autora:

http://kodierer.blogspot.com/2009/12/writeablebitmapex-writeablebitmap.html

Issues while doing TFS merge operation after renaming folder

nitishn — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:10:00 GMT

When trying to merge some changesets in TFS 2008 we get the error message

Title When trying to merge some changesets in TFS 2008 we get the following error message:
Language en-US

Symptoms
When trying to merge some changesets we get the following error message:

-----------------

Error

No matching items found in $/THOR/Tags/COLA_Beta_20090320_C47800 at the specified version

Cause
This issue happens when we rename the middle folder. For an example, we created a folder A with a file X and then created a branch of Folder A with the name B.

After that, we create a branch of branch B with the name C and we make a change in file X in folder and check the file in. After checking we merge the changes into branch B and once we rename branch B to any other name(say, for an instance BRenamed), the issue get reproduced and we get the above mentioned error message.

Resolution

To resolve above mentioned scenario, we need to use the tf merge command from command line with /recursive keyword, as there is no way to specify the old name of the source branch from the UI, but we can from the TF merge command line.

For an example:

tf merge /version:C54288~C54288 $/THOR/Tags/COLA_Alpha_20090320_C47800 $/THOR/Tags/COLA_Gamma_20091009_C47800 /recursive

Visual Studio-tuoteperheen tuoterakenne uudistuu ja yksinkertaistuu.

Tanja Tilus — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:09:00 GMT

Visual Studio-tuoteperheen tuoterakenne uudistuu ja yksinkertaistuu.

Osallistu Livemeeting-lähetykseen 17.12. klo 10:00 - 10:30 ja kuulet mitä muutoksia on tulossa.

Terveisin, Matti

Virtual Labs for AppFabric and .Net 4

Nicholas Allen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:00:00 GMT

Ten labs for AppFabric and .Net 4 are available on MSDN virtual labs. Virtual labs allow you to borrow a virtual machine for a while, giving you the opportunity to try out the lab online with no setup or installation required. You get the machine and a copy of the lab manual with no other work.

These labs cover .Net 4 Beta 2 and AppFabric Beta 1. If you were at PDC, these labs should look familiar if you were able to spend some time in our hands on lab area.

Simple Console Workflow

Introduction to Workflow Services and AppFabric

Implementing More Complex Control Flow and Logic with WF4

Activity Designers and Designer Re Hosting in WF4

Building a Complex Workflow Service-based Business Process

Managing Your Workflow Service with AppFabric

Introduction to the Windows Server AppFabric Cache

Simplifying WCF Configuration

How to use Service Discovery to Locate Services

How to use Service Routing

250 000 článků z Microsoft Knowledge Base v češtině

kaci — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:51:27 GMT

Mnoho z uživatelů Microsoft produktů se někdy setkalo s technickým problémem, který nebyli schopni sami vyřešit. Často proto navštěvují stránky Microsoft Knowled Base. Od 5.12. 2009 jsou tyto články dostupné v češtině. Přeložit lidskými silami 250 000 článků bylo téměř nemožné a tak byla využita nejnovější technologie automatického překladu Microsoft Translator.

Je libo překlad, originál nebo snad obojí?

Pojďme si prakticky ukázat jak stránky vypadají a jaké možnosti pohledu na obsah nám dávají. Vyzkoušejme si jeden z článků o chybové zprávě. Tento článek je jeden z automaticky přeložených, což poznáte již na začátku stránky:

Tímto prostým zobrazením však zábava nekončí. Pokud se vám strojový překlad nezdá a chcete je srovnat s originálem nebo raději by jste četli přímo originál a občas nahlédli na překlad, máme řešení. Stačí kliknout na odkaz “Zobrazení původního anglického článku a jeho překladu vedle sebe”, jak vidíte na předchozím obrázku. Otevře se tímto nové okno s následujícími možnostmi:

Paralelně zobrazený originál a překlad. Umístění kurzoru myši nad libovolnou větu vám ji zvýrazní jak v originálu tak překladu.
Přepnout si zobrazení originálu nebo překladu se zobrazením opačné jazykové verze formou plovoucího okna. Stačí kliknout na jednu z voleb Views. Následně stačí umístit kurzor nad zvolenou větu a zobrazí se odpovídající jazyková verze.

Překlad i na vlastním webu

Použitou technologii Microsoft Translator je možné aplikovat i na vlastní web. Pokud se podíváte na stránky produktu, zjistít, že lze přidat i na jiné než Microsoft stránky. Stačí na stránkách widgetu vyplnit url webu, zvolit barvu a velikost vkládaného widgetu a nechat si vygenerovat HTML/JavaScript kód. Ten se vloží do požadované stránky vašeho webu a je hotovo. Sláva Web2.0!

Visual Studio Testing Tools Roadshow in Chicago and Milwaulkee

bharry — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:44:52 GMT

Angela Dugan (Binkowsky), a friend of mine in the field, asked that I help her advertise a roadshow she is doing. Here’s what she had to say about it:

Visual Studio Testing Tools Roadshow and Deep Dive

Ram Cherala, Principal Program Manager in the Visual Studio Test Tools Business, will be visiting the Midwest District to provide a deeper dive into the innovative new capabilities being introduced in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Visual Studio Test Elements and Test and Lab Management products.

These sessions are targeted toward Developers, Architects, and Quality Assurance teams. Attendees will be given the unique opportunity to have a first glimpse into the products and interact directly with the Redmond team responsible for designing and delivering these products to the market. We will cover a broad range of important topics including Software Quality Assurance, historical debugging, manual test runner, test impact analysis and test lab management.

Agenda:

8:30am – 9:00am................. Introductions and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 10:30am............... VS 2010 ALM Tools: Walkthrough of All New Features

10:30am – 11:30am............. 2010 MSDN and Licensing Updates

11:30pm – 12:00pm............. Lunch (provided by Microsoft)

12:00pm – 2:00pm............... Deep Dive and Demos of VS 2010 Quality Assurance Features (Coded UI Testing, Manual Test Runner, Lab Management, etc)

2:00pm – 2:15pm................. Break

2:15pm – 4:00pm................. Quality Assurance Tools: Migration and Integration Options

4:00pm – 4:30pm................. Feedback, Book Raffle & Zune Giveaway

This is a FREE event – Register now to reserve your seat!

Date	Location	Register
Milwaukee Monday, December 14, 2009	N19 W24133 Riverwood Drive, Suite 150 Waukesha, WI 53188	Register Here
Chicago (Downers Grove) Wednesday, December 16, 2009	Neudesic 377 E. Butterfield Road Suite 440 Lombard, IL 60148	Register Here
Chicago Thursday, December 17, 2009	Microsoft Office Aon Center Office 200 East Randolph Drive, Suite 200 Chicago, IL 60601	Register Here

	Ram Cherala is the Principal Program Manager in the Visual Studio Test Tools Business, which is part of the Developer Division at Microsoft. Ram is very passionate about building a well-integrated set of tools and technologies that enable developers build, test and ship quality software.

Book raffle and Zune Give-a-way

One random attendee will be selected to receive a brand new Zune HD!

Impressum

Heikob — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:32:00 GMT

Impressum

Microsoft Deutschland GmbH
Konrad-Zuse-Straße 1
85716 Unterschleißheim

Tel.: +49-89-3176-0
Fax: +49-89-3176-1000

Vertretungsberechtigter: Achim Berg
Amtsgericht München, Handelsregisternummer: HRB 70438
Umsatzsteueridentifikationsnummer: DE 129 415 943

Inhaltlich Verantwortlicher für diesen Weblog gemäß § 55 RStV: Heiko Böhm (Anschrift wie oben).

Bitte beachten Sie unsere Hinweise zu Urheberrecht und Haftung sowie die Informationen zur Datensicherheit.
Weitere Informationen über Microsoft und die Microsoft Deutschland GmbH: Über Microsoft
Informationen über das Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) finden Sie hier: MSDN Online

Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools und SCRUM for Team System V3

VSNewsDE — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:21:25 GMT

In der Visual Studio Gallery auf MSDN Online steht ab sofort die Beta 2 der Team Foundation Server Power Tools 2010 zur Verfügung. Dieses Erweiterungspack für die kommende Version des Team Foundation Server enthält unter anderem einen Process Template Editor und den Team Foundation Server Best Practices Analyzer. Mit dem Process Template Editor wird es ermöglicht, die Team Foundation Server Process Templates innerhalb von Visual Studio zu verändern und anzupassen.

Der Best Practices Analyzer ist ein Diagnosetool, das diverse Informationen rund um das Deployment, die Konfiguration, Regeln oder Reportings liefert. Somit können mögliche Probleme frühzeitig erkannt und an Best Practices angepasst werden. Nähere Informationen rund um den Best Practice Analyzer bietet auch Ladislau Szomoru, seines Zeichens Escalation Engineer im Bereich Team Foundation Server, in einem Blog-Posting.

Weiterhin in den Tools enthalten ist ein Check-In Policy Pack, das eine Reihe von Check-in Policies installiert, mit denen zum Beispiel das Einchecken bestimmter Dateiendungen oder regulären Ausdrücke verhindert werden kann. Vervollständigt werden die Tools durch Work Item Templates, einen Alert Editor, eine Windows Shell Extension, die Unterstützung der PowerShell oder eine TFPT-Kommandozeile.

Ebenfalls für Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 verfügbar ist SCRUM for Team System V3 Beta 2 von EMC Consulting. Die aktuelle Version enthält sowohl die Server-Tools (Scrum for Team System), die Client-Tools (Scrum Masters Workbench) als auch ein Process Template. Tiefere Informationen rund SCRUM for Team System liefert Crispin Parker in seinem Blog.

Test Runner. Getting there…

pradeepn — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:13:45 GMT

As I have mentioned previously, I will be mainly discussing the various features of the Manual Test offering that we have in our product. In particular, I will be concentrating more on the Test Runner which is used for Manual Test Execution. Below is how it looks:

The next question in your mind would be. How do I get there? There is quite a lot of documentation available on this on msdn.

I would suggest you to go over this page in msdn to get to the Test Runner

Windows 7 Online Training auf Channel 9

Heikob — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:06:00 GMT

Auf Channel9 ist ein Trainingskurs in englischer Sprache. Darin werden die foglenden Themen behandelt:

Neue APIs

Neue Eingabemöglichkeiten mit Mutlitouch
Die neue Windows 7 Taskbar
Sensors und Location Platform
Das neue Ribbon Interface (als Nachfolge des klassischen Menüs)
Shell Libraries
Background Services - Reduzierung des Performanceimpacts
Instrumentierung und Performance

Kompatibilität:

Installer Detection
Data Redirection (Datei-Virtualisierung)
High DPI
Session 0 Isolierung
User Interface Privilege Isolierung (UIPI)
Version Checking

Microsoft Dynamics GP “11” Launch is coming . . . .

DynGpTeam — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:05:53 GMT

I’m looking forward to talking with all our partners about the upcoming Launch on January 13. This is THEE event to attend to hear all about what will happen with the GP “11” Launch. To find out more view this video . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caaKXQWIwhM

Errol

Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 on nyt saatavana

Tanja Tilus — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:51:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 on nyt saatavana

VS 2010 beta 2 on nyt saatavana ja beta 2 on varustettu niin sanotulla Go Live –lisenssillä. Sillä saa tehdä myös kaupallisia hankkeita, lue lisää tästä käyttöoikeudesta. Varsinainen lanseerauspäivä on 22. päivä Maaliskuuta 2010.

Visual Studio –tuoteperheen tuoterakenne uudistuu, yksinkertaistuu. Visual Studio Team System kokonaisuus tuoteperheen nimestä putoaa pois ja tuoteperhe yksinkertaistuu Visual Studio Professional, Visual Studio Professional + MSDN, Visual Studio Premium +MSDN ja Visual Studio Ultimate + MSND. Huomattavaa on myös että, MSDN Tilauksen sisältö riippuu tuotteen tasosta. Katso Visual Studion ominaisuudet ja MSDN Tilauksen sisältö täältä.

Ne, joilla on joku Visual Studio Team System + MSDN Premium –tuote (katso mitä ne on ) tullaan korottamaan automaattisesti Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate + MSDN tuotteeseen. Nyt on siis oiva aika hankkia Visual Studio Team System + MSDN Premium –tuote ja hyötyä Ultimate –tarjouksesta. Katso miten muut voimassa olevat Visual Studio ja MSDN Tilaukset päivittyvät uuteen tuoteperheeseen.

VS 2010 myötä tulee kaksi uutta tuotetta testaus- ja laadunvarmistusorganisaatioille ja yksilöille. Visual Studio Test Elements 2010:lle testaajat suunnittelevat ja ajavat testejä sekä raportoivat tuloksista ja kommunikoivat saumattomasti Team Foundation Serverin välityksellä kehitys- ja tilaajaorganisaation kanssa. Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010 Beta 2 auttaa testaajia luomaan ja hallinnoimaan tehokkaasti virtualisoituja testiympäristöjä ja mahdollistaa testaajien ja ohjelmistokehittäjien saumattoman yhteistyön virtualisoitujen kehitys/testausympäristöjen avulla.

Katso nauhoitus, jonka avulla saat volttilähdön beta 2:n tutustumiseen. Lataa Visual Studio beta 2 -tuotteet tästä linkistä ! Liity maksutta VSTS User Group Finland –käyttäjäyhteisöön ja ehdota seminaariaiheita !

Terveisin,

Matti Antila

Tuotepäällikkö, Visual Studio

matti.antila@microsoft.com

Learn about security updates for Microsoft Office Project and Internet Explorer

Marcelle Amelia — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:49:00 GMT

Microsoft releases security updates on the second Tuesday of every month. Today Microsoft released 6 new security updates for Microsoft Office Project and Internet Explorer.

Get the updates

To download the updates, visit the Microsoft Update Web site. If you have automatic updating turned on, your computer will update and install these security updates.

Unable to go to the Project Web Access Site, Getting the following Error when we go to Central Admin | SSP | Project Web Application despite the same is Started on the Operations | Services on Server and also on the services console

anupd — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:29:00 GMT

ERROR:

The Project Application Service doesn't exist or is stopped. Start the Project Application Service.

Resolution:

Go to the Bin folder

(C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN ) and type the command as below:

stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype "Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Administration.ProjectApplicationService, Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Administration, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71E9BCE111E9429C" -servicename ProjectApplicationService

For more information:

Go to the Bin Folder and type the following command to ensure the Assembly information is typed correctly.

stsadm –o enumservice > services.txt

Open the services.txt from the same BIN folder and then do CNTRL | F and then look for Project you should see something like this below :):-

<Type>Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Administration.ProjectApplicationService, Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Administration, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c</Type>
    <Name>ProjectApplicationService</Name>
    <DisplayName>Project Application Service</DisplayName>
    <Status>Disabled</Status>
</Service>
<Service>

Events This Week – December 8th, 2009

gduthie — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:04:00 GMT

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar, and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar:

SharePoint 2010 for Developers
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:00 AM, Online
SharePoint 2010 has just come out in public beta and there are many new features for Developers. There are new tools in Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer, new capabilities for developer workstations, many new features in the SharePoint platform, new deployment opportunities for SharePoint applications and a new focus on SharePoint as an application development platform. In this discussion we will spin through the 20 top new features in SharePoint 2010 for developers in 15 minutes and then take questions from the audience. For links to where Microsoft has published full details of the new features see http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew.
Paul Andrew is a Technical Product Manager on the SharePoint team at Microsoft. He has also worked at Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist and as a Developer Consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services. Before Microsoft Paul worked as a development team lead at an independent software vendor building embedded software for access control and alarms systems.
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MSDN Events Presents: The MSDN Mid Atlantic Roadshow
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 1:00 PM, Roanoke, VA
Join Microsoft Evangelists Dani Diaz, G. Andrew Duthie, and David Isbitski as they tour the Mid Atlantic this Fall presenting an afternoon packed full of cutting edge tips and techniques for developers and architects. Dig deeper into data access and network options in Silverlight, and check out the most important features in Windows 7 for Developers like Trigger Start services and the new Windows Troubleshooter. Finally, we’ll show you how to add several of the new interface options you won’t want to miss including Multi-Touch and the Ribbon Menu.
Free admission and a chance to score some great giveaways!
Reservations are required, and seating is limited. Register today to reserve your seat.
This event will be held at the Claude Moore Auditorium of the Roanoke Higher Education Center.
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Hampton Roads .NET Users Group
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 6:00 PM, Chesapeake, VA
Consider if you will, an ASP 3.0 to SharePoint/MOSS Enterprise Content Management migration project which used many of the technologies available in the stack: Publishing features, Business Data Catalog, Single Sign-On, custom SharePoint lists/document libraries, custom web parts, custom site branding, custom site metadata, and many other “enterprisey” whiz-bang gizmos. Now imagine that after many burned clock ticks of active development, barely a scratch was made in the feature set. This discussion will explore how a simplification of the software architecture and engineering processes allowed the project to achieve an unprecedented 24x gain in productivity while generating a successful end solution which is maintainable, scalable, and manageable.
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SharePoint 2010 for Developers
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 6:00 PM, Online
SharePoint 2010 has just come out in public beta and there are many new features for Developers. There are new tools in Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer, new capabilities for developer workstations, many new features in the SharePoint platform, new deployment opportunities for SharePoint applications and a new focus on SharePoint as an application development platform. In this discussion we will spin through the 20 top new features in SharePoint 2010 for developers in 15 minutes and then take questions from the audience. For links to where Microsoft has published full details of the new features see http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew.
Paul Andrew is a Technical Product Manager on the SharePoint team at Microsoft. He has also worked at Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist and as a Developer Consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services. Before Microsoft Paul worked as a development team lead at an independent software vendor building embedded software for access control and alarms systems.”
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RockNUG Release 3.6
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:30 PM, Rockville, MD
ASP.NET Dynamic Data
presented by John Miller
ASP.NET Dynamic Data provides a framework that enables you to quickly build a functional data-driven application, based on a LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework data model. It also adds great flexibility and functionality to the DetailsView, FormView, GridView, and ListView controls in the form of smart validation and the ability to easily change the display of these controls using templates. We'll look at how Dynamic Data works, how we can customize the templates to meet our specific needs, and how to drop Dynamic Data web pages into our existing application. We'll also look ahead to .NET 4.0 and Windows Azure with ASP.NET Dynamic Data.
John Miller is a solutions architect with experience in website design, custom development, security consulting, infrastructure optimization, and project management. These experiences have helped shape my view of an elegant solution; whether ingenious code, industry best practices, or process improvement. John has spent a lot of time working in diverse industries including manufacturing, healthcare, public policy and insurance. In addition to speaking at user groups and code camps, John maintains a blog at www.mobiusdevelopment.com and ongoing conversations on twitter (@jwmiller5).
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What's New in Office 2010 and Implications for IT Pros
Thursday, December 10, 2009 8:00 AM, Online
Let's talk about what's new in Office 2010, specifically about implications for IT Pros. Topics to include security improvements, Backstage capabilities, hardware requirements, how to host the Web Apps, improvements to application compatibility testing, tips/tools to get your end users prepared, and much more. Reed Shaffner is a Technical Product Manager for the Office client, with a focus on IT Professionals. He is a frequent and very popular speaker at major industry events and at corporate executive briefings.
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MSDN Events Presents > The MSDN Mid Atlantic Roadshow
Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:00 PM, Malvern, PA
Join Microsoft Evangelists Dani Diaz, G. Andrew Duthie, and David Isbitski as they tour the Mid Atlantic this Fall presenting an afternoon packed full of cutting edge tips and techniques for developers and architects. Dig deeper into data access and network options in Silverlight, and check out the most important features in Windows 7 for Developers like Trigger Start services and the new Windows Troubleshooter. Finally, we’ll show you how to add several of the new interface options you won’t want to miss including Multi-Touch and the Ribbon Menu.
Free admission and a chance to score some great giveaways!
Reservations are required, and seating is limited. Register today to reserve your seat.
This event will be held at the Microsoft Malvern Office, Suite 210, Great Valley Corporate Center.
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What's New in Office 2010 and Implications for IT Pros
Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:00 PM, Online
Let's talk about what's new in Office 2010, specifically about implications for IT Pros. Topics to include security improvements, Backstage capabilities, hardware requirements, how to host the Web Apps, improvements to application compatibility testing, tips/tools to get your end users prepared, and much more. Reed Shaffner is a Technical Product Manager for the Office client, with a focus on IT Professionals. He is a frequent and very popular speaker at major industry events and at corporate executive briefings.
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On the Road with Bing Maps: Reston, VA
Monday, December 14, 2009 1:00 PM, Reston, VA
Join Bing Maps experts, as they provide an overview of how the Bing Maps Platform can be a powerful visualization tool for geographic and location–based information. Learn solution implementation and best practices–and leave with the tools and resources to tap the power of location using Bing Maps. BE SURE TO REGISTER USING THE WEBSITE ADDRESS CITED HERE.
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What's New in Office 2010 for Developers
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:00 AM, Online
Office 2010 and related products, particularly SharePoint, offer a lot of compelling new features for users. But, there is a lot of new leverage for developers to customize Office and tailor it to the needs of a individuals, departments, and whole organizations. Learn what is new in Office 2010 for developers and discover what's in the content pipeline that you can use to get up to speed on the new technologies.
John R. Durant is a Senior Product Manager in the Office group driving Office developer marketing. Previously, he worked on the engineering team for Visual Studio and before that managed the MSDN site for Office developers. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked as a consultant architecting large scale software solutions for Fortunate 500 and mid-sized companies. He drawns on a dozen years of Office Developer-related experience to frequently write and speak on topics pertaining to Office productivity solutions, .NET, and other Microsoft products and technologies.
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What's New in Office 2010 for Developers
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:00 PM, Online
Office 2010 and related products, particularly SharePoint, offer a lot of compelling new features for users. But, there is a lot of new leverage for developers to customize Office and tailor it to the needs of a individuals, departments, and whole organizations. Learn what is new in Office 2010 for developers and discover what's in the content pipeline that you can use to get up to speed on the new technologies.
John R. Durant is a Senior Product Manager in the Office group driving Office developer marketing. Previously, he worked on the engineering team for Visual Studio and before that managed the MSDN site for Office developers. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked as a consultant architecting large scale software solutions for Fortunate 500 and mid-sized companies. He drawns on a dozen years of Office Developer-related experience to frequently write and speak on topics pertaining to Office productivity solutions, .NET, and other Microsoft products and technologies.
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Frederick .NET User Group Monthly Meeting
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:30 PM, Frederick, MD
Considering doing a presentation at an upcoming code camp or user group in the spring?
Have a really interesting .NET-related topic that you would like to share with other developers?
Then come to this month’s Frederick .NET User Group meeting and present your stuff!
FredNUG is mixing things up a bit this month. On December 15th, we’ll start with pizza and social networking at 6:30 PM. Then, starting at 7 PM, we’ll start our “15 Minutes of Fame” presentations. Anyone interested in presenting their favorite .NET topic should contact me about getting on the schedule. Hopefully, we will get a nice mix of topics that will generate some nice discussion.
We’re also doing a food drive for the local food bank to help folks around the holidays. If we can get a minimum of 50 items, we’ll raffle a license of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit for those attendees donating the food items.
The scheduled agenda is:
•6:30 PM - 7:00 PM - Pizza/Social Networking/Announcements
•7:00 PM - 8:30 PM – 15 Minutes of Fame Presentations
•8:30 PM - 8:45 PM – RAFFLE!
Please join us and get involved in our .NET developers community!
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PDC Wrap Up
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:00 PM, Vienna, VA
Abstract
You know there had to be a lot of cool new stuff to justify two PDCs in a row. PDC2009 is going to have tons of new announcements, especially in areas you will be excited about. Join us for a lap around the new announcements at PDC, especially about [redacted] and [redacted] and no way could we forget about the awesome [redacted] … well, join us after PDC and you’ll get all the juicy details with a side of pizza. :)
Bio
Pete Brown is a Senior Program Manager with Microsoft on the client applications development community team, and a former Microsoft Silverlight MVP, INETA speaker, and RIA Architect for Applied Information Sciences.
From his first sprite graphics and custom character sets on the Commodore 64 to 3d modeling and design through to Silverlight, Surface, XNA, and WPF, Pete has always had a deep interest in programming, design, and user experience. His involvement in Silverlight goes back to the Silverlight 1.1 alpha application that he co-wrote and put into production in July 2007. Pete has been programming for fun since 1984, and professionally since 1992.
In his spare time, Pete enjoys programming, blogging, designing and building his own woodworking projects and raising his two children with his wife in the suburbs of Maryland. Pete’s blog is at http://www.irritatedVowel.com/Blog , and you can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/pete_brown
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SharePoint 2010 for IT Professionals
Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:00 AM, Online
SharePoint 2010 brings many new capabilities to enterprise customers. It also means SharePoint administrators need to learn more. Join IT Professional experience discussion to learn more about new IT Pro features and improvements such as deployment, upgrade, Windows PowerShell, health monitoring, troubleshooting, scalability, resource throttling, high availability, backup and restore, disaster recovery, security and virtualization.
Jie Li is a Technical Product Manager on the SharePoint team at Microsoft. His main focus is on SharePoint IT Pro readiness. He used to work in many different customers, from small business to enterprise, as a technology specialist for Microsoft China. Before Microsoft, Jie worked as an IT consultant for multinational companies.
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SharePoint 2010 for IT Professionals
Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:00 PM, Online
SharePoint 2010 brings many new capabilities to enterprise customers. It also means SharePoint administrators need to learn more. Join IT Professional experience discussion to learn more about new IT Pro features and improvements such as deployment, upgrade, Windows PowerShell, health monitoring, troubleshooting, scalability, resource throttling, high availability, backup and restore, disaster recovery, security and virtualization.
Jie Li is a Technical Product Manager on the SharePoint team at Microsoft. His main focus is on SharePoint IT Pro readiness. He used to work in many different customers, from small business to enterprise, as a technology specialist for Microsoft China. Before Microsoft, Jie worked as an IT consultant for multinational companies.
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The year of technology invention

stevecla01 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:46:49 GMT

Another variant of the Did You Know video.

hat tip to Mel

PGP 9.6… und App-V 4.5 auf dem App-V Clients

sgern — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:42:11 GMT

Wenn man auf einem System PGP “Pretty good Privacy” in der Version 9.6 installiert hat und anschließend App-V installiert, werden App-V Anwendungen bei Start sofort wieder geschlossen. Installiert man erst App-V und denn PGP 9.6 tritt das Problem nicht auf. Ab der Version 9.9 scheint es wieder egal zu sein in welcher Reihenfolge man die Anwendungen installiert. Schönen Gruß Sebastian Gernert – Support Escalation Engineer Technorati-Tags: App-V 4.5 , Fehler...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 and ALM Seminar in London on the 17th Dec

gdavi — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:37:34 GMT

One of our Visual Studio Inner Circle Partners, Black Marble, is delivering a seminar in London on the 17th December, and we’ll be supporting them at that event. If you’re interested in understanding more about Visual Studio 2010 and how the Team Foundation Server can support your whole development lifecycle you can register here to go to the event. Black Marble’s Richard Fennell is a Team Foundation Server MVP and will be presenting, and I’ll be supporting him during the day. Richard is also going to cover the support for Java developers that we can provide through the recent acquisition of TeamPrise.

Cheers,

Giles

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MVP Talks Community on Tech Talk Radio

Jas Dhaliwal — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:34:03 GMT

MVP Michael Cocanower was interviewed earlier this year, by US radio show, KFNX-AM’s IMI Tech Talk!

Michael does a terrific job at describing the MVP Award Program, and the value it brings to the technical community. He demonstrates the commitment MVPs have to help individuals maximize their technology investments.

The 25-minute interview can be heard here.

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A Suck Less Event Aggregator for Prism?

ukadc — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT

I heard on twitter the other day (Yes, I now tweet occasionally. If you'd like to waste literally seconds of your day you can follow me at joshtwist) that some folks at an Alt.Net UK event where giving P&P and Prism a rough ride. Specifically, they had some issues with the EventAggregator - citing Jeremy Miller's criticisms in this post Braindump on the Event Aggregator Pattern.

I need to say up front that I really like the EventAggregator in Prism - it's one of my favourite bits. However, I have to agree with some of the feedback. I've always found it odd that I have to go to the EventAggregator and ask for an 'event' object. Especially because the thing I get back isn't an event, but the 'bus' through which events travel.

CustomerSelectedEvent cse = eventAggregator.GetEvent<CustomerSelectedEvent>();
cse.Subscribe(c => CustomerHasBeenSelected(c));

// meanwhile, elsewhere...

CustomerSelectedEvent cse = eventAggregator.GetEvent<CustomerSelectedEvent>();
cse.Publish(customer);

However, once I've learned the API I've never found it obstructive. Nonetheless - I wondered, how hard would it be to create a wrapper that makes the Event Aggregator look something like you might expect it to look?

public interface ISuckLessEventAggregator
{
    void SendMessage<T>(T message);
    void Subscribe<T>(Action<T> action);
    void Subscribe<T>(Action<T> action, bool keepSubscriberReferenceAlive);
    void Subscribe<T>(Action<T> action, Microsoft.Practices.Composite.Presentation.Events.ThreadOption threadOption, bool keepSubscriberReferenceAlive, Predicate<T> where);
    void Unsubscribe<T>(Action<T> action);
}

The interface would look something like that I guess. And it would be used like so.

eventAggregator.Subscribe<Customer>(c => CustomerHasBeenSelected(c));

// meanwhile, elsewhere...

eventAggregator.Send(customer);

That certainly feels a bit better. However, there's no 'topic' described so this feels like a poor usage of the new interface as I can't distinguish Customer *selection* from other events involving the Customer type. Maybe this is better:

public class CustomerSelectedEvent
{
    public Customer Customer { get; set; }
}

// elsewhere

eventAggregator.Subscribe<CustomerSelectedEvent>(c => CustomerHasBeenSelected(c.Customer));

// meanwhile, elsewhere...

eventAggregator.Send(new CustomerSelectedEvent { Customer = customer} );

Now I prefer this over the existing pattern for a number of reasons

It's just easier to read
The 'event' class, CustomerSelectedEvent, is a POCO - no dependencies on the Prism pieces.

And how might this implementation look? Here's a first shot:

using System;
using Microsoft.Practices.Composite.Events;
using Microsoft.Practices.Composite.Presentation.Events;

public class SuckLessEventAggregator : ISuckLessEventAggregator
{
    private readonly IEventAggregator _eventAggregator;

    public SuckLessEventAggregator(IEventAggregator eventAggregator)
    {
        _eventAggregator = eventAggregator;
    }

    private CompositePresentationEvent<T> GetEventBus<T>()
    {
        var bus = _eventAggregator.GetEvent<CompositePresentationEvent<T>>();
        return bus;
    }

    public void SendMessage<T>(T message)
    {
        var bus = GetEventBus<T>();
        bus.Publish(message);
    }

    public void Subscribe<T>(Action<T> action)
    {
        var bus = GetEventBus<T>();
        bus.Subscribe(action);
    }

    public void Subscribe<T>(Action<T> action, bool keepSubscriberReferenceAlive)
    {
        var bus = GetEventBus<T>();
        bus.Subscribe(action, keepSubscriberReferenceAlive);
    }

    public void Subscribe<T>(Action<T> action, ThreadOption threadOption, bool keepSubscriberReferenceAlive, Predicate<T> where)
    {
        var bus = GetEventBus<T>();
        bus.Subscribe(action, threadOption, keepSubscriberReferenceAlive, where);
    }

    public void Unusbscribe<T>(Action<T> action)
    {
        var bus = GetEventBus<T>();
        bus.Unsubscribe(action);
    }

    // You'd probably have more overloads but I'll wait for C# 4's Optional keyword :)
}

Does this feel better?

I realise that it doesn't address all of Jeremy's concerns (it's just the result of a short train journey's work so far). However, some of them I just don't agree with.

For example:

"2. The listeners should have little or preferably NO/ZILCH/NADA coupling to the event aggregator."

I'd much prefer an explicit dependency on the EventAggregator than a relatively implicit one to an IoC behavior. In either case, this is more of a religious argument than a technical one.

I also realise that most of this could have been implemented in Extension Methods but I think a separate, uncluttered API would be more intuitive.

Thoughts? Any holes in my quick implementation?

Originally posted by Josh Twist on 4th of August 2009 here.

How To: Use CAT.NET V2.0 CTP

syedab — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:53:23 GMT

Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team responsible for testing CAT.NET v2.0.

As the installer name suggests CATNETV20CMD, CAT.NET V2.0 CTP is command line version only. CAT.NET v2.0 CTP analyses assemblies for vulnerabilities and configuration files for misconfigurations. You can open the rules files present at C:\Program files\Microsoft Information Security tools\Microsoft Code Analysis for .NET(CAT.NET) v2.0\Rules\ConfigRules, to get an understanding of configuration rules. Example, configrule for trace, if trace is enabled it will be shown in report.

        1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

       2: <ConfigurationRule xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" typeName="Microsoft.InformationSecurity.CodeAnalysis.Engines.RulesModel.ConfigurationRule, Microsoft.InformationSecurity.CodeAnalysis.Engines.RulesModel, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b9ded31be328441b" enabled="false" comparisionType="AttributeCheck" isAndConditions="false">

       3:   <Information cultureName="en-US">

       4:     <Category>Web Security</Category>

       5:     <Certainity>50</Certainity>

       6:     <Description>Trace is enabled which can lead to information disclosure</Description>

       7:     <Email>anilkr@microsoft.com</Email>

       8:     <Name>Trace enabled attribute is set to true</Name>

       9:     <Owner>Anil Revuru</Owner>

      10:     <Resolution>Set enabled attribute to false</Resolution>

      11:     <RuleId>WEBCONFSEC07</RuleId>

      12:     <SeverityLevel>High</SeverityLevel>

      13:     <Url></Url>

      14:     <Problem>Enabled attribute is set to true</Problem>

      15:   </Information>

      16:   <Conditions>

      17:     <Condition conditionId="42C400DF-5130-4FDB-9EE3-8C944D92BBC8" configurationPath="/configuration/system.web/trace" attributeName="enabled" attributeValue="true" comparisionOperator="Equals" />

      18:   </Conditions>

      19: </ConfigurationRule>

      20:

Steps to use CAT.NET v2.0:

Launch command prompt in administrator mode and go to C:\Program files\Microsoft Information Security tools\Microsoft Code Analysis for .NET(CAT.NET) v2.0.
Enter
CATNetCmd.exe /file:"D:\MyApplication\bin\Application.dll" /configdir:"D:\MyApplication" /report:"D:\MyApplication\ApplicationReport.xml" /reportxsloutput:"D:\MyApplicaiton\ApplicationReport.htm"
/file and /configdir switches are mandatory, file is the path to the assembly to analyze and configdir path to the web.config file to analyze. It analyzes all web.configuration files under the folder and reports the issues. Total 40 rules are loaded, 33 config rules and 7 data flow rules.
Following are the command-line options available
/file:<target>
Required. The path of an assembly file to analyze. Multiple file paths and wildcards are not supported. This is a required parameter.

/configdir:<target directory>
Required. The path to a directory which contains .NET configuration files for analysis.

/rules:<directory>
Optional. The path to a file or directory that contains analysis rule(s). The engine will use the default rules included with the product by default.

/report:<file>
Optional. The file to store the analysis report in. By default, the report will be saved in 'MicrosoftCodeAnalysisReport.xml' in the current working directory.

/reportxsl:<file>
Optional. The XSL file to use to transform the report. By default, the packaged XSL transform included in the product will be used.

/reportxsloutput:<file>
Optional. The output file to store the XSLT transform output in. By default, the HTML report will be saved in 'report.html' in the current working directory.

/verbose
Optional. Enables flag to display verbose message when displaying results.
The CAT.NET report contains detailed information about dataflow and configuration analysis errors along with line numbers.

- Syed

Bing Maps

nikosangr — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:49:46 GMT

Ως γνωστόν η πλατφόρμα Bing της Microsoft πέραν από τις δυνατότητες αναζήτησης παρέχει και μια προηγμένη τεχνολογία χαρτών με καινοτομικά χαρακτηριστικά όπως το Bird Eye View, οδηγίες πλοήγησης και πρόσβαση από κινητά τηλέφωνα.

Στις αρχές του Δεκέμβρη, η Microsoft παρουσίασε μια beta έκδοση του νέου site του Bing Maps και όπως θα διαπιστώσετε από το video παρέχει νέες δυνατότητες και στους developers. Η τεχνολογία “streetside imagery” έχει ενσωματωθεί πλέον στο Bing Maps και διατίθεται από την beta έκδοση του νέου Silverlight site.

-Streetside™

Πρόσθετα νέα χαρακτηριστικά της πλατφόρμας είναι τα βελτιωμένα Birds Eye, το application gallery, το Photosynth και η απλοποιημένη πλοήγηση.

- Βελτιωμένα Birds Eye

- Photosynth

- Απλοποιημένη πλοήγηση

Στο προτεινόμενο video, μπορείτε να παρακολουθήσετε ένα σύντομο test drive της νέας πλατφόρμας και ενδιαφέρουσες πληροφορίες για τους developers.

Επίσης, για όσους ενδιαφέρονται περισσότερο για την συγκεκριμένη πλατφόρμα ανάπτυξης και υπηρεσία χαρτών, θα σας πρότεινα να επισκεφθείτε το blog του Chris Pendleton.

FC Barcelona выпустила нeтбук на борту с Windows 7

Ilya Vorobiev — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:25:04 GMT

В нашей стране футбол безусловно пользуется большой популярность. Сегодня с утра в интернете наткнулся на новость о том, что футбольный клуб Барселона сделал эксклюзивную версию нетбука для своих болельщиков, думаю, для поклонников данного клуба это замечательная новость и прекрасный подарок к новому году!

Нетбук оснащен процессором Intel Atom N270, 1Гб оперативной памяти и жестким диском 250 Гб. За счет того что в нетбуке используется операционная система Windows 7 версии Starter цена данного устройства на рынке составляет всего 349 евро.

Более подробную информацию можно найти на официальном сайте футбольного клуба.