May 2010 - Posts

GeekFest at TechEd
25 May 2010 7:48 PM

Let’s face it, going to a technical conference is good for your career but it’s not a whole lot of fun. You need an outlet. You need to have fun.

Cheap beer and lousy pizza (with a New Orleans twist)

We are bringing back GeekFest! Join us at Pat O’Brien’s for a night of gumbo, beer and hurricanes. There are limited invitations available, so what are you waiting for? If you are attending the TechEd 2010 conference and you are a developer, you are invited. To register pick up your "duck" ticket (and wristband) in the TechEd Technical Learning Center (TLC) at the Developer Tools & Languages (DEV) information desk.

You must have wristband to get in.

Tuesday, June 8th from 8pm – 11pm
Pat O’Brien’s New Orleans
624 Bourbon Street New Orleans, LA 70130

 

VB Parity for examples
24 May 2010 6:18 PM

Unfortunately, Microsoft has been tardy on creating both Visual Basic and C# samples for many products. Recently, they've been catching up. Here are the details:

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WCF/WF: 236 Samples (WF_WF_Samples.zip)

WCF/WF: 240 Help topics

WPF: 350 Help topics

SharePoint 2010: Developer Training Kit

SharePoint 2010: 300 Help Topics

Parallel Programming MSDN Magazine Articles (VB Code now included inline): Debugging Task-Based Parallel Applications in Visual Studio 2010 | Data-Parallel Patterns and PLINQ | Solving 11 Likely Problems In Your Multithreaded Code | False Sharing

Parallel Programming: Patterns for Parallel Programming Paper: Understanding and Applying Parallel Patterns with the .NET Framework 4

Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility Samples: Build Progress Bar | Alpha Blend ToolBar | Winforms Control Installer | Spell Checker (VB versions going live this week) | Overview Margin (VB versions going live this week)

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4: Training Kit

Visual Studio 2010 Community Launch Materials: Dev-Designer Collaboration | Projects on Track | Personalizing Your Environment | Using Your Existing Skills | Windows 7 for Developers (VB versions going live this week)

Visual Basic 10.0 Language (Additional Samples for Python & Simple Variance): VB Samples -> Language directory

Silverlight: Jesse Liberty’s mini-tutorial blog posts: SL HyperVideo | Silverlight/MEF/HVP | Project Turing RIA Services | Project Turing Multiple Tables | Silverlight TDD | MVVM

MEF: Glen Block blog: Hello MEF in Silverlight 4 and VB!  

Expression Encoder 3 Samples: http://encoder3vb.codeplex.com/

Expression Encoder 4 Samples (shipping in the Expression Encoder 4 SDK)

Windows Phone 7 Series: Still to come. Watch for more details.

 

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