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  • Happy Birthday Visual Studio 2010

    Happy Birthday Visual Studio 2010. Somasegar's blog goes through many of the ongoing benefits and new enhancements that has happened over the past year. Some of the most notable include: Windows Phone 7 Support Launch of Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Visual Studio Power Tools ADO Entity Framework...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 13 Apr 2011
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  • NuGet is a Must-Have Tool

    NuGet 1.1 was recently announced by Scott Guthrie about a month or so ago . Since then, the NuGet team has released its latest release, NuGet 1.2 announced by Microsoft Senior Program Manager at Microsoft and NuGet coordinator Phil Haack . This developer tool is an extension to Visual Studio 2010 and...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 4 Apr 2011
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  • Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2

    Microsoft announced this week the release of Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 . This release includes a GoLive license meaning that it is production-ready. Jason Zanders spoke at a VSIP conference this week that I attended and got the skinny on this LightSwitch product. LightSwitch is a product that...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 17 Mar 2011
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  • New Launches from ASP.NET Group

    Scott Guthrie and the ASP.NET group have been busy this week with many new releases. The most anticipated release is ASP.NET MVC 3 which is a framework built on top of ASP.NET that provides the developer features that can simply their code and provide deeper extensibility. One exciting new feature is...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 14 Jan 2011
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  • Best Developer Tools

    Anything that makes my life easier is a welcome thing. Jesse Liberty , who we were privileged to have develop our inaugural Visual C# course before he went off to Microsoft , came up with a list that in my opinion is as about as good as it gets. The only comparable tools list would be Scott Hanselman's...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 11 Jan 2011
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  • With security, keep an eye on the forest

    When dealing with security in software, it easy to get comfortable thinking that by simply adding another deadbolt to the front door you are more protected. This model works if you assume the only way in is the front door. In software, you have to stay on your toes because the types of threats you need...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 16 Dec 2010
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  • Surprised about being surprised?

    I have often said that I have stopped being surprised about what happens over in Redmond, WA. Clearly Microsoft continues to build the best tools for developers but every once in a while Microsoft does something that makes me go, Hmmmmmmmm. Today's hmmmmm moment is sponsored by the SUO file. What...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 17 Nov 2010
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  • Best Practices -- As opposed to?

    Occasionally, in my line of work, I am often asked by customers and clients whether our AppDev learning series cover “Best Practices”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m well aware of Microsoft’s use of the term “Best Practices” which has been written on around every product...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 27 Aug 2010
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  • Majority of developers say they can't keep up

    More than ever, technology is advancing and changing at a neck-breaking speed. Developers are constantly struggling to keep their skills up-to-date and a recent developer survey by Embarcadero shows it. Get a copy of it here . Buried among the many survey questions relating to Windows 7 development and...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 22 Aug 2010
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  • Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch

    Somaseger announced yesterday the introduction of a new product called Visual Studio LightSwitch. If you were a developer from the 1990's like me then you likely spent time with some of time working with products like Microsoft Access or Microsoft Visual FoxPro. These development tools pre-baked...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 4 Aug 2010
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  • Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4

    Wow, Microsoft has been very busy this month! Unless you've been on a serious sabbatical this past few weeks, I am sure you're aware that Microsoft officially launched and, more importantly, released Visual Studio 2010. I had the privileged to be a part of the Launch event in Las Vegas on April...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 29 Apr 2010
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  • Visual Studio 2010 RC Part 2

    More info is coming out regarding Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate. VS2010 RC will include support for a "Go Live" license. If you have a Support ID for the Beta 2 release, it will continue to work for the RC. ( More Info ) Early reports show that this release made huge improvements on...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 10 Feb 2010
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  • Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Now Available

    Somasegar has annouced the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 yesterday afternoon. Currently it is available for download by MSDN subscribers but will be available to the public on Wednesday, February 10th. For some good information about this new release candidate, check out Jason...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 9 Feb 2010
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  • VS2010: Sell no wine before it's time

    With all due respect to Paul Masson, it looks like Microsoft is not going to sell sour wine for the sake of hitting dates. Although I, among many others, are chomping at the bit to get our hands on the RTM (final bits), it looks like we are going to have to wait a little bit longer. The current launch...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 18 Dec 2009
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  • New IntelliTrace in VS2010

    I hear that Microsoft is going through the process of getting a trademark on a new feature coming in Visual Studio 2010, IntelliTrace , formerly known as Historical Debugging. I am not aware of any Visual Studio feature that has attempted a trademark; which suggests Microsoft is very excited about this...
    Posted to Marty's Blog by MartyS on 11 Nov 2009
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