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• All I Can Say is a Big Amen!

  This says it all. Technorati Tags: .NET , Agile , Agile Development , Extreme Programming , ORM , Data , Entity Framework , ADO.NET 3.0 , Orcas , MVP , Visual Studio , VSTS , Team System , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:22 PM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Windows Vista, CLR, WCF/Indigo, Software Architecture, MVP, LINQ and OR/M, Ruby and Rails, Data, Agile, Agile and Extreme Programming, Microsoft, C#, Visual Studio, Team System, VSTS, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, Extreme Programming, Agile Development, Smart Clients, TFS and MSF-Agile, VS Team System, Workflow, WinForms, Orcas, Entity Framework, ADO.NET 3.0, ORM

• First Experiences with Orcas March CTP VPC Image

  So after two days of downloading at broadband speeds, I finally got all the pieces of the Orcas Mrach CTP downloaded. Doublce-clicking on Part1.exe expanded the other 8 RAR files. Once that was done, I used Virtual PC 2007 on top of my Vista Ultimate desktop OS. I left the setting at 1 GB of RAM. I then attached to the VPC image and there I was staring at a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise login. The VPC image seems to be put together well. In addition to Orcas (Visual Studio 9), both SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 are present. A nice bonus is that TFS is fully installed saving a lot of work. So far, I have just created a Team Project in VSTS/TFS and the speeds are ok. I am going to be digging in during parts of the weekend, so I'll have more as I go along. Technorati Tags: .NET , .NET Framework 3 , Orcas , LINQ , OR/M , Windows Workflow , Windows Communication Foundation , WCF , WF , Software Architecture , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Friday, March 02, 2007 1:14 AM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Windows Vista, CLR, WCF/Indigo, Software Architecture, LINQ and OR/M, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, LINQ, OR/M, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, TFS and MSF-Agile, VS Team System, Windows Workflow, Workflow, Orcas, WF, .NET Framework 3

• Orcas Jan CTP Available!

  Via Rob Caron , the news that the Jan CTP of Visual Studio code name "Orcas" is available for download as a self-extracting install, or installed in a Virtual PC image. Check out the Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Related CTP Downloads page. That page has a whole list of mouth watering goodness of which I'll list some of my faves: Extended, more powerful data APIs with the ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to ADO.NET C# 3.0 Language Support: This CTP implements all of the C#3.0 language features from the May LINQ CTP including: Query Expressions Object and Collection Initializers Extension Methods Local Variable Type Inference and Anonymous Types Lambdas bound to Delegates and Expression trees LINQ to Objects API The LINQ to Objects API supports queries over any .NET collection, such as arrays and Generic Lists. This API is defined in the System.Linq namespaces inside System.Core.dll. Click here for more details about LINQ. ClickOnce improvements This CTP delivers ClickOnce improvements for the deployment of Windows Presentation Foundation applications, alternative browser support and ISV rebranding. Support for advanced lifetime management of add-ins and their AppDomains We’ve added the helper classes that manage the lifetime of add-ins, the objects passed between the host and add-ins, and even of the AppDomains the add-ins live in. By using the ContractBase and LifetimeToken handle, pipeline developer can let the hosts and add-ins act as if everything, including the AppDomain the add-in was activated in, was controlled by the garbage collector even though .Net Remoting would normally make that impossible. Client service support for Login/Logout, Role management and Profiles ASP.NET 2.0 shipped with new application services for authentication, authorization and personalization. Most of these services are not tied to ASP.NET and can work in non-web applications. This CTP enables the use of these services in smart client applications for Read More... Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:36 AM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: CLR, C#, TFS and MSF-Agile, VS Team System