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The Weekly Source Code 56 - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - Code Contracts, Parallel Framework and COM Interop
Do you like a big pile of source code? Well, there is an imperial buttload of source in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit . It's actually a 178 meg download, which is insane. Perhaps start your download now and get it in the morning Read More...
Microsoft WebMatrix in Context and Deploying Your First Site
  ScottGu announced Microsoft WebMatrix today. It's a small (15 megs if you have .NET 4, 50megs if you don't) lightweight IDE for making ASP.NET or PHP websites. It has a small embedded file-based SQL Database, and a web-server called IIS Express Read More...
The Weekly Source Code 52 - You get using that LINQ, I dunna think it means what you think it means.
Remember good developers don't just write source code, they also READ it. You don't just become a great poet by writing lots of poems. Read and absorb as well. Do check out the Source Code category of my blog here , there's (as of today) 15 pages of posts Read More...
The Weekly Source Code 52 - You keep using that LINQ, I dunna think it means what you think it means.
Remember good developers don't just write source code, they also READ it. You don't just become a great poet by writing lots of poems. Read and absorb as well. Do check out the Source Code category of my blog here , there's (as of today) 15 pages of posts Read More...
Visual Studio 2010 Released
It's a big day at Microsoft today as Visual Studio 2010 officially releases. There's a lot going on with this release and I thought I'd do a big rollup post with lots of details and context to help you find your way to the information and downloads you're Read More...
Back to Basics: C# 4 method overloading and dynamic types
C# 3.0 introduced the implicit type "var" . I've explained var as saying: "I'm too lazy to tell you the type of this variable, so you figure it out, compiler." However, it's more useful than just promoting terseness or laziness: var Read More...
The Weekly Source Code 49 - SmallBasic is Fun, Simple, Powerful Programming for Kids and Adults
While the boys are only 2 and 4, I'm always keeping an eye out on new ways to teach them programming. Certainly I hope they'll be more well-rounded and I and spend more time outside, but a even a basic background in programming and logic, I think, produces Read More...
SmallestDotNet Update - Now with .NET 4 support and an includable JavaScript API
A few years back I wrote a post on the size of the .NET Framework . There's historically been a lot of confusion on the site of the .NET Framework. If you search around on the web for ".NET Framework" or ".NET Framework Redistributable" Read More...
Hanselminutes Podcast 196 - .NET 4 CLR, Framework and Language Chat with Jason Olson
My one-hundred-and-ninety-sixth podcast is up . Jason Olson works (or worked, as you'll hear) for Microsoft in DPE. In this episode he takes Scott a little deeper into some of the new features in .NET 4, including security, CLR changes, C# 4 and VB 10 Read More...
How many PCs in the world have the .NET Framework installed?
I did a second .NET Framework features informal poll recently , and as with all .NET related polls the question comes up: How many PCs have the .NET Framework on it? If you're a company that is considering creating a client application using .NET (not Read More...
2010 Survey Results: What .NET Framework features do you use?
In October of 2008 I took an informal survey on Twitter . I wanted to get an idea of what features of the .NET Framework people were using. Also, here's the disclaimer. I did this on a whim, it's not scientific, so the margin of error is +/-101%. That Read More...
Hanselminutes Podcast 193: Axum - A domain-specific concurrent programming language with Niklas Gustafsson
My one-hundred-and-ninety-third podcast is up . Scott talks to Niklas Gustafsson about Axum (formerly Maestro), an incubation project at MSDN DevLabs. Axum is a new language based on the Actor model that targets the CLR. It focuses on making concurrency Read More...
A new MSDN for a new Operating System and a new Development Environment
The team I work at Microsoft for is called Server and Tools Online, and one of the things we work on is the Microsoft Developer Network or "MSDN." If you go way, way up, our boss is Soma ( Yes, this Soma ), but down here in the trenches there's Read More...
Programming for Absolute Beginners
You, Dear Reader, very likely don't need this information. I assume you're probably not a beginner. BUT, you likely KNOW a beginner. Share this information with them! A bunch of people on Twitter discovered the MSDN Beginner Developer Center today. I Read More...
Hanselminutes Podcast 163 - Software Metrics with Patrick Smacchia
My one-hundred-and-sixty-third podcast is up . Scott sits down with Patrick Smacchia , lead developer of NDepend , and talks about Software Metrics. What metrics lie beyond Lines of Code? Metrics Definitions NDepend "Placemat" PDF NDepend Features Read More...
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