Pex - Automated Exploratory Testing for .NET

Posted By: Brian Keller | Today @ 10:56 AM | Comments: 1

Pex is a tool being developed by Microsoft Research which has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of software testing while requiring minimal, if any, effort on the part of the developer.[Click to read the full post

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Tags: MS Research, Software Testing

Microsoft Acquires Powerset

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Jul 2nd @ 12:31 PM | Comments: 5

Things are heating up in the world of search! Today on the Live Search blog, Microsoft announced that it had acquired Powerset, a natural language and search company.

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New PDC Sessions Posted

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Jul 2nd @ 9:58 AM | Comments: 1

Mike Swanson and team have updated MicrosoftPDC.com to include a brand new set of PDC sessions. The new sessions cover a variety of topics including: The Future of Visual Basic, The Future of C#, Visual C++: 10 is the New 6, Project "Velocity", Architecture with VSTS Rosario, Data modeling for the cloud, and more. Check out the full session list for more information.

Tag: PDC08

TechEd: Angus Logan on Windows Live

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Jul 2nd @ 9:43 AM | Comments: 2

Angus Logan from the Windows Live team shares his thoughts on the evolution of Windows Live and Windows Live services, social networking, Live Mesh, and what it all means for developers.

Tag: Windows Live

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to make an animation follow a path

Posted By: Jennifer Marsman | Jul 2nd @ 4:45 AM | Comments: 1

In Part 3 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman creates a spotlight animation that traverses in a slow circle using the Expression Blend tool.

Tags: Animation, Expression Blend, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF, XAML

endpoint.tv - The Total Noobs Guide to WCF - Lesson 1: My First WCF Service

Posted By: rojacobs | Jul 1st @ 1:32 PM | Comments: 2

In this episode Ron Jacobs walks you through the process of creating your first WCF service and teaches you the about the ABCs of WCF[Click to read the full post

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Tags: Noob, WCF, Windows Communication Foundation

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to start animations on events

Posted By: Jennifer Marsman | Jun 30th @ 9:45 PM | Comments: 1

In Part 2 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman walks through wiring up animations to start based on events using the Expression Blend tool.

Tags: Animation, Expression Blend, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF, XAML

Virtual Earth Mapping in Silverlight with VIEWS

Posted By: Jared Bienz | Jun 30th @ 8:25 PM | Comments: 6

VIEWS (the Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight) provides a fully managed wrapper around Virtual Earth for Silverlight applications. Learn how you can add mapping to your applications without getting deep into JavaScript.[Click to read the full post

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Tags: CLR, maps, Silverlight, Virtual Earth

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to create an animation

Posted By: Jennifer Marsman | Jun 30th @ 5:12 PM | Comments: 1

In Part 1 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman walks through creating DoubleAnimations and ColorAnimations using the Expression Blend tool.

Tags: Animation, Expression Blend, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF, XAML

The Future of Telecommunications and Media with Cognizant

Posted By: kirke | Jun 30th @ 4:13 PM | Comments: 0

Kirk Evans talks with Stephen Fleece and Ramesh Shanmugam from Cognizant. We discuss the work that Cognizant did with TMForum and the Content Encounter Catalyst project, showing how to deliver contextual ads through a video on-demand ordering experience. Through the use of standards and interoperability, Cognizant was able to provide a Windows Media Center and Windows Mobile experience that allows you to order videos on one experience and, through the capabilities of DRM, watch the video on another device.[Click to read the full post

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Tags: Communicating, M&E, telco

TSQL Merge Statement - SQL Server 2008

Posted By: ashishjaiman | Jun 30th @ 2:07 PM | Comments: 0

In SQL Server 2008, you can perform insert, update, or delete operations in a single statement using the MERGE statement.

The MERGE statement allows you to join a data source with a target table or view, and then perform multiple actions against the target object based on the results of that join.

Tags: Merger, SQL 2008, SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, TSQL

Charles Teague: Building Windows Live Writer Plug-ins

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Jun 30th @ 10:07 AM | Comments: 4

Catherine Heller interviews Charles Teague on Windows Live Writer, a free and extensible desktop blogging application that can work with practically every blogging service available.

Charles discusses the Windows Live Writer SDK which includes a managed API for extending Live Writer. He demonstrates the Polaroid Picture Plug-in and also shows how to build a "Hello World" plug-in in Visual Studio. You can find more information including SDK updates on the Windows Live Writer blog.

Tag: Windows Live Writer

Bringing Web Services and IMS Together with Abdi Modaressi of AT&T

Posted By: kirke | Jun 30th @ 9:44 AM | Comments: 1

In this epsiode of Communicating, Kirk Evans takes a break from interviewing and films while Eric Troup talks with Abdi Modaressi, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T. Eric and Abdi discuss the role of IMS and some of the research that Microsoft has worked with AT&T around converged services and delivering content to multiple devices and screens.[Click to read the full post

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Tags: Architecture, Communicating

TechEd Amanda Silver on Visual Basic 2008 and VB in the future

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Jun 30th @ 9:36 AM | Comments: 3

I caught up with Amanda Silver to discuss new for 2008 features like LINQ, XML Literals, using LINQ to target LINQ for .NET Framework 2.0. Amanda shares her thoughts on the future of dynamic typing in Visual Basic, runtime changes in edit-and-continue, how to make changes in pseudo-run mode, the challenges in adding IntelliSense for dynamic typing, and improving native/Pinvoke calls for .NET developers. Amanda also reveals her toughest feature cut that the team had to make for the VB 2008 release.

Tags: LINQ, TechEd, Visual Basic

MSDN TV - WCF och BizTalk Services

Posted By: johanlindfors | Jun 30th @ 2:01 AM | Comments: 0

Med hjälp av BizTalk Services som finns exponerade som en CTP på http://labs.biztalk.net kan vi få våra applikationer att slippa direkt-koppling som ibland kan försvåras på grund av brandväggar och olika nätverkstopologier. I den här screencasten uppdaterar jag ett befintligt exempel till att kommunicera med hjälp av BizTalk Connectivity Services.[Click to read the full post

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Tags: BizTalk Services, MSDN TV, Sweden, WCF

C# 3.0 Part 2: The Power of LINQ

Posted By: Jennifer Marsman | Jun 29th @ 11:22 PM | Comments: 0

Jennifer Marsman completes the code refactoring by utilizing LINQ to retrieve data. She demonstrates using LINQ to query against objects, XML, typed datasets, and SQL.

Tags: .NET 3.5, C# 3.0, LINQ

Joe DeCarlo on The Microsoft Certified Architect Program

Posted By: kirke | Jun 29th @ 5:30 PM | Comments: 1

Kirk Evans talks with Joe DeCarlo, Architect at Turner Broadcasting and a Microsoft Certified Architect. Joe recently sat on the other side of the MCA process, participating in a review board for potential candidates and provides a unique perspective on the MCA program.[Click to read the full post

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Tags: Architecture, VSTS