Windows Phone 7 - First Impressions by Scott Hanselman

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft in MSDN . I don't work for or with the Windows Phone 7 team in any capacity. I do know one guy over there, though. That said, I personally have an iPhone 3G (dead, the kids pay Monkey Island on it), a iPhone 3GS (the...
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Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts by ScottGu's Blog

Earlier this week the Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters .  These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice “cheat sheet” tables that can help you quickly lookup...
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WebMatrix Publishing – Common errors and workarounds by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I have always felt that publishing a site so it works on your remote server is a little bit of a black art. Many stars have to align: Files and databases have to transfer Settings such as connection strings have to transform to remote values Remote server...

Serving external traffic with WebMatrix Beta by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You will notice in WebMatrix Beta that the default website as well as new ones you create are bound to localhost. In other words, they can service local traffic only. This default behavior makes a lot of sense since we want users to explicitly opt into...

If they build it, I will come (and link to it) [WPPFormatter plug-in now available for TextAnalysisTool.NET] by Delay's Blog

I went public with TextAnalysisTool.NET a few years back - it's a handy tool for interactive log file analysis that's popular with people in many parts of the company. The introductory post has more background and detail, but this snippet from...
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Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 - Part 3 - UPDATE on Building a WEI 7.9 and RFC for building a GOM (God's Own Machine) by Scott Hanselman

As a reminder, if you're just turning in, here's our glossary: WEI - Windows Experience Index. How fast is your machine? If you say "I've got a WEI 6.0" you've got a good machine, for example. RFC - Request for Comments. This...
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View local (offline) help in Visual Studio 2010 with this extension by Silverlight SDK

Although I am involved with content creation (meaning I write the stuff) and not the actual publishing mechanisms for MSDN documentation, I've still heard the rumblings about the new help experience with Visual Studio 2010. A lot of folks don't...
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 Released – Channel 9 Video and Hanselminutes Podcast 224, Oh My! by Scott Hanselman

Phil and friends released ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 today. I snuck into the office of Phil Haack and Morgan the Canadian Intern to talk about the release of ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and some of the cool "futures" stuff that Morgan (and our fleet...
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Integrating the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor (RCE) with IIS Transform Manager by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

My friend Ezequiel Jadib at Southworks is the developer for the Rough Cut Editor solution that is posted up on the MSDN Code Gallery.  He’s done a fantastic job of turning some of my early ideas on what the RCE could be into a shipping solution that...

Introducing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Preview 1) by ScottGu's Blog

This morning we posted the “Preview 1” release of ASP.NET MVC 3.  You can download it here . We’ve used an iterative development approach from the very beginning of the ASP.NET MVC project, and deliver regular preview drops throughout the development...
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Another opportunity to provide feedback by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Dear PHP developers and SQL Server users, We, the PHP group in the SQL Connectivity product team, received a lot of feedback in our previous survey in Oct 2009, and we responded to the feedback by delivering a PDO driver in our v2.0 release. After releasing...
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One From The Vault: Ranting About Editors by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

This week’s One From The Vault is a rant on arbitrary and incorrect “rules” of English insisted upon by some teachers, editors and pedants: There is no excuse for thinking that you can’t start a sentence with “There is.” And I should...
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Data Validation And Templating in Silverlight 4 by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

This is the fifth in a series on Templates and DataValidation. [ First In Series Previous In Series ] In this and the next posting I will create an application that will demonstrate how to modify the Visual State for invalid data. Along the way we will...
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New phone bits, same pretty charts [Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example for the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta] by Delay's Blog

The recent release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta introduces a variety of notable changes to the Windows Phone platform and I've been meaning to update my Data Visualization on Windows Phone sample so I could continue to refer people to...
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Entity Framework 4 “Code-First”: Custom Database Schema Mapping by ScottGu's Blog

Last week I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option.  The EF “code-first” option enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data.  It enables you to: Develop without ever having...
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