June 7, 2010
I’m pleased to announce that the June 2010 release of Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio is now available for free download!
New features in this release:
Full support for Visual Studio 2010 RTM
.NET 4 support – You can now build your Windows Azure web apps and services using either .NET 3.5 or the new .NET 4.0 [...]
Tags: Azure, cloud, Microsoft, Visual Studio
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November 30, 2009
I just heard the news announced at PDC that the Managed Extensibility Framework, or MEF, is now slated to be included in Silverlight 4. Great news!
I did a bit of proof of concept work using MEF about a year ago. MEF is all about composition of providers and consumers. MEF’s main job is to connect [...]
Tags: .NET, exceptions, MEF, Microsoft, Silverlight
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November 24, 2009
Mike Wickstrand of the Windows Azure team has created a Windows Azure Feedback Forum to solicit feedback from you about what sorts of things/features/services you would like to see Windows Azure provide. You can enter your own suggestions and vote for the features that you want the most. This feedback will go directly to the [...]
Tags: Azure, cloud, feedback, Microsoft
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November 17, 2009
Windows Azure, Microsoft’s platform for cloud-based applications, just rolled out a major update to sync with PDC09. We of course also rolled out a major update of the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio in the same push. Jim Nakashima and others will be showing our latest tools at PDC09 this week.
Windows Azure Tools also [...]
Tags: Azure, cloud, cloud tools, Microsoft, PDC, Visual Studio
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October 20, 2009
One of the great things about using VirtualPC in software development and testing is that the VirtualPC “virtual machine” really only has one hardware configuration. The virtual machine defines a virtual hard disk, virtual display, virtual network, and even its own virtual BIOS for booting up the virtual machine.
The downside to that uniformity is that [...]
Tags: remote access, Remote Desktop, SmartCard, virtual machine, VirtualPC, VPN
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October 19, 2009
Microsoft announced today the release of Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and .NET Framework 4 beta 2! It will be available immediately for download by MSDN subscribers and for general release towards the end of this month.
I can’t begin to describe all the stuff that is new and improved in this beta 2, so check [...]
Tags: .NET Framework, beta, Microsoft, MSDN, release, Visual Studio
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March 19, 2009
Amidst the fanfare and excitement of Mix09 this week, we’ve received reports on the discussion forum from a few folks that were having trouble with the Live Framework SDK and Tools April CTP released last week. Here’s an update on that issue.
Issue: Visual Studio closes unexpectedly when launching Help: About or when creating or opening [...]
Tags: Live Framework, Live Mesh, Mesh, Microsoft, sdk, Visual Studio
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March 12, 2009
I’m pleased to announce that we have released our April CTP release of the Live Framwork SDK and Tools in preparation for MIX09 next week. For full details see the official announcement on the Live Framework blog, but here are the highlights:
You can now run the local client for mesh.com side by side with the [...]
Tags: Live Framework, Live Mesh, Mesh, Microsoft, sdk, Visual Studio
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February 2, 2009
The Live Framework Tools team is pleased to announce the January CTP update. This update contains a number of fixes. Please see below for details. And as always, thank you for using Live Framework.
New in this release
The Live Framework Tools January CTP includes a number of bug fixes. A few of the most notable fixes [...]
Tags: Live Mesh, LiveFX, tools, Visual Studio
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January 12, 2009
Microsoft’s Live Mesh was awarded top honors in the “Best Technology Innovation/Achievement” category at the Crunchies Awards on Jan 10, beating out other nominees in the category including Facebook Connect and Google Chrome. Live Mesh is a file sharing application that enables users to access their data from a variety of devices, while online or [...]
Tags: award, Azure, CoolIris, Crunchies, Live Mesh, PicLens
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