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 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 12, 2009
Congratulations to Miguel de Icaza and his team at Novell for the completion and release of Moonlight 1.0! Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight for the Linux platform developed in a joint effort between Novell and Microsoft.
Silverlight was the primary deployment vehicle for live online video coverage of the Olympics last summer, and [...]
Tags: .NET, Microsoft, Mono, Moonlight, Novell, Silverlight, video
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December 30, 2008
Microsoft’s Live Mesh platform has been nominated for the 2008 Crunchies “Best Technology Innovation/Achievement” award! The winner will be determined by public vote, so get yourself over to http://crunchies2008.techcrunch.com/votes/ to cast your vote for your favorite technologies of 2008.
The Crunchies competition and award ceremony recognizes and celebrates the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of [...]
Tags: award, CoolIris, Crunchies, GigaOm, Live Mesh, Microsoft, PicLens, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat
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December 5, 2008
This may be old news to some, but it just popped up on my radar: Ori Amiga, frustrated with the lack of truely usable and connected smart devices in the automotive market, built his own custom touchscreen PC console for his Porsche. It’s a full-on PC running Vista and loaded up with GPS, WiFI, BlueTooth, [...]
Tags: carputer, Live Framework, Live Mesh, Mesh, Microsoft, mobile, Ori Amiga
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