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Microsoft today announce that they will release a RC (Release Candidate) for Visual Studio 2010 via Scott Guthrie’s blog.  This means that there will be another release for you to play with before the March 22nd release of VS2010. That is really cool!!  

To read more about the announcement go to http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/12/17/visual-studio-2010-and-net-4-0-update.aspx

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  Hey SoCal Developers, this is something that you don’t want to miss.  If you are looking to get up to speed on Microsoft’s Cloud Services – Windows Azure, then this is the event for you!!  Its FREE!!

This is  3 Day class that is absolutely FREE!!  Tuesday, December 15th – Thursday December 17th – 9am to 5pm each day. This is a instructor led / hands-on event.  (You will need to pay for parking. Parking is NOT validated)

Description :

The Microsoft Developer & Platform is pleased to announce a Metro Instructor Led Training event focused on Developers covering the Windows Azure Platform, for Microsoft Partners and customers. Delivered through workshop style presentations and hands-on lab exercises, the workshop will focus on three key services of the Windows Azure Platform – Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services.

This event is targeted at partners and customers who have projects that they are potentially looking to deploy to the Windows Azure Platform.

Attendee Prerequisites :

This workshop is aimed at developers, architects and systems designers with at least 6 months practical experience using Visual Studio 2008 and C#.

Agenda Topics

× An introduction to Windows Azure

× Working with Windows Azure storage

× An introduction to SQL Azure

× Building applications with SQL Azure

× An introduction to .NET Services

× Building solutions using the .NET Service Bus

Date/Time/Location:

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:00 AM - Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft Technology Center - Irvine

3 Park Plaza
Suite 1600 TBC Irvine California 92614
United States

To register please use the following link :

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032428626&IO=He5wNESuIe2vbmj2%2bI%2bSiw%3d%3d

Or go to http://msevents.microsoft.com and use Event ID : 1032428626

Did I mention its FREE!! See you there!!

Are you looking for an easy way to get a Azure Token??  Why don’t you  get and Azure Token and win on contest at the same time??  CodeProject.com is giving away a kindle as part of their Windows Azure in December contest.

First, it is the easiest way to get an Azure token AND you could end up winning a prize too. How great is that?

Just go to http://www.codeproject.com/Feature/Azure/ and follow the simple directions. You will get your Azure token instantly.  But you better hurry, as of this writing, they only have 393 Azure tokens left to give out for the contest.

Good Luck, and if you develop an Azure application, I would love to hear about it.

Happy Programming

DotNetDoc – Daniel Egan

On Monday I spoke to about 50 developers about Visual Studio 2010.  This is a BIG release, not only was the whole IDE rewritten in WPF but it utilizes the MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) to make VS2010  a platform as well.  The community can now create and/or download templates, and IDE enhancements from inside visual studio.  I will be doing some deep dive talks soon on templates and MEF that you will not want to miss.

Below you will find the slides and the code I used in the presentation.

Visual Studio 2010 has a new look. Besides the new logo, it has a couple of new options when you are starting VS2010 for the first time.

• Web Development
• Web Development (Code Centric)

This seems to be part of a shift to recognize and help the two different types of web programmers that now exist.  First we have the developers that prefer to work in the preview, dragging and dropping controls onto the page, and then tying them into the back-end.  The “newer” web developer, which ironically develops more in the Classic ASP style, stays mostly in the HTML preferring to hand code each table, section, and control (Code Centric).  Part of the reason for this is the new ASP.Net MVC framework that inherently puts you in this frame of mind.  In addition, VS2010 also help in this area with new HTML snippets (type in TB and hit tab tab), to increase the speed at which you can “hand code” (sort of a mini Code Rush).  In essence, when you select the Code Centric options, it strips away (or hides) all of the property windows.

Which way do you code? Are you a Code Centric developer?

Let me know.

Doc – Daniel Egan