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If you are already using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2, then it's time to send in your feedback. Of course, for bugs and suggestions, Microsoft Connect is still the best place, but for overall impressions, you might want to complete a separate survey.
The survey is quite short, and asks your opinion about using the product, compatibility with your applications, and so on.
If you have around three minutes of time, go ahead and complete the survey.
Next spring, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 will be here, which also brings us the latest incarnation of WPF, called WPF 4.0. If you are interested in this new version of WPF, you are surely interested in what's planned for the forth-coming release.
Scott Guthrie has again written a nice overview of the topic, and to summarize, the most prominent new features are the following:
Sound cool indeed!
The Finnish Prosessori magazine contains my latest development article in the October 2009 issue, titled "Windows 7 — Mitä uutta kehittäjälle?".
The new article talks about the brand new features such as touch support, energy efficiency and better graphics, among many other things.
Enjoy!
Now that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is out, Team System users are surely interestd in the latest features. To test these, you will also need the Team Foundation Server (TFS), which has also been updated to Beta 2. You can directly download the ISO image here.
The server can be installed on Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 and 2008 operating systems. Shortly put, anything above Windows NT 6.0. :-)
Happy hacking!
On the same date as Windows 7 became available, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. You can download the latest beta here or from MSDN, as you see fit.
In addition to many technical features that I can't wait to get my hands on, the product editions we've learned to use a changing. In the next release of Visual Studio, there will be three product editions: Professional, Premium and Ultimate. Team Editions will disappear, though you can say that those features that were previously in Team Editions, can now be found from the Premium and Ultimate editions.
Microsoft has already published quite extensive information about the new editions on the product information pages, so if you wish to find more information, visit this page first.
And of course, remember to download and install the Beta 2 as well. It now comes with a "Go Live" license, which allows you to create production code already with the beta.
Next, I'm planning to blog about what's new in Beta 2. Stay tuned.
As you might already know, today (22nd of October, 2009) is the global availability (GA) date for Windows 7. This means that starting today (if not earlier), every user is able to buy Windows 7 from their favorite shop. After returning from my vacation, I today had the chance to install Windows 7 into one of my laptops. Looking good!
You might have noticed that for the past two weeks, there hasn't been much activity here. There's a reason: I spent two weeks on vacation in Southeastern Asia.
I hope to get up to speed quickly, so stay tuned for more posts!
Sometimes, people ask me a good source of screencasts (very popular nowadays) that would talk and teach about Silverlight basics. I usually point people to Silverlight.net web site, but since the site is large in itself, it can be somewhat difficult to find what you need.
Thus, I give you a quick pointer to a nice page of "Silverlight Essential Training", which I can recommend if you are interested in learning more about Silverlight. Of course, don't forget the basic tutorials at Silverlight.net/learn/videos.
Good luck!
It's a well-known fact that in the Internet, customers can become impatient. Although I like to think of myself as quite a patient person, I still can appeciate swift responses.
Lately, I've needed to form business relationshipts with new companies that I've not done business with before. In all the cases, I've went to the company's web site, filled in a form, and then waited for a response.
Sometimes, I get a response e-mail back immediately saying, "Welcome!" or something similar to that extent -- even if you would still have to wait after that e-mail. In others, I just get nothing, but instead have to wait several business days to get feedback. Can you imagine which would be a better choice?
This is again those situations when some little software development effort (sending an e-mail after completing a registration form) can significantly increase the satisfaction of a customer, especially a new one. Something to think about.
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