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08
December
2010

Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview 5
4.3/5 rating (4 votes)

The latest Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview (CTP5) is now available for download. This CTP includes updates to the Code First feature and the simplified API surface (DbContext).

Getting Started

We’ve created a couple of posts to get you started with CTP5, we’ll also be providing more detailed posts that dive down into interesting areas in the coming weeks.

Support

CTP5 is a preview of features that will be available in future releases and is designed to allow you to provide feedback on the design of these features. CTP5 is not intended or licensed for use in production. If you need assistance with CTP5 we have an Entity Framework Pre-Release Forum.

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29
November
2010

Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools
4.5/5 rating (4 votes)

Today we are announcing the release to web (RTW) of Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools. This walkthrough demonstrates how easy and convenient it is to develop a VB Windows Phone application using the newly released tools. You’ll see that the many new IDE features in Visual Studio 2010, which help you navigate and write code, are now available for VB Windows Phone applications!.

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16
November
2010

Second article published about VSPackage Builder
4.5/5 rating (8 votes)

In September, there was a post on the blog that introduced the VSPackage Builder, a tool for VS extension developers that provides a designer experience over the Visual Studio Command Table (VSCT) file.

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In particular, Package Builder makes it easy to add commands and UI to the VSCT incrementally – a task that’s proven somewhat challenging to many extenders. Another article, by Ty Anderson, that shows off those incremental features was published recently on DevX.com. Check it out!

You can download VSPackage Builder from the Visual Studio Gallery.

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15
November
2010

Free SilverLight Controls From Telerik
4.6/5 rating (5 votes)

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The pack offers three free Silverlight controls for incredibly rich UI and data visualization – Book, Gauge and TileView. The controls feature the full functionality of their commercial versions, thus offering lean and intuitive API, Expression Blend support, Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 support and built-in Office Black theme.

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09
November
2010

ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate
4.4/5 rating (5 votes)

Today’s ASP.NET MVC 3 RC build includes several additional feature refinements (in addition to bug fixes, tooling improvements, perf tunings, etc).  This blog post covers the improvementsspecific to today’s release.  Please review my previous posts to learn more about the many, many other ASP.NET MVC 3 features and improvements introduced in prior previews/betas.

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Razor Intellisense within Visual Studio

Colorization and intellisense support for Razor-based view templates is now supported within Visual Studio and the free Visual Web Developer Express.

Intellisense works for HTML, C#, VB, JavaScript and CSS when editing within razor based view templates:

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You get full C#/VB code intellisense – including against HTML helper methods (all of the existing Html helper methods in ASP.NET MVC also work just fine in Razor based views):

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