Configuring your WFC and WF4 services using AppFabric 19 March 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010, WCF, WF 4, .NET Development, AppFabric Configuring your services Normally I configure my services using Visual Studio (and type-ing in the configuration as Xml) or using the WCF Service Configuration tool. AppFabric also allows you to configure your services, directly from IIS (making it a nice integrated experience!). The difference is... [More]
Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2: Deploying services 14 March 2010 Peter-Himschoot AppFabric, VS2010, WCF, WF 4, .NET Development Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 RC a while ago, but unfortunately this broke Windows Server AppFabric beta 1. Luckily march 1 MS released beta 2, which works with VS 2010 RC. I’ve installed it and will now try to show you a couple of things. So what is AppFabric? To be honest, there is anothe... [More]
Team System 2010: Easier project management with Team Project Collections 03 March 2010 Peter-Himschoot Team System, VS2010 Team System 2010 introduces the concept of team project collections (TPC). A team project collection is, as it says, a collection of team projects, which can be managed individually. You can backup, move, delete, etc… each collection individually. Each collection will also have its unique work item ... [More]
When being lazy is (finally) good 28 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010, .NET Development In this blog post I want to talk about .NET 4 new Lazy<T> class. First of all, why would you need something called Lazy? You can use it for data access for example; when you load a row from a database parent table. Would you need to load the child rows automatically, or delay until they’re re... [More]
IntelliSense improvements in Visual Studio 2010 24 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010 What developer today can live without intelli-sense? Of course I mean developers who have used intelli-sense before (if you don’t know something how can you miss something?). However finding a member in Visual Studio 2008 requires you to know the first letters of the class/method/… I’m quite sure yo... [More]
Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is available via MSDN sub download 08 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot Download VS2010 RC here. And soon available for everyone tomorrow!
Gated Check In with Multiple Build Definitions 05 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot Team System, VS2010, .NET Development As promised in my previous blog on Gated Check In, in this blog I’ll discuss using multiple builds with gated check in. So what happens when you check in (using gated check in) and there are multiple build definitions targeting the solution? Well, Gated Check In will then allow you to choose betwee... [More]
Never break a build again with the new Gated Check-in feature from Visual Studio Team System 2010 04 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot Breaking the current team build is not a good thing. This will cause many people to lose time while the build is being fixed. So how can you avoid this? One way is by only checking-in on isolated branches, which allow you first to test if everyone’s changes build together. But, remember that Team ... [More]
Hiding / Showing Jump Lists in windows 7 29 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot Windows 7 The jump list feature in Windows 7 makes it really easy to find the documents you were working on for each application. Just go to the taskbar and right-click the application. If your application has been enabled for jump lists (and they should, it is really easy to enable this using some API’s) the... [More]
Techdays 2010 26 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, VS2010, WCF, WF 4 I’m happy to say I’ll be speaking at TechDays 2010 in Belgium and DevDays 2010 in the Netherlands. In Belgium I’ll be doing one session on “What is new in WCF 4” and one session on “Workflow Foundation 4”. In the Netherlands I’ll do on session on “What is new in WCF4” and one on “Developing for Wi... [More]