March, 2012

Hello world - I just wanted to let you know that -Visual Studio 11 and .Net 4.5 are out in public beta . Actually I’m pretty late with this news, so you probably already knew this. Maybe this can just be your reminder to download it and try it out. Because you should, if you haven’t yet! -Update 4.0.3, which I previously mentioned was in beta , has now been released (RTM)! Here is the official announcement page from the .Net blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2012/03/05/update-4-0-3-for...

Although I haven’t used this feature in my regular work, I’ve known for a while that WF4.0 ships with a palette of activities designed to support distributed transactions. A distributed transaction is when you have a transaction, which is an atomic commit of a set of operations with a consistency guarantee, implemented in a multi-party scenario, so that all parties know the transaction either completes or fails atomically. This idea has some obvious implications in banking and e-commerce applications...

Microsoft has made the source code of ASP.NET MVC available under an open source license since the first V1 release. We’ve also integrated a number of great open source technologies into the product, and now ship jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, jQuery Validation, Modernizr.js, NuGet, Knockout.js and JSON.NET as part of it. I’m very excited to announce today that we will also release the source code for ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages (aka Razor) under an open source license (Apache 2.0),...

As part of the release of SQL Server 2012, Microsoft recently provided tons of resources covering SQL server 2012, but also SharePoint BI. One of the gold mine is the SQL server 2012 developer training kit, where a virtual machine with SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint 2010 can be setup or downloaded, as well as [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca