Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts

Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts

by | Jul 29, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Earlier this week the Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters.  These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice “cheat sheet” tables that can help you quickly lookup (and eventually memorize) common keystroke commands within Visual Studio.

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This week’s updated posters incorporate a number of improvements:

  • Letter-sized (8.5”x11”) print ready versions are now available
  • A4-sized (210x297mm) print ready versions are now available
  • The goofy people pictures on them are gone (thank goodness)

The posters are in PDF format – enabling you to easily download and print them using whichever paper size is in your printer.

Download the Posters

You can download the VS 2010 Keybinding posters in PDF format here.

Posters are available for each language.  Simply look for the download that corresponds to your language preference (note: CSharp = C#, VB = VB, FSharp = F#, CPP = C++). 

Hope this helps,

Scott

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SharePoint 2010: SPMetal.exe and system fields namely ContentType

by | Jul 28, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Olaf and I were cracking away on some SharePoint 2010 work which we thought should
be simplepoint SPMetal to the site and start LINQ-ing to our hearts content..

with the one exception that we couldn’t select items from a list based on their Content
Type.

By default SPMetal.exe doesn’t include these ’system’ fields (apart
from ID + Title – go figure) and the secret is to use an Override file.

The good oil is:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee535056.aspx

(Here’s a good article on how .NET Types are mapped to SharePoint – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee536245.aspx)

The simple override/parameters file: 

<Web AccessModifier="Internal" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SharePoint/2009/spmetal">


  <ContentType Name="Item" Class="Item">


    <Column Name="ContentType" Member="ContentType" />


   


  </ContentType>


  


</Web>

 

The SPMetal Command Line

The VS.NET Code 

 static void Main(string[]
args)

        {

            using (BreezeDataContext dc
= new BreezeDataContext("http://breezelocal"))

            {

                var myitems
= from i in dc.GetList<ContentListTraining>("My
Content List")

                              where i.ContentType
== "Training"


                              select i;

                var courses
= myitems.ToList<ContentListTraining>();



                Console.WriteLine("There
are {0} items",courses[0].Title);

                    


            }



            Console.ReadLine();

        }

Silverlight HTML5 WebSocket client with an HTML bridge to Ajax/JavaScript

by | Jul 27, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

As part of our ongoing experimentation with the HTML5 WebSocket proposed standard for duplex communication between web browsers and servers, we have prototyped a WebSocket protocol implementation based on Microsoft technologies. The prototype consists of a WCF service and a Silverlight client with an HTML bridge to JavaScript implemented in jQuery. You can read more about it at http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2010/07/silverlight-html5-websocket-client-with.html. You can also check out a sample web chat application based on the prototype at http://40interop.epiq.msftlabs.com/html5/wsdemo.html. Let us know what you think!

Tomasz Janczuk
WCF Team