Windows Phone recipes are open source (MSPL) projects to help educate Windows Phone developers to build Windows Phone applications. Recipes provide patterns for common mobile development topics. These code recipes are delivered “as is” with no support or any promise for continuation.
The first recipe is Nonlinear Navigation Service for Silverlight Applications, a Windows Phone library that helps developers resolve loops in their navigation.
.NETTER Code Starter Pack contains a gallery of Visual Studio 2010 solutions leveraging the latest technologies and frameworks based on Microsoft .NET Framework. Each Visual Studio solution provides a simple starting point to learn these development technologies and uses the well-known Northwind database for database-driven scenarios.
The current release of this project includes starter samples for the following technologies:
The beta version of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for download. SP1 Beta includes:
Microsoft Press has released 3 free eBooks:
Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
(DRAFT Preview II)
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
Programming Windows Phone 7 Series
(DRAFT Preview) by Charles Petzold
ASP.NET MVC 3 provides a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 4 runtime. This Release Candidate 2 should be the final test release before the ASP.NET MVC 3 “RTM” build in January. The RC2 build contains many bug fixes and performance optimizations. Microsoft’s latest performance tests indicate that ASP.NET MVC 3 is now faster than MVC 2.
The ADO.NET Entity Framework enables developers to create data access applications by programming against a conceptual application model instead of programming directly against a relational storage schema. The goal is to decrease the amount of code and maintenance required for data-oriented applications.
This Community Technology Preview (CTP5) includes the Code-First library that enables code-centric development workflow for working with data.
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.
Download Entity Framework CTP5
CTP5 Announcement
Pre-Release Forum
NHibernate is a mature, open-source object-relational mapper for the .NET framework. Its purpose is to significantly reduce the amount of programming required to store object data in a relational database.
NHibernate 3.0 supports .NET 3.5, allowing the use of lambda expressions and LINQ. This provides many new ways to configure and query.
OWIN (Open Web Interface for .Net) defines a standard interface between .NET web servers and web applications. The goal of the OWIN interface is to decouple server and application, encourage the development of simple modules for .NET web development, and by being an open standard, stimulate the open source ecosystem of .NET web development tools.
OWIN is neither framework nor server. It is an interface through which which servers and frameworks or applications can communicate with each other. OWIN is defined by three core interfaces: IApplication, IRequest, and IResponse. Broadly speaking, hosts provide application objects with request objects, and application objects provide response objects back to the server.
Take a trip down memory lane with this article showing Visual Studio from 1997 through 2010.
Database.com is the world’s first enterprise database built for the cloud. It comes with toolkits for connecting apps that run natively on mobile platforms. It also includes a social data model that makes it easy to build apps with profiles, status updates, news feeds and groups.
Build your apps in any language like C#, Java, Ruby or PHP. Run them on any platform like Force.com, VMforce, Amazon EC2 or Google AppEngine. Or run them on any device like the iPhone, the iPad, Android or Blackberry. They can all securely access Database.com through standards based APIs like REST, SOAP, OAuth and SAML.
Database.com is free to get started with 100,000 records, 50,000 transactions per month, and 3 users. Additional capacity and users are available for a fee.
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