Microsoft has released Reliability Update 1 for the .NET Framework 4. It fixes some stability, reliability, and performance issues in .NET 4, such as:
- Access violation may occur when you run a .NET Framework 2.0 SP2-based application that calls a mixed assembly that is domain-neutral
- Updating the .NET Framework may fail and some files in the GAC may be deleted
- The String.IndexOf method takes longer than expected to finish, and the .NET Framework 4.0 performance decreases significantly
Reliability Update 1 for .NET 4
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Microsoft has released a .NET Framework 4 update that provides cumulative roll-up updates for customer reported issues found after the release of the .NET Framework 4.
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Features and Installation Instructions
The new March 2011 version of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes videos and hands-on-labs that cover the following technologies: VS 2010 SP1, C# 4.0, Visual Basic 10, F#, Silverlight, ASP.NET 4, WCF, Windows Workflow, WPF, Windows Azure and parallel computing. The kit now contains 50 labs, 22 demos, 16 presentations and 12 videos.
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Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for its Visual Studio 2010 flagship integrated development environment (IDE). Visual Studio SP1 provides many new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes including:
- Stand-alone Help Viewer 1.1
- Silverlight 4 support
- Basic Unit Testing support for .NET 3.5
- .NET Framework 4 improvements
- Performance Wizard for Silverlight
- Visual Basic Runtime embedding
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Full Description of VS 2010 SP1
Tips on Installing VS 2010 SP1
NuPack is a free, open-source package management system for the .NET platform. NuPack simplifies the process of finding and incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development. It automates the common and tedious tasks of using a package and its dependencies in a development project.
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Introducing NuPack
Devcurry has posted a collection of .NET Framework and Visual Studio posters including keyboard shortcut, namespace and type posters.
.NET and Visual Studio Poster Collection
The .NET Framework cleanup tool automatically removes selected versions of the .NET Framework from a computer. It will remove files, directories, registry keys and values and Windows Installer product registration information for the .NET Framework. The tool is intended primarily to return your system to a known (relatively clean) state in case you are encountering .NET Framework installation, uninstallation, repair or patching errors so that you can try to install again.
The .NET Framework setup verification tool automatically verifies the installation state of one or more versions of the .NET Framework on a computer. It will verify the presence of files, directories, registry keys and values for the .NET Framework. It will also verify that applications which use the .NET Framework can be run correctly.
Both are free tools written by Aaron Stebner and recently updated to support .NET v4.
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including C# 4, Visual Basic 10, F#, WCF, WPF, Windows Workflow, ASP.NET 4 and Windows 7.
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Microsoft is releasing Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, and Silverlight 4 at the Visual Studio Developer Conference in Las Vegas. VS 2010 and .NET 4 are available today, and Silverlight 4 will be available to download later this week.
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