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Note: Please see this post for an updated set of templates created for ASP.NET MVC RTM: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/04/28/updated-nunit-templates-for-asp-net-mvc-1-0-rtm.aspx    Earlier this week ScottGu announced the release of ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 and outlined some recent changes to the framework. I wanted ...

Every year we send a team to TechEds to meet you, our customers. They will be at the event site from 8.30 AM to 6.00 PM to answer your questions from June 3rd to June 6th. This time we have the following representatives at TechEd. ASP.NET Team: Kathy Carper, Scott Hunter, Simon Calvert, Clay Compton, Konst Khurin, Mark Rose...

Interested in parallel programming with .NET and on Windows?  Thinking of attending the Microsoft PDC this year?  Well, if you do, make sure to come a day early.  The Parallel Computing Platform team will be presenting a day-long pre-conference session on October 26th from 10:00am-5:45pm: Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on Windo...

Heading to TechEd 2008? Come discover some of the exciting technologies the Parallel Computing Platform team is working on. We're presenting four sessions on parallelism at the Developer conference: DVP205 The Microsoft Parallel Computing Initiative: Bringing Concurrency to the Masses Tuesday, June 3 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM, S210 B Software is headed...

The Parallel.For/ForEach loop constructs included in Parallel Extensions support a variant of thread-local state to aid in efficiently passing data between loop iterations.  Consider one such overload of Parallel.For: public static void For<TLocal>( int fromInclusive, int toExclusive, Func<TLocal> threadLocalInit, Actio...

Download the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and try it out with the Dec07 CTP of Parallel Extensions.  There are no known compatibility issues at this time, though it is always possible that we missed something crucial to your prototyping scenarios.  Please let us know about your experiences, so that we can factor that into our development.&...

If you have the first release of KB945140 installed on your system you may run across an error when trying to install Visual Studio SP1 Beta. Likewise if you have any previously released hot fix, VS may not install properly even though it reports success.  The work around is to manually remove traces of KB944899 from your system, or you can ru...

Bradley’s earlier post, ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Released on MSDN Code Gallery, outlined the functionality the ASP.NET Dynamic Data is offering and the walkthrough steps of how to create a Dynamic Data website using the wizard. In this post, I just want to explain a little bit how the selection between modules can “magically” work. Let’s create...

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is now available!  You can download it here (though before you do, read the note below).  In SP1, we have added some new features as well as many bug fixes.  In this blog post I’ll attempt to give an overview of the features as well as some of the key issues the Visual Web Developer team has addr...

Colorization, validation, IntelliSense, and formatting comprise the core of any modern editor.  With VS 2008 SP1, we are completing the core JScript editor by introducing code formatting.  Additionally, we have promoted JScript to a dedicated node in “Tools Options” providing a clean separation from the HTML “Tools Options”.  We rea...