{Community} Technology Update 2010 The Singapore user group communities, Professional .NET User Group, SQL Server User Group, and Windows IT Pros User Group, once again, have come together to bring to you a day of in-depth sessions and demonstrations of the new Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is packed with a [...]

This is just a compilation of tools and software for Visual Studio 2010 for my own use to keep track of what I’m interested in. It might help someone out there. I’ll sort it out when I have the time, and put some descriptions. If you have any others, please comment and I’ll add to [...]

I’ll be speaking at the Community Technology Update (CTU) 2009 II event on “What’s new in .NET Framework 4.0“. I’ll be covering the following: This talk give an overview and cover as many changes in the .NET Framework 4.0 as possible in the time allocated, from the BCL (Base Class Library) to various interesting additions [...]

The F# PowerPack contains useful additional libraries and tools for building F# applications. This release enables developing applications using the F# PowerPack using .NET 4.0 Beta1 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta1. The F# PowerPack includes: FsLex and FsYacc tools for generating F# lexers and parsers F# LINQ bridge F# CodeDOM implementation F# metadata reader API [...]

Visual Studio Lab (VSLab) exploits the power of F# and its interactive top level to provide an interactive environment similar to MatLab and Mathematica, in which you can easily create Add-ins and interact dynamically with them inside Visual Studio. Moreover, since F# is a compiled language, the final code can be compiled as a standalone [...]

What is Pex? Pex generates test inputs that cover all, or at least many of the corner cases in your .NET code. These test inputs are plugged into parameterized unit test that you write. The result is a small unit test suite, where each unit test calls the parameterized unit test with particular test inputs. [...]

Well, the next version of XNA Game Studio is released. Download it here. What’s New with XNA Game Studio? XNA Game Studio 2.0 works in all versions of Visual Studio 2005. This includes Standard and Professional, as well as many other specific editions. The new and improved interface makes it easier for you to manage [...]

If Google can do it, so can Microsoft. Volta is the GWT of .NET. Enough said. Here’s a description of what it is. The Volta technology preview is a developer toolset that enables you to build multi-tier web applications by applying familiar techniques and patterns. First, design and build your application as a .NET client [...]

Microsoft IT and Microsoft Research released a Line Of Code (LOC) counter that counts the number of lines of code in your software development project to determine the size and status of your project, predicting system defects, providing measurements of productivity and quality, accessing code stability, and using these metrics to measure the success of [...]

As the title says, it is released on MSDN Subscriptions. Go get it everyone! Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Trial (x86 and x64 WoW) – DVD (English)Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite Trial (x86 and x64 WoW) – DVD (English)Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Load Agent Trial (x86 and x64 [...]