Anith Gopal

A security update for ATL, KB971092 , is currently offered for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 customers who have Visual C++ installed. If Microsoft Update is continuously offering this patch to you, you may need to clear up some disk space. The patch is 365MB and contains headers, libraries, and executables for most of Visual C++ including ATL and the CRT.

If you have been beta testing Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 , we recommend you install a fresh copy of Windows 7 on your machine. Alternatively, you may also choose to uninstall Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 prior to upgrading to Win7. Microsoft Windows 7 is available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers .

これも少し前なのですが（こればっかりです、すみません） Entity Framework Feature CTP 1がリリースされています。 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7fd7164e-9e73-43f7-90ab-5b2bf2577ac9 ポイントをば。 ・.NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1.用CTP ・.NET Framework 4.0には含まれない予定 ・みなさんからのフィードバックで別CTPも予定 ・なにか見つけたら、 Microsoft Connect にお願い  ・フォーラムはここ（ Entity Framework 4.0 Beta .） 実装される機能は以下 1) Better N-Tier Support with Self Tracking Entities おぉ、ようやくですね。変更セットのひきまわしが可能と。 2) POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects) entity code generation…( read more )

WS-Discovery è diventato standard OASIS come specificato nel blog di team . Ma la cosa, forse, più interessante è che la BETA 1 del framework .NET 4 comprenderà già i bit della specifica OASIS!! Per maggiori informazioni su WS-Discovery e l’importanza che anche questa specifica ricopre nel mondo dei Web Services vi rimando a “tra poco” con un post dell’ amico Alessio Mannelli sempre su questo canale !!! Stay tuned   –Mario

The CLR team has a survey for .Net 4.0 Beta 1 covering different aspects of performance, hosting, security, and application compatibility. If you’ve built new applications using beta 1 or you’ve tried recompiling or running older applications using beta 1 then you might have some useful feedback about the CLR

Windows Installer 4.5 introduced a feature to install multiple packages in a single transaction. Multi-package transactions allow setup developers to install multiple packages as an atomic unit that are installed together, or rolled back completely. You can also apply patches to multiple products or even repair multiple products – any maintenance mode installation – within a single transaction

.NET 4.0 Beta 1 was released a few weeks ago and there’s a lot to it that you can read about elsewhere so I thought I would just stick to what’s changed for WPF graphics. These are the biggest things of note: RenderOptions.ClearTypeHint : If WPF renders text into a potentially transparent surface (e.g. a layered window like a menu or popup) we use grayscale anti-aliasing instead of ClearType because if the transparent surface is blended with another transparent surface, the ClearType will get messed up

I hinted at this a long time ago and then forgot to follow up, whoops! As the old post says, DiffuseMaterial writes to the depth buffer. This means if you draw one diffuse model and then draw another diffuse model behind it, the card knows not to draw the second one on top of the first because the first is closer. The depth buffer only knows about position and has no concept of transparency so if the first model is transparent, you won’t see the second model behind it because the depth buffer rejected it as being behind the first.

Av Alan Smith, Know IT I’ve just posted the first in a series of webcasts on BloggersGuides.net looking at WCF and WF in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta one.