Anith Gopal

Theme your Visual Studio! The Visual Studio Color Theme Editor provides you with a central location to control all your IDE colors. No more having to painfully edit each individual Fonts and Colors under Tools Options

Go over to the Visual Studio Gallery , and you’ll find almost 500 extensions available for Visual Studio 2010 RC. That’s a lot of extensions to look through and the product isn’t even officially out yet! Visual Studio Extension of the Week I am very curious to see how people are extending the Editor and the IDE. So I’ve decided to write a weekly review on extensions I found interesting

During Summit Deb and I followed around MVPs with our video camera, cornered them in beautiful locations around Campus, and asked them to tell us about their experience in the MVP program. I’ve shared some of that video with you already, but I put together this montage that I think highlights the relationship between MVPs and Microsoft really well

We are happy to share that starting April 9, 2010, Windows Azure platform AppFabric will be commercially available on a paid and fully SLA-supported basis.   In order to help you get familiarized with AppFabric billing, we released the AppFabric Billing Preview yesterday March 9. With this billing preview, you will be able to download a usage summary from the AppFabric Developer Portal , with information similar to that of the “daily usage summary” currently available to you for Windows Azure and SQL Azure. If you are already using AppFabric, we will begin charging as of April 9, 2010 at 12:00 AM GMT.

After creating my WCF service and hosting it on Azure, it’s time to take care of the last of my requirements: consuming it in a Silverlight control. Before I go into the Silverlight code, let me point out that I had to make a couple of changes to my Windows Azure service: one regards Silverlight consumption, the other one regarding hosting the service in a reachable manner.