Anith Gopal

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

Late last year we started the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guidance project … probably the worst time as December is a very inactive month with everyone enjoying a well deserved break and January  being a very active month to re-start initiatives, thus having little time and bandwidth for these kind of projects. Nevertheless the team has ensured that the guidance project is picking up momentum and recently released a DRAFT of the core scenarios to the Rangers for comment and are hard at work on a BETA release for the core scenarios and a DRAFT release for the extensibility and Hands-on-lab (HOL) scenarios.

Although I didn’t include it in the release candidate announcement, the online documentation collection for WCF has also been updated. While you can navigate between the different framework versions for the reference documentation, some people seem to be having more trouble finding the conceptual documentation and samples, which are not as tightly linked together. Here are the starting pages for those document collections as well as a direct link to download all of the sample source code.

Versions Supported:  2008,2010 Menu Command:  Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Documents Tip Code:  vstipEdit0027   Normally, when you open up a new document it creates a new tab but you can just have the file open up in the current tab instead.  Let me illustrate:   Default (before):   Default (after):   But if you go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Documents and check the “Reuse current document window, if saved” option.  This is what happens:   Before:   After:   The caveat here is you have to have a “clean” (saved) document for this to work.  If the document was “dirty” (not saved) this would be the result even with this option turned on:   Before (note the asterisk to indicate the document is dirty):   After:

Letzte Woche habe ich RESTPoll publiziert, eine REST Service API um Umfragen zu erstellen.