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Free add-on for Visual Studio 2008 for Flex developers
For flex developers, now you can get the free add-on for Visual Studio 2008.
Ensemble Tofino for Visual Studio is a plugin that enables .NET developers to create Flex front ends for their applications in the same IDE that they normally use. Instead of using a separate text or XML editor and manually invoking the compiler, they can move smoothly between MXML and .NET file types within Visual Studio, and invoke Flex build and run commands from Visual Studio menus.
What you can do with the Ensember Tofino
- Create new projects in a solution using the Visual Studio wizard approach.
- Run Flex applications from within Microsoft Visual Studio.
- Set breakpoints at code locations in “.as” or “.mxml” files.
- Step into code while in break mode.
- Inspect local variables while in break mode.
- Build errors are reported in the Visual Studio error list, and are linked to the source location.
- Browse ActionScript types from referenced components (SWCs) in the Visual Studio object browser.
- Navigate types and members in ActionScript files via drop-downs in the ActionScript code window.
- Simple installation; Tofino includes the Adobe Flex SDK.
- Adds links to relevant Adobe LiveDocs and PDFs for Flex to Visual Studio Help.
The good news is: Ensemble Tofino is available for free. Download Tofino.
Add comment November 20, 2008
Threat Modeling in Application Development Process
Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) is the software security assurance process that introduces security and privacy early and throughout the development process.
SDL Threat Modeling Tool v3 is the core element in the SDL, as it allows software architects to identify and mitigate potential security issues early, when they are relatively easy and cost-effective to resolve.
You can download the SDL Threat Modeling Tool v3, it is still in beta version.
You may find the demo and tutorial on the tools from here.
To learn more about the SDL Process Guidance, please read this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/84aed186-1d75-4366-8e61-8d258746bopq.aspx
For more information about the SDL, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/sdl
1 comment November 19, 2008
Visual Studio Team System 2010 & .NET Framework 4.0 [CTP] VPC Download
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web.
Want to learn more about what are the new features in VSTS 2010 & .NET Framework 4.0, you can now download the VPC that installed with VSTS 2010 CTP from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=922b4655-93d0-4476-bda4-94cf5f8d4814&displaylang=en
Add comment November 17, 2008
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer is a simplified Visual Studio Team System 2008 environment used solely to access Team Foundation Server services.
You can use the Team Explorer as a standalone rich client to access Team Foundation Server, which allows you to perform tasks like source control, work item tracking, build management, and detailed reports showing bug trends, project velocity and quality indicators.
If you are project managers who use Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Project for project planning, tracking…you are able to access Team Foundation Server. You just need to install Team Explorer, this will be a plug-on for your Microsoft Excel/Project. After you have install the Team Explorer, you will find the extra menu “Team” at your toolbar.
You can click “Choose Team Project”, a “Connect to Team Foundation Server” dialogue will be prompted. From here, you can select which team project you would like to connect.
You can download the Team Explorer installer from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0ED12659-3D41-4420-BBB0-A46E51BFCA86&displaylang=en
Add comment October 15, 2008
NewSID - Tool to change Security ID (SID)
Found a useful tool that you might related to you, maybe not now, but in the future. Especially for those like to use virtual image to do your works.
I like to install one base image with OS, and some necessary stuffs, so that I can reuse it to create different images for testing purpose.
When come for scenario, that you need a domain controller, and work with another image. In this case, you will just clone the base image and maybe setup two different images. The issue here is, after you joined the second image to the domain controller and try to login using domain account, you will be prompted this error message:
“the name or security id (sid) of the domain specified is inconsistent with the trust information”
So, you need to change the SID for one of the images. Here is the tool you can use, called NewSID
Here is the step on how to use it:
1. Start the image that you want to change the SID
2. Logon as local account
3. Download and run the NewSID
4. Follow the wizard [you may also change the computer name here]
the tool will update the new SID for the image and restart the image
5. After restart, now you can logon using domain accont.
You can download the NewSID v4.0 from here.
Add comment October 3, 2008
Download: Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008
For mobile developers who are interested to experience the Mobile Silverlight development, you may go to this download site and download the add-on for Visual Studio 2008 for developing applications for Silverlight 2 Beta 2.
This download will install the following:
- Silverlight 2 Beta 2
- Silverlight 2 SDK Beta 2
- KB950630 for Visual Studio 2008 RTM or KB955214 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
- Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008
Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 includes:
- Visual Basic and C# Project templates
- Intellisense and code generators for XAML
- Debugging of Silverlight applications
- Web reference support
- WCF Templates
- Team Build and command line build support
- Integration with Expression Blend
- Enhanced Setup with upgrade support
You may want to download Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview, to allow you to build Silverlight 2 Beta projects.
Add comment September 23, 2008
Software Testing Conference 2008
Conducted a workshop with Tang last week in a Software Testing Conference, which organized by Custommedia.
It is a 2 Days conference, Fai had a session yesterday and talked about Test Drive Development. For second day, I had a 3 hours session with topic “Quality Improvement with Visual Studio Team System 2008″
Although it is a workshop, but there is no PC prepared so no hands-on for the attendees. Tang and I tag team to conduct the workshop, by giving presentation on slides, doing classroom discussion and show some cool demo on the VSTS tools.
Here is the slide I used during the workshop, you may download from here:
Add comment September 2, 2008
“Upgrade to .NET” Campaign
This morning, we had a “Upgrade to .NET” campaign. The purpose of this seminar is to educate the VB or older version .NET developers to move to the latest .NET platform.
In this event, the attendees explored the new and improved Windows Services that ease some workload from developers in terms of developing, debugging and installation. Besides that, they also learned how to build rich looking windows applications with less effort than Visual Basic 6.0 and create dynamic web sites using ASP.NET.
Here are the topics for this event:
- .NET platform and its benefits for VB6 developers, by Patrick
- Migrate from VB6 to VB.NET? Where to start series, by Ian
- Moving from ASP to ASP.NET, Poh Sze
- Tips and Tricks in VB 9.0, by Patrick
The event is a bit over ran, until 2pm. However, I believe the attendees should be quite enjoyed seeing all the “magic”, cool features, tips and tricks that presented during the session.
During Patrick’s session
The attendees…[I promised to post this picture on my blog]
Lucky draw winner 1
Lucky draw winner 2
Q& A session after the seminar….
You can download the slide I used during my session here:
For the sample code, I will upload soon.
Add comment August 27, 2008
Download: .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit
Wanna learn more on what are the new features in the .NET Framework 3.5? Download the .NET Framework Enhancements Training Kit containing Labs, Demos and PPTs from here.
Presentations:
- .NET 3.5 SP1
- ADO.NET Data Services
- ASP.NET MVC
- ASP.NET Dynamic Data
- ADO.NET Entity Framework
- ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 SP1
- ASP.NET Routing
- WCF 3.5 SP1
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Hands-on-Lab:
- ADO.NET Data Services
- ASP.NET MVC
- ASP.NET Dynamic Data
- ADO.NET Entity Framework
- ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 SP1
-WCF/REST Services
- .NET Framework Client Profile
Add comment August 20, 2008
Download: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1are released, you can download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en
So, what are the new improvements in this service pack? Here are some of the enhancements on Visual Studio 2008 & .NET Framework that shipped in this SP1 release:
1. WPF and visual designer improvements - Cold startup performance improvement ranging between 20-45% depending on application size without needing to modify any code
2. New ADO.NET data features - ADO.NET Framework and ADO.NET Data Services
3. Team Foundation Server improvements - Version control (you can now drag and drop files to version control explorer), support for using SQL 2008 with TFS 2008, improve performance and scalability of TFS .
For more details, see here.
Add comment August 16, 2008
