.NET 4 continues with the new concept of profiles. A profile is a subset of the Full Framework that can control what run time assemblies you can use. This can allow for a smaller install when redistributing .NET. For more information check Jossef Goldberg's blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/jgoldb/archive/2009/05/27/net-framework-4-client-profile-introduction.aspx
Today if you go on MSDN Subscriber downloads you can get the beta of Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET 4. The public will get the beta in a couple of days. For more information, please visit the Visual Studio 2010 Product Page.
Have you ever wonder how to keep up with the flood of information coming from Microsoft? It turns out that there are lots of resources provided by Microsoft. And a good place to look turns out to be a blog, specifically BlogMS! BlogMS was started by Daniel Goodman (a Sr. Technical Account Manager) in his words he started BlogMS in May 2008 in response to customers who wanted to feel closer to Microsoft in order to keep up-to-date with what's going on across Microsoft including the products groups. Think of this website as connecting the dots!
Reed Robinson has been talking about the Mobile LOB Accelerator lately. This got me thinking how I could make it easier to write applications based on it. This then lead me to CodeDOM. Ok I am lying but then I can't give away all of my secrets.
So since middle of June I have been working on the .NET CLR team. I am responsible for deployment of the .NET Framework. And boy is there some work to do. First things first though just how do you deploy applications written in .NET. It turns out that is a very complex topic.
One of the parts of my job will be helping define the message around deploying .NET Applications. One of the feedbacks that I heard loud and clear is finding the .NET Framework is challenging. So here you go a single quick url for downloading the .NET Framework - http://www.microsoft.com/net.
My friend Rob Tiffany will be on .NET Rocks. Join him as he spends an hour discussing all aspects of Windows Mobile with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell on .NET Rocks! at http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=384. He takes the listeners on an irreverent, deep dive on the current state of Windows Mobile development as well as the benefits of System Center Mobile Device Manager.
Reed Robison wrote a blog entry about State Aware Objects in the Mobile LOB Accelerator. I thought I would talk about how this part of LOB developed.
I was going to talk about setup for .NET 3.5 SP1 however Scott Hanselman beat me to it with a very good article. He talks about why the actual size is large i.e. the redistributable contains all platforms and architectures. In addition he has setup a website and Javascript tag to allow you to calculate it for yourself and your users.
My wife saw the other day a very cool gadget, Pulse smart pen, made by LiveScribe. The pen uses special paper (although they are trying to give users the ability to print the paper) to capture what is written. In addition the pen has a mic to capture the audio associated with the notes being written.
