Satter Ramblings

.NET Framework 4 Beta 2 on WU

.NET Framework is considered part of the operating system. What will happen with .NET 4 once it is officially released and how can you help?

Car SDK

I recent (Sunday) bought a new Lexus IS350C. The funny thing is that the amount of gadgetry requires me to write a review (that will be later its large). As I was showing off the car to my old boss we talked about cars.

Windows 7 Media Center

With the holiday vacation, I decided to see just how far the industry has come in the last five years for home media solutions. I have a Windows Home Server from HP. I figure between the WHS and Windows 7 I should be able to have a media cornucopia on tap at all times.

SyntaxHighlighting in a Blog

During a recent upgrade of Typepad my site became sort of hosed. It is not really Typepads fault. During my effort to clean up my changes I discovered a tool for highlighting the code in my blog.

.NET 4 Migration

How do you go about migrating from an older .NET Framework to .NET Framework 4? With .NET Framework 4 migration is actually pretty easy.

Questions on Client Profile

The other day I did a screencast for folks on .NET 4 Beta 2. In it, I discuss profiles and deployment options. It is slated to go on Channel 9 sometime after PDC. I got a couple of questions and want to answer those here.

Microsoft .NET Framework 4 – Favorite Feature #1

.NET Framework 4 has a lot of new features and it can be daunting to decide what to look at first. Fortunately or unfortunately (it has been a long trek from start to Beta 2) I have been working with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 for the last 16 months. I will share with you my favorite features starting with Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF).

Deploying .NET Framework 4 Beta 2

Now that Beta 2 is out I can talk more freely about what is happening with the .NET Framework. The most visible changes are the installation size, speed, and error rate of the Framework. There are also a lot of great new features

Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta

Today Microsoft announced that the Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will be released. If you have MSDN subscriptions you can downloaded now. Otherwise it will be available on Wednesday publically.

Microsoft .NET 4 Client Profile

.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

Also see my new blog on deployment which discusses the new .NET 4 Client Profile.

Microsoft .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Available

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.