Satter Ramblings

.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.

Microsoft Product Blogs

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!

CodeDOM

  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.

.NET Deployment Landscape

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.