Thanks to everyone who attended my session at PDC10 Reston on Friday. The links to the various code and resources I using during the presentation can be found here: PowerPoint and Main Solution [http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/michelotti/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5178] Visual Studio Async CTP [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=18712f38-fcd2-4e9f-9028-8373dc5732b2] WCF Web APIs [http://wcf.codeplex.com/]...

UPDATE: with the release of NuGet 1.0 RTM, this script has some breaking changes. For an updated version, see this post by Jon Galloway: Downloading a local NuGet repository with PowerShell [http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2011/02/02/downloading-a-local-nuget-repository-with-powershell.aspx] . NuGet [http://nuget.codeplex.com/] is simply awesome. Despite its relative infancy, it has already established itself as the standard for .NET package management. You can easily add packages from...

Over the last 3 years, Microsoft has slowly but surely been embracing REST as a programming model for the web in WCF. .NET 3.5 SP1 introduced some REST constructs allowing us to invoke WCF services with HTTP GET/POST/PUT/DELETE verbs in conjunction with UriTemplates. The REST Starter Kit [http://aspnet.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WCF%20REST] (RSK) was then introduced on CodePlex and this provided many great features including an HTML help page, request interceptors, an HTTP client library, and...

Thanks to everyone who attended my Entity Framework 4 presentation at CMAP last night. The code samples and PowerPoint can be downloaded here [http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/michelotti/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5117] . The code samples include the Code First Optimistic Concurrency demo that I did not have time to show. More information can be found on that here [http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti/archive/2010/10/11/testing-ef4-code-first-optimistic-concurrency-with-fluent-assertio...

On November 12, PDC is coming to Reston as part of the Local PDC Events [http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Local].  My company [http://appliedis.com] is sponsoring the event which will be hosted at the Microsoft Technology Center is Reston, VA. Details of the 1-day event can be seen here [http://www.aisevents.com/].  The direct link register for this PDC event is here [https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=151567]. I will be presenting the talk on the updates for Visual Studio 2010. Vis...