Thanks to everyone who attended my C# 4.0 presentation this weekend at Philly.NET Code Camp.  The code samples and PowerPoint can be downloaded here: C# 4 New Features [https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=michelotti&ReleaseId=3289] .  The video replay URL is here: C# 4 video replay [https://www106.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=4489-4&role=attend&pw=ATT4489] ....

This Saturday I will be at the Philly.NET Code Camp [http://codecamp.phillydotnet.org/2010-1/default.aspx] presenting C# 4.0.  The code camp is currently registered to capacity (800 attendees) but you will be able to view certain presentations on a Live Meeting simulcast (and later on Channel 9).  You can tune it at 3:30PM Eastern time to view my presentation. The attendee URL is here [https://swrt.worktankseattle.com/webcast/4488/preview.aspx]....

This is the first post in a series related to build and deployment considerations as I've been exploring MVC Portable Areas: Portable Areas is a relatively new feature available in MvcContrib [http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/] that builds upon the new feature called Areas [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee671793(v=VS.100).aspx] that was introduced in MVC 2. In short, portable areas provide a way to distribute MVC binary components as simple .NET assemblies rather than an assembly along...

This is the second post in a series related to build and deployment considerations as I've been exploring MVC Portable Areas [http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/]: As I've been digging more into portable areas, one of the things I've liked best is the deployment story which enables my *.aspx, *.ascx pages to be compiled into the assembly as embedded resources rather than having to maintain all those files separately. In traditional web forms, that was always the thing to prevented developers from u...

This is the third post in a series related to build and deployment considerations as I've been exploring MVC Portable Areas [http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/]: In the last post, I walked through a convention for managing static files.  In this post I'll discuss another approach to manage static files (e.g., images, css, js, etc.).  With this approach, you also compile the static files as embedded resources into the assembly similar to the *.aspx pages. Once again, you can set this to happen aut...