Microsoft

SharePoint can take you to Disney!

And also to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, California from October 3 to 6, 2011.

If you want to show off your VS2010 love, then the VS2010WallPapers (not affiliated with Microsoft) site is perfect for you. It allow you to select from dozens of concepts!

I just came across an article from Tech Radar offering 48 free applications from Microsoft that are often little known. Such as Expression Encoder and Windows Steady State!

Thanks to Éric for publishing the news. A free book of over 300 pages, it’s not every day you get that!

Go directly to the eBook

The tools for developing for Windows Phone 7 are now available in the final version. You can download them here. For more information, read Scott’s excellent article.

The WPF team recently released a new Ribbon completely in WPF (no wrapper around native code). So you can play with your XAML to give it the look and contextual menus you want!

Download the Ribbon

See Pete Brown’s article
WPF Team Blog: Introducing the Microsoft Ribbon for WPF

I previously talked to you about LightSwitch, now you can download the Beta 1 version.

Go ahead, have fun!

Microsoft has just unveiled LightSwitch, a tool for developing business applications without having to touch the code. Jason Zander provides an excellent introduction on his site.

There will be a template for C# and VB. At first glance, the generated application seems to run on WPF for the Desktop version, and probably Silverlight or XBAP for the web version.

The beta will be available on August 23rd.

Stay tuned

StyleCop is a free tool from Microsoft that allows you to check the style of your code (or others’). Additionally, StyleCop is now available as Open Source (on Codeplex), so I strongly recommend looking at the default rule implementations to help you create your own.

Create Your Rules

Here are some steps to create your custom StyleCop rules:

• Install the latest version of StyleCop
• Download the SDK of StyleCop (documentation .chm file)
• Start Visual Studio
• Create a new project of type “Class Library”
• Add the following references - Microsoft.StyleCop - Microsoft.StyleCop.CSharp - Microsoft.StyleCop.CSharp.Rules

The Visual Studio 2010 keyboard shortcuts posters (in English only) have been updated (C++, C#, F#, and VB).

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