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ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 Released – Channel 9 Video and Hanselminutes Podcast 224, Oh My! by Scott Hanselman

Phil and friends released ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 today. I snuck into the office of Phil Haack and Morgan the Canadian Intern to talk about the release of ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and some of the cool "futures" stuff that Morgan (and our fleet...

The Best Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools, Power Commands and Extensions by Scott Hanselman

One of the things I'm digging about VS2010 is its extensibility model. I'm collecting add-ins in VS like I collect Add-Ins in FireFox. Here's my current of the best Visual Studio 2010 Extensions I'm using. Visual Studio Color Theme Editor...
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Make the Visual Studio 2010 IDE colors look like Visual Studio 2008 by Scott Hanselman

  Personally, I like the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE colors but I got this comment recently from a helpful reader: Why did the default colour theme for VS 2010 have to be so hideously ugly? Why put all that work into making the most advanced IDE ever...
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Visual Studio 2010 - Help Viewer Power Tool BETA - Help Index and Standalone Help by Scott Hanselman

The help system changed in Visual Studio 2010. I totally had a " Who Moved My Cheese " moment, as did many folks. Where's my "as I type" Help Index? Where's my separate Help Viewer? I don't want help in my browsers, it...
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Free WebCamps - North America, Asia and Europe - *Sign Up Now* by Scott Hanselman

A few days ago on Twitter @ red7_liu tweeted: 微软的Web Camps大会要来中国了，大牛Scott Hanselman会来. This part "大牛" as I understand, effectively means "Big Cow." "Microsoft Web Camps Conference is coming to China, Big Cow Scott Hanselman will...

Web Platform Installer 2.0 and Visual Studio Web Developer 2010 Express by Scott Hanselman

I was setting up a new machine for presentations and I was getting ready to install Visual Studio 2010 Express   and figured I'd go see if the Web Platform Installer (we call it "Web-P-I") had the new versions of VS2010 ready to go...
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Back to (Parallel) Basics: Do you really want to do that? or Why doesn't the new Parallel.For support BigInteger? by Scott Hanselman

Got an interesting question on Twitter, and got a fabulous answer in email from Stephen Toub , who happens to be my most favorite multi-threaded person. Here's the question. "why doesn't the new parallel.for support BigInteger?" It's...
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Towards a Smaller .NET 4 - Details on the Client Profile and Downloading .NET by Scott Hanselman

NOTE: All this info is for programmers/developers. If you just If you want .NET just to run stuff, just go get the 800k Web Installer for .NET 4 and you're all set . It'll do the rest. Now, that said... Almost two years ago I blogged about how...
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Visual Studio 2010 Released by Scott Hanselman

It's a big day at Microsoft today as Visual Studio 2010 officially releases. There's a lot going on with this release and I thought I'd do a big rollup post with lots of details and context to help you find your way to the information and...
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ASP.NET 4 - Breaking Changes and Stuff to be Aware of by Scott Hanselman

If you're getting started with ASP.NET 4, there's a few things you might run into that could throw you for a loop if you didn't expect them. Remember that while ASP.NET is a very compatible release, it is also a side-by side release so this...
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FavIcons, Internet Zones and Projects from a Trustworthy Source by Scott Hanselman

You ever download some code or a Visual Studio project from the web then start getting warned that the download might be evil? When you open a project file that was downloaded from the Internet Zone, you'll get a dialog like this from Visual Studio...
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.NET 4 Web Application Startup Time by Scott Hanselman

I was chatting with Jonathan Hawkins and some of the folks on the ASP.NET team about performance and Jonathan mentioned the startup time for large ASP.NET applications is improved on .NET 4. There are some improvements in the CLR and in ASP.NET itself...
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WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

The #1 complaint I hear about WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is that many fonts end up looking "blurry." It's a darned shame because really great applications like Evernote get criticized because of this one issue*. The blurriness...
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Back to Basics: C# 4 method overloading and dynamic types by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

C# 3.0 introduced the implicit type "var" . I've explained var as saying: "I'm too lazy to tell you the type of this variable, so you figure it out, compiler." However, it's more useful than just promoting terseness or...
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SmallestDotNet Update - Now with .NET 4 support and an includable JavaScript API by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

A few years back I wrote a post on the size of the .NET Framework . There's historically been a lot of confusion on the site of the .NET Framework. If you search around on the web for ".NET Framework" or ".NET Framework Redistributable"...
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