I finally got around to setting up a Microsoft Azure service for doing some cloud test development this afternoon.
After logging into my MSDN account a activating my Azure service, I went into VS 2010 and installed the Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (November 2010). There are several downloads available.
I began getting up to speed again on the new Silverlight technologies. I’ve been an AppDev customer in the past, and managed to stumble upon their new online training site, LearnDevNow.com. It’s only $99.00 per year plus $30.00 to get the source code downloads. I gave it a try. I watched the Silverlight 2010 series. It’s an ok place to start learning.
I also have a subscription to Safari Books online, and I began reading Accelerated C# 2010 by Trey Nash. I wanted to get a refresher on C# with all the latest features.
Installed Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate trial.
Installed Silverlight 4 Tools RC2 for Visual Studio 2010
Stumbled upon Ramp Up, a free learning resource.
Installed Silverlight 4 Toolkit April 2010 from codeplex
Installed Microsoft Expression Blend 4 Release Candidate (RC)
Installed WCF RIA Services Release Candidate 2 for Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010
Installed WCF RIA Services Toolkit April 2010
Installed Silverlight 4 Offline Documentation
Installed Silverlight 4 Training
Installed Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit
Getting started with Silverlight
Navigate to Tools / Extension Manager and select Online Gallery
Visual Studio 2010 Training videos on channel9
Read the first chapter in Microsoft Visual Studio Tips book from Safari Online.
Visual Studio training kits:
Installing DoNetNuke Community Edition on my development machine. Ran into security problems while loading the software. C:\InetPub\ needs security permissions added for ‘IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool’. See hereand herefor more information.
Here are some notes taken from the book Visual Studio Tipsby Sara Ford.
Press the short-cut key you want to know what it does, and it will be displayed in the box below or enter the command in the (Show commands containing:) and it will show the short-cut.
This will prevent the editor from clearing the clipboard when you accidentally hit Ctrl+C on a blank line.
