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Piles of interesting stuff going on at Mix 10 this week. Here's a link rollup with all the details and downloads that you might care about. (As well as a few blatant plugs for my own sessions.)

First: Watch Day 1 and Day 2 keynotes on demand. See recorded sessions here.

• Silverlight 4 Release Candidate - If you want to develop with the SL4 RC, you'll need the latest Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 installed and Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010. All the deep details are on Silverlight.net.
  • You can also get the Expression Blend 4 Beta. It was announced that Blend 4 will be a free upgrade from Blend 3.
• Silverlight for Windows Phone - Windows Phone 7 Series uses Silverlight and/or XNA for development. It supports hardware acceleration for video and graphics, multi-touch, camera and microphone and lots more.
  • Download: Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP
    • (be sure to read the release notes)
  • Windows Phone Developer Portal
  • Developer Reference Documentation
  • Developer guides for platform overview and UI guidelines
  • Code samples for using gestures, accelerometer, application bars
  • Channel 9 for hands-on-labs and other tutorials
  • Dedicated developer support forum for Silverlight for Windows Phone
  • Watch some getting started videos on the Silverlight community site
• IE9 - Developer Preview - Note this isn't a full browser. It's a shell that hosts the renderer and JavaScript engine. It'll be updated every 8 weeks or so until it's released. Don't freak out and think this is the UI. They aren't showing the outer UI now - this download is only for developers and enthusiasts who want to test and get involved.
  • Download it at http://www.ietestdrive.com. You can install this preview on your machine without a reboot and without fear. It runs side-by-side and you'll even be able to install future preview builds side-by-side to compare.
• Microsoft expands collaboration with jQuery 
  • Read the proposal for public review, install the experimental plugin, and learn about the collaboration between the jQuery team and community on an implementation of client side templating. There's a demo of this templating engine as well as John Resig on stage in the Day 2 Keynote. They're also working on script loading and data binding.
• OData and "Dallas"
  • Learn about OData, an HTTP and Atom-based approach to data portability, as well as "Dallas" an information marketplace powered by the Windows Azure platform. I did a podcast with architect Pablo Castro just this week on OData.

Personally, I presented:

• Beyond File | New Company: From Cheesy Sample to Social Platform
  • Jon Galloway and I take NerdDinner and add OpenAuth via Twitter, OpenID, OpenSearch, OData, iCal, microformats, RSS, social sharing, embeddable blog flair, tinyurls and geolocation. The code is checked in (and still being worked on) at http://nerddinner.codeplex.com and the app is always at http://www.nerddinner.com.
  • VIDEO Download: WMV, WMVHigh, MP4
• The HaaHa Show: Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Security with Haack and Hanselman
• "The HaaHa brothers take turns implementing features on an ASP.NET MVC website. Scott writes a feature, and Phil exploits it and hacks into the system. We analyze and discuss the exploits live on stage and then close them one by one. Learn about XSS, CSRF, JSON Hijacking and more. Is *your* site safe from the Haack?"
• VIDEO Download: MP4 Video, Windows Media Video, Windows Media Video (High)
• Web Deployment Made Awesome: If You're Using XCopy, You're Doing It Wrong
• "If you typically deploy your web applications using Windows Explorer and Aero Snap, please stop. Come see a practical session on the new deployment goodness in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. We dig into Web Deploy (a.k.a. MSDeploy) and deployment from within Visual Studio 2010. Is deployment a chore? I say, nay, nay. Let's learn how to package up web apps, deploy them, their settings and component parts easily. We start with the basics and ramp it up quickly, exploring custom database providers and advanced techniques."
• VIDEO Download: MP4 Video, Windows Media Video, Windows Media Video (High)

Enjoy! I'll update this post as videos become available. I've still got a panel and a talk left!

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My two-hundred-and-fifth podcast is up. Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services and OData - what's the difference and the real story? How does OData work and when should I use it? When do I use OData and when do I use WCF? Scott gets the scoop from the architect himself, Pablo Castro.

This week at Mix, OData.org was launched. There are currently consumer libraries like :

• Javascript
• PHP
• Java
• Windows Phone 7 Series
• iPhone (Objective C)
• .NET

Jon Galloway have even updated NerdDinner with its own OData feed that you can query! I like using LINQPad to query OData, but you can also use Excel and PowerPivot, do it online with the Silverlight-based OData Explorer or the Sesame OData Browser or just try it from your browser's address bar. Also, try querying Netflix! I'll be posting interesting OData code samples and Jon and I will be updating NerdDinner in the coming week or two.

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Links from the Show

• OData.org
• OData SDK
• OData Protocol Documentation
• OData Articles
• OData Intro Screencast with Pablo Castro

Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts, a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show.

I want to add a big thanks to Telerik. Without their support, there wouldn't be a Hanselminutes. I hope they, and you, know that. Someone's gotta pay the bandwidth. Thanks also to Carl Franklin for all his support over these last 4 years!

Telerik is our sponsor for this show.

Building quality software is never easy. It requires skills and imagination. We cannot promise to improve your skills, but when it comes to User Interface and developer tools, we can provide the building blocks to take your application a step closer to your imagination. Explore the leading UI suites for ASP.NET AJAX,MVC,Silverlight, Windows Forms and WPF. Enjoy developer tools like .NET reporting, ORM,Automated Testing Tools, TFS, and Content Management Solution. And now you can increase your productivity with JustCode, Telerik’s new productivity tool for code analysis and refactoring. Visit www.telerik.com.

As I've said before this show comes to you with the audio expertise and stewardship of Carl Franklin. The name comes from Travis Illig, but the goal of the show is simple. Avoid wasting the listener's time. (and make the commute less boring)

Enjoy. Who knows what'll happen in the next show?

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ASP.NET MVC 2 is out. This means, it's released. It's final. Use it. Love it.

You can download it directly, or install it (and whatever else you like) with the Web Platform Installer:

ScottGu has many details in his post. There's lots of resources to check out:

• What's new in ASP.NET MVC Whitepaper
  • ASP.NET MVC 2 adds a bunch of new capabilities and features.  ScottGu has a blog series about some of the new features, and will be covering them in more depth in the weeks ahead.  Some of the new features and capabilities include:
    • New Strongly Typed HTML Helpers
    • Enhanced Model Validation support across both server and client
    • Auto-Scaffold UI Helpers with Template Customization
    • Support for splitting up large applications into “Areas”
    • Asynchronous Controllers support that enables long running tasks in parallel
    • Support for rendering sub-sections of a page/site using Html.RenderAction
    • Lots of new helper functions, utilities, and API enhancements
    • Improved Visual Studio tooling support
• Upgrading an ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Application to ASP.NET MVC 2
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Content Map on MSDN
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Code Sample Downloads on MSDN

If you have questions or problems with any of the samples, please post your comments on the MVC Forum

• MVC AJAX Application Download
  • Walkthrough: Adding ASP.NET AJAX Scripting to an MVC Project
• MVC Areas Application Download
  • Walkthrough: Organizing an ASP.NET MVC Application using Areas
• MVC Asynchronous Controller Download
  • Using an Asynchronous Controller in ASP.NET MVC
• MVC Basic Walkthrough Download
  • Walkthrough: Creating a Basic MVC Project with Unit Tests in Visual Studio
• MVC Controller Download
  • System.Web.Mvc.Controller class
• MVC Data Views Download
  • Walkthrough: Using MVC View Templates with Data Scaffolding
• Using the Templated Helpers to Display, Edit and Label Data Download
  • Walkthrough: Using Templated Helpers to Display Data
  • System.Web.Mvc.Html.DisplayExtensions class
• Validating Model Data Using DataAnnotations Attributes Download
  • How to: Validate Model Data Using DataAnnotations Attributes

Enjoy!

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We've just pushed live an update to the http://www.asp.net site. This is the first of a series of updates to the site we'll be making this year.

The home page for the site was getting bogged down with info and was too visually busy. It was too complex for beginners and too intense for advanced folks. Our focus with today's update is to make it easy for new folks to get started, but still make it easy for advanced people to get what they want in few clicks.

Getting Started

The Get Started section is completely new and we'll be adding even more content and samples from Joe Stagner and Jon Galloway in the coming weeks. Both guys are working on complete applications for ASP.NET WebForms 4 and ASP.NET MVC 2, as well as tutorials and videos for each.

• We've added a new Overview Video for total newbies as well as a "Choosing the Right Programming Model" video to help folks decide between ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC.
• We've also added new "Building your 1st ASP.NET Application" as well as a step-by-step video showing how to install ASP.NET and the free VS Express videos, both by Laurence Moroney 

WebForms and MVC

Both the WebForms and MVC sections have been completely reorganized with two things in mind. First, there's a lot of videos on the site, but they were poorly categorized and hard to find. Second, we weren't ordering the videos in a way that's conducive to learning. Every video on the site has been re-categorized and been organized in a more logical way. Videos are short, to the point and their lengths have been included on the listing pages. We'll continue to make improvements with the goal to make everything easy to find with upcoming changes including tagging, ranking, etc.

Community

We've added lots of content to the Community page in an active widget that aggregates news, blogs, podcasts, videos, forum activity and more. We've also added widgets to suck in content from Twitter, Digg and Delicious.

Open Source

Jon has also added an Open Source section to the site with a list of frameworks, applications, and tools that ASP.NET developers might be interested in. They're hand-picked by Jon, so if he missed one that he should consider, let him have it.

Hosting

You'll hear more soon about how it's easier to deploy ASP.NET applications to hosters, and we've added a "Find a Hoster" page that will showcase hosting deals, like Shared, Virtual, or Dedicated hosts.

There's lots of fun to come, but here's Step 0. I hope it help! Thanks to everyone, Cyra, Othmane, Laurence, Jon, Joe, Terri, KevinG, and to ScottGu for kicking us all in the butt daily. Please sir, may I have another? ;)

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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My two-hundred-and-fourth podcast is up. This week Scott talks to new media consultant Liz Burr about working in Social Networking. What does a social media consultant do? Is it PR or marketing? How much is science and how much is gut? Are social media people more than just the popular kids from High School? Liz helps Scott work out his school issues. Also: People of Color and their role in Social Media.

Subscribe:

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Links from the Show

• Liz's Blog
• Liz Burr on Twitter

Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts, a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show.

I want to add a big thanks to Telerik. Without their support, there wouldn't be a Hanselminutes. I hope they, and you, know that. Someone's gotta pay the bandwidth. Thanks also to Carl Franklin for all his support over these last 4 years!

Telerik is our sponsor for this show.

Building quality software is never easy. It requires skills and imagination. We cannot promise to improve your skills, but when it comes to User Interface and developer tools, we can provide the building blocks to take your application a step closer to your imagination. Explore the leading UI suites for ASP.NET AJAX,MVC,Silverlight, Windows Forms and WPF. Enjoy developer tools like .NET reporting, ORM,Automated Testing Tools, TFS, and Content Management Solution. And now you can increase your productivity with JustCode, Telerik’s new productivity tool for code analysis and refactoring. Visit www.telerik.com.

As I've said before this show comes to you with the audio expertise and stewardship of Carl Franklin. The name comes from Travis Illig, but the goal of the show is simple. Avoid wasting the listener's time. (and make the commute less boring)

Enjoy. Who knows what'll happen in the next show?

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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