Welcome to Microsoft Blueprints.

In this screencast (10 minutes, 34 seconds), Michael Lehman demonstrates the essential features of the Microsoft Blueprints Manager by walking through the sample SimpleEdit Blueprint.

To download the Microsoft Blueprints Manager and the sample Blueprint please go to http://www.codeplex.com/blueprints

Here, Gabriel Torok of PreEmptive sits down with us to discuss what's new in Visual Studio 2010 with respect to PreEmptive's best in class tooling features that will ship as part of VS 2010. Dotfuscator Community Edition™ (CE) will be included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Dotfuscator CE, which has been included with every version of Visual Studio starting with Visual Studio 2003, prevents the reverse engineering of .NET applications. The Visual Studio 2010 version, renamed Dotfuscator Software Services Community Edition™, has been extended with instrumentation capabilities including tamper detection and defense, feature level application monitoring and automatic time limits on .NET application use.[more ]

This week on Channel 9, Brian is joined by Nic Fillingham from Channel 10 to discuss the latest news including:

- Big updates to Live services including Live profiles, photo gallery launch, and SkyDrive increasing to 25GB
- Visual Studio 2010 week on Channel 9
- Devexpress CodeRush Xpress is a must-have download
- Time magazine lists their 50 best inventions of 2008
- Nic shows off his Asus EeePC running the PDC build of Windows 7[more ]

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Reza Chitsaz, Senior Program Manager working on Office and Sharepoint tooling.

In this video, Reza gives us a quick sneak-peak on some of the tools coming in Visual Studio 2010 around supporting Sharepoint as a platform. You can expect to hear a lot more about this in the future!

Enjoy! 

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Vishal Joshi, Senior Program Manager on the Web Development Tools team.

In this video, Vishal shows us what is being done in Visual Studio 2010 around web development and deployment. Covered are topics like JQuery support, HTML code snippets, better Intellisense, and a whole slew of new features around web deployment.

Enjoy! 

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Amit Mohindra, Program Manager on the C++ team.

In this video, Amit takes us on a tour of Visual C++ 10. Covered are topics like the new msbuild-based build system, the new intellisense engine, some new C++0x language features, and more.

Enjoy! 

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Stephen Toub, Senior Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform team.

Stephen takes us through a whirlwind tour of many different Parallel Extensions features, showing them in action. Covered are features like Parallel LINQ, Parallel.For, the Task Parallel Library, and some of the new Coordination Data Structures.

Enjoy! 

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video. In this latest installment, we catch up with Rick Molloy, Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform team.

Rick takes us on a tour of the new parallelism features coming with C++ 10 via the Parallel Patterns Library. Covered are features like task groups, structured task groups, and agents-based parallelism, among many others.

Enjoy! 

This is another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.