“Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta IIS Express Integration” and other links…
Ibrahim Hashimi: “After you have enabled IIS Express to be your projects web server, when you start debugging, or just start running your app, from Visual Studio you will see a new system tray icon appear (
). You can right click on this icon to to quickly see what applications it is hosting. Each hosted application will have its own context menu. From this menu you can browse out to the application as well as stop it quickly.”
“Authorization and Authentication using WCF Security—Silverlight”
Mahesh Sabnis: “In my previous articles Silverlight 4.0 - Calling Secured WCF 4.0 Service hosted with SSL and Self-Signed Certificate, we saw how to consume WCF SSL enabled service in Silverlight 4.0 client and in the article Silverlight 4.0 - Secure Communication to WCF service using Custom User Name and Password Validator, we saw how to authenticate a user using by using custom user name and password. As an extension to these articles, we will now explore how to authenticate a Silverlight user against WCF service to perform business operations like Read All and Insert etc.”
“Hosting Razor outside of ASP.Net (Revised for MVC3 RC!)”
Andrew Nurse: “We recently released the latest preview release of MVC 3, including an updated version of Razor. One of the things we did in this release is simplify the hosting APIs dramatically. I did a demo of these new APIs in a pre-recorded PDC10 talk I did with Scott Hunter, which is available to stream here: http://bit.ly/ac7B0P. As I promised in that talk (and a few others before and after it 
), I’m finally blogging about the sample I showed in that talk!”
“Paging WCF Ria Services entities in Model-View-ViewModel applications”
Andrea Boschin: “[Together] with WCF Ria Services there are a set of components that are not so useful to consume services. Particularly I usually prefer not to use components like DomainDataSource because it brings my queries directly into the Views and it is a very bad thing. Microsoft has spent long time to create similar components—I remember SqlDataSource and LinqDataSource in ASP.NET—but they are targeted for very simple applications that have a short lifecycle. Someone found ways to use the DomainDataSource in MVVM scenarios but my feel is again bad because of its [intrinsic] slowness and because many thing I have to do are not strongly typed and this opens the way to runtime errors I wouldn’t want to deal with. [watch/download video]”
“Mono Tools for Visual Studio”
Miguel de Icaza: “Today is a big day for the Mono team, we just released the Mono Tools for Visual Studio. The goal of this release is to make it simpler for Visual Studio developers to deploy their applications on Linux. ASP.NET, Windows.Forms, server and console applications are supported…” Yes, my record of this announcement is a bit late…