Free eBook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Well for those of you who want to learn about MS Visual Studio 2010 and are used to earlier versions, here is another great effort from Microsoft and it is free. Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Microsoft Press, 2011; 336 pages), written by Patrice Pelland, Pascal Paré, and Ken Haines.

The book is not a language primer, a language reference, or a single technology book. It’s a book that will help professional developers move from previous versions of Visual Studio (starting with 2003 and on up). It will cover the features of Visual Studio 2010 through an application. It will go through a lot of the exciting new language features and new versions of the most popular technologies without putting the emphasis on the technologies themselves. It will instead put the emphasis on how you would get to those new tools and features from Visual Studio 2010.

If you are expecting this book to thoroughly cover the new Entity Framework or ASP.NET MVC 2, this is not the book for you. If you want to read a book where the focus is on Visual Studio 2010 and on the reasons for moving to Visual Studio 2010, this is the book for you.

The book is written having three audiences in mind:

• Part I is for developers moving from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2010
• Part II is for developers moving from Visual Studio 2005
• And Part III is for developers moving from Visual Studio 2008

You can download a PDF of the book here and can help Microsoft by filling out a survey at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/booksurvey.

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Couple of fixes for Visual Studio

Microsoft Connect site collected all (OK most of ) the fixes for Visual Studio. You can download them as per your need from this link, however, you should pay attention to the Terms of Use, since you cannot redistribute them.

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Coding Guidelines

Here is a thread at CodeProject that discusses Coding Guidelines and refers to MS guidelines for coding by Brad Adams.
I would highly recommend to go through the guidelines time to time to refresh ourselves. Here is the link to the guidelines...

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Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

The 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is a list of the most widespread and critical programming errors that can lead to serious software vulnerabilities. They are often easy to find, and easy to exploit. They are dangerous because they will frequently allow attackers to completely take over the software, steal data, or prevent the software from working at all.

The Top 25 list is a tool for education and awareness to help programmers to prevent the kinds of vulnerabilities that plague the software industry, by identifying and avoiding all-too-common mistakes that occur before software is even shipped. Software customers can use the same list to help them to ask for more secure software. Researchers in software security can use the Top 25 to focus on a narrow but important subset of all known security weaknesses. Finally, software managers and CIOs can use the Top 25 list as a measuring stick of progress in their efforts to secure their software.
The list is the result of collaboration between the SANS Institute, MITRE, and many top software security experts in the US and Europe. It leverages experiences in the development of the SANS Top 20 attack vectors (http://www.sans.org/top20/) and MITRE's Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) (http://cwe.mitre.org/). MITRE maintains the CWE web site, with the support of the US Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division, presenting detailed descriptions of the top 25 programming errors along with authoritative guidance for mitigating and avoiding them. The CWE site contains data on more than 800 programming errors, design errors, and architecture errors that can lead to exploitable vulnerabilities.

Guidance for Using the Top 25

Brief Listing of the Top 25

Category-Based View of the Top 25

Focus Profiles

Organization of the Top 25

Detailed CWE Descriptions

Monster Mitigations

Appendix A: Selection Criteria and Supporting Fields

Appendix B: What Changed in the 2010 Top 25

Appendix C: Construction, Selection, and Scoring of the Top 25

Appendix D: Comparison to OWASP Top Ten 2010 RC1

Appendix E: Other Resources for the Top 25

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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Launch Date

Microsoft has announced that the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will launch on Monday, 12 April 2010.
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Silverlight From Zero

Starts:	Wednesday February 17, 2010, 11:00AM Pacific Time
Ends:	Wednesday February 17, 2010, 12:30PM Pacific Time
Event Type:	Training/Seminar
Location:	This is a virtual event.
Website:	https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=G2K4BH&role=attend&pw=PN6.%3CQ]rb
Intended For:	Developers, Architects.
Organization:	LIDNUG

Jesse Liberty, Silverlight Geek, is a Community Program Manager for Silverlight at Microsoft, and author of a dozen books on .NET programming. His presentation, Silverlight From Zero, assumes you are a programmer who wants to learn Silverlight fundamentals fast. In this high speed technical presentation Liberty will cover: What is it and how do I get it and why do I want it?, Xaml and Code, Silveright controls, transforms and animation, templates, the Visual state Manager, Data and Databinding, Data Validation and the basics of media.
Note: This event is PST (Pacific Time)

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