http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

Download links are now published on the web page above.

I will be presenting a session titled as Extensible Output Caching with ASP.NET 4.

Here is a brief description of my session:

Through ASP.NET 1 to 3.5, output caching was stuck in memory. ASP.NET 4 makes it possible to use custom output-cache providers to use any kind of storage mechanism including databases, local and remove disks and distributed cache engines. In this session, we will build a custom output-cache provider that persists data in local hard-drive and we will learn how to configure an ASP.NET application to use some famous distributed cache engines. This is a coding and configuring oriented session.

Martin Kulov is of course there with 2 sessions. One about Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 and one about Branching and Merging with TFS 2010.

Another cool news is that Daron Yondem from Turkey will also be there with 2 Silverlight sessions.

Those of you living in Bulgaria or who can visit Bulgaria for the event, do not forget to register at http://www.msbgregistration.com before all the seats are booked.

“A program that offers visibility, support and software for professional Web Developers and Designers”

Have you heard of Microsoft WebsiteSpark yet? WebsiteSpark is a global program by Microsoft to support Web Developers and Designers. If your company has 10 or fewer employees, you are eligible to enroll to the program and you will get the following opportunities, services and software for free for next 3 years!

For design, development, testing and demonstration of new websites:

1. Visual Studio Professional
2. Expression Studio 2 or 3 (1 user)
3. Expression Web 2 or 3 (up to 2 users)
4. Windows Web Server 2008 or R2 (when available)
5. SQL Server 2008 Web Edition

For production use:

1. Windows Web Server 2008 R2 (when available)
2. SQL Server 2008 Web Edition

Fee: A USD $100 Program Offering Fee is due when the Web development and design company exits the Program. As part of Microsoft’s commitment to small Web development and design service companies’ long term success, there are no upfront costs for companies to join WebsiteSpark.

Only for USD $100, you get all these. Enjoy!

http://www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark/default.aspx

http://www.devreach.com/Event/Schedule.aspx

For further information, please follow Martin Kulov’s blog. The following is a quote from his blog.

It is less than two months when DevReach 2009 will happen again in Sofia, Bulgaria. This is the forth edition of the wonderful conference gathering so many internationally recognized Microsoft Regional Directors, MVPs, INETA and TechEd speakers.

The event will take place on 12-13^th of October, in Arena Cinema Mladost, Sofia. We have selected this place in order to allow even more attendees than the last year. However keep in mind that space is still limited and we are expecting even more people to come, so make sure to reserve your seat in good time.

More than 44 sessions presented by more than 20 speakers in not less than 22 hours overall experience spanning in 2 days and 4 tracks. Many new things are still to come in the schedule. They will be announced here very soon.

In a follow up series of posts on my blog, I will try to highlight some of the new speakers that are coming this year. I hope this will give you better idea of how we change the schedule every single year to accommodate your needs.

Meanwhile – do not miss the 20% discount until 15^th of September. Check Registration page for more information of different benefits and passes.

Since it is being deprecated, all clients using System.Data.OracleClient are expected to migrate their applications to use ODP.NET (Oracle Data Provider for .NET).

For further reading, please visit http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/06/15/system-data-oracleclient-update.aspx.

Good news is that ASP.NET MVC’s final version will be released next month, in February 2009.

Some important changes might be listed as below.

• “Create Controller” action in Visual Studio context menu in Solution Explorer.
• “Add View” action in Visual Studio context menu inside an Action method’s body. This will let you create an empty View or a View that has been specially created for the type that is being passed as a parameter to the View. E.g.: return View(user) will create a basic View that has “user” entity’s type’s properties.
• Ability to customize any kind of templates being used by MVC using T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) – further reading. Both machine-wide and project-wide!
• RC release now includes a out of the box MSBuild task so you can compile the views within your ASP.NET MVC project.
• Views can work without Code-Behind files. You can still use the advantages of strongly typed base type. E.g.: Inherits=”System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<MyCustomType>”
• To access the Model’s data, you don’t need to use “ViewData.Model” anymore. “Model” is a top-level property from now on. “ViewData.Model” still works though.
• An out of the box MSBuild task is included in the setup if you want to compile the code within the views.
• You are not required to use Bind attribute with Prefix value set to an empty string [Bind(Prefix="")] by the default behavior.
• Supports protection to “Cross-site request forgery” attacks with an out of the box attribute: ValidateAntiForgeryToken. You may apply this attribute to the actions that you want to protect.
• FileResult (an out of the box ActionResult) to response a file instead of some other views using an action. Also there is the new File() method to create and return a file.

Visit http://www.asp.net/mvc for more details.

Dear Partners,

It is our pleasure to invite you at DevReach 2008. This premier developer conference was first organized in 2006 and has been growing in both size and importance ever since. Building on the success of the last two events, DevReach 2008 is promising to be one of the best .NET developer events in Europe this year. Here are some highlights:

• 2 exciting conference days (Oct 13th and 14th, Sofia, Bulgaria)
• Over 20 international speakers
• More than 40 great sessions on Microsoft’s latest technologies

DevReach is delivering one of the highest quality line-ups of speakers you can find at any .NET conference anywhere in the world. To name a few:

• Richard Campbell – Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and co-host of .NET Rocks
• Tim Huckaby – Microsoft Regional Director for California
• Carl Franklin – MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut
• Stephen Forte – Microsoft Regional Director for New York
• Lino Tadros – Microsoft MVP and Falafel CEO
• Todd Anglin – Telerik Chief Technical Evangelist
• Miguel Castro – Microsoft MVP, Principal Consultant and Trainer
• Goksin Bakir – Microsoft Developer Evangelist for ME and Africa
• More

Register Today and Get 20% Off
Until Sept 15, you can take advantage of our early bird pricing – 80 EUR (and save 20 EUR on the regular conference pass). To proceed, register here. We accept credit and debit cards, as well as wire transfers.

If you have any questions, we would be happy to hear from you at info@devreach.com, or at +359.2. 80.99.850, ext.267 (Lidiya Petkova)!

We are looking forward to seeing you at DevReach 2008!

The DevReach Team and Microsoft Bulgaria

The Top Ten SharePoint Artifacts of interest to .NET Developers being promoted
• Web Parts
• Data Lists
• Event Handlers
• Workflows
• Silverlight Web Parts
• Page Navigation
• Page Branding
• Web Services
• Content Types
• User Management

At the site (which is hosted on microsoft.com) they have:
• An Introductory Whitepaper
• Benefits of SharePoint for Developers
• A Small Public VPC
• Hosted MSDN Virtual Labs in C# and VB.NET
• Video Interview with SharePoint MVPs
• Screencasts
• Web Casts with SharePoint MVPs (incredible 1705 live attendees in just the first four WebCasts)
• Quickstarts
• Labcasts
• Presentation Download
• Hands on Labs Download
• Additional Resource Links

The site encourages developers who use the content to also take a next step and go on Instructor Led Training, Get Certified, and Download an evaluation copy of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com

ScottGu has a long post describing how you can access this feature in Visual Studio 2008.

This is what he says:

Last October I blogged about our plan to release the source code to the .NET Framework libraries, and enable debugging support of them with Visual Studio 2008. Today I’m happy to announce that this is now available for everyone to use. Specifically, you can now browse and debug the source code for the following .NET Framework libraries:

.NET Base Class Libraries (including System, System.CodeDom, System.Collections, System.ComponentModel, System.Diagnostics, System.Drawing, System.Globalization, System.IO, System.Net, System.Reflection, System.Runtime, System.Security, System.Text, System.Threading, etc).
ASP.NET (System.Web, System.Web.Extensions)
Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms)
Windows Presentation Foundation (System.Windows)
ADO.NET and XML (System.Data and System.Xml)
We are in the process of adding additional framework libraries (including LINQ, WCF and Workflow) to the above list. I’ll blog details on them as they become available in the weeks and months ahead.

To read the rest of the post, please follow this page.