You like working with Silverlight, .NET and Visual Studio, but then everybody is talking about HTML5. Why? What’s that thing? This video explains what HTML5, CSS3 and ECMAScript 5 are through the lens of a XAML and C# developer. You will learn to use the best of both worlds to build your next beautiful applications.

This video presents how to troubleshoot build server failure in Visual Studio 2010. Before looking for a solution it is important to understand the problem. If the error messages in the build logs don’t seem to help, you can always enable tracing on the build server to get more information on what could possibly be the root cause of failure.

This video explains how to implemented AOP (Aspect Orientated Programming) with PostSharp. You will be using the Postsharp library and you will take a look at how to create our first Aspect as well as how to use the metadata with the aspect to provide real business value in your application.
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This video explains how to build applications with F#, the new functional programming language on the .NET platform. We’ll look at what using a functional programming language changes in your applications structure and what it doesn’t. We’ll see how F# interactive can be used to experiment with your code to help quickly find a solution to the problem you’re working on and test it works correctly. We’ll see how these informal experimentations can be turned into a robust library or application with a working test suite. We’ll look at both …

With mobile taking off in a big way it is a fun and exciting time to be a software developer, businesses are faced with tough decisions on how to provide a best possible user experience, yet keeping maintenance cost down across the different smart phone platforms.

Hear from the C#,Visual Basic,and F# language designers themselves,about how we create the .NET Framework languages at Microsoft. Where do we get ideas? How do we incorporate new paradigms without breaking the existing languages? Where will we go in the future,and how will we get there? This video talks about all these topics and more.

This short video provides some best practices for recording web performance tests and tries to answer the following questions:
* Why is performance testing important?
* How does Visual Studio help you test the performance of your applications?
* How do you record a web performance test?
* How do make a web performance test data driven, transaction driven, loop driven, convert to code, add validations?

This tutorial explains how to extend WCF to create custom Message Interceptors. We will first take a look at how we can create our custom interceptors and hook them into the WCF pipeline. We will then take a look at how we can intercept both inbound and outbound messages to allow us to perform some sort of actions against the messages.
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WebSharper is a popular and robust web application development framework for F# that provides powerful functional constructs that massively cut down the development time of ordinary client-server and stunningly rich, client-based, mobile and HTML5 web applications. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build larger, dynamic, markupless web applications entirely in F# using the latest innovations in WebSharper sitelets.

This Silverlight screencast shows you how to save your walking routes to disk and how to improve your application design using Expression Blend.