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On the 12th as planned, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010. As an update it’s pretty extensive where not all of it’s good but it’s the way of the future so progress we must.

With it, the latest .NET Framework, 4, was available. This also includes a ‘client profile’ release of .NET 4 which I personally feel is a complete and utter waste of time only serving to confuse the hell out of developers and users alike. For the sake of a few MB, install the full runtime and ignore the marketing spin. if Microsoft were serious about runtime size, they’d have scrapped the .NET Framework for UI/desktop and moved everyone to Silverlight…

This brings me neatly to another release – Silverlight 4 (although delayed until the 18th). Somewhat strangely the development tools are provided at an RC2 release version. RTM is expected ‘soon’.

It must be hard to release so many ‘seperate’ things at once!

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Other [motor]sport related feeds:

F1 – F1 Calendar 2010

I’ll be adding to the list when I’ve got some to recommend.

Unlike previous years, I couldn’t find a decent feed (one with the actual times rather than just the day) so I ‘created’ my own. I’ve entered qualifying and race times for 125, Moto2 and MotoGP classes.

Point your iCal compatable client applications to the public link. If you see any mistakes then let me know and I’ll sort them out.

For those of you who love to code on the bleeding edge, check out the beta release of Silverlight 4. Please note that the development environment is limited to Visual Studio 2010 (see last post).

As has become the norm for Silverlight releases, there’s a slew of decent features to get to grips with. Microsoft will still receive a bunch of criticism over their RIA direction but .NET developers will be in their element.

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