Well, almost immediately following the tutorials I delivered at SD West and Dev Connections in March, many of the CTPs that I discussed were updated...and so I had to find some time to get my docs updated to reflect the changes. I have finally pulled it together. This post will provide machine setup used for my technology roadmap seminar as of April 2009. Since many of these are CTP technologies, everything is subject to change…some things sooner than later.

Here is a link to a document with the setup links below, in addition to reference materials on each technology. http://www.dasblonde.net/downloads/idesigntechnologyroadmapresourcesv3.doc

I am still working on testing the azure samples with new CTPs before posting the zip with code here. Will update this post with a link.

Platform Setup

These instructions assume you are running on Windows Vista SP1 or Windows Server 2008. This section describes core machine setup for the operating system, .NET 3.0, SQL Server and Visual Studio.

• Enable IIS, ASP.NET and WAS features
• SQL Server 2005/2008 or SQL Express 2005/2008
• Install any service packs
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (also installs .NET Framework 3.5 SP1)
• Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 (really, this SDK is for .NET Framework 3.5 and is also supported on Vista, XP/SP2 and Windows Server 2003)
• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e6e1c3df-a74f-4207-8586-711ebe331cdc&displaylang=en

F#

• F# (September 2008 CTP)
• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=61ad6924-93ad-48dc-8c67-60f7e7803d3c&displaylang=en
• F# Interactive Console
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/fsharp/default.aspx
• F# Samples
• http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/fsharpsamples
• F# Web Tools
• http://www.codeplex.com/fswebtools

Parallel Computing

• Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework 3.5 (June 2008 CTP)
• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=348F73FD-593D-4B3C-B055-694C50D2B0F3&displaylang=en

Entity Framework

• ADO.NET Entity Framework Extensions
• http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFExtensions

Velocity

• Windows PowerShell 1.0 (required for Velocity installation)
  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6EF4735-C7DE-46A2-997A-EA58FDFCBA63&displaylang=en
• Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity” Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3)
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/cc655792.aspx (resource site)
• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B24C3708-EEFF-4055-A867-19B5851E7CD2&displaylang=en

WPF

• Expression Studio 2 Trial
• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7AE2720C-72BA-489B-ADBB-EE6F3C79066D&displaylang=en

ASP.NET

• AJAX 4.0 Preview 4
• http://aspnet.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=24645
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0
• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53289097-73ce-43bf-b6a6-35e00103cb4b&displaylang=en

Silverlight

• Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 SP1 (installs Silverlight 2 SDK and Silverlight 2 runtime)
  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C22D6A7B-546F-4407-8EF6-D60C8EE221ED&displaylang=en
  • NOTE: you may have issues installing this if you already have Silverlight 2 runtime and Silverlight 2 SDK installed on your machine. I recommend you uninstall these items before installing this item – and you will end up with a clean install of all.
• Silverlight 2 SDK (already installed with Silverlight Tools for VS SP1)
  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8D933343-038F-499C-986C-C3C7E87A60B3&displaylang=en
• Silverlight Toolkit
• http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight

WCF

• WCF REST Starter Kit
• http://www.asp.net/downloads/starter-kits/wcf-rest/

Identity Platforms

• Geneva Beta 1
• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1e3c3efc-e980-4895-9095-86e51c1cd9d8
• https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=642 (documentation and links)

Azure Services Platform

• Windows Azure SDK (March 2009 CTP)
  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b44c10e8-425c-417f-af10-3d2839a5a362&displaylang=en
  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179367.aspx (documentation)
• Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio (March 2009 CTP)
  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=59E8FC0C-C399-4AB7-8A93-882D8E74B67A&displaylang=en
• Microsoft .NET Services SDK (March 2009 CTP)
  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8d1d1d5e-1332-4186-b33f-26d053759e49&displaylang=en
• Access Control Service
  • Documentation
    • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd582744.aspx
  • MMC Tool
    • http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2009/03/17/a-visual-tour-of-the-net-access-control-service-part-2-fun-with-scopes-and-issuers.aspx
  • Azure Management Tools
    • http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/AzureManagementTools
• Windows Live ID Client 1.0 SDK (October 2008)
  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B5A78784-922D-4267-A6E9-5D2ECF1DCED8&displaylang=en
• Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication SDK 1.2 (November 2009)
  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A2466ABF-9629-42D8-B991-1D3FAF2FE872&displaylang=en
• Windows Live ID Web Authentication SDK 1.2 (November 2009)
  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E565FC92-D5F6-4F5F-8713-4DD1C90DE19F&displaylang=en
• Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio (November 2008)
  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=F438B207-96AF-497C-94DB-152D48344AF5&displaylang=en
• Live Services SDK
  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264574.aspx (documentation)