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Al Tenhundfeld

Al Tenhundfeld is a Senior Consultant with Dominion Digital, a Virginia-based technology and process consulting firm. He has worked in .NET since the 1.0 beta. In that time, he has served as DBA, data architect, and solutions architect for enterprise software solutions. He is active as an organizer and speaker at local .NET user groups and CodeCamps in the central Virginia region. His current focus is helping teams embrace mature software development strategies including DDD, TDD, and Agile methodologies.

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CSI C# Interpreter Supports .NET 4.0

Topics
.NET Framework,
.NET,
Scripting,
Compilers

CSI is a simple C# interpreter allowing command-line compilation of standalone C# files. A new version has been released to support .NET 4.0. CSI is open source with a full test suite.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview Updated

Topics
.NET,
Web Frameworks

Microsoft has released a new preview for ASP.NET MVC 2. Preview 2 builds on the features of Preview 1, adding client-side validation, streamlined support of Areas, and abstractions of Data Annotations validation and metadata providers.

MapPoint Add-In For SQL Server Released

Topics
Data Warehousing,
.NET,
Database Design

Microsoft released a free MapPoint 2009 Add-In for SQL Server 2008 spatial data. The add-in can be used with MapPoint to build map graphics against queries on SQL Server 2008 spatial geography columns.

NHibernate LINQ Provider Released

Topics
Data Access,
.NET

NHibernate Linq 1.0 has been released. Based on the stable provider from NHibernate Contrib, NHibernate Linq 1.0 is a LINQ provider that supports most operations available through the NHibernate criteria query API.

MS Robotics Studio Updated

Topics
.NET Framework,
.NET

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) is a development environment used to create robotics applications. RDS 2008 R2 has been updated to offer improved performance, better analysis tools, new simulation sensors, and improved tutorials.

Microsoft OracleClient Deprecated

Topics
.NET Framework,
Data Access,
.NET

Microsoft announced System.Data.OracleClient will be marked obsolete in .NET 4.0 and removed from future releases. OracleClient is the ADO.NET provider for Oracle developed by Microsoft and shipped as part of the .NET FCL. Its absence will be an impediment to future upgrades for the many small projects using this provider for Oracle data access.

FireAtlas ASP.NET AJAX Viewer

Topics
.NET,
Debugging

FireAtlas is an extension to Firebug dedicated to ASP.NET AJAX debugging through providing PageRequestManager tracing and partial update inspection.

.NET 4 Cancellation Framework

Topics
.NET Framework,
Transactions Processing,
.NET

.NET 4 will have new types to support building cancellation-aware applications and libraries. The new CancellationToken, CancellationTokenSource, and cancellation exception types provide a cooperative cancellation framework.