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Hard Rock: Behind the Music with Silverlight 2

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.NET
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Silverlight

Scott Stanfield, CEO of Vertigo, presents the Hard Rock Memorabilia web site containing pictures with 200 Mp resolution and how one can zoom in to see very fine details using Silverlight’s Deep Zoom. He also shows other projects to underline some of the Silverlight’s capabilities.

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Microsoft’s Web Browser-Based OS: Gazelle

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Operating Systems

Google isn’t the only company toying with the idea of a secure operating system based around a web browser. Back in February, researches at Microsoft revealed details about Gazelle. Gazelle claims to be “a multi-principal OS construction of a secure web browser. Gazelle’s Browser Kernel exclusively provides cross-principal protection and fair sharing of all system resources.”

How Relevant Is Contract First Development Using Angle Brackets?

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.NET,
SOA
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Design

Christian Weyer of Thinktecture, announced the release of WSCF.blue a Visual Studio Add-in that enables contract first development of web services using WCF.

Articles about .NET

SQL Server Reporting Services and Working with Overlay Data

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.NET
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SQL Server

In this article, Grzegorz Gogolowicz and Trent Swanson tackle the problem of generating reports in SQL Server Reporting Services when the source is scanned images and other supplied formats yet a fixed layout report or pixel perfect report is the desired outcome.

Grid Computing on the Azure Cloud Computing Platform, Part 3: Running a Grid Application

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.NET,
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Grid Computing,
Cloud Computing

In Part 1 of this series we introduced a design pattern for grid computing on Azure, while in Part 2 we developed a grid application in C#. This time we'll run the application, first locally and then in the cloud. In order to do that, we'll need some help from a grid computing framework.

Presentations about .NET

Concurrent Programming with Microsoft F#

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.NET
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Programming

In this session recorded at QCon London 2009, Amanda Laucher presents a real life enterprise application written in F#. She shows actual code snippets, explaining design decisions and suggesting how to use some of the F# constructs. The focus is placed on using concurrency.

The Joys and Pains of a Long Lived Codebase

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.NET
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Design

In this presentation recorded at QCon SF 2008, Jeremy D. Miller shares lessons learned while developing a project over 5 years. He talks about his mistakes, what to avoid and how to design, code and test better.

Interviews about .NET

Eric Nelson on VS 2010 and .NET 4.0

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.NET
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Cloud Computing,
.NET Framework

In this interview Eric Nelson talks about what’s coming in VS 2010, the C# – VB.NET convergence, the introduction of Parallel as a library, and Azure cloud computing.

Joseph Molnar discusses scanR

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.NET,
Architecture
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.NET Framework,
Mobile

In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2008, Joseph Molnar discusses scanR, choosing .Net for scanR, the architecture of scanR, working with mobile carriers, scaling, challenges which were encountered, .Net components and libraries used, major problems encountered and their solutions, managing scanR, and what would be done differently if scanR was rewritten from scratch.

Books about .NET

Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks

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Artifacts & Tools,
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Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks is a book explaining how to use VS.NET efficiently. Organized into short and easy-to-grasp sections, and containing tips and tricks on everything from editing and compiling to debugging and navigating within the VS.NET IDE, this book is a must-read for all .NET developers, regardless of expertise and whether they program in C#, VB.NET, or any other .NET language. This book covers the Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, and 2005 Beta 1 releases.