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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5
Today Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 to developers. This is a much anticipated release and includes all the promised features.
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Create Windows Home Server Add-Ins with VS Express
Windows Home Server is essentially a stripped down version of Windows Server 2003 meant for the consumer market. While it does expose a desktop, most users access it via a special admin console. In a Channel 9 interview, Chris Gray demonstrates using Visual Basic Express to create a new home server console add-in.
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Microsoft is Ready to Go Offline : Introduces Sync Framework
Microsoft introduced their synchronization platform known as the Microsoft Sync Framework. This framework allows developers to create off-line applications, devices and services that will integrate any type of data with any application.
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Is a picture always worth a thousand words?
<p>Is a picture always worth a thousand words?</p> <p>In his recent article, “Why we write code and don’t just draw diagrams”, Dean Wampler argues that in software development the opposite is more often true. </p>
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Is the future of JavaScript ECMAScript 4?
The discussion on the future of ECMAScript has been quite lively lately. Brendan Eich kicked off a flurry of posts about ECMAScript 4 and if that is the right path.
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Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPCs have their Life Extended
The initial release of the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPCs downloaded prior to October 29, 2007 are set to expire on November 1, 2007 which is earlier than previously anticipated.
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Mozilla Labs announces Prism
On Friday, Mozilla Labs’ announced Prism, their entry into the budding market-trend of platforms for running web applications on the desktop, similar to Adobe AIR.
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MinWin Core: 25MB on Disk and 100 Files
The Microsoft MinWin core is 25MB in size on disk and contains 100 files total. This appears to be a major overhaul of Windows when contrasted with a minimal install of Windows Vista at 4GB on disk and 5000 files in size.
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Microsoft: Hypercall API extended to Open Specification Promise
Today Microsoft announced its hypercall API will now be included under the Open Specification Promise. Microsoft co-announced with Citrix and Novell.
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The Using CSLA .NET 3.0 Book now available for VB.NET and C#
The latest version of Rocky Lhotka's Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture for .NET (CSLA .NET) book, is available for C# and now VB.NET. The framework enables developers to create an object-oriented business layer that abstracts and encapsulates the business logic and data.
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Scott Guthrie Announces ASP.NET MVC Framework at the ALT.NET Conference
The ALT.NET conference, held October 5-7, 2007, provided an announcement and demonstration by Scott Guthrie about the rumored MVC Framework for ASP.NET from Scott Guthrie.
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The SCA Debate
David Chappell, from Chappell & Associates, started a debate on SCA by reasoning that "Microsoft Should Not Support SCA".
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Open Source: The .NET Framework
Today Microsoft announced it will release the source code for its .NET Framework under the Microsoft Reference License.
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GigaSpaces XAP 6.0：スペースベースアーキテクチャ向けの簡易化SpringベースAPI
GigaSpaces recently released version 6.0 of it's eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), which is an infrastructure software platform that provides scaling out of applications in distributed environments. InfoQ spoke with Geva Perry and Nati Shalom of GigaSpaces to learn more about this release and the changes that have occurred in this version.
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Stephan T. Lavavej on the future of C++
On the Microsoft Visual C++ blog Stephan T. Lavavej, a library developer, speculates about the future of the C++ language.