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.NET’s Platform Divergence Problem
For many years the platform dependency issues in .NET we very easy to understand. Almost everything people used was marked as either compatible with .NET Compact Edition or with the full edition. Aside from .NET Micro, which hardly anyone used, there wasn’t much else to worry about. But now that there is over a dozen active frameworks to choose from, the situation has grown quite complex.
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Using ILMerge Internalization with Caution
ILMerge is a .NET utility that can merge multiple assemblies into one, and can change the visibility of types from public to internal. This can have positive or negative results depending on how the resulting assembly is going to be used.
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ECMA Common Language Infrastructure 5th Edition
The ECMA working group in charge of the Common Language Infrastructure standard has produced released a working draft of the 5th edition. The CLI represents the subset of Microsoft’s .NET platform that has been placed in the care of Ecma International. Originally known as the European Computer Manufacturers Association, Ecma International both competes with and complements ISO.
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New Base Class Library Features Will be Demonstrated on CodePlex
It doesn’t matter if you are using .NET or Mono, rich client or web, if you are using the CLR then you are using the Base Class Library. So in order to make changes more transparent, Microsoft’s BCL team is previewing new classes on CodePlex. Here developers can try out changes to the BCL and, because it is open source, alter the classes for further experimentation.
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Obsolete Features in .NET 4
With the introduction of a new CLR and Base Class Library, Microsoft has taken this opportunity to do some house cleaning. Though not much has been actually removed, we do see even longer lists of obsolete types and members. Probably the most notable is the removal of the Mobile support for ASP.NET WebForms.
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New Features in .NET 4: Charts, SEO, and Extensible Output Cache
The upcoming version 4.0 release of the .NET Framework comes with many new improvements, some of which have been covered previously on InfoQ. This article explores three more new features which are arriving with .NET 4.0: Chart Controls, SEO support and Extensible Output Cache in ASP.NET 4.
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Windows Workflow 4 – A New Product with an Old Name
Windows Workflow 4 is a major rewrite of the library. While it has the same goal, to provide a modeling language for long-running tasks, there are some significant differences coming out of what is essentially a complete rewrite.
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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Launch Date Postponed
In a very small announcement by Developer Division’s Marketing and Communications Manager Rob Caron, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 is set to be officially launched April 12, 2010 and not March 22 as previously announced. However, the date for release to manufacturing (RTM) still remains unknown.
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CSI C# Interpreter Supports .NET 4.0
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.
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Silverlight 4 Brings Assembly Sharing with .NET
Assemblies built in Silverlight 2 and 3 are not binary compatible with the .NET Framework, so if you want to share code you need generally need to dual-compile. With Siverlight 4 and .NET 4, you will be able to use some Silverlight-based assemblies from within .NET 4.
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Interview With Aslak Hellesøy on Cucumber For .NET
InfoQ has interviewed Aslak Hellesøy, the creator of Cucumber on its recent support for .NET. Cucumber is an acceptance testing tool for Behaviour Driven Development (BDD). At Agile2009, InfoQ’s Mark Levison reported from the Functional Test Tools Workshop that Matt Wynne and Richard Lawrence started to work on a .NET solution for Cucumber, later to be named Cuke4Nuke.
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BCL Changes in .NET 4
The BCL or Base Class Library represents the core of the .NET framework. Regardless of what type of application one is developing, the BCL represents the starting point upon which all other functionality is built. This is why changes to the BCL are significant to all .NET developers.
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New Features and Performance Improvements for System.IO
Microsoft is planning some simple but much welcomed performance improvements for the core System.IO functionality. These include convenience methods for reading and writing text-based files, significantly faster directory enumeration, and support for memory mapped files.
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Introducing the Windows 7 API Code Pack for .NET
The “Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework” is a wrapper that exposes Windows functionality to .NET developers. The wrapper is written primarily in C#, with the DirectX functionality in C++/CLI. The source code is available, but it isn’t licensed as open source.
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VB Power Packs Slipped into VS 2008 SP 1
If a bug fix is shipped and no one knows about, has it been actually been fixed? The VB Power Packs were patched and shipped with VS 2008 SP 1, but only those who knew to explicitly change which DLL they referenced got the update.