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Master LINQ with LINQPad
LINQPad is a free standalone LINQ interpreter and code snippet IDE. In addition to being a great LINQ learning tool, LINQPad also provides interactive querying of SQL databases using LINQ expressions in C# or VB.NET, allowing developers to use LINQ expertise to perform ad-hoc database queries.
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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate
Microsoft has published RC1 of ASP.NET MVC 1.0. It is expected to be the last public release before the final 1.0 release planned for February. MVC 1.0 RC1 makes significant Visual Studio tooling improvements, includes new run-time enhancements, and fixes numerous bug from the beta.
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New Entity Framework Providers: OpenLink and Firebird
OpenLink and Firebird have been added to the list of supporters of the Entity Framework by releasing their ADO.NET 3.5 providers.
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CSLA .NET 3.6 Supports Silverlight 2.0
The Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture for .NET (CSLA .NET) version 3.6 has been released including support for Microsoft Silverlight 2.0. CSLA .NET is a .NET software development framework which helps one to “build a powerful, maintainable business logic layer for Windows, Web, service-oriented and workflow applications”.
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Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Released
Microsoft recently announced the final release of Robotics Developer Studio 2008. RDS 2008 offers a Windows-based environment for development of robotics applications targeted to various hardware platforms. Most notably, RDS 2008 includes enhancements to help hobbyists and begginers get started with visual authoring and simulation tools.
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Update on the .NET Reference Source
With the release of the 3.5/SP 1 source code for WPF, we take the opportunity to look at what's been going in the realm of .NET Source.
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SharePoint Development Improves in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 will support tighter integration with the SharePoint development process. The focus of the tooling is to automate tedious tasks, enhance the debugging experience, and provide a GUI surface for visually exploring deployment and feature packaging.
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Interview: Dan Farino About MySpace’s Architecture
In this interview taken by InfoQ’s Ryan Slobojan, Dan Farino, Chief Systems Architect at MySpace, talks about the system architecture and the challenges faced when building a very large online community. Because MySpace is built almost entirely on the .NET Framework, Dan explains how a .NET product scales on hundreds of servers.
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Changes and Improvements to the Base Class Library
Since 2005, the base class library was in stasis. While the rest of the .NET framework evolved and built upon the 2.0 version of the CLR, the base class library team has been slowly building their wish list. With .NET 4, a new version of the CLR and BCL is on deck and these enhancements can finally be realized.
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Workflows, Services and Models
In his new whitepaper, David Chappell takes a first look at the latest Microsoft technologies - WF 4.0, Dublin, and Oslo, explaining what these technologies are and more importantly, how they can be used together to create and run workflow-based, service-oriented, and model-driven applications.
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Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Beta1 Published
Microsoft's patterns & practices group has published Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Beta1, a book containing principles, patterns and practices for designing the architecture of applications built on the .NET Framework. The intended audience is solution architects and development leaders.
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Reporter's Notebook: What I learned from PDC
The watch-word isn't "cloud computing" or "scalability", it's trust. For all the cool stuff surrounding Windows Azure, literally no one on the floor was talking about actually using it. Even for products that can be partially hosted in-house like Mesh people are saying "Cool, but I can never use it".
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Interview: John Lam on IronRuby, Microsoft and Open Source
In this interview from RubyFringe, John Lam talks about his work on IronRuby and how Microsoft is approaching Open Source software development.
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.NET 4.0 CTP, Visual Studio 2010 CTP and Azure Tools CTP Are Available
Microsoft has announced the availability of the next generation of .NET Framework 4.0 CTP, Visual Studio 2010 CTP and the new Windows Azure Tools for VS CTP during PDC 2008.
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.NET 4 Feature Focus: Type Embedding and Equivalence
In .NET 4 types will no longer be restricted to a single assembly. A single type, or part of a type, can be extracted from one assembly and placed into another. Why would you do this? Well first off all, to reduce the cost of including the Office Primary Interopt Assemblies from several megabytes to about 2KB by only including what you actually need.