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PLINQ: Parallel Programming For The CLR
While Microsoft's developer devision refines the core LINQ for the Visual Studio 2007 release, work has already begun on the next version feaures. The one most interesting to those looking to support multi-core computer is Parallel LINQ. Joe Duffy's presentation at Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming workshop gives a good overview of some of background and issues of Parallel LINQ.
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Follow up on ASP.NET AJAX release with Shanku Niyogi
Shanku Niyogi is the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET, InfoQ was able to grab a few minutes of Shanku's time to have him answer a series of questions on ASP.NET AJAX. This is a follow up to the announcement last week of the ASP.NET AJAX release.
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ASP.NET AJAX Released: Will AJAX Finally Be Popular On ASP.NET?
According to the annual survey conducted in September by Ajaxian.com, ASP.NET developers lagged behind other AJAX-enabled implementations. With the release of ASP.NET AJAX, that is all set to change.
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Is C# becoming a functional language?
With the extensive functionality added to support LINQ, many people have been asking if C# and VB are becoming functional languages. Mads Torgersen, C# Language PM, answers this question in his article by the same name.
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Mono Committed to Supporting C# 3.0
Miguel de Icaza of Novel's Mono team has announced that Mono will support C# 3.0. However, before that occurs a lot of C# 2.0 bugs have to be fixed.
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Presentation: Billy Hollis on Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals
Enjoy this Billy Hollis presention on Windows Presentation Foundation. Billy begins with the the reasoning behind WPF, moves to the basics and finishes with where WPF excels as a solution set.
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Should VB Break Backwards Compatibility (Again)?
Paul Vick of Microsoft's Visual Basic team asks the VB community if they are willing to accept a breaking change in order to get a true ternary operator.
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Feature Specifications for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework
Last week Microsoft released the feature specifications for the .NET Framework codenamed "Orcas" and the next version of Visual Studio. Among the more notable additions comes multi-targeting across versions of the .NET Framework, a feature that was noticeably absent from Visual Studio 2005.
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Support for Zip Files Still Lacking In .NET 3.0
The ability to use file compression like the venerable ZIP format is very important to many developers. For those developers using.NET, that means dropping to command shell or using a third-party component. With .NET 3.0, there is built-in support for ZIP files, though the implementation is somewhat questionable.
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SOA: Beyond the Hype and SDL
InfoQ sits down with Mohammad Akif, a Microsoft Architect Evangelist, to discuss the myths of SOA, common pitfalls in designing for SOA, J2EE and .NET interoperability and injecting the Security Development Lifecycle into enterprise development lifecycles.
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A Train-Wreck Waiting To Happen: Managed Code and the Windows Shell
The CLR has a major design flaw; each process can only have one. When you combine this with a ubiquitous process like explorer.exe, disaster can strike.
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Windows Assessment Numbers and a Lesson on Avoiding Unsafe Code
Windows assessment numbers are expected to be very useful for comparing computers in the store or for identifying performance bottlenecks in systems you already own. Other possible uses include altering an application's behavior depending on the system's capabilities. But using them from managed code isn't exactly easy, especially when you have to deal with raw pointers.
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What should Lambda Expressions in Visual Basic Look Like?
In order to support LINQ, Visual Basic is adding support for lambda expressions. Lambda expressions are essentially inline functions and are a corner-stone of functional programming languages like Lisp and Haskell. As the next version of Visual Basic edges ever closer, certain syntactical issues need to be addressed.
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XNA Game Studio Express Releases
XNA Game Studio Express was released early this morning. Now developers can create games for the Xbox 360 and play them in the same day on their own console.
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The Spring.NET team announces Spring.NET 1.1 Preview 3
The Spring.NET team announced Preview 3 of their Spring.NET 1.1 release with support for Dependency Injection in ASP.NET, ADO.NET data access, and numerous bug fixes.