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TestDriven.NET 2.0 released
TestDriven.NET 2.0 was released last week. TestDriven.NET 2.0 supports the TDD framework and supports all version of Visual Studio .NET. TestDriven.NET is a Visual Studio plug-in providing support for Nunit, MBUnit, and Visual Studio Team System.
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Named Pipe Support added to Visual Studio Orcas
The next version of Visual Studio will include named pipe support. Named pipes are the traditional way to handle inter-process communication in Windows.
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Extending IIS7 Through Integrated Mode
With the 3.0 release of the .NET framework the IIS7 webserver will now support a new mode called "Integrated Mode". Integrated Mode brings to .NET the ability to write the equivalent of ISAPI modules, however now developers can code in C# rather than C++.
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Oracle Whitepaper on Benefits of .NET Introp
As part of Oracle's Middleware Fusion announcements last week, Oracle has published a whitepaper on the benefits and techniques for interoperability with .NET for software projects using Java or any of Oracle's products.
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Collection Initializers in C# 3.0
What is a Collection? While merely academic in earlier versions, this seemingly innocent question has important ramifications in C# 3.0.
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ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 released today
Today the Microsoft ASP.NET team announced the released of ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1. There are many changes from the previously released builds and announced support for the Safari web browser. An exciting additional note is promised support for a source modification license.
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Things to know about Windows Workflow Foundation
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications. Harry Pierson delves into the details of WF in a recent blog post. Update: Paul Andrew responds on his blog with "Ten Reasons why WF is not a Toy".
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Var/Option Infer: New Syntax for C# and VB 9
Microsoft is considering several new language features for C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9 including type inference. As this may result in breaking changes, a new mode called Option Infer is also being considered for VB.
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Improved Time Zone Support Planned For .Net 3.5.
Microsoft has finally extended time zone support to encompass more than just UTC and the user's local time zone. With .NET 3.5/Orcas, .NET applications will be able to fully leverage the time zone information available to the OS.
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WCF Live Service Trace Viewer
Craig and Vittorio release their Live Service Trace Viewer which is an enhancement to the one provided in the .NET 3.0 SDK. The differentiator: you can view the WCF interactions as they happen.
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Return of the Rich Client - .NET 3.0 Meets the NY Times
Listening to all the Web 2.0 hype, you would think rich client applications have gone the way of DOS and dinosaurs. But it appears that the New York Times didn't get the memo, and they have the killer app to prove it.
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ADO.NET vNext: Entity Data Model Designer Prototype Available
The ADO.NET team has released a demo of their Entity Data Model Designer. This tool demonstrates some of the Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) features planned for ADO.NET vNext.
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Grasshopper 2.0 IL to Java bytecode Compiler Technology Preview
Mainsoft has released a preview of Grasshopper 2.0 that is compatible with Visual Studio 2005. Grasshopper allows Visual Studio developers to cross-compile IL into Java bytecode. Developers can then run their applications on a J2EE/Tomcat stack.
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Why the "X" button on a PocketPC doesn't close apps
Mike Calligro from Microsoft's embedded product group expounds on why the "X" in the PPC OS does not actually close a PPC application.
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.Net 3.0 Release Candidate Available
On September 1, Microsoft began offering a release candidate of the .Net Framework 3.0 (formally WinFx), containing everything except LINQ, which is still considered to be at least a year away. This version represents a major break in the way the .Net runtime is distributed.