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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.
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LINQ Examples Posted
Scott Guthrie has posted the materials from his recent Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) talk at Tech Ed Australia. For those looking for detailed code samples to understand LINQ further, download these materials. LINQ is a set of extensions for .NET to provide a native query syntax for C# and VB, allowing developers to perform SQL-like queries against any .NET collection or drop down to raw SQL.
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Developers Petition Microsoft to Rename .NET Framework 3.0
A group of developers are petitioning Microsoft to change the name of the announced ".NET Framework 3.0" back to "WinFX" or another less-confusing name. The source of the confusion is that the .NET Framework 3.0 will still run on version 2.0 of the CLR, which many consider synonymous with "the .NET framework." The petition has 210 signatures at the time of this writing.
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Seven Deadly Sins of Programming
Eric Gunnerson, C# Community Coordinator at Microsoft, has posted his list of the Seven Deadliest Sins of Programming: * Excessive Coupling * Inappropriately Clever Code * Deferred Refactoring * Premature Optimization * Overuse of Virtual (C#) or Overridable (VB.NET) * Overuse of Inheritance * Premature Generalization
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InfoQ Article: Why Would a .NET Programmer Learn Ruby on Rails?
.NET developer Stephen Chu gives us some insight into his transition to Ruby on Rails programming. Quote: "By being loyal to one technology stack, I am bound to unconsciously make biased decisions, which will ultimately hinder my ability to deliver business value."
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Debate: Public Fields and Naming Conventions
Jeff Atwood's blog post earlier this week has stirred up debate in the .NET community on properties vs. public fields and naming conventions for .NET. After first suggesting to use public variables in place of properties, Jeff retracted this suggestion. Also at issue, using case to distinguish public properties vs. m_ or _style-prefixes, and SCREAMING_CAPS constant declarations.
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Ruby Compilation on .Net Maturing
John Gough, a professor at Queensland University of Technology, talked about his team's work with Ruby .Net compilation at the recent Microsoft Lang.NET 2006 Symposium.
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New Article on ASP.NET ViewState Intricacies
Dave Reed has written an article on Truly Understanding ViewState that describes exactly how to plan ASP.NET control initialization and creation when working with child controls, dynamically added controls or when developing custom controls. Proper ViewState usage will keep page sizes smaller, leading to much greater performance and scalability for ASP.NET applications.
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.NET Live from Redmond Presentations Coming in Aug/Sept
The .NET product teams at Microsoft have announced a second series of Live Meeting presentations for .NET developers, "Live From Redmond", taking place throughout August and September. The presentations are technical in nature, rather than a marketing pitch for various new Microsoft products, as they come directly from the Product Team members at Microsoft.
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Avoid 10 ASP.NET Pitfalls
Jeff Prosise, renowned author/trainer and co-founder of Wintellect, has written an article in the July issue of MSDN Magazine outlining 10 common pitfalls ASP.NET developers fall prey to. This article is a must-read for ASP.NET developers. Jeff's suggestions range from performance tips, to techniques to avoid obscure errors that could cost days or weeks of debugging time, to database profiling.
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Reflection and DynamicMethods
While most .NET developers have heard of reflection, many have not implemented reflection in their applications to its fullest potential. Essentially, reflection is the run-time examination of an object's members. One article provides sample code and a few suggested uses for reflection, including ORM and code generation, and discusses the new, faster DynamicMethods approach in .NET 2.0