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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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CodeRush Xpress for C# Freely Available
DevExpress has announced the availability of CodeRush Xpress for C#, a free add-in for Visual Studio 2008. CodeRush Xpress offers code navigation features like Highlight All References, Smart Clipboard Operations, Generate from Using (TDD), and 25 code refactoring features like Make Explicit, Make Implicit, Name Anonymous Type, and others.
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Typemock Announces Isolator 5.1.1 and Racer
Typemock releases its latest version of Isolator and looks ahead with a simpler concept. Typemock also introduces Racer, Typemock’s parallel code solution for unit testing.
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MSBuild Extension Pack Brings 170 Build Tasks
Like the open source projects that inspired it, Microsoft's MSBuild framework was designed with extensibility in mind. Three years after its release, that decision is really starting to pay off in terms of the number of additional tasks available.
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Rod Johnson Discusses SpringSource dm Server 1.0
After a 5 month beta period, SpringSource has released version 1.0 of SpringSource dm Server.
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Interview: Erich Gamma Discusses Jazz, Eclipse, JUnit and Design Patterns
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Erich Gamma discusses the Jazz project, why Eclipse has been successful, the strict Eclipse release schedule, JUnit, Design Patterns, how to identify a design pattern, design patterns and the 'Don't Repeat Yourself' principle, the design pattern community, and whether dependency injection is a design pattern.
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SDK for StyleCop Released
One of the central complaints about Microsoft's StyleCop is that the rules were not customizable. This is being addressed with the release of an SDK.
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SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 RC1 Ready for Download
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 RC1. The Report Builder has full support for SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services including: various report layouts, data visualizations and formatted text.
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Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Is Available
Microsoft has just released Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 which allows developers to create extensions for VS 2008 SP1. As a result, Visual Studio Shell redistributable packages are now much smaller.
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Windows Live Tools July CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio
Windows Live Dev has released the Windows Live Tools July CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio, a set of VS add-ins allowing developers to incorporate Windows Live services into web applications developed with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008.
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Relationship Between Tools and Agile Software Development
Agile software development can be done effectively with the help of right tools for the job. Kent Beck, recently published a paper exploring the relationship between tools and Agile software development.
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Tasktop 1.2: Enhanced Time Tracking/Reporting and a New, Free Version
Tasktop Technologies, the company which created Eclipse Mylyn and leads its development, released Tasktop version 1.2 today, which is based upon the new Mylyn 3.0 APIs. InfoQ interviewed Tasktop President & CTO Mik Kersten to learn more about this release and what changes it brings for end users.
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Eclipse Foundation Leverages Universal Data Collector to Learn About Users
Eclipse 3.4 includes a new opt in Universal Data Collector that tracks information about bundle events, workspace events, and commands.
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Announcing: New Google C++ Testing Framework
The folks at Google have recently open-sourced their xUnit-based testing framework for C++ development. The framework is said by project developer Zhanyong Wan to have been in use internally at Google for years by thousands of their C++ developers.cc
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PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V Posted on CodePlex
James O'Neill from Microsoft has posted the PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V Beta 0.9 on CodePlex. The library currently contains 66 functions used to manage the virtual machines running in Hyper-V.