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Improved JavaScript development in Visual Studio 11
Microsoft intends to make JavaScript development easier in Visual Studio 11 by significantly enhancing Intellisense, debugging support, editor functionality, and more.
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Shared View Management for ASP.NET MVC
Michael Kennedy has released a small library designed to help ASP.NET MVC developers manage unwieldy Shared Views folders. This simple addition allows developers to use sub-folders for views.
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Announcing the jQuery Foundation
A non-profit trade association by the name jQuery Foundation, inc. has been founded to handle the development, documentation, and support of the jQuery Core, UI, and Mobile projects. This role was previously held by the jQuery Board in conjunction with the Software Freedom Conservancy.
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LINQ for F#
F# 3.0, included in the Visual Studio 11 beta, gains the ability to use LINQ expressions. Other features include support for Portable Libraries and auto-implemented properties.
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Pivot-Thinking – The Neuroscience of Design
The Center of Professional Development at the Stanford University offers a free live seminar on 8th March (9.00 am / PST) addressing the thinking behind design thinking. Pivot thinking is a new research area that addresses how to bridge the gap between "convergers" and "divergers" in teams which is particularly interesting for software engineering projects.
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A look at Visual Basic 11
Visual Basic 11 brings with it several new features including asynchronous functions and the long awaited iterators.
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Visual Studio 11 Beta Supports Multiple Test Frameworks
NUnit, XUnit.net, QUnit, Jasmine, Chutzpah are all supported in the Visual Studio 11 Beta along with MSUnit, promising better choice and over-all unit-testing experience for developers. And the list is expected to get bigger towards the final release of VS 11.
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NUnit’s Action Attributes Simplify Unit Test Writing
The latest release of NUnit showcases Action Attributes, a feature which enables the orchestration of test actions across suites, tests, and test cases. Developers can arrange the execution of setup, teardown, and other testing side-effects by applying Action Attributes, which encapsulate test actions, to classes, interfaces, methods, and assemblies within their test projects.
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New Releases of Entity Framework Include First Look at EF 5
This week's Visual Studio 11 Beta release was quickly followed by the new Entity Framework 5 Beta, which has been awaiting features only supported in .NET Framework 4.5. EF 5 adds Enum and Spatial support, Table-Valued Functions, and the option to use LocalDB.
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SEI Publishes The CERT Guide to Insider Threats Book
What do ACTA, SEPA, PIPA, Stuxnet, Google have in common? They all have been hot topics in the press during the last months and they are dealing with information security. What, however, is commonly forgotten are internal threats related to espionage and stealing of company information.
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Acceleration Problems in Cars caused by Software
In a recent news report CNN has revealed a translated Toyota memo which links problems of the car manufacturer regarding an electronic acceleration concern to a software issue. When even news magazines pick up such stories, this shows the growing importance of software for embedded systems.
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Recapping Visual Studio Beta Release Week
Along with the beta deployment, Microsoft opened the floodgates on information about VS11.
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Windows Azure Blackout Caused by the Leap-Year Bug
Several sub-regions of the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud were affected by the leap-year bug making some of their services unavailable for many customers for 12 to 24 hours.
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SharpDevelop 4.2: Now with Improved ASP.NET MVC 3 Support
While SharpDevelop had project templates for MVC 3 for several versions, until recently it has been missing a lot. Version 4.2, currently in beta, adds a few more pieces to the puzzle.
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Thymeleaf 2.0: Performance, th:switch, Line Numbers, Template Fragments, New DOM API
Thymeleaf is a XML/HTML template engine for Java, whose main goal is to provide a well-formed way of creating templates. Thymeleaf 2.0 includes a lot of new features, including improvements for developers who create Thymeleaf extensions. Here's a quick run down of what's new.