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Microsoft Releases Windows Azure Platform SDK 1.4
Yesterday Microsoft released the Windows Azure SDK 1.4 for Visual Studio 2010. The release fixes several significant bugs including the nasty RDP bug and adds capabilities like multiple administrator support from the enhanced Windows Azure Connect portal.
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LINQ to Objects Projects: EduLINQ, MoreLINQ, and LINQBridge
EduLINQ is an attempt to explain how LINQ to Objects operators work. MoreLINQ is a set of LINQ to Objects operators extending the standard ones. LINQBridge is a port of LINQ to Objects to .NET Framework 2.0.
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Going Beyond the Standard: Continuations in Mono
While Mono usually strives to follow the C# and Common Language Infrastructure specifications, it does occasionally go beyond them. While some features such as SIMD support are backwards-compatible with .NET, runtime supported continuations are exclusive to Mono.
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Native Extensions further to blur the boundary between Silverlight and WPF
Designed for use with “out-of-browser” instances of Silverlight, it uses COM automation to expose features specific to Windows 7. The major feature areas include Message Interception, Sensor API, H.264 video encoding, taskbar extensions, Speech API, and access to portable devices.
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Column-based Storage in SQL Server 2011
Imagine ad hock data mining queries against a single table with 1 TB of data and 1.44 billion rows coming back in roughly a second. This is the scenario Microsoft intends to support using 32-core machines and their new column-based storage engine.
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A Case for WinForms
When DevExpress released their roadmap for 2011, WinForms barely got a mention. As a ten year old technology that is basically abandoned by its creator this isn’t too surprising. But what it interesting the amount of negative feedback that generated. A lot of DevExpress’s customers just don’t see WPF or Silverlight as a viable replacement for their major applications.
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Windows Embedded Compact 7 Follows Windows CE 6
Microsoft has released the latest version of Windows CE called Windows Embedded Compact 7, an OS for small-print enterprise and consumer devices.
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Why Speakers Love QCon London
We go to conferences to learn about subjects from the expert speakers. But why do the expert speakers go? The speakers give up their own time to prepare and present their sessions. Few are paid, so why do they give up their time to attend Conferences where they often already know the material. We asked them why.
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Easier Deployment of Java Apps to Windows Azure
Microsoft has made available a kit for streamlining the process of deploying Java applications to Windows Azure.
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Goodbye, CardSpace; Hello, U-Prove!
Last week, Microsoft announced: the cancellation Version 2.0 of its Windows CardSpace identity service, thus deprecating CardSpace; and the immediate availability of Release 2 of the Community Technology Preview of its U-Prove identity service. These announcements are just the latest moves in Microsoft's decade-long struggle to solve the Internet's "identity problem."
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Silverlight 4 Updates Improves Network Latency, Memory Usage
Earlier this week Microsoft released an update to Silverlight that addresses several key issues in the platform. The most notable of these is a 90% improvement in network latency and a solution to the memory leaks caused by inline data templates.
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Multi-Tasking Planned for Windows Mobile 7 at MIX
There has been a lot of changes to Windows Phone 7 recently. In addition to the big news about the Nokia deal, Microsoft has been working on copy-and-paste functionality, multi-tasking, and CDMA support. Some of these will be coming in the near future while others will be fleshed out during MIX,
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Moonlight 4.0 Preview 1 Has Been Released
Moonlight 4.0 Preview 1 includes all the Silverlight 3.0 API and a part of Silverlight 4.0 API. New features include: Out-of-Browser, GPU-accelerated graphics, 3D transformation, shaders, V4L2 video capture, H.264 and AAC, and better smooth streaming.
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Continuous Check-Ins with Mercurial
One of the major benefits of a distributed version control systems is that each user gets their own versioned workspace. Leon Bambrick is proposing taking it to an extreme by having every build perform a check-in.
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Is ASP.NET MVC Inappropriate for User Interface Designers?
While ASP.NET MVC has made great strides in making development easier, in a post titled “ASP.NET MVC Is the New ASP” Michael Taylor argues that it actually makes it harder on user interface designers.