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Where Does IE Spend Most Time When Loading a Page?
Jason Weber, Lead Program Manager responsible for Internet Explorer Performance, has released some internal data showing where IE 8 spends most of its time while preparing a page then rendering it, suggesting what websites should be focusing on.
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Silverlight’s Role as a Web Application Technology is Debated
Brad Becker, Director of Product Management for Developer Platforms, has written a post outlining the future of Silverlight in an HTML5 world as seen by Microsoft, considering it fit for the web. Others consider Silverlight is not actually meant for web applications but it is rather serving a niche area within web development market.
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Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET
The patterns&practices team has released Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET, a book containing guidance for writing parallel programs for .NET. In essence the book contains 6 design patterns for parallel programming accompanied by code samples.
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Amethyst, a Flex IDE for Microsoft Visual Studio Released
Amethyst is a fully-featured Visual Studio IDE for the Adobe Flash Platform. It supports the drag-and-drop design, editing and debugging of Flex and AIR applications and it can also load Flash IDE projects for editing and debugging.
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A Look At Hidden Costs In Cloud Solutions
In a recent post David Pallman takes a look at the hidden costs of cloud based solutions. He examines and identifies these commonly overlooked costs involved in cloud based solutions specifically in the context of Azure.
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EffiProz: A Cross-Platform Embedded Database for .NET Programmers
EffiProz is an embedded database written entirely in C# that can has both a disk-based and a memory-only mode. This has allowed its developers to port it to most environments that have CLR including .NET Compact, Mono, Windows 7, and Silverlight. The next version will extend this to mobile platforms.
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QConSF Nov 3-5 Coming Up: Highlights and Most Popular Sessions, Join us!
The QConSF schedule is developing fast with over half the schedule posted! QCon will be held Nov 3-5th at the Westin Market Street in San Francisco; QCon is a practitioner-driven conference designed for team leads, architects and project management. Registration is $1,595 (a $500 savings) until August 27th.
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WAF and Caliburn: 2 WPF Application Frameworks
WPF Application Framework (WAF) and Caliburn are two open source frameworks providing the foundation to developers to write WPF/Silverlight applications based on the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern using a layered architecture.
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CouchDB Comes to Android
Couchio, the company founded by Damien Katz, creator of CouchDB, has announced the release of CouchDB SDK for Android, a mobile version of the document database that can be used offline.
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IDE Support for IronPython and IronRuby
Two of the top three IDEs for .NET are now supporting dynamic programming languages. While SharpDevelop 3.2 continues to enhance its support both IronPython and IronRuby, Microsoft is entering the game with IronPython Tools for Visual Studio and SapphireSteel is still offering Ruby in Steel.
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Migrating from MySQL/Access to SQL Server/Azure with SSMA
Microsoft has released the SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL 1.0, and has refreshed SSMA for Oracle v4.2, SSMA for Sybase v4.2, and SSMA for Access v4.2. These toolkits helps customers migrating their MySQL/Oracle/Sybase/Access databases to SQL Server and some even to SQL Azure.
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The Latest NHibernate Developments
The latest NHibernate developments include: the release of NHibernate 3.0.0 Alpha 1, NHibernate Profiler supporting NHibernate 3.0, and HQL Language Service for Visual Studio.
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One-way and Bidirectional Synchronization with Team Foundation Server
Team Foundation Server Integration Tools offers synchronization architecture and adaptors for one-way and bidirectional synchronization with other systems. In addition to development tools, built-in adapters are included for TFS 2008, TFS 2010, ClearCase and ClearQuest. In order to test the capabilities of the tool, an intern is being assigned to attempt a subversion adapter.
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Mixing Visual Studio 2008 and 2010
Developers can upgrade to Visual Studio 2010 while other team members on the same project are still using Visual Studio in 2008. But in order to do so you need to know a few tricks such as the langversion flag.
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Introducing Microsoft’s Dynamically Typed Data Access Library
In conjunction with WebMatrix, Microsoft’s new tool chain for amateur web developers, Microsoft is releasing a dynamically type data access library. Similar to the Jasper project, this library trades the performance for ease of use. The result is an ORM-like API, but without the overhead of configuration files or code-generated classes.