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Microsoft Answers “Top 10 Questions on Data”
Microsoft has answered what they call “Top Ten Questions on Data”, explaining what has happened or it is going to happen to Oslo, ADO.NET Data Services, WCF, LINQ to SQL, T-SQL and other technologies.
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Does Azure Debugging Cost Too Much?
Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, is reasonably priced for what it offers. A basic package can be had for under $100/month. But if anything goes wrong you are going to want some debugging support. Unfortunately the only tool worth talking about is IntelliTrace, which costs 11,899 USD per developer.
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Optional Parameters Are Gaining Ground in .NET
Optional parameters have always been part of .NET, but with C# unwilling to support it, using them was generally considered taboo unless work with COM libraries. Now that C# 4 does support them, we are starting to see them used for a lot more than just legacy code. Other uses include interoperability with dynamic languages, immutable data structures, and various parts of ASP.NET MVC.
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Four View Engines for ASP.NET MVC
With last week’s introduction of Razor, there are now four major view engine for ASP.NET MVC. The others are Spark, NHaml, and the traditional ASPX file templates. This article introduces the four engines with a special focus on the new Razor engine.
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Fixing Data Binding Problems in WPF/Silverlight
The data binding in WPF and Silverlight is amazing in all regards. Its power and flexibility are beyond compare. Unfortunately its resistance to traditional debugging techniques is equally impressive for the wrong reasons. There is no way to really step through the data binding process, but we collected some other techniques that developers may find useful.
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Major Improvements Have Been Made to SQL Server Compact Edition
SQL CE was supposed to be the lightweight, in-process database of choice for .NET developers needing to store small amounts of structured data. But a number of flaws in the design made that untenable and developers instead turned to SQLite or the venerable Jet. With CE 4.0, many of these flaws have been fixed.
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HTML5 Case Study: Building the noVNC Client with WebSockets, Canvas and JavaScript
noVNC is a VNC client, implemented using HTML5 WebSockets, Canvas and JavaScript. InfoQ had a small Q&A with Joel Martin about noVNC and his experience in developing an HTML5 application. Challenges, common pitfalls, tooling and architecture of HTML5 applications are addressed.
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Microsoft Announces IIS Express – A New Built-In Web Server for Visual Studio
Scott Guthrie recently announced IIS Express, a light weight alternative to IIS and a potential replacement of Cassini (the built in web server for Visual Studio). IIS Express is intended to solve the pain points reported in Cassini and enable developers to develop using a full IIS 7.x feature-set. It’s not available for download yet, but according to Scott should be available shortly.
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What Features Are Desirable for Windows 8?
A number of Windows 8 slides leaked on the Internet, disclosing Microsoft’s plans for the next version of its operating system: hardware supporting touch and voice control, frictionless UX, tablets, faster startup, an app store. Miguel de Icaza, father of Mono, has expressed what he would like to see in Windows 8: sandboxed execution system, no-install apps, a public contract for extension points.
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Internet Explorer 9 Preview 3 Has Better HTML5 Support
Internet Explorer Preview 3 comes with new HTML5 improvements, most notably being: audio, video and canvas, a faster JavaScript engine, more DOM and CSS features supported, support for embedded fonts, closing the HTML5 implementation gap with other browsers, and performing better in some areas due to hardware acceleration.
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FXCop 10 was Shipped with Windows 7.1 SDK
For .NET developers who want the rigor of code analysis without the expense of Visual Studio Premium, FXCop is the tool for choice. But with FXCop 1.36 pulled from Microsoft Downloads without warning, many developers were left wondering what happened. Fortunately this tool is still available if you know where to look.
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Infragistics Offers an ASP.NET Toolkit Targeting both Windows and Linux
Infragistics’ NetAdvantage for .NET 2010 Volume 2 contains an ASP.NET toolkit that runs both on Windows and Linux via Mono. The toolkit contains a number of new controls: WebScriptManager, WebRating, WebExcelExporter, WebCaptcha.
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Three Hotfixes for WPF Memory Leaks
Windows Presentation Foundation is quickly becoming well known for the ease in which memory leaks are introduced. Most of these leaks seem to come from the use or misuse of weak references, upon which WPF’s data binding technology is based. In the recent set of hotfixes many of these leaks are fixed.
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Karl Shifflett Shows How to make VS 2010’s Binding Builder Actually Work
Visual Studio 2010 comes with a feature they call the “Binding Builder”. This tool, launched from the properties pane, helps developers quickly construct XAML bindings for WPF and Silverlight. But without some help, it doesn’t work when the data context is only set at runtime. Karl Shifflett shows how to work around this using design-time markup extensions.
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LLBLGen Pro 3.0 Now Supports Multiple Persistence Frameworks
LLBLGen Pro is an ORM tool which supports multiple persistence frameworks: LLBLGen Pro Runtime, Entity Framework, NHibernate and LINQ to SQL. Other new features are: support for .NET 4.0, model-first or database-first development mode, model view, project validation.