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New Features in .NET 4: Charts, SEO, and Extensible Output Cache
The upcoming version 4.0 release of the .NET Framework comes with many new improvements, some of which have been covered previously on InfoQ. This article explores three more new features which are arriving with .NET 4.0: Chart Controls, SEO support and Extensible Output Cache in ASP.NET 4.
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QCon London in One Month: 103 Speakers, 107 Sessions, 500+ Attendees
QCon London is in 1 month! The final schedule is now online and features 103 speakers and 107 sessions on key topics designed for senior developers, team leads, architects in enterprise software development shops. The last chance to save £196 expires in 2 weeks.
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Spring.NET 1.3: VS.NET Solution Templates, MSTest Support and Spring Integration.NET
A new version of the Spring.NET framework, version 1.3, was recently released. InfoQ spoke with Mark Pollack, founder and lead of the Spring.NET project, to learn more about this release and what new capabilities it brings, and also to learn more about the new Spring Integration.NET project.
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Silverlight 4’s COM+ Automation Raises Security and Portability Concerns
Silverlight 4 supports COM+ Automation when running as an Out-Of-Browser (OOB) application with elevated privileges. Microsoft indicated that this support is a result of enterprise customers requesting such a feature, offering as an example Office automation from Silverlight.
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Adobe Apologizes for Long Lasting Flash Crash Bug
Emmy Huang Product Manager for Adobe Flash Player has apologized publicly about a Flash bug that resulted in browser crash, that although has been reported 17 months ago, no patch has been released for the production version of Flash player yet.
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Ruby in Steel 1.5 Released, Drops IronRuby Support
SapphireSteel Software, the developers of the Visual Studio based Ruby in Steel IDE have just released version 1.5. Among many improvements, they also dropped support for IronRuby.
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AutoMapper 1.0 For .NET Released
The open source project AutoMapper written by Jimmy Bogard has been actively developed for about a year and recently got to the 1.0 mark. AutoMapper is a convention based object-to-object mapper often used to (but not restricted to) flatten complex object models to DTOs, commonly used in ViewModels and crossing service boundaries.
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NDepend 3.0 Is Integrated with Visual Studio
NDepend 3.0 comes integrated with Visual Studio analyzing code in real time, can analyze code over multiple VS solutions, supports editing of multiple CQL rules at one time, and comes with enhanced search and performance.
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Azure Drive Eases the Migration to Microsoft’s Cloud
Initially announced as XDrive during PDC 2009, Microsoft has released the beta version of Windows Azure Drive, a storage access solution simplifying the migration of Windows applications to the cloud by creating an NTFS virtual drive on top of a storage blob.
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PyBinding: Python Scripting for XAML
WPF developers often find themselves with an unappetizing choice. They have to either pollute their code-behind files with special case logic or create value converter classes, most of which will only be used once. PyBinding offers a third option, embedding small scripts right inside the XAML.
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Is OData The Ubiquitous Language For Application Collaboration?
The Open Data Protocol (OData) specification opens up possibilities to a lot of interesting collaborative use-cases and scenarios. Some of which are highlighted by Douglas Purdy, Pablo Castro and Jon Udell.
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.NET Reflector is Going Commercial
Reflector is considered a must have by many .NET developers. Whether it is debugging third-party libraries, translating between languages, or simply examining your own compiled code, Reflector has become a must have tool. And until recently, both it and all its add-ons have been free.
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MonoTouch Has Added Support for Apple’s iPad
Within 24 hours of the announcement of the new iPad tablet from Apple, the MonoTouch team has released MonoTouch 1.9 (alpha), which is focused on helping developers to write .NET application for the iPad.
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Debate: Microsoft’s RIA Services Code-generating Tools and Sound Architectural Principles
Some developers consider that Microsoft's RIA Services code-generating tools are teaching bad architectural principles to developers while others consider the tools useful if used properly.
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Code Access Security Is No Longer Used in .NET 4 Beta 2
Starting with .NET Framework 1.0 Microsoft introduced Code Access Security (CAS), an instrument for assigning and controlling managed code's capabilities. .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2 deprecates CAS, turning it off by default, and introduces Security Transparency Level 2.