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Microsoft Closes Down Silverlight Streaming
Microsoft has closed its two-year-old hosting service, Silverlight Streaming. Existing videos can still be retrieved for the time being, but new ones can no longer be uploaded. They have also discontinued the related publishing plug-in for Expression Encoder.
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GET-only REST Integration Patterns Blur The Line Between Synchronization And Integration
Duncan Cragg explains his idea/pattern for a purely GET based REST integration pattern, which turns out to be very similar to the vision of Microsoft's FeedSync Specification.
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QConSF Nov 18-20 Coming Up: Highlights and Most Popular Sessions, Join us!
QconSF is coming up in less than a month and due to the growth in registrations we've added a new Ruby track featuring Ruby inventor Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, a popular 'Java Puzzlers' talk presented by Google Chief Architect and Java Guru Joshua Bloch and Android Core Library lead Bob Lee, and more. This 3rd QConSF will be the best ever.
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Miguel de Icaza’s Keynote at Monospace
Michael Cote, aka RedMonk, has provided an audio recording of Miguel de Icaza’s keynote at Monospace. Miguel talked about Mono’s history, some plans for the future, Silverlight, and he gave a demo of building a Linux appliance.
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Microsoft Builds Tools for Eclipse Developers
Microsoft has announced the release of a number of tools for Eclipse: Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse, Windows Azure SDK for Java, Eclipse Tools for Silverlight, plus a facelift for Eclipse to look-and-feel like Windows 7.
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BCL Changes in .NET 4
The BCL or Base Class Library represents the core of the .NET framework. Regardless of what type of application one is developing, the BCL represents the starting point upon which all other functionality is built. This is why changes to the BCL are significant to all .NET developers.
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IronScheme Nears Final Release
IronScheme, the R6RS implementation of Scheme for DLR, has reached RC1 after one year of being in beta.
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Collection and Array Initializers in VB 10
Visual Basic 10, to be released with .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 10, is adding support for collection and array initializers. While these are similar to what we already have in C#, there are minor enhancements such as support for extension methods and improved type inference.
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Quickly Migrate from SQL Server to SQL Azure
In order to make migrating from SQL Server to SQL Azure easier, Microsoft is releasing a migration tool on CodePlex. The SQL Azure Migration Wizard will detect, and if possible, correct incompatibilities between SQL Server 2005/2008 and SQL Azure. In addition to generating scripts for deploying the migrated schema on SQL Azure, this tool will also allow you to migrate table data using BCP.
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A .NET Security Vulnerability Has Affected Firefox
A security vulnerability that has hit Internet Explorer through .NET has also hit Firefox. The culprit for Firefox, a .NET add-on, has been put on Mozilla’s blocked list.
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SQL Azure is Feature Complete, but You Need to Move to the New CTP by December
Microsoft has released a feature-complete version of SQL Azure. CTP 2 includes everything that the final version is expected to have and is currently deployed on Microsoft’s production clusters. This gives CTP 2 an automatic upgrade path to the final release, but users of previous CTPs will need to migrate their data before the older servers are shutdown.
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Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 Prepares the Way for RTM, Scheduled for March 2010
Having a new logo, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 made it’s debut yesterday with performance improvements and better stability, setting the stage for the RTM release on March 22, 2010. F# is integrated with Rx, while Azure Tools are in the works.
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PostSharp 2.0 Makes Aspect-Oriented Programming Easier with IDE Support
One of the biggest complaints about aspect-oriented programming is that is makes it hard to know what the compiled code will actually look like. When looking at source code, developers invariably ask, “What aspects affect this?” For .NET developers, PostSharp has the answer.
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Making IIS Web Sites More Responsive Using Warm-up
IIS Application Warm-up for IIS 7.5 improves the responsiveness of a web site by loading all related web applications and their dependencies before the first request is made.
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Simple Build Automation with psake
psake is a build automation tool integrated with PowerShell (PS). Version 2.01 works with PowerShell 2.0. Ayende Rahien is using it to build Rhino Tools.