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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released
Microsoft just released their new ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) web framework version 1.0 that is going to be announced at Mix 2009 today.
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LINQ-to-Twitter, Another LINQ Provider
Mehfuz Hossain, a Microsoft MVP, has created a LINQ-to-Twitter provider. This is yet another example demonstrating that LINQ is not a framework to access just data in a database but it can be used with all sorts of objects, including tweets.
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ReSharper 4.5 Beta Promises Better Performance
A few days ago ReSharper 4.5 Beta was released by JetBrains. This new version promise better performance and less memory consumption. New features include VB9 support, native MSTest support, "Go to Implementation" and improved compatibility with F#, Compact Framework and Silverlight.
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Article: A Fusion of Proven Ideas: A Look Behind S#arp Architecture
In this article Billy McCafferty presents S#arp Architecture, an ASP.NET MVC architectural framework meant to leverage current best practices in architecting ASP.NET web applications by providing a project code template which uses Domain-Driven Design techniques and has built-in support for NHibernate, Castle Windsor and SQLite.
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PostSharp AOP Framework Updated
PostSharp, the popular .NET AOP framework, has a new release available: 1.5 CTP 3. This release builds on the previous features and adds significant performance improvements.
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Red Hat and Microsoft Get Together in the Virtualization Arena
Red Hat has announced an agreement with Microsoft to support each other’s guests on their virtualization servers including coordinated technical support.
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Presentation: Taming Effects with Functional Programming
In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2008, Simon Peyton-Jones advertises the need for programming purity achieved especially through use of functional languages and the increased attention given to functional programming.
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C# 4.0 "Fixes" Deadlock Issue
C# 4.0 implemented a change that assured optimized and non -optimized compiles yielded consistent results. This "Fix" emphasized some design problems with locking mechanisms.
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Website Performance Analysis with neXpert
neXpert is an add-on to the popular Fiddler web debugging proxy. neXpert extends Fiddler's performance testing capabilities and simplifies the process of finding performance issues. Version 1.0 of neXpert is now available for download from Microsoft.
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Concurrent Basic – A Declarative Language for Message-Based Concurrency.
Concurrent Basic represents a possible future for Visual Basic. Though based on work done in C# research languages such as Polyphonic C# and C-Omega, Visual Basic was chosen for its inherent predisposition towards declarative programming. The syntax is even inspired by VB’s declarative event handlers.
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Flash is Dominating the Landscape, but Silverlight is Growing
A RIA statistics page is publishing the numbers of browsers having RIA plug-ins installed on a daily basis. The RIA space today is occupied by Flash but Silverlight is catching up.
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Moq 3.0 Released
Version 3.0 RTM of the popular Moq .NET mocking library is now available. Moq 3.0 includes Silverlight support, improved event and property mocking, Pex integration, and improved samples.
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Cristian Vlasceanu and D for the .NET platform.
Cristian Vlasceanu takes some time from working on the D compiler for .NET to talk with InfoQ about the language and the difficulties in porting it.
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.NET 4 Will Not Have a Command Line Parser
Command line parsing was the first task performed by most applications back in the 80’s and even today it is very important. So you can imagine how happy developers were to learn they wouldn’t have to hand-code this pattern anymore. Unfortunately, that didn’t turn out to be the case.
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Introducing ADO.NET Data Services 1.5
The first version ADO.NET Data Services was originally slipped into a service pack for .NET 3.5. Finding that it did not quite meet customer expectations, another version is on its way.