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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.
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Anders Hejlsberg on the C# 4.0 and 5.0
In a Channel 9 video, Erik Meijer and Anders Hejlsbeg discuss the future of C# inlcudein dynamic types, co/contra-variant interfaces, and pluggable compilers.
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Bi-Directional Routing Support in ASP.NET Web Forms 4.0
The ASP.NET Routing engine was added in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Now Microsoft have added better support for using the engine in ASP.NET WebForms 4.0 by using expression builders enabling bi-directional routing.
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The Problems with WCF and the Using Block
The WCF Client code violates two of the core principals of .NET API design; calling Close should actually close the connection and calling Dispose should never throw an exception. We look at how this came to be and at some available workarounds.
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Iron Speed Designer 6.0 Has Been Improved
Iron Speed Designer is a Web 2.0 application generator enabling developers to visually create web pages for .NET/IIS without needing to know HTML or ASPX. The latest version, 6.0, has an improved layout editor, new page types, new workflow page types and live page preview.
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Looking inside Silverlight XAP Files, and Making Them Smaller
Silverlight makes it easy to accidentally deploy far more code than what’s needed for an application. ComponentOne’s XapOptimizer makes it easy to fix that.
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Interview: Erik Meijer on LINQ
In this interview made during QCon SF 2008, Erik Meijer talks about less known LINQ features, like the ability to do meta programming or the fact that LINQ works against any data collection that implements the sequence operators. Meijer also talks about the differences between functional languages and objectual ones, asynchronous computation, and the evolution of languages.
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Article: SharePoint Object Model Performance Considerations
In this article, Andreas Grabner analyzes the performance implication of using the SharePoint Object Model, specifically displaying and editing lists, one of the most used SharePoint objects.