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.NET 4.0 CTP, Visual Studio 2010 CTP and Azure Tools CTP Are Available
Microsoft has announced the availability of the next generation of .NET Framework 4.0 CTP, Visual Studio 2010 CTP and the new Windows Azure Tools for VS CTP during PDC 2008.
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C# Feature Focus: Co- and Contra-variance
With .NET 4, C# 4 will be able to support co- and contra-variance in generic interfaces. If you are not familiar with them, think of it as the reason why you can't pass an IEnumerable<Apple> to a function expecting an IEnumerable<Fruit>.
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C# Feature Focus: Optional and Named Parameters, COM Interoperability
Believe it or not, C# is going to have full support for optional and named parameters. This, and other features intended for COM support, will be included in C# 4. There was also a rumor about parameterized properties.
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C# Feature Focus: Dynamically Typed Objects, Duck Typing, and Multiple Dispatch
With the increasing importance of dynamic languages and the DLR, C# needs to be able to work with dynamically typed objects. In C# 3 this requires a lot of CLR or DLR reflection code. In C# 4, this will all be handled by the keyword dynamic.
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.NET 4 Feature Focus: Type Embedding and Equivalence
In .NET 4 types will no longer be restricted to a single assembly. A single type, or part of a type, can be extracted from one assembly and placed into another. Why would you do this? Well first off all, to reduce the cost of including the Office Primary Interopt Assemblies from several megabytes to about 2KB by only including what you actually need.
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Introducing Windows Azure - Cloud Services Platform!
Microsoft unveiled a major initiative today: Windows Azure. Azure is a "cloud services operating system": specifically, a single platform providing complete cloud-based development, hosting, and management services -- services for .NET managed code, SQL Server, and enterprise applications like Active Directory. Azure represents a fundamental shift in MS towards embracing cloud computing.
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Introducing the Microsoft Sync Framework (Again)
Back in August, we reported on the release of the Microsoft Sync Framework. Strangely enough, they recently have released it again. In honor of this bizarre event, we are following up with what information we have on this muddled framework.
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IIS URL Rewriting vs ASP.NET Routing
With the release and press around IIS7 URL Rewriting, many questions have been raised about the interplay between IIS Rewriting and ASP.NET Routing. How do the two features relate to each other and when should each be used?
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Microsoft’s Modeling Strategy
Based on their vision to deliver on the promise of model-driven development in SOA where business users, SOA architects and developers will be able to use the modeling tools to collaborate on composite applications, Microsoft has recently made several announcements about its modeling strategy.
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Microsoft Bringing Multitouch to Windows
Microsoft is planning on publicly releasing the Surface SDK at this year's PDC. This is seen by some as the next step towards bringing their multitouch technology to the Windows operating system.
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Review: C# Annotated Standard
When you need to know how the C# compiler really works, there is no better place than the C# Standard. But sometimes even that is not enough, especially when you need to know how the Microsoft and Mono compilers differ. This is where Jon Jagger, Perry, Sestoft's Annotated C# Standard comes into play.
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Host IronScheme in Your .NET Applications
IronScheme, an implementation of Scheme for the .NET runtime, is ready for developers to try out. IronScheme adheres closely to the R6RS Scheme standard and currently passes 8,881 of the 8,897 tests in the PLT R6RS test suite.
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Amazon's EC2 Switches from Beta to Production
Amazon's EC2 services are no longer offered as beta, but they have been switched into production, Amazon offering a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Windows on EC2 is still available as beta.
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Is Mono Ready for Production?
A question was asked on Stack Overflow having the title "Is Mono ready for prime time?" Several users responded including Miguel de Icaza, founder of the Mono project. The responses are helpful to evaluate the opportunity to deploy an application on Mono.