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Covariance and Contravariance in .NET Generics
Currently .NET languages such as VB and C# do not support covariance and contravariance for generics. While this is not likely to chance in the near future, people at Microsoft are talking about it.
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Moq .NET Mocking Library
Moq is a mocking library for .NET designed and developed to utilize .NET 3.5 features, e.g., Linq expression trees and lambda expressions. Moq's goal is to be simple and straightforward, allowing a natural integration into existing unit tests, instead of forcing developers to rewrite tests or learn extensive Record/Replay mocking frameworks.
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PowerShell for IIS
The push for making Windows configurable from the command line continues with the IIS 7 PowerShell Provider.
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.NET 3.5 SP 1 Released
Service Pack 1 for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 was released today. While called a "service pack", the sheer number of new features makes this release as significant as .NET 3.0. These include the controversial ADO.NET Entity Framework and the much demanded improvements to C#’s real-time syntax checker.
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Automatically Route Requests to Content Servers using IIS 7
Microsoft is demonstrating a new routing module for IIS 7. This module automatically routes requests to content servers based on HTTP headers and server variables as well as load balancing concerns such as server health and affinity.
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Robert Bell on Java and Silverlight Interop
Robert Bell, Microsoft Solution Architect, introduces interoperability scenarios for using Silverlight from Java and provides architectural guidance using sample code snippets.
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Improving Web Service Security: Guidance for WCF
Microsoft patterns and practices group has released a WCF Security Guide. The 689 pages compendium offers a general introduction to Web Service security fundamentals as well as in-depth knowledge about several security threads and appropriate counter-measures.
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XHTML 2 and HTML 5 continue to diverge
These two specs have quite different purposes and solve two distinct problems. XHTML 2 is document-centric. HTML 5 is targeted at sites that aren't best represented by a document. Both are supported by the W3C. Is another standards war brewing?
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Talking with Ivan Porto Carrero about IronNails
A new project has been created for developers using IronRuby to write applications with a Ruby on Rails like experience. The project is called IronNails and is ready for developers to give it a go today.
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SQL Server 2008 RTM Has Arrived
After more than a year from its first CTP, SQL Server 2008 has finally been sent to manufacturing yesterday, August 6th, according to a Microsoft Press Release. The server was initially planned to be launched on February 27th, and it comes out almost 6 months later, but it is still in the 2-3 years timeframe, the goal set by Microsoft, from the launch of the previous SQL Server 2005.
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Compiled IronPython
Shri Borde discuses the status of IronPython 2 and how it works with compiled code. He focuses on issues involving reflection and CLS compliance.
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Interview: John Lam About IronRuby
In this interview, John Lam, Program Manager on the Dynamic Language Runtime team at Microsoft, talks about IronRuby, what it means to .NET supporters and how it has been received by the Ruby community.
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Windows Live Tools July CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio
Windows Live Dev has released the Windows Live Tools July CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio, a set of VS add-ins allowing developers to incorporate Windows Live services into web applications developed with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008.
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Parallel Mono
Recently we announced that Mono achieved full C# 3 support. Along with that comes support for Parallel LINQ. Parallel LINQ, part of Microsoft’s Parallel Extensions library, allows developers to quickly make queries execute across multiple threads.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Released
Version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP has been released, allowing greater interoperability between PHP and MS SQL 2005. The driver is available for download on MSDN, and the source code for the driver is available on Code Plex.