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The Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism) Is Available for Download
Microsoft has just released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF-June 2008, also known as Prism.
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Sandcastle Source Released
Last month there was an uproar over hosting Sandcastle, a closed-source tool, on the open source site CodePlex. In response to customer demands, Microsoft has decided to release the source code for Sandcastle.
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Google Releases Open Source Web Application Security Assessment Tool
Google has announced the open source release of "ratproxy" - a passive web application security assessment tool.
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Gallio .NET Test Automation Platform
Gallio is an automation platform targeting .NET test frameworks. Instead of each test framework creating its own toolset, including an automation API and test runner, Gallio seeks to provide a neutral, extensible platform with tools and automation services that can be leveraged by any test framework.
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Microsoft Unleashes Hyper-V to the Virtualization Masses
Today Microsoft released Hyper-V, their entry into the bare metal hypervisor virtualization space. Hyper-V supports 32/64 bit operating systems including SUSE Linux 10.
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ADO.NET Entity Framework Taking Some Heat
A petition has started by the community to express concerns over Microsoft's upcoming release of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The petition titled "ADO.NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence", aims to raise awareness of design and implementation issues foreseen by experts in the industry.
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Interview: Glenn Block on Prism
In this interview filmed during ALT.NET 2008, Glenn Block answers Greg Young's questions about Prism. Among others, Glenn talks about what is Prism, the differences between Prism and CAB, the architectural challenges met, the customers' feature requests.
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Using 7-Zip's Compressing/Decompressing Functionality from a .NET Application
Eugene Sichkar, a software developer, has published a project containing a .NET/C# interface to the 7-Zip archiving application on Code Project. 7-Zip is an open source application used to archive/un-archive files in various formats.
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Silverlight 2 Unit Test Framework
Microsoft has released an updated version of the Microsoft.Silverlight. Testing framework. This framework allows developers to create unit tests covering Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 projects.
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My "Unit Test" Aint Your "Unit Test"
Mike Hill, well-known XP contributor, came forth to make a few interesting assertions about the misunderstanding often surrounding how a TDD "unit test" differs from the "unit test" of traditional lore, and how he uses the term 'microtesting' to clear the air for new TDD'ers.
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Manipulate Office Documents from the Command Line
PowerTools for Open XML is a PowerShell extension that makes it easy to create and manipulate MS Office documents from the command line.
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UNO, OpenOffice, and MonoDevelop
Microsoft Office developers have long bragged about their ability to control pretty much anything in Office via COM automation. But unbeknownst to most, OpenOffice developers have a few tricks up their sleeve.
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Merge, Replace, or Patch: How Astoria Handles Changing Data
Using REST, what should happen when you perform a PUT operation to update existing data? The Astoria Team asks that question and explains their answer.
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Presentation: Mark Smith on Exploring Silverlight
Mark Smith of DevelopMentor explores Silverlight 2.0 in this presentation from QCon San Francisco.
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SQL Server PowerShell Extensions
PowerShell is quite possibly going to be the most important language for Windows administrators over the next few years. This is all the more evident when you look at the extensive PowerShell support being added to Microsoft server products such as SQL Server.