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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.
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The EQATEC Code Profiler v. 1.2 for the .NET Compact Framework Has New Features
InfoQ informed the community about the free EQATEC code profiler for the .NET Compact Framework a month ago. In the meantime, the profiler has been well received by the community, and EQATEC released version 1.2 with new features and bug fixes.
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IronRuby and ASP.NET MVC
John Lam demonstrates two new products from Microsoft, IronRuby and ASP.NET MVC, working together. While it will probably never replace Ruby on Rails, it is an interesting look into the new technology.
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Interview : Nate Kohari on Releasing Ninject 1.0
In this interview with Nate Kohari, creator of the Ninject dependency injection container for .NET, talks about the release of version 1.0 of Ninject. The interview has taken place over the past weeks leading up to the release of Ninject 1.0.
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Perst Embedded Database Releases Version 3.0
McObject® has released Perst™ version 3.0, a major upgrade of its open source, object-oriented embedded database system. Persist is dual licensed (commerical and GPL), allowing it to be used freely in non-commercial applications.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack RC0 Available for Download
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack RC0, a collection of stand-alone install packages which bring additional value to SQL Server 2008.
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JetBrains Releases ReSharper 4.0 with Many Improvements, C# 3.0 Support
JetBrains has released the much-anticipated productivity Visual Studio add-in, ReSharper 4.0. Resharper 4.0 includes many improvements and new features.
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SQL Server 2008 RC0 Has Been Released to the Public
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 RC0 to the general public.
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QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 Enterprise Software Development Conference Launched
QCon is coming back to San Francisco this November 19-21st, featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Eric Meijer (creator of LINQ), Rod Johnson (Spring), and others. Digg.com, Facebook, Yellowpages.com and MySpace.com architectures will be presented. QCon is the conference for enterprise software development team leads, architects and project management.
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NCache: A Distributed Cache for the .NET Platform Available Today
While we wait for Microsoft to finish Velocity, its attempt at building distributed memory cache for the .NET platform, we turn to other more established vendors. One such vendor is Alachisoft's and its NCache product. Currently Alachisoft offers both a free and a paid SKU, the latter supporting NHibernate.
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Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Released
SharePoint is rapidly becoming the default CMS platform for companies building internal website using Microsoft technologies. SharePoint, though loaded with features out of the box, is often heavily customized using ASP.NET. In order to facilitate that, Microsoft has recently released several resources for both new and experienced SharePoint developers.
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Deprecated and Discontinued Features in SQL Server 2008
Everybody is waiting for the new features coming with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, but there are some deprecated and discontinued features that we should be aware of.