InfoQ Homepage .NET Content on InfoQ
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Microsoft has Pulled Project Sandcastle for Open Source Violations
In response to community pressure, Microsoft has removed project Sandcastle from their CodePlex website. This is a temporary move while they contemplate Sandcastles future.
-
Microsoft Releases Silverlight 2 Beta 2 at TechEd 2008
During his keynote at TechEd for Developers 2008 in Orlando, FL this week, Bill Gates announced the release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2.
-
On the Evolution of the .NET Collections
The collections in the .NET Framework have evolved significantly over the years. Taking advantage of Microsoft's new found openness, we show two versions of a familiar data structure, the hash table, in both .NET and Mono.
-
Boo: a First Class Language in Visual Studio
Boo is now on its way to becoming a first class citizen within Visual Studio 2008 thanks to the work of Jeffery Olson and the developers of BooLangStudio, a Visual Studio plugin.
-
Perst 3.0 Embedded Database Released
McObject has released version 3.0 of its open source embedded database targeted at Java and .NET developers.
-
Coordination Data Structures: New Classes for .NET Multithreading
The June drop of Parallel Extensions for .NET added a set of classes to make sharing data in a multi-threaded application easier. With ten new classes including new synchronization primitives, futures, and new collection classes, there is only time to touch on each of them briefly.
-
Velocity: Microsoft's Distributed In-Memory Cache
Distributed in-memory caches have been rather popular over the last few years in everything from mainstream Java applications to the fringe languages like Erlang. Continuing its rather frantic efforts to catch up with technologies predominately found in the open source world, Microsoft has introduced its own distributed cache.
-
Holly Widgets for GTK#
Last weekend a developer on the GTK# mailing list announced version 1.0 of a collection of widgets for Mono.
-
Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework June 2008 CTP Released
Microsoft has just released the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework June 2008 CTP.
-
Do Language Specific Libraries Belong in .NET?
There is a lot of basic functionality the .NET platform does not provide. For example, there is no built-in way to read CSV files, copy directories, or work with zip files. Well actually there is, but only if you dig deep enough.
-
Ruby VM Roundup: IronRuby runs Rails, Ruby 1.8.7 released, Rubinius inlining experiments
Big news just in: John Lam claims IronRuby runs Rails. In other Ruby VM news, the Rubinius team is experimenting with method inlining. Also: Ruby 1.8.7 has been released.
-
Presentation: Painless Persistence with Castle ActiveRecord
This presentation by Hamilton Verissimo and Oren Eini show Castle Active Record - an ORM solution for .NET building on NHibernate. After an introduction, the presentation dives into various advanced topics and techniques for working with Castle Active Record.