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CohesiveFT's Elastic Server On-Demand - Easy Server Provisioning
CohesiveFT's Elastic Server On-Demand is a SaaS platform that allows virtualized application stacks to be dynamically defined and provisioned on-demand, doing in minutes what can take hours or days. InfoQ spoke with Alexis Richardson about the service and how it helps simplify the complexity of virtualization.
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Microsoft Embraces Dependency Injection in the Framework
Microsoft's new Application Framework Core team has started to embrace techniques Naming and Activation Services, Dependency Injection, and Duck Typing in .NET's core frameworks.
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Presentation: Beth Massi on Conquering XML with LINQ in VB9
Beth Massi, the Visual Basic content manager on Microsoft's MSDN, presents on how to work with XML and LINQ in Visual Basic 9.
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Microsoft Live Mesh Keeping your World in Sync
Microsoft released a technology preview of their Windows Live Mesh service designed to connect and synchronize devices, folders and news. The details from Microsoft include giving users of PCs, Macs and Mobile phones access to their information from anywhere.
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Visual Studio Hotfixes - Still a Mess
Though the Visual Studio Hotfixes have been moved to MSDN Code Gallery, developers are still forced to search for hotfixes and service packs.
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.NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit Available
Microsoft has recently made available the .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit.
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Framework Design Studio Released
Krzysztof Cwalina, along with Hongping Lim and David Fowler, has developed an API management tool they call the Framework Design Studio. This tool can be used to compare different versions of .NET APIs. Users can also append comments to APIs and export them as Word documents.
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Visual Rails Workbench available now from SapphireSteel Software
SapphireSteel Software released an update to their Ruby development environment known as Ruby in Steel 1.2 which includes the new Visual Rails Workbench.
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Article: Building Domain Specific Languages on the CLR
Ayende Rahien describes how to build internal DSLs on the CLR. He compares different .NET languages as suitable host languages for DSLs and presents Boo as an ideal candidate due to its meta programming facilities, flexibility, and performance.
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APIFinder - Your Guide to APIs
Developers today are constantly creating applications that consume services of other web sites. Consuming these services requires figuring out and understanding the sometimes complex Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
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Code Project Browser for VS 2005/2008
SlickEdit has created an Add-On for Visual Studio that integrates with the popular site, The Code Project.
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LINQ Tooling
Besides the ubiquitous praise within the community, LINQ has quite a steep learning curve. Two tools, VLinq and LINQpad, try to help developers become more familiar with the LINQ syntax.
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Text Template Transformation Toolkit in Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio 2008 includes a Text Template Transformation Toolkit as part of Domain-Specific Language Tools, and can be used to generate code based on a text template.
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Article: Spectacular Scalability with Smart Service Contracts
Udi Dahan describes an experience implementing a new order system in which large size message passing was affecting the scalability and even bringing down servers in the system. The article describes how they diagnosed the problem and their solution, by "changing our service contracts and introducing stateful interactions we were able to manage the performance critical state of the system."
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Free Phalanger IDE Released
A free IDE has been released for Phalanger, a PHP that runs on the .NET platform. The IDE is based on Visual Studio Shell.