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Microsoft Introduces Dynamic Silverlight
The Dynamic Language team at Microsoft recently introduced its latest technology called Dynamic Silverlight (DSL) at the MIX08 Conference in Las Vegas.
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Creating a RESTful API with WCF
Aaron Sloman and Haider Sabri gave a talk about "Creating a RESTful API with WCF" at MIX08 introducing a sample REST application called RESTChess.
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LINQ Framework Design Guidelines
Now that LINQ has been finalized and released, it is time to start thinking about the ways to use it. Keith Farmer even talks about using it eliminate subclasses. But before we get into that, let us take a look at the official guidance from Microsoft.
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XSLT Profiling in VS 2008
Microsoft's XML Team has released a preview of their XSLT profiler for VS 2008. Unfortunately, only Team System users get to try it out.
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Future Focus: Call Hierarchy in Visual Studio
The Visual Studio team has started to shed some light on the current development of Visual Studio, revealing some of the features that will most likely be available in the next release of Microsoft's IDE, and inviting everyone to comment on those features while in their incipient phase.
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The Buzz on SQL Server 2008 CTP6
Community Technology Preview 6 has been in developer's hands for almost a month.
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Download Links for Mix08 Technologies
As Mix08 wound down Tim Sneath published a consolidated list of download links for bits released during the conference.
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Performance Fix Available for VS 2008 and a Surprise Note about VBScript
In an attempt to be more responsive, Microsoft is trying to publicly release hot-fixes more frequently. This hot fix affects the performance of VS 2008 when editing web pages.
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Decompiling Silverlight 2 Applications
From time to time, developers may need to decompile a Silverlight 2 application. Fortunately it turns out Silverlight applications are conveniently bundled into zip files.
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Released to Developers
Last week Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 with most feature updates targetted squarely at developers.
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Brings Out Many Value Additions
The ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 has been released last week and offers a lot of new features and many refactorings.
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Presentation: Introduction to Spring.NET
Dr. Mark Pollack, founder of Spring.NET, provides an introduction focused on implementing and designing loosely coupled application architectures.
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Nokia sees the Silverlight
Nokia announced it will make Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 available for its S60 phones running Symbian OS as well as Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. Silverlight will give developers opportunities to create rich and interactive applications running on multiple platforms.
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A New Way to Write Mashups in IE
Microsoft is creating a new way to write mashup-like functionality with what they call "Activities". Rather than being defined within a specific page, users can launch the same set of Activities regardless of what page they are on. The specifications for these have been released under Creative Commons and include patent protection, making them available to other web browser vendors.
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SharpDevelop 3.0 Enters Beta
With the recent release of the .NET Framework version 3.5, a new release of SharpDevelop 3.0 is pending.