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Interview: MLB.com on Their Use of Silverlight
In this InfoQ exluclusive interview Jonathan Allen sits down with Henry Belmont & Thaniya Keereepart on their implementation of Silverlight and how it integrates with their Java back-end.
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Sneak Preview of Silverlight 2
Scott Guthrie provides a first look at Silverlight 2, and announces that the first public beta will be available shortly.
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Differentiated UX: Expression of an Emerging UI Design Trend?
Introduced with the rollout of the Windows Presentation Foundation, the concept of Differentiated UX (Differentiated User Experience) was intended to help promote a new capability associated with this technology for delivering enhanced user experiences. Recently, Brian Noyes and Dax Pandhi provided a more concrete explanation of the term and described its relevance to UI designers and developers.
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LINQ to XSD is Back
A new alpha version of the typesafe LINQ provider, LINQ to XSD, is available. This is the first version compatible with the RTM version of Visual Studio 2008.
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PartCover: New Open Source Code Coverage Tool
PartCover is beginning to fill the void left by NCover. Both SharpDevelop and TreeSurgeon have integrated PartCover to provide code coverage.
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VB 6 to VB.NET Migration Proceeds Ever So Slowly
Six years after VB.NET was released, Microsoft is still slowly working towards a true migration path for VB 6 applications. Recently Microsoft released "Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0". This release adds the Data Repeater, an important control for layouts.
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Bringing Scripting back to VB
Historically Visual Basic has its roots in scripting and dynamic programming, but never fully embraced it. This is seen in mismatched language features such as the ability to consume objects via late binding, a.k.a. duck typing, but no ability to define them. In a presentation at Lang.NET, Paul Vick talks about bringing scripting back to VB.
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Custom MSBuild Tasks
Since version 2.0 Microsoft has integrated MSBuild, a build system, into the .NET Framework that is fully compatible with Visual Studio projects. Bart de Smet shows how to extend MSBuild via custom tasks.
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Scott Guthrie outlines the .NET 3.5 Client Roadmap
Scott Guthrie recently outlined some of the changes developers can expect when building .NET 3.5 Windows Client applications. These changes will be released over the next few months.
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Interview and Book Excerpt: Model Based Software Testing and Analysis with C#
Recently published, Model Based Software Testing and Analyis with C#, by Cambridge University Press. Infoq was able to speak with all four authors about their personal views on model based testing and analysis: Jonathan Jacky, Margus Veanes, Colin Campbell and Wolfram Schulte.
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Zune Game Development with XNA Game Studio 3.0
Microsoft has announced the upcoming XNA Game Studio 3.0 which will support developing games for the entire family of Zune media devices. XNA will bridge the PC, Xbox and Zune platforms to the extent that a game written for one of the platforms will run on all of them.
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Assigning File Types to ClickOnce Applications
With .NET 3.5, it is now possible to associate up to eight file types with a ClickOnce application.
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White: A New Windows UI Developer Testing Framework
The White project is an automated testing framework for Win32, WinForm, WPF and SWT (java) applications. Use it in combination with your favorit xUnit framework just like WatiN to perform user acceptance testing.
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Catching Up With the .NET Micro Framework
The .NET Micro Framework is the smallest runtime available within the .NET Framework. Able to run in only 512k of RAM without an MMU it is targeted at 32-bit processors.
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Presentation: Erik Meijer on C# 3.0 and LINQ
In this QCon presentation Erik Meijer talks about C# 3.0 and LINQ. He builds upon his theme of democratizing the web while discussing the new language features of C#.