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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#.
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Digging into the Performance of the ADO.NET Entity Framework
The ADO.NET Team recently discussed various performance aspects of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The ADO.NET Entity Framework entered its third beta back in December and since that time the team has provided developers with information about using the framework but now they are providing developers with the performance aspects.
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Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta Now Downloadable
The Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack beta is available for download. The Feature Pack extends the VC++ Libraries which come with Visual Studio 2008.
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MVC Contrib Now Offers 4 Alternative View Engines
MVC Contrib, a contribution project for the ASP.NET MVC framework hosted on CodePlex, now offers 4 alternatives to the default ASPX view engine.
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Database Virtualization - Is it worth it?
Hosting server applications inside VM images is all the rage today. The ability to quickly move a virtual server from one machine to another as needs change is a big win for IT departments. But can this be applied to heavyweight systems like SQL Server? Conor Cunningham says no.
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Dynamic Languages on the CLR and JVM
John Rose, a key designer behind Sun's new Da Vinci Machine project initiative, and Charles Nutter of the JRuby project, contrast dynamic language support and optimization on the JVM and Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime.
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View the .NET Source Code in VS 2005
Recently Microsoft released the source code for portions of the .NET framework to VS 2008 users. Fortunately for those still using VS 2005, Kerem Kusmezer and John Robbins built a tool that gives them access to it as well. This tool also speeds up VS 2008 by caching all the source code at one time.
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ASP.NET MVC Example with Northwind and Entity Framework Published
Brad Abrams, founding member of the CLR and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft, published a good example of how developers can leverage the MVC Framework with some of the new tools from Microsoft.
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Interview: Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio
In this interview from QCon San Francisco, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson discusses the origins and philosophy of Spring, the Spring Portfolio, Spring Web Flow, Spring Batch, Spring.Net, the partnership with Tasktop Technologies, and community involvement and utilization of Spring.
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MSDN Code Gallery Goes Live
Microsoft has created a new site named Code Gallery, dedicated to code and application sharing. Both Microsoft employees and community members can contribute to this site and use the resources available on it.
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Tasktop: Bringing Mylyn's Task-Focused Interface to Everyone
Tasktop Technologies, the company which created Eclipse Mylyn and leads its development, released Tasktop version 1.0 today. InfoQ interviewed Tasktop CEO Mik Kersten to learn more about this release and how it brings Mylyn's task-focused interface to a much larger audience.
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Cosmos - An Option To Singularity
Just released to the public, Cosmos is an operating system implemented entirely in .NET compiled IL.
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Article: Getting Started With SharePoint Web Services
Trent Swanson walks through accessing SharePoint Web Services from both Java and .NET.
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Mono for Robotics
Microsoft is not the only trying to get into the robotics business by porting the .NET runtime. Cogmation Robotics is using Mono in their flagship product robotFoundary. Even more surprising, they choose to run it on OS X first.