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Microsoft Renames Silverlight 1.1 to Silverlight 2.0, Announces Features
Microsoft has decided to rename the yet-to-be-released Silverlight 1.1 to Silverlight 2.0 and released in beta form in Q1 2008 shipping with a Go-Live license so developers can create applications immediately.
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Why MVC for ASP.NET?
Rick Strahl talks about the strengths and weaknesses of Web Forms and why they led some developers to look at alternatives like MVC. He also gives MVC the same balanced look.
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Post-VS 2008-Technology: LINQ to XSD and LINQ to Stored XML
Today, Shyam Pather, Principal Development Lead on the Data Programmability Team at Microsoft, is giving a presentation on LINQ to XML: Visual Studio 2008, Silverlight, and Beyond at the XML 2007 Conference in Boston. He talks about the current and future technologies surrounding LINQ to XML.
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Upgrade Path - Vista Task Dialog
This dialog provides a framework that covers most dialog scenarios while maintaining consistency across applications. But it also introduces a new problem in that it is not backwards compatible with Windows XP. Hedley Muscroft tackled this problem by creating a wrapper/emulator for the Task Dialog.
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PLINQ Has Been Released As Parallel Extensions
A community tech preview of Parallel Extensions, originally known as PLINQ, has been released. Parallel Extensions goes beyond what was found in PLINQ and will include imperative data parallel APIs.
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AntiSamy 1.0 Released - Protecting web applications from malicious HTML and CSS
AntiSamy aims to provide an API for protecting HTML and CSS code from malicious content such as XSS attacks. Version 1.0 was recently released, providing a Java implementation, with .Net and PHP to follow.
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New File Storage Mechanism for SQL Server
SQL Server was never designed to act as a file system, but many developers use it that way nonetheless. Countless content management systems rely on either shoving large files into blobs or storing filenames. SQL Server 2008 seeks to correct this by introducing a filestream option that can be applied to a varbinary(max) column.
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QCon London March 12-14 Announced
QCon London 2008, taking place March 12-14 has been launched and is open for registration. QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering the range of topics also on InfoQ as well as a strong focus on architecture & design, real world case studies, and more. This is the 3rd QCon, don't miss it!
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The Architecture Journal Reader
Microsoft released The Architecture Journal Reader, which is a WPF reader application for The Architecture Journal.
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10 Tips when Upgrading to Visual Studio 2008
Get a jump on upgrading to Visual Studio 2008. Visual Studio 2008 was recently released and developers often want to be the first ones on the block to install the latest versions of their favorite developer tools. Sometimes this comes at price when making the wrong choices during the upgrade process.
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Visual Basic's Questionable Place in Microsoft's Roadmap
Since the beginning, Microsoft has publicly claimed that Visual Basic and C# would be equally supported on the .NET platform. The community, on the other hand, has constantly accused Microsoft of not supporting VB. So where does the truth lie?
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New SQL Server Data Type: HierarchyId
Tree-like hierarchies has always a problem in relational databases. Microsoft's first attempt at addressing this was in SQL Server 2005 with the implementation of Common Table Expressions. While CTEs work over existing schema, Microsoft has sought a way to treat hierarchies as first-class concepts. To this effect, they have introduced the HierarchId data type in SQL Server 2008.
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Jonathan Allen on Equality Operator Overloading
Jonathan Allen provides guidance through a systematic walkthrough of both a reference type and value type that support equality. Jonathan provides code samples in both VB and C# to demonstrate the nuances of each .NET language. He also covers usage in both structures and classes.
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Microsoft Updates Software-as-a-Service Reference App LitwareHR with S+S
As more enterprises are looking at software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, Microsoft has augmented their LitwareHR reference application to include the Software + Services (S+S) model. Enabling the integration of local and "in the cloud" software, S+S allows for the disconnected and offline scenarios lacking in today's hosted solutions.
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Beta for XNA Game Studio Released with Support for Networked Games
XNA Game studio is a game development toolkit that supports both Windows and the XBox 360. The initial edition was targeted directly at hobbyists and released as an extension to C# Express Edition. The beta for XNA 2.0 brings the toolkit closer to the world of professional developers.