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  • InfoQ Japan Launches

    InfoQ's mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community. In April InfoQ China launched, and this October InfoQ Japan has launched and is already attracting an average of 3500 visits a day.

  • Gartner on Disruptive Trends in Platform Middleware

    A Gartner Report elaborates how emerging Event Driven Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture programming models, as well as the continued growth in adoption of key open source technologies (in particular Spring) have all combined to put significant pressure on traditional platform middleware vendors and may lead to disrupt the industry landscape.

  • F# to Be Integrated With Visual Studio

    Somasegar has announced that F# will be integrated with Visual Studio, joining Managed C++, C#, and Visual Basic as a first class on the .NET platform.

  • New Types, Methods for .NET 2.0/3.0 Service Pack 1

    When .NET 3.5 is released later this year, it will include several changes to the "red bits" including new types and methods. Scott Hanselman has posted a list of new types and methods with links to the MSDN documentation.

  • SQL Database Publishing in Visual Studio 2008 and Today

    The Database Publishing Wizard is a popular add-in for Visual Studio, which supports deploying a local database to a remote host. The Visual Web Developer team announces that the wizard will be integrated in Visual Studio 2008.

  • An Interview with Ian Griffiths

    In this interview, Ian Griffiths talks about the key features of WPF such as XAML, composition, layout, animation, and data binding.

  • Scott Guthrie Announces ASP.NET MVC Framework at the ALT.NET Conference

    The ALT.NET conference, held October 5-7, 2007, provided an announcement and demonstration by Scott Guthrie about the rumored MVC Framework for ASP.NET from Scott Guthrie.

  • What Makes a Tool Agile?

    Individuals and interactions over processes and tools is the very first of the values of the Agile Manifesto. Tools, however, seem to be a big part of development on most Agile teams. When does a tool help and when does it hinder (Agile) software development?

  • MindTouch Dream: REST SDK & Lightweight Standalone Server

    MindTouch offers a programming library and standalone server for developing and publishing RESTful web services. Dream "Denim" 1.4.1 has been released last week.

  • FxCop Rule for Multi-Targeting

    Multi-targeting in Visual Studio 2008 leads to a new set of problems. With .NET 3.5 bringing new features to the core assemblies, care must be taken when targeting .NET 2.0. Otherwise, an application can be compiled successfully but fail to run due to missing methods. One way to handle this is to use Krzysztof Cwalina's Multitargeting rule for FxCop.

  • Support Multiple AJAX Frameworks with OpenAjax Hub

    From time to time web developers may find that they need to leverage more than one Ajax framework in a single web site. Perhaps they are working on mashups or portals, or maybe they simply cannot do everything they need with a single framework. Whatever the reason, OpenAjax Hub is the solution to their problem.

  • SOAP/TCP Transport for WCF

    Noemax releases a SOAP/TCP transport implementation for WCF, which makes use of the Fast Infoset in order to improve performance and interoperability of WCF services.

  • DbFit 0.9 includes MySQL Support and Full Oracle for Java Support

    DbFit has had several releases in recent months, adding better support for Oracle, support for Java and MySQL 5, and embedding DbFit tables into Java and .NET code.

  • Recursive Selects using Common Table Expressions

    Relational databases are great for storing most forms of structured data. The most notable exception is recursive data. Tree-like structures, essential for menus, normally require awkward stored procedures to efficiently return. SQL Server 2005 does have an answer though.

  • SubSonic Does Migrations

    Rob Conery from the SubSonic project recently introduced migrations, which allow .NET developers to create database schema using code, much like the way Ruby on Rails provides database schema management in code.

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