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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Table Value Constructors and Compound Assignments for SQL Server 2008
In SQL Server 2008, T-SQL will be getting some welcome enhancements to the syntax itself. Included among these are table value constructors, also known as row constructors, inline variable declaration, and compound assignments.
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Open Source: The .NET Framework
Today Microsoft announced it will release the source code for its .NET Framework under the Microsoft Reference License.