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David Pallmann’s WCF Tips
David Pallmann has published a series of WCF Tips. The tips are assembled in terms of design patterns, which are grouped by aspects of developing WCF providers and consumers.
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The Dark Side of Closures
Closures are not a new concept and in LINQ have proven to be incredibly useful. But they do have a dark side when used to break encapsulation. When two seemingly independent functions are tied together, unexpected results can occur.
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Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed - Review and Sample Chapter
WPF Unleashed by Adam Nathan has been leading the Amazon charts in positive reviews, so we thought we would take it for a spin. Turns out, the book lives up to the hype. In addition, InfoQ was able to obtain the most important chapter of the book. Chapter 3 includes coverage of WPF's property and event system, a system that is unlike anything else on the Windows platform.
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The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Has Been Updated
The AJAX Control Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0 has been updated. Nothing new was added, but the bug fixes are sure to be welcome. In related news, a VS 2008 Beta 2 compatible version was also released with a couple of interesting features. And in case you did not know, they are now accepting patches.
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Halo 3 Site Demonstrates Flaws in SilverLight
With all the buzz about Halo 3, Microsoft couldn't help but to use it as an excuse to make users download SilverLight. But like Flash, it has some serious flaws.
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Behind Microsoft's Astoria REST Framework
In Microsoft's Architecture Journal issue 13, Pablo Castro talked about several key features of the Microsoft’s REST Framework – Astoria.
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Spell Checker Added to Visual Studio 2008
The Code Analysis team at Microsoft has decided to include FXCop's spell checker in Visual Studio 2008.
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xUnit.net - Next Generation of Unit Testing Frameworks?
Jim Newkirk, creator of NUnit, has announced a new Unit Testing Framework called xUnit.net. The proclaimed successor to NUnit is supposed to get rid of NUnit's mistakes and shortcomings and add some best practices and extensibility to the framework.
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GigaSpaces XAP 6.0：スペースベースアーキテクチャ向けの簡易化SpringベースAPI
GigaSpaces recently released version 6.0 of it's eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), which is an infrastructure software platform that provides scaling out of applications in distributed environments. InfoQ spoke with Geva Perry and Nati Shalom of GigaSpaces to learn more about this release and the changes that have occurred in this version.
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A Fix for ASP.NET AJAX on the iPhone
According to Matt Gibbs, the 1.01 update to iPhone degrades the asynchronous features of Microsoft's AJAX library, specifically in its JSON serializer. Matt has provided instructions on how to fix this by altering the regular expressions used in the library.
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MSXML 4 is Not Going to be Disabled
Back in March we reported that Microsoft was going to "killbit" MSXML 4. Due to its wide use and a lack of a suitable replacement, they have rescinded that decision.
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Castle Project 1.0 RC3 is Out
The much anticipated Castle Project 1.0 RC3 is finally here after almost a year in development. The announcement came on the Castle Project web site and gives developers many new features and enhancements for the MVC framework designed for developing .NET 2.0 web applications.
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Is it too late for Parrot VM?
The Parrot Virtual Machine recently had it’s sixth birthday. Parrot is a VM that sprung out of the Perl6 development, which primarily targets dynamic languages, but also for instance .NET and C99. But six years is a long time, and both Microsoft and Sun is targeting this segment. Is it too late for Parrot?
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Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Speaking at QCon SF Nov 7-9
Kent Beck & Martin Fowler will be keynoting & delivering tutorials at the QCon San Francisco Nov 7-9th conference. Also, the schedule has been finalized with a new complete track covering security from a development perspective, and also a panel on the future of Java development including Joshua Bloch, JRuby's Charles Nutter, Spring's Rod Johnson, and .NET's Erik Meijer.
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More on Parallel LINQ
MSDN Magazine has spilled the beans on Parallel LINQ. Parallel LINQ, also known as PLINQ, is a set of LINQ extensions that hide the dirty work of distributing LINQ queries across multiple cores.