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  • Team Foundation Server 2008: Out-Of-The-Box Support for Continuous Integration

    Along with Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft will be releasing a new version of TFS (Team Foundation Server). TFS 2008 will provide extended support for Continuous Integration.

  • The Curious Nature of Transactions in ADO.NET and LINQ

    Transactions in LINQ rely on TransactionScope, a .NET 2.0 class that uses a distinctly non-OO design pattern that relies on gloabls.

  • Open Source LINQ to SQL Debugger

    Scott Guthrie has posted an article on the LINQ to SQL debugger features along with the source code for the debugger. Among these is the ability to see the raw SQL generated by the query. Equally interesting is the ability to execute the query with one click, the results being displayed in standard grid.

  • Promesh.NET - an MVC Web Framework for .NET

    Philippe Leybaert recently released a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for creating .NET 2.0 web applications, named ProMesh.NET. The framework was released on Codeplex under an open source license. MVC frameworks have gained popularity lately with Ruby on Rails and most recently with the Castle Project and MonoRails, also an MVC framework.

  • Isolation for WPF Add-Ins

    For many applications, the ability to extend the application with third party features is essential. Microsoft's CLR Add-In team has been working on a formal model and API to make this task easier by isolating GUI elements in separate AppDomains.

  • Presentation: Erik Meijers on Democratizing the Cloud

    As the Dutch artist MC Escher once said "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible". At Microsoft, Erik Meijers is trying to stretch .NET to cover the Cloud such that developers can incrementally and seamlessly design, develop, and debug complex distributed applications using your favorite existing and unmodified .NET compiler and deploy these applications anywhere.

  • .NET Spotlight on Open Source: Beagle

    One of the most famous Mono applications on Linux is Beagle. In this .NET Spotlight on Open Source, Infoq interviwed Joe Shaw and Pierre Ostlund on Beagle.

  • Using SSIS in a Team Setting

    Jamie Tomson talks about his experiences trying to use SQL Server Integration Services in a team environment.

  • David M. Kean Reveals Microsoft's FXCop Ruleset

    FXCop has a lot of code analysis rules, but does Microsoft actually use them all? Turns out the answer is no. David Kean lists which FXCop rules are considered mandatory by the Microsoft's Developer Division.

  • Limitations of Closures in Visual Basic

    In part 6 of his series on closures, Jared Parsons takes about some of the limitations of closures in Visual Basic. While it is not explicitly called out, many of these limitations may also apply to C#.

  • Moonlight Milestone Reached: Silverlight Chess

    The Moonlight project has reached the point where it can run the Silverlight Chess demo application. This represents a major milestone for the Mono team who are racing to keep up with Microsoft's Silverlight project.

  • Interview: Introduction to Workflow Foundation

    Workflow Foundation is the new workflow engine from Microsoft. Matt Winkler, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, walks through the story of Workflow Foundation, when to use it and the futures planned in the next version.

  • Does Hosted Team Foundation Server Make Sense?

    Hosted infrastructure often makes sense for companies, especially small ones with modest needs. For less than $20/month, one can get an ASP.NET or Apache co-hosting complete with a MySQL or SQL Server database. But does it make sense for other services like source control?

  • CodeSmith 4.1.1 supports Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

    CodeSmith is a template-based code generator that automatically generates high level code (C#, VB.NET, ...). The current release features LINQ to SQL templates and supports Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2.

  • QCon San Francisco (Nov 7-9) Schedule & Speakers Posted

    The schedule and 44 speakers (another 20 to be confirmed soon) has been posted for QCon, InfoQ's new enterprise software development conference coming to San Francisco Nov 7-9. Some of the speakers include Martin Fowler; Rod Johnson (Spring Creator); the architects of Second Life, Orbitz, Yahoo! & Linked-In; Erik Meijer (LINQ Creator); and many more!

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