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Launch Date set for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008
Yesterday Kevin Turner announced the release date of the next versions of Visual Studio, SQL Server Windows Server at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, CO.
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Why Cmdlets?
Jeffrey Snover describes the differences between using Cmdlets and APIs. He concludes with "Cmdlets are designed for Admins at keyboards while APIs are not. Cmdlets are the very heart and soul of PowerShell."
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OpenXML Spreadsheet Formulas Called into Question
Rob Weir has called the spreadsheet formulas into question. Lost in the posturing and grandstanding are some serious holes in the specification.
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July CTP of Acropolis causes consternation
Last week Microsoft released the latest CTP version of Acropolis. Acropolis is a framework for building rich client applications in .NET and will replace CAB and SCSF. The community reaction to the CTP was less than favorable.
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Is Open Source an Anathema for .NET?
An anathema is anything laid up or suspended; or in the Greek usage: set apart as sacred or laid up in a temple. Much like the definition of anathema, the Open Source community and the .NET community have been seemingly at odds since .NET's inception. If the past year is proof, the philosophies of Open Source are taking hold in the .NET community.
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SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer No Longer Tied to Service Packs
According to Paul Mestemaker, the SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer is no longer being tied to SQL Server Service Pack releases. This announcement is being made in conjunction with the first production release of the tool.
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Performance Problems with Lambdas
The LINQ Cookbook reveals some performance issues when using lambdas instead of traditional functions.
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Cecil and Reflexil Make Assembly Patching Easy
Jb Evain's Cecil is a library in the Mono project that allows developers to inspect and manipulate compiled assemblies. Sébastien has complemented its capabilities with a GUI interface called Reflexil.
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Silverlight to Not Support ArrayList
In an effort to reduce the size of the Silverlight runtime, most of the non-generic collection types will be removed. These include types once considered essential to .NET programming including ArrayList, Hashtable, and Comparer.
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Mono Adds Support For Type Inference in C#
Marek Safar has announced that the C# 3.0 compiler for Mono now supports implicitly typed local variables and implicitly typed arrays using a technique known as type inference.
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Article: Intro to .NET 3.0 for Architects
Mohammad Akif introduces the concepts behind .NET 3.0 that architects need to understand. Mohammad walks through the basics of Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Workflow Foundation and Windows Card Spaces.
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VB 9 Features – What Made the Cut
With VB 9 getting closer to release, Microsoft had to make some hard decisions about what features were going to make the cut. While most of the important features made it in, there were some notable exceptions. Paul Vic has the rundown.
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QCon San Francisco Enterprise Software Development Conference Nov 7-9
The QCon is coming to San Francsico Nov 7-9; registration is now open (save $600 by July 15th). Our first conf in London this year featured the architectures of eBay, Amazon, Yahoo! and many leading technologists speaking such as Martin Fowler, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Spring founder Rod Johnson, Scrum co-founder Jeff Sutherland, Hibernate creator Gavin King, Dave Thomas, and many more.
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ColdFusion Steals Microsoft's Update Panel
According to Vince Bonfanti, the developers of BlueDragon have developed a Cold Fusion version of the Update Panel by leveraging Microsoft's AJAX client-side library. Like the ASP.NET version, developers simply need to wrap part of their code in special tags to enable partial page rendering.
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Delphi to Finally Support .NET 2.0
In a roadmap posted on the CodeGear site, it has been announced that Delphi.NET will be upgraded to the .NET 2.0 framework. This is a major step for the platform that until recently was thought abandoned.