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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.
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Presentation: Justin Smith on CLR Internals
Justin Smith, Technical Evangelist for Windows Communication Foundation at Microsoft, delivered this devLink presentation on the .NET CLR Internals. Justin begins with an overview of the memory management model and then focuses different areas of the CLR and primarily the Garbage Collector.
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Visual Studio Multi-Targeting Update
One of the most visible deficiencies in Visual Studio is that each version is tied to a specific version of the CLR. For example, it is impossible to create anything but .NET 2.0 applications using Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio 2008 partially addresses this issue with what Microsoft calls multi-targeting.
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Sparse Columns Added to SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2008 has lifted the limit of 1024 columns per table with a new option called "sparse columns". While this seems like its excessive, some developers have been running up against this limit.
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Writing Maintainable Code
Sam Gentile, Oren Eini (aka Ayende), and Frans Bouma have an ongoing debate in the .NET community about how to write maintainable code, which several others have joined. The debate mainly focuses on the question, if Test-Driven-Development (TDD), O/R-Mappers (ORM), Model-View-Presenter/Controller (MVP/MVC), and other best-practices help to improve the maintainability of software.
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Aaron Erickson on LINQ and i4o
In an interview with InfoQ, Aaron Erickson introduces his new LINQ extension Indexes for Objects (i4o). Indexes for Objects allows for fast lookup against in-memory collections while retaining the LINQ syntax and semantics. He also discusses how expression trees interact with LINQ and how they can be leveraged in other scenarios.