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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.
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Moonlight in 21 days
In preparation for ReMix07 in Paris, the Mono team filled out the bones of their implementation of Silverlight with very impressive results.
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WebLOAD: Commercial Load Testing Tool Recently Open Sourced
WebLOAD is a load testing tool from Radview that tests both for performance and also correctness. Test scripts are written in Javascript and the tool supports multiple protocols for testing all tiers of an app such as web (HTTP with Ajax support), SOAP/XML, and other protocols. This past April Radview released an open source community edition of WebLOAD under GPL, available at webload.org.
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Closures and Object Lifetime in C# and Visual Basic
C# 2 and the yet to be released VB 9 allow developers to reference local variables in anonymous functions. When an anonymous function 'closes over' a variable, the local variable is promoted to an instance variable and stored in an object called a closure. This allows the variable to exist long after the method call that created it has been completed, but can cause some unexpected side effects.
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The Three Religions of Rich Internet Applications
From Ajax to Silverlight, from Adobe Integrated Runtime to Flex and Flash, from JavaFX to OpenLaszlo, Rich Internet Aplications seem to be on the tip of everyone's tongue these days. What people mean when they talk about Rich Internet Applications differs. Simon Morris cuts through all that to identify a taxonomy of Rich Internet Applications, the "three distinct religions in the RIA space."
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VB Tips and Trips: Multiple Dispatch
With the plans for more dynamic programming in VBx, this is a good time to point out some of the dynamic features already available in Visual Basic. In this installment we talk about multiple dispatch.
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Microsoft Creates "Open Source Community Lead" Position
Microsoft has tapped Garrett Serack as their new Open Source Community Lead. In an attempt to move the company towards open source, Microsoft has charged him with "building and connecting Open Source Communities around Microsoft Platforms".