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Feature Specifications for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework
Last week Microsoft released the feature specifications for the .NET Framework codenamed "Orcas" and the next version of Visual Studio. Among the more notable additions comes multi-targeting across versions of the .NET Framework, a feature that was noticeably absent from Visual Studio 2005.
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F#: Two Remarkable Years
The functional programming language F# was first announced by Don Syme of Microsoft Research in 2005. Two years after its release, it has already made significant progress towards becoming mainstream. One of its most noteworthy achievements is that it was used by the DOE Joint Genome Institute to create Darren Platt calls "the fastest genome assembly viewer I've ever seen".
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Mono Migration Analyzer
Can I run my application on Mono? For developers considering writing cross-platform .NET applications, this is an important question. With the Mono Migration Analyzer, it can be answered.
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In Case You Missed It: App_Offline.Htm
From time to time operations may find the need to bring down an entire ASP.NET web site for maintenance. And of course a warning message indicating how long the maintenance will take would be useful. ASP.NET 2.0 makes this easy with the magic file known as App_Offline.htm.
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SQL Server Always-On Solution Review Program
When building a mission critical database, a lot of attention needs to be paid to the hardware. Simply getting the fastest drives isn't enough if those drives cannot be hot swapped or corrupt data whenever the power fails. Fortunately Microsoft has created a program for choosing the correct storage mechanism.
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Debugging Tools: Hawkeye
If you ever needed to take a peek at a running application, you know that the debugger can be overkill, especially if the source code isn't available. With Corneliu Tusnea's Hawkeye, you can take a peek and even tweak a few things in an easy to use GUI.
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O/R Mapping, Caching, and Performance
One of the common misconceptions about Object/Relational Mapping (O/R Mapping) frameworks is that they give developers caching for free and that caching improves performance. While O/R Mapping frameworks do rely on caching, improved performance isn't in the cards.
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Tutorial: Using FitNesse with .NET
Gojko Adzic has published a short tutorial on using FitNesse to automate acceptance tests for .NET applications.
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Support for Zip Files Still Lacking In .NET 3.0
The ability to use file compression like the venerable ZIP format is very important to many developers. For those developers using.NET, that means dropping to command shell or using a third-party component. With .NET 3.0, there is built-in support for ZIP files, though the implementation is somewhat questionable.
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GigaSpaces 5.2: Adds support for Spring, .NET, local-views
GigaSpaces this month released version 5.2 of their in-memory datagrid and space-based architecture suite, now bringing it's capabilities to the .NET world, as well as adding support for Spring, SQL-based continuous queries and local-views, and special support for "slow consumers". InfoQ spoke to GigaSpaces CTO Nati Shalom to find out more.
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Run Multiple Versions of IE on one PC
With the release of Internet Explorer 7 (IE), web developers once again need to test multiple versions of IE. Unlike other browsers like FireFox, IE is a system component for the Windows operating system. This makes running multiple versions side-by-side very difficult. Yousif Al Saif's Multiple IE installer makes that pain go away.
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Using Regular Expressions in SQL Server Integration Services
Jamie Thomson demonstrates how to use .NET scripts in a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) pipeline to add Regular Expression support.
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Debate: JSON vs. XML as a data interchange format
The debate about JSON vs. XML as a data interchange format has begun in blogspace, following JSON inventor and architect at Yahoo Douglas Crockford's talk at XML 2006 JSON, the fat-free alternative to XML. Microsoft's XML head Mike Champion weighed in, as well as Sun's Tim Bray and many others.
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Improve HTML Editing Performance in Visual Studio
Visual Studio 2005 does a lot of things in the background, including continuous HTML validation. This can really drag down the system and make editing a pain, so Scott Guthrie has offered some tips.
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Save Time While Installing VS SP1
SP1 for Visual Studio can take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours to install. Jon Galloway has collected some tips on reducing this time.