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CaptainHook, Free .NET Hook Manager For Subversion Released
Veloc-it has built a new plugin (hook) framework in .NET, CaptainHook, for those using the Subversion version control system. Subversion "hooks" are scripts that are triggered when a particular version control event happens, such as committing a set of changes. These hooks execute by defeault as perl scripts, but CaptainHook allows a .NET application to be run for more complex processing needs.
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Reviews Mixed on Google's New Project Hosting Service
Last week Google announced a new hosting service for open-source projects. Developer comments around the web have been mixed. Some developers have been impressed with the service while others feel underwhelmed.
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Microsoft to Release NDoc Killer
According to an MSDN Forums post, Microsft is preparing to release a Community Tech Preview (CTP) of Sandcastle (Documentation Compiler), its answer to NDoc, the open-source generator for documentation from XML code comments.
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.NET Live from Redmond Presentations Coming in Aug/Sept
The .NET product teams at Microsoft have announced a second series of Live Meeting presentations for .NET developers, "Live From Redmond", taking place throughout August and September. The presentations are technical in nature, rather than a marketing pitch for various new Microsoft products, as they come directly from the Product Team members at Microsoft.
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Microsoft Acquires Winternals: Good or Bad News for Developers?
Microsoft has acquired Winternals, the company behind windows tool site Sysinternals.com which hosts dozens of low-level system tools for monitoring and security, including the popular Process Explorer, Filemon, and Regmon. Will application developers be helped or harmed by this merger?
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Best Practices for Planet-Scale Software Updates
A new Microsoft research paper has examined data from billions of Windows update queries from 300 million computers using the Windows update service in order to learn about the traffic characteristics of software patch distribution and also examine alternative architectures (P2P and caching) to support planet-scale software updating.
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Use Modeling to Communicate Between IT and Business
Communicating business requirements, operations structures, and technical solutions between IT and business people with different backgrounds has always been a challenge. The first book in the Architect Resource Library from the Microsoft Architectural Strategy Team shows how to use models to overcome this challenge: Dynamic Modeling: Aligning Business and IT.
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SharpDevelop Version 2 Released
The SharpDevelop team has released SharpDevelop 2.0 final, the open-source IDE for .NET development. This release add integrated debugging support, the "Go to Definition" option, "Find References", and support for several common refactorings.
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Ruby Support in Visual Studio Coming
The project known as "Sapphire in Steel" will provide users of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 with support for programming using Ruby and Ruby on Rails within their IDE.
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Borland to Sell Java and .NET IDE Business
Borland is getting close to finding a buyer for it's IDE business which includes JBuilder, Delphi, C#Builder, and C++Builder. The company announced it's intention 5 months ago that it wanted to sell it's IDE tools and Interbase business, and claims to have received 12 enquiries of interest.
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Avoid 10 ASP.NET Pitfalls
Jeff Prosise, renowned author/trainer and co-founder of Wintellect, has written an article in the July issue of MSDN Magazine outlining 10 common pitfalls ASP.NET developers fall prey to. This article is a must-read for ASP.NET developers. Jeff's suggestions range from performance tips, to techniques to avoid obscure errors that could cost days or weeks of debugging time, to database profiling.
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TestDriven.NET Releases Professional and Enterprise Editions
The previously-free automated unit testing add-in for Visual Studio .NET, TestDriven.NET, now charges licensing fees for its use beyond the Personal edition. Note that the Personal edition is fully-featured and does not expire.
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Reflection and DynamicMethods
While most .NET developers have heard of reflection, many have not implemented reflection in their applications to its fullest potential. Essentially, reflection is the run-time examination of an object's members. One article provides sample code and a few suggested uses for reflection, including ORM and code generation, and discusses the new, faster DynamicMethods approach in .NET 2.0
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ThoughtWorks Responds to $43M Lawsuit Rumours
"We are not for sale; we are not closing our doors," ThoughtWorks told InfoQ. For the last 3 years TW has been in negotiations in and out of court over $43M owed to Schroder Venture Partners. Rumours circulated over the weekend that TW would have to sell itself after a Dow Jones article claimed that a recent court order 'forced' TW to repay Schroder.
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One Week Left to Apply for Microsoft Certified Architect Program
The Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) program has proceeded past its initial beta and is accepting additional appolicants for its final pre-launch stage, but interested applicants must apply by July 14th to be considered for this round.