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An Interview with David Starr, a Senior Program Manager in the Visual Studio ALM
David Starr, the founder of ElegantCode.com, a software craftsman, a technical and an agile instructor, talks about his new position at Microsoft, his vision of products, agility and his personal plans for future.
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Community-Driven Research: What are the most widely used .NET practices and tools?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 8th question: "What are the most widely used .NET practices and tools?". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Azure has its own Chaos Monkey
Steve Marx, founder of Site44.com, has released WazMonkey, a simple version of Netflix’s Chaos Monkey for Azure. It allows developers to test their Azure deployments in much the same manner as Chaos Monkey tests Amazon Web Services. The methodology of testing employed by both WazMonkey and Chaos Monkey randomly injects real life failure scenarios into existing cloud-based software deployments.
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WiX – Powerful Deployment For Your Apps
Visual Studio 2012 gets rid of “VS Setup” projects. However, the WiX toolset provides a strong open alternative for creating your installation packages.
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Entity Framework 6.0: Async, IQueryable Operators and Feature Improvements
According to Microsoft, Entity Framework 6.0 will provide support for async and can be implemented either using SaveChangesAsync() or ExecuteSqlCommandAsync() methods. Entity Framework 6.0 will also enable developers to perform async operations on IQueryable (IQueryable<T>) operator and can be implemented using FindAsync() and SingleAsync() extension methods.
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Entity Framework 5.0: Spatial Data Types, Performance Enhancements, Database Improvements
Entity Framework 5.0 provides support for spatial data types and can be implemented using DbGeography and DbGeometry classes. It also introduces automatic compilation of LINQ to Entities queries by translating inline LINQ queries in a cached mode. Hence, developers need not have to make use of CompiledQuery.Compile method as in previous versions.
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.NET Deadlock Detection with PostSharp
SharpCrafters, makers of the AOP framework PostSharp, have developed a drop-in deadlock detection toolkit. This toolkit works with most standard locking primitives such as Mutex, Monitor, and ReaderWriterLock with only a single line of code added to the project.
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Meet Efran Cobisi - The Developer behind Automated Email Validation Component
InfoQ interviewed Efran Cobisi, the founder of Cobisi Software based in Italy. Efran, who is the recipient of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award including several Microsoft certifications, is the developer of EmailVerify.NET, which is a powerful software component that provides an ability to automatically check the existence of an e-mail address from within an ASP.NET application.
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Reflection API Changes For Windows Store Apps
.NET API subset for Windows Store Apps is considerable smaller than the full .NET Framework 4.5. Particularly, Reflection.Emit is not available and most members in the System.Type class have been moved to the System.Reflection.TypeInfo class.
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MEF 2 Gets Symbol Package – May Come Soon For TPL DataFlow
MEF 2 and TPL Dataflow RTM were released along with .NET Framework 4.5 – and the team have now announced NuGet Symbol package for MEF. Reference Sources for TPL Dataflow may be released soon.
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ARMing .NET Developers for Windows 8
.NET Developers looking to support the ARM processor on Windows 8 have relatively few obstacles, but there are a few areas that can expose latent bugs. Microsoft has provided some new tips on how to avoid the pitfalls.
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Stepping through the precompiled assemblies with .NET Reflector
Debugging precompiled assemblies without any source code and PDB files is not easy without proper instrumentation. And Red Gate’s .NetNET Reflector is the right tool for this job. Being a class browser, decompiler and a static analyzer, it can decompile the assembly on-the-fly in Visual Studio and then step through it as if debugging an assembly with a source code.
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Using Custom Conventions In .NET
Conventions Over Configuration approach used in several places by .NET designers allow nomenclature conventions to avoid excessive configuration. While the default conventions are helpful in getting up and running quickly, it can be useful sometimes to change the default behavior. We look at a few examples.
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Microsoft Release New REST API Framework as Part of .NET 4.5
As part of the recent Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 launch, Microsoft formally unveiled its new web services framework called the ASP.NET Web API. Included as part of the ASP.NET MVC 4 offering, the open-source ASP.NET Web API is designed to simplify the development and consumption of RESTful services.
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CQRS Guidance Project On MSDN
The Patterns and Practices team at MSDN recently announced a CQRS Journey Guidance project – the project walks through building a fictional Contoso Conference Management System using DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing.