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What’s new with Roslyn, Microsoft’s Compiler APIs
Roslyn is a set of libraries for handling compilation, scripting, workspaces, and IDE services. It is an extensible model with VB and C# being the first two target languages. While still far from completion, Roslyn is targeting VB 12/C# 6, this release marks a major milestone for the project.
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Microsoft Announces VS11 Lineup, Changes to Express Editions
Microsoft has announced its full Visual Studio 11 lineup, including some changes to how it manages the Express Editions. Windows XP continues to fade into the past as VS11 will provide limited support for this platform.
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MonoDevelop 3.0 – Better Code Completion, Performance, Quick-Fix Suggestions
MonoDevelop 3.0 has been released and there are several new features that focus on performance and developer productivity, especially for C# developers.
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Xamarin’s Mono for Android Now Includes a Visual Designer
Xamarin has announced a visual designer for their Mono for Android development tool integrated with Visual Studio or MonoDevelop.
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Entity Framework 5 Sample Provider
The EF team at Microsoft has announced a sample database Provider Entity Framework 5 for SQL Server, with support for some of the new EF features.
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AWS Beanstalk For .NET, RDS For SQL Server
Amazon has announced support for .NET on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and a new RDS service for SQL Server, bringing better manageability to .NET/SQL Server apps hosted on AWS.
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Hadoop And Microsoft
Want to try out Hadoop with the Microsoft Stack and figure out what capabilities this brings to you? We point to some resources that can help.
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Running Java on NET/Mono: Jeroens Frijters Discusses IKVM.NET
Microsoft's Erik Meijer recently discussed IKVM.NET with creator Jeroens Frijters to discuss the history of the project and explore how it makes running Java code on .NET and Mono possible.
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Localizing Your Windows 8 App
In the article “Develop your app for everyone–localize your UI”, Tim Heuer shows how to localize the language of a Windows 8 .NET App along with various tools that can help in the process.
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Code Analysis with Project Roslyn
Microsoft's Dustin Campbell recently presented a survey of Project Roslyn and provided a demonstration of sample code showing how the project enables Visual Studio to refactor code according to user-defined behaviors.
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Compilify – Compile .NET Code In A Browser
Compilify is an online compiler as a service, started by Justin Rusbatch, which works on top of the Roslyn CTP. Started recently, it has already received significant attention from enthusiasts, much more than the creator expected. We got in touch with Justin to understand how it works under the covers.
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Modern C++ vs Managed Code: Performance vs Productivity
Herb Sutter and Miguel de Icaza have recently weighed in on the tradeoffs made by C++ and the managed code from .NET or Java. Does increasing programmer productivity require a reduction in the performance of compiled code?
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Command Pattern In .NET
In Command Pattern, an object is used to represent and encapsulate all the information needed to call the method at a later time – method name, object that owns the method and values for the parameters. In the first part of an article series “The Command Pattern In .NET”, Eric Vogel walks through using the ICommand interface in the context of WPF applications.
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Microsoft Redefines AnyCPU for Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5
Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 are changing the default runtime platform.
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Entity Framework 5 - Performance Considerations
While Entity Framework (EF) 5 promises to bring significant performance improvements over EF 4, there are still some considerations to be aware of to use the ORM effectively – namely, View generation, Caching, auto-compiled queries, Query execution options and Design-time considerations.