InfoQ Homepage News
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F# 3.0 – LINQ + Type Providers = Information Rich Programming
Microsoft recently announced a developer preview release of F# 3.0 – new features include LINQ-support through Query expressions and a Type Provider System along with a set of built-in providers that allow succinct programming against a variety of data sources.
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MaintainJ 3.2 Released With Multiple Enhancements
MaintainJ, a reverse engineering tools that provides runtime sequence and class diagrams for Java codebases, has released version 3.2</a> with multiple enchancements. MaintainJ is Eclipse-based and works on any IDE that is built on Eclipse platform.
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C#, VB.NET To Get Windows Runtime Support, Asynchronous Methods
C# and VB.NET will soon be getting new features like Windows Runtime Support, Asynchronous Methods, Caller Info attributes and more. Also, compiler will get APIs which will expose what the compiler knows about the code to the IDE and the developers.
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Interview with Spring Social Lead Craig Walls
Following on from the recent release of Spring Social, InfoQ caught up with Craig Walls, lead of the project. The interview covered the current state of the project, as well as the community involvement since its release.
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JavaScript Extension that Adds Parallel Processing Capabilities Unveiled by Intel
JavaScript, the language that powers the Web, has mainly remained sequentially, although parallel processing capabilities are currently available even on mobile devices. Intel Labs has been working on an extension of JavaScript that takes advantage of multi-core systems and has released a Firefox plugin.
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SEI Releases Smart Grid Maturity Model Update
At the GridWeek 2011 Conference the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at the Carnegie-Mellon-University has released an update 1.2 of its Smart Grid Maturity Model (SGMM).
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Count Bug Fixes Towards Velocity? Depends …
There have been numerous arguments and debates in the past on whether bug fixes should be counted towards velocity. There does not seem to be a 'one' right answer. However, Agilists have some recommendations describing situations in which they should be added, how they should be added and where they could be avoided.
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Designing Loosely Coupled Metro Applications with URIs
Protocols allow applications to launch other applications using URIs much as you would launch a website. This allows you to build a collection of small work-flow centric applications that work together seamlessly.
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Sencha Touch 2: What to expect
Sencha has announced that it will be releasing the beta version of Sencha Touch 2 in October and has presented the key new features, which include native packaging and performance improvements.
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Application Lifecycle Management in Team Foundation Server 11
Team Foundation Server 11 has added many features in the area of Application Lifecycle Management. Some of the highlights include support for code reviews, iterations/sprints, resource allocation, third part testing frameworks, and a much more capable dependency graph.
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Windows Azure News: Support for Windows 8, SDK 1.5, Storage Replication and Others
Microsoft has announced at the BUILD conference a number of new tools for developing applications that interact with the cloud: Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8, Windows Azure SDK 1.5, Windows Azure Marketplace, Replication for Windows Azure Storage, Service Bus September Release, and Windows Azure Service Management API.
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Facebook and Heroku Announce Partnership
Today, Facebook and Heroku announced an integration between the their respective developer platforms that simplifies the development of Facebook Apps. With just a few clicks, you can select your language and configure which type of App you want to develop (Web Site, Canvas or Page Tab).
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Visual Studio 11 Preview is Now Available
The Visual Studio 11 preview is now available for MSDN subscribers with a general release planned in the next few days. Here is a brief summary of the features they are showing off at Build.
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MonoDevelop 2.6 Adds Git, Mac Support
Version 2.6 of MonoDevelop, the open-source IDE for .NET and Mono development, includes several new features, the most notable of which are Git integration and support for the Mac platform via the MonoMac add-in.
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C# and Visual Basic on the WinRT API
While Win32 APIs can be called from .NET languages, doing so can be quite difficult. So for the last two year Microsoft has been building a replacement known as Windows Runtime or WinRT with cross-language support in mind. WinRT components can be created in both C++ and .NET and may be consumed by both of those as well as JavaScript.