Silverlight 4 Gets Top Requested Features
The immediate release of Silverlight 4 Beta was just announced at Microsoft's PDC conference. The new version comes on the heels of Silverlight 3,... more »
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PDC09 Keynote Day 2 – Silverlight 4.0 and Free Laptops
Say goodbye to WinForms, WPF, and maybe even AJAX. Today Scott “The Gu” Guthrie took the stage and blew everyone away with the extensive desktop-app... more »
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Programming
This is a fairly good book. It's not an IDE extensive guide as I had expected, but is great for introducing newcomers who wish to elevate into expert... more »
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10 Best Features of Silverlight 4
Yesterday, on November 18, 2009, at the Professional Developer’s Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft released a new version of Silverlight Beta 4.... more »
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Moving From Challenge to Opportunity: Microsoft Empowers the Future of Application Development
As developers face a rapidly evolving computing environment, Microsoft helps them create applications that can be deployed across a number of... more »
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PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie
Scott started talking about Silverlight 3 and its new features that shipped several months. Specifically, Scott discussed the SketchFlow tool for... more »
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Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control with ASP.NET MVC
As you delve more into ASP.NET MVC you start to come across a whole new way of doing things that Web Forms development didn't really expose you to.... more »
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.NET Reflection Made Fast & Simple – Fasterflect 1.1 Release
Fasterflect is an open-source library which simplifies the task of performing .NET reflection invocations while being from 10 to a few hundred times... more »
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Azure to Feature App Marketplace
Mirosoft just announced that the Windows Azure cloud computing platform is now generally available in beta form. The announcement was made at this... more »
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19
Big announcements at the Devoxx and PDC conferences. At Devoxx Mark Reinhold said that Java 7 would be getting closures. At the Microsoft PDC... more »
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Microsoft ASP.NET MVC - Why Java web developers should reconsider action frameworks?
Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC is a paradigm shift in web development from its pioneering component based development offered with WebForms to action based... more »
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Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features
At the Microsoft Professional Developer (PDC) conference, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Beta. WHAT?!
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Microsoft donates .NET Micro Framework to open source
Microsoft has released part of its .NET Framework - the part for internet-connected smart devices - into the open-source community. The company... more »
Enhance your .NET applications for Windows 7
Learn how to exploit the full range of new Windows 7 features direct from your .NET code, including jumplists, tabbed thumbnails, sensor platform APIs... more »
A Quick Rundown of PDC 2009 Day 1 Announcements
Microsoft kicked off Day 1 of its Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2009 with a keynote by Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia. Here are the highlights of... more »
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Understanding Go
Go, a new language from Google, has created quite a stir. It represents a radical break from some trends, a reenforcement of others. Why keep a very... more »
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17
The Red Hat Summit and JBoss world conferences have set their dates for 2010. The Android 2.0 OS has finally been opened to devlopers and IBM has... more »
Azure Summary
I was asked today, “what’s this whole ‘Microsoft Azure’ thing about?” I haven’t done anything with Azure, EC2, or Google Apps Engine, but why let my... more »
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Calling unmanaged DLL functions from C#
There are two ways that C# code can directly call unmanaged code: Directly call a function exported from a DLL or Call an interface method on a COM... more »
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Microsoft open sources .NET Micro Framework
Microsoft has 3 .Net flavors, the complete stack, the .Net Compact Framework and the .Net Micro Framework for extremely resource-constrained devices.... more »
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Multi-Threaded K-Means Clustering in .NET 4.0
A little while back I gave a presentation on the some of the new parallel features of .NET 4.0. One of the demos I had prepared was a K-Means... more »
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Partitioning Data Using LINQ
We often come across requirements where data needs to be partitioned into two parts and then return one of the parts. The Partition Operators in LINQ... more »
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What every developer should know about character encoding
If you write code that touches a text file, you probably need this. It start off with two key items 1.Unicode does not solve this issue for... more »
The Open/Closed Principle - A real world example
Out of the five SOLID principles the Open/Closed principle is probably the one that I've had the hardest time understanding. Recently, while creating... more »
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Tips for ORM Data Access
In my last post I took a stab at Lazy Loading data access, and pointed out a concrete example of why I don’t like it. As with anything there are... more »
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