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Lohith Nagaraj05/16/12
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Michael Crump — XAML Advocate, Telerik — Uncut & Unedited

Michael Crump is being interviewed on this episode of the Uncut & Edited videocast. He talks about XAML, Windows 8, Windows Phone and Silverlight.

Anders Abel05/16/12
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Simplify Syntax with Extension Methods

Anders Abel explains the benefit of using extension methods, that were first introduced with LINQ in C#3.0, in various parts of your C# application.

Robert Maclean05/15/12
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.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 5: Some More Interesting Blocks

Robert Maclean continues his series on new and improved .NET 4.5 capabilities. Today he is discussing TransformBlock and BroadcastBlock.

Merrick Chaffer05/14/12
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Virtualization in WPF with VirtualizingStackPanel

Merrick Chaffer shows how to improve content stacking performance with VirtualizingStackPanel in WPF. He managed to figure out how to get virtualization to actually behave itself in a ListBox WPF control.

Jeremy Likness05/15/12
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The Task: Async and Await in a Windows Runtime World

Jeremy Likness shows some examples of async activity implemented in a Metro application, through the Task class.

Greg Duncan05/14/12
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Xamarin Designer for Android Now Avaiable for Visual Studio and MonoDevelop

Xamarin, the company behind the Mono framework, is releasing a visual application designer that allows developers to easily build applications for Android on top of Mono.

Daniel Mohl05/13/12
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Introducing Fog: A Library for Interacting with Azure from F#

Fog is a library that makes it easier to use F# to interact with Windows Azure through the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. It provides functions for many of the common activities related to table storage, blob storage, and queue storage as well as service bus queues and topics.

Sasha Goldshtein05/13/12
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“Fitting” Performance into the Software Development Lifecycle

Where do you fit performance in the software development lifecycle? This innocent question carries the mind baggage of having to retrofit performance into an existing process.

Den Delimarsky05/12/12
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Image Cropping In Windows 8 Metro Applications

Den Delimarsky shows how it is possible to crop an image in a Metro application, built on top of the managed WinRT APIs.

Martin Hinshelwood05/12/12
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Process Template Upgrade #7 – Overwrite Retaining History With Limited Migration

Martin Hinshelwood continues his series on TFS data migration. In option #7, he basically overwrites the old work items with new ones.

Jeremy Likness05/12/12
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The Task: Events, Asynchronous Calls, Async and Await

Jeremy Likness explains the WinRT asynchronous action model through the Task class, that took over the most frequently used .NET 4 async concepts.

Jeff Blankenburg05/11/12
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Want Your App To Be Available In The Windows 8 Marketplace?

If you want to have your Windows 8 application available on launch date, there are several steps you can take. Jeff explains one way to accomplish this task.

Robert Maclean05/11/12
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.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 4: BatchedBlocks

Where ActionBlock could only be a subscriber, BatchBlock is more than that – it can be a subscriber and a publisher rolled into one. Details inside this article.

Greg Duncan05/10/12
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Portable Library Tools 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2010 Released

Microsoft announced the Beta release of the Portable Library Tools 2 for Visual Studio 2010. It adds support for building portable libraries targeting more recent platforms, scoped to those features supported by Visual Studio 2010.

Robert Maclean05/10/12
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.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 3: IDataFlowBlock

A new interface in .NET 4.5 is the IDataFlowBlock, which is implemented in many interesting ways, so to look at those Robert Maclean starts off with the simplest implementation.

Robert Maclean05/09/12
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.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 2: Task Timeout Cancellation

Robert Maclean continues his series on .NET 4.5. Today he is talking about task cancellation capabilities that are tied to various async calls.

Greg Duncan05/09/12
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Visual Studio 11 Getting Some UI Updates in The RC Build

As developers requested, Visual Studio 11 introduces some changes to the UI with the RC build, one of them being color icons in the main workspace.

Michael Ceranski05/08/12
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Using PowerShell to Publish a NuGet Package

NuGet packages are not necessarily installed through the package manager - those can also be installed with the help of PowerShell. Here is how.

Robert Maclean05/08/12
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.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 1: ThreadLocal

Robert Maclean discusses some of the aspects of threaded development in .NET 4.5, specifically about the ThreadLocal - a class for that provides thread-local storage of data.

Tim Murphy05/08/12
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Some Thoughts on SharePoint

The main gripe this writer has is that, with the current iteration of SharePoint, you still need to develop on a server instance, which can be a serious barrier for new developers.

Anders Abel05/08/12
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Keep it Simple by Using LINQ to SQL

Originally developed by the .NET framework team, LINQ to SQL does a 1-to-1 mapping between database structure and classes in the code.

Jerry Nixon05/07/12
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Internet Explorer Continues Its Reign Over Firefox, Chrome, and Safari According to 2012 Q1 Data

Jerry Nixon talks about the leading trend of users adopting Internet Explorer as their main web browser over its competitors.

Erik Ejlskov Jensen05/07/12
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Visual Studio 11 beta - Tooling for SQL Server Compact

Erik Jensen talks about the tooling available in Visual Studio 11, targeting developers who plan on working with SQL Server Compact.

Michael Crump05/06/12
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A XAML Guy Digs Into ASP.NET MVC4

Michael Crump documents his temporary transition to ASP.NET development. He compares his steps to the regular XAML workflow.

Paul Stack05/06/12
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Spoofing the Host Entry in a HTTPWebRequest

Paul Stack shows how some simple HttpWebRequest modifications allowed him to make multiple requests to different versions of the same site.