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• ReSharper 3.0.2 is Out!

  Published: August 17, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Visual Studio 2008, Net 3 0, Net 2 0, Visual Studio 2005

  candidates, ReSharper 3.0.2 is finally gold and available for download.  There are separate downloads for both VS 2005 and VS 2008, satisfying the Orcas users out there.  Here’s the release notes.  Quite a lengthy list of fixes for such a quickly turned release—thanks to the entire ReSharper team for these

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• * CSharp 3.0 Language Specification released

  Published: August 21, 2007, 5:34 am

  Tags: Net 3 0, Csharp

  CSharp Team @ Microsoft has released the specification document of CSharp 3.0. Its a comprehensive document and covers all earlier versions also. It includes LINQ too. Download CSharp 3.0 Spec doc What's new in CSharp 3.0

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• Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate… 0?

  Published: September 26, 2007, 9:09 am

  Tags: Net 3 0, Microsoft, Windows Server

  VHDs still appear to be Beta 3, but I’m sure that’ll change in the coming hours.  I haven’t checked, but I’m sure these will also be released to MSDN for download as well. With both built-in virtualization (if the lawsuit from VMWare doesn’t get it yanked before the product goes gold), IIS 7.0 (.net 3.0/3.5,

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• Entity Framework Goodness

  Published: October 31, 2007, 11:45 am

  Tags: Net 3 0, Linq

  Tools, Aug 2007 CTP:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=09A36081-5ED1-4648-B995-6239D0B77CB5&displaylang=en   There is also a nice "Getting Started" piece on codeplex: Getting

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• Visual Studio 2008 RTM and Express Available!

  Published: November 19, 2007, 4:08 pm

  Tags: Net 2 0, Net 3 0, Net 3 5, Microsoft, Visual Studio 2008, Wcf, Wpf, Workflow

  includes: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0, and includes .NET Framework 2.0 service pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.0 service pack 1. .NET Framework 3.5 – Full Distribution .NET Framework 3.5 – Internet Download Distribution None of the distribution

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• New .NET Service Packs Available

  Published: November 21, 2007, 9:35 am

  Tags: Visual Studio, Net 3 0, Asp Net, Net Framework

  Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x64):http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=029196ed-04eb-471e-8a99-3c61d19a4c5a&DisplayLang=en Note that the 2.0 Service Pack is actually a full Framework install. If you uninstall .NET 2.0 SP1 (even

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• The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview --MVC, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services +

  Published: December 10, 2007, 8:28 am

  Tags: Ado Net, Ajax, Net 3 0, Asp Net, Net Framework

  new functionality to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET in 2008. The new features target MVC, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and dynamic data Supporting Test Driven Development - including a powerful and extensible MVC framework. Creating the best server for Rich Clients - including Ajax history support and Silverlight controls for ASP.NET.The

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• MSDN Code Gallery Goes Live

  Published: January 30, 2008, 12:35 pm

  Tags: Ado Net, Net 3 0, Asp Net, Net Framework, Best Practices

  work.I had something like 56,000+ downloads of the samples that I uploaded to the original gotdotnet.com User Samples, so if this thing works out nicely you can expect to see new contributions of mine there soon. Tutorials, whole projects, and more.I was finally able to log in and create a user page. W00t! It makes a nice presentation, very much

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• ReSharper 4.0 EAP Nightly Builds RELEASED!

  Published: February 15, 2008, 8:04 pm

  Tags: Net 3 0, Net 3 5, Linq, Visual Studio 2008

  nightly build of ReSharper 4.0 EAP.  These nightly builds, they warn, are VERY early releases, but get the bigs in developers hands. You can find out more information here and read the ReSharper 4.0 notes regarding C# 3.0 support here. They did add that anonymous error logs WILL NOT even be looked at, so be sure to sign up for an

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• .NET Tip of the Day

  Published: February 28, 2008, 4:46 pm

  Tags: Net 1 1, Net 2 0, Net 3 0, Net 3 5, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008

  or trick to using .NET (from using Visual Studio to performance considerations oc concatenation) and is available ala RSS (just the way I like it).  The site is clean, which is an added bonus. Check it out.   Tags: asp.net, Tip+of+the+Day

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• On Programming: Lateral vs. Vertical Thinking

  Published: February 29, 2008, 10:35 pm

  Tags: Software, Net 3 0, Thinking

  thinking techniques over 20 years ago, and I continue to find myself going "back to the Master's teaching" on a regular basis. Over 20 years ago, I once checked out from a library (and never returned) one of Dr. De Bono's first books, the dog-eared copy of which remains in my library. I'm not going to launch into a dissertation on why you

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• SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5

  Published: March 14, 2008, 2:31 pm

  Tags: Sql Server Compact, Net 3 0, Sql Server

  -- and you get this:     One of the most important selling points that astute developers will recognize here is that  you can run the ADO.NET Entity Framework (which in my opinion, at BETA 3, is getting to look quite mature)  against

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• Backwards TDD Command in VS2008?

  Published: March 28, 2008, 9:40 am

  Tags: Net 2 0, Net 3 0, Net 3 5, Enterprise Architecture, General Development, Microsoft, Standards, Visual Studio 2008

  W. Powell’s “10 Tips to Boost Your Productivity with C# and Visual Studio 2008.”  There are a few goodies in there that I’d never seen/heard of, but one just makes me twitch a bit and seems TOTALLY backwards (and I’ve never noticed the feature before now). There’s a context menu item while in

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• Using Generics to Update DataBoundControls - A Prototype

  Published: March 24, 2008, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Net 2 0, Net 3 0, Net 3 5, Enterprise Architecture, General Development, Linq, Mvc, Sql, Visual Studio 2008

  Generics, C#, .net+3.5, Performance, Optimization, Refactoring

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• Basic Benchmarking in ASP.Net

  Published: April 10, 2008, 12:07 pm

  Tags: Net 2 0, Net 3 0, Net 3 5, Microsoft, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008

  Reports.GetAllBy(123465789, 3, “2007-2008″); bench.Stop();             bench.Start(); Reports.GetAllBy(123456789, 4, “2007-2008″); bench.Stop(); When I load up the page, I see the trace log: Cool, and I won’t rewrite this NEXT time. Tags: Benchmark,

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