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Richard Turner has written a new article providing guidance on technologies and creating distributed systems today that will be able to work in future environments, such as when Indigo is released. In addition to overall guidance on which technology to use, the paper also discusses new features that will be available in Indigo that justify that guidance.
Castle MonoRail is a MVC web framework initially inspired by Ruby on Rails. In this release we improved our helpers (AJAX, effects, validations, html commons), added support for resources and i18n and added some juicy features like DataBind, Routing and Scaffolding.
James Newkirk, the creator of NUnit, has released an early version of a conversion tool for moving NUnit tests to Visual Studio Team System (Beta 2). The conversion tools supports NUnit v2.1.4 and some of the features for v2.2 and currently only works with C# code.
Has your love of .NET become an obsession keeping you up late at night looking through IL? Do you organize your trash into generations for garbage collection? Just how many tables will fit into a DataSet? If the answer to any of these is yes, you might be a .NET Geek.
A group of "inventors" have filed a patent on systems of mapping data structures (AKA ORM) using XML or other structures that run on a computer.
Lately it seems like every developer to ever code a Singleton pattern has donned the title of "Architect". What skills and experience make up a real .NET architect? How much should they know about competitive technologies? What does an architect do? We want to know what you think!
Rocky Lhotka challenges the common concept of contract based services for their inflexibility, particularly with regards to service versioning. His idea instead is to create a covenant based on the semantic contract allowing for maximum flexibility in terms of interaction and loose coupling.
Microsoft Learning Lead Product Manager Al Valvano discussed some of the details of the upcoming Microsoft Certified Architect program. This certification will require much more than a few tests including oral presentations, written submissions, and a peer panel review.
Not every task performed during development can be done in Visual Studio. Do you model your system using Visio or Rose? Do you run source code analysis using FxCop or perhaps a customized build tool like NAnt? What tools make up your development experience? Will your use of these tools change with Visual Studio Team System?
In a stunning press release today, Microsoft officially announced that the upcoming Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 delays have been caused by a last minute push to port the tools and the .NET Framework to Unix. Supported technologies will include Indigo, Avalon, and the long awaited Object Spaces ORM toolset.
Microsoft has numerous certification programs with more on the way. The purpose of the program is to give professionals a way to distinguish themselves and their experience as well as giving prospective employers a means to validate a persons skills with Microsoft technology. But does a Microsoft certification really mean that you have the skills? Do employers really care about certification?
In this article by Griffin Caprio, the current concepts of software reuse are dashed in deference to a software factory model. He then gives an overview of the tools and pieces that make up a software factory.
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Speaking at EclipseCon 2006, Java developer and independent consultant Madhu Siddalingaiah compared Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE to the open source development environment of Eclipse.
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In this tech talk, Microsoft's Peter Provost talks about the design of the Composite UI Application Block and how the p&p team has led Microsoft in the adoption of Agile methodologies.
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Chapter 4 of Framework Design Guidelines, titled "Type Design Guidelines," presents patterns that describe when and how to design classes, constructs and interfaces. In this chapter, Abrams and Cwalina divide types into four groups and discuss the do's and don'ts of type design.
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July 07, 2006)
Paul Ferrill caught up with prime open-source .NET applications driver Miguel De Icaza at Novell's BrainShare conference last week. They discussed the status of Windows Forms for Mono (it's coming along) and VB.NET for Mono (it looks like it's out).
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March 30, 2006)
In this tech talk, Microsoft Visual Studio architect Jack Greenfield discusses the company's approach to Domain-Specific Languages, or DSLs, and the part they play in software factories.
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