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Monday, August 11, 2008 5:46 PM

Visual Studio 2008 SP1, TFS SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

As we already know, apart from bug fixes, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 includes major product enhancements such as ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and enhanced LINQ to SQL (which now supports the new date and FILESTREAM data types in SQL Server...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:31 PM

PowerTools for Open XML

One of the namespaces introduced in the .NET Framework 3.0 is System.IO.Packaging (in the WindowsBase assembly), which provides classes that support storage of multiple data objects in a single container, like a ZIP file. These data objects can be referenced...
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 5:45 PM

Where is the Configuration Management Application Block?

This is not a new topic but since this question has been asked a few times recently, here is a quick revisit: Most of the .NET applications use configuration management and that's why the basic support for configuration management has been included in...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:11 PM

WPF (70-502), WCF (70-503) and WF (70-504) Exams

As Gerry mentioned in his blog, WPF , WCF and WF exams went live on Monday last week. As you may already know, these are Technical Specialist (TS) level exams so they are added to your MCTS credentials. This is how the MCTS logo looks like when you add...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:38 PM

Expanded Interoperability Initiatives at Microsoft

Microsoft will apply changes to its technology and business practices, which will cover high-volume business products including Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and all...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:44 AM

.NET Framework Library Source Code Is Released

The .NET Framework Library source code is now released . This release allows you to browse and debug the source code for the majority of the .NET Framework class libraries like the BCL, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET and XML. Additional class libraries...
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Friday, December 07, 2007 8:21 AM

ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 is Released

You can download the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 and ADO.Net Entity Framework Tools Dec 07 CTP . This release enables the users to work with the ADO.NET Entity Framework using Visual Studio 2008 RTM and .NET Framework 3.5 RTM. It also includes bug...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:29 PM

Oslo: Practical Software Plus Services and SOA

Oslo is the code name for a set of technical investments from Microsoft that will help customers and developers in realising the full potential of SOA and software plus services. Oslo is not a single product. It is a multiprodct and multiyear effort and...
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Monday, October 22, 2007 12:28 PM

Nested Object Initializer

Somebody asked me whether the object initializers can be used to initialize non-primitive member types. This can save few lines of code for types like System.Diagnostics. Process that need their underlying properties (like StartInfo ) to be initialized...
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 10:22 PM

Slides and Source Code for "Practical WCF Revisited"

As I wrote earlier , VBUG had their annual conference earlier this week where I presented the "Practical WCF Revisited" session. The content in this presentation was related to but not the same as the one I delivered earlier this year at the...
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