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• Cacheman – a fast distributed hashtable for Windows – Sriram Krishnan announces Cacheman, a MemCached style out of process distributed cache
• DotNetOpenId 0.1.1 has been released – David Christiansen tells of the latest release of this Open ID library

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• Notification Services in SQL Server 2008 – Not so much… (Notification Services are gone from SQL Server 2008. Dead, gone, no more, say goodbye, etc, etc) – Greg Duncan gathers the news on the demise of Notification Services – looks like Reporting services is going to provide that functionality from now on!
• SQL Cache Dependencies – Greg Low talks about cache invalidation for the ASP.NET Cache
• Just Do it! Parallel.Do in ParallelFX – Using ParallelFX to gain performance boosts for sorting and making web service calls. There seems to be real advantages in doing this stuff!
• High-Performance Stopwatch – I usually find the built in StopWatch sufficient, however this looks like a useful tip for when it isn’t
• Writing less code: The "else" statement – A very simple code sample sparks some interesting debate in the comments. I personally only like 1 return statement per method, although for very short methods like this it seems fine
• Profiling ASP.NET Applications Running on IIS with NCover – The folks over at NCover show how you can use Selenium to test your ASP.NET site and obtain code coverage reports using NCover
• .NET 3.5 Brings BREAKING Changes to ThreadPool – Michael C. Kennedy warns of some potentially breaking changes in the ThreadPool
• TDD Considered Harmful? – The Test Driven Development (TDD) vs Plain Old Unit Tests (POUT) debate rages on. This article discusses the subversion of ‘unit testing’ resources into Test Driven Development resources

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The big news this weekend seems to be about Silverlight 2, other than that it seems things have been quite quiet.

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• First Look at Silverlight 2 – ScottGu tells all about the forthcoming Silverlight 2 Beta, along with links to an 8 part tutorial on building a Digg Client using Silverlight 2
• IoC and the Unity Application Block – Going Deeper – Matthew Podwysocki continues his coverage of the Unity IOC application block – this time comparing it with Windsor
• Reviewing Unity – Ayende reviews the functionality offered by Microsoft’s Unity IOC framework
• Implementing Deep Cloning via Serializing objects – Stephen Inglish reviews the Binary Serialisation method of deep cloning objects
• Extension Methods D’oh! Moment – Pete Brown talks about a problem he had with extension methods on Color due to it being a struct
• Ayende’s Design Guidelines: Rule #1 – Ayende offers up some advice on providing alternative overloads for Generic Methods.
• Announcing ASP.NET MVC in Action (from Manning) – Jeffrey Palermo announces the availability of the first few chapters of the book he is writing with Dave Verwer and Ben Scheirman on the new ASP.NET MVC framework
• Do SharePoint Developers Want a Developer Version of SharePoint? – Bil Simser puts out feelers to see if there is a demand for a developer edition of SharePoint
• NServiceBus – Enterprise .NET Communications Framework – Udi Danan gives the NServiceBus project a shiny new website all of its own
• Version numbers in a compiled assembly – Details on using AssemblyInfo.cs/vb to add version numbers to your assemblies, and also an explanation of how Visual Studio generates build and revision numbers.

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• DSA 0.4 released! – The latest release of the Data Structure and Algorithms library adds QuickSort, Unordered Set, Heap, ShellSort, InsertionSort, RepeatedWordCount and ToBaseN.
• CI Factory 1.0.1 – Jay Flowers announces the release of the CI Factory 1.0.1, a maintenance build on the recently release V1.0.0 – which I somehow missed.

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• LINQ Terminology 101 for DBAs and Others Puzzled – Greg Low gives brief explanations of what the different bits of LINQ actually are.
• Automated UI Testing with Project White – Bil Simer starts playing with Project white testing a simple winforms test application
• Adventures in F# – F# 101 Part 2 – Matthew Podwysocki continues his F# Series talking about the practice of Currying
• The Art of Currying – Currying, this time in the C# World, using .NET 2.0
• Introduction to F# Active Patterns – Chris Smith reviews the F# feature known as Active Patterns.
• LINQ To SQL Samples – The official Microsoft 101 LINQ to SQL Samples in VB (Thanks for the link Simon)
• Versioning Issues With Abstract Base Classes and Interfaces – Phil Haack explains the reasoning behind the change from the IHttpContext interface to the HttpContextBase abstract bas class.
• Abstract Base Classes Have Versioning Problems Too – Phil Haack continues his discussion about abstract base classes with a part 2
• Re: Versioning Issues With Abstract Base Classes and Interfaces – Oren Eini (Ayende) follows up on Phil Haack’s discussions – talking about breaking changes to API’s and Framework Design Guidelines.

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