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Software

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 First Look – At some point today Visual Studio 2010 will be released to the general public. I’m going to assume that the main site will contain a link to the download, and Charles Sterling in his post Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 Day One FAQ provides a short FAQ about the release
• Introducing Typemock Racer 1.0 – Find multithreaded deadlocks – Roy Osherove announces the release of TypeMock Racer 1.0, Typemock’s production ready equivalent of the Microsoft Research CHESS project

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• ASP.NET MVC – Poll Result, jQuery UI MVC Component Demo and More Feedback Required – Kazi Manzur Rashid shares the results from his recent poll about ASP.NET MVC and related technologies
• NHibernate – Mapping a single domain model to multiple physical data models – Ayende looks at some of the more interesting ways of achieving inheritance structures in NHibernate, looking dowan at the query level to see what is going in
• Friends Don’t Let Friends catch (Exception) – Lee Dumond talks about some of the best practices in handling exceptions.
• NHibernate Queries – Examples – Ayende provides a reference to the different ways of querying against NHibernate. If you want to try these out for yourself, check out his previous post where there is a link to the sample database and models
• Video: Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Dan Wahlin shares a video from his ASP.NET MVC 1.0 talk delivered at the Best of Mix 09 Phoenix
• Silverlight Frankenstein – Rod Paddock looks at using Silverlight, Isolated storage and Javascript technologies to provide state saving in a rich web application

VS2010 and .NET 4

• ASP 4 – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 – Scott Hanselman gives a quick tour round some of the new bits in ASP.NET 4, and in ‘ CLR and DLR and BCL, oh my! – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1‘ Scott revews some of the CLR and BCL enhancements and talks about hos it makes COM Interop easier
• .Net Framework 4.0: Using System.Lazy<T> – Gunnar Peipman looks at the new Lazy Initialisation supporting collection in .NET 4
• Tasks documentation – Daniel Moth highlights the availability of the online MSDN documentation for the System.Threading.Tasks (and indirectly the rest of the .NET 4 Framework)
• WF 4.0: Building a Hello World Sequential Workflow – Guy Burstein has a series of posts looking at the Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 based on the beta VS2010 release
• Removing Slowness from Visual Studio 2010 (Dev10) – Gary Short shares a tip which may help you gain better performance for the new VS2010 Beta when running in a virtual machine.

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• ASP.NET MVC For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Phil Haack explains why ASP.NET MVC is not included in the Visual Studio 2010 Beta release. The reason give an idea of how long it takes to get a release of something as large as VS out to the public
• Who is the responsible party? – Ayende talks about which object should be responsible for taking actions, and where the code should live for this.
• Unit Testing JavaScript with FireUnit – Stephen Walther explores the FireUnit Javascript unit testing framework created by JQuery Creator John Resig
• Preview of ReSharper for Visual Studio 2010 Coming Soon – JetBrains give a sneak peak at their upcoming release of ReSharper for Visual Studio 2010. Early releases will be made in June
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 Ships – Martin Hinshelwood explores this weeks release of Visual Studio Team Systems 2010 Beta 1. Be sure to check out Martin’s other recent posts for more details of a number of the features
• "Practical UML(tm): A Hands-On Introduction for Developers" from the Embarcadero Developer Network – Greg Duncan highlights a good introductory tutorial on UML
• MSDN Flash Podcast Pilot Show 2 for May 6th 2009 – Eric Nelson shares the second pilot edition of the MSDN Flash podcast a new initiative from the UK MSDN Flash team
• Sneak Preview: Entity Framework 4.0 Testability Improvements – Diego Vega gives some information about the changes made to the Entity Framework 4.0 to enhance its testability.
• Roadmaps for Major Products Announced at TechEd – Bruce Kyle gathers together all the TechEd information about what developer treats are on the horizon and build out a roadmap of what has been publicly announced.
• XAML in .Net 4.0: Serialization and Deserialization using XamlServices – Guy Burstein looks at XAML serialisation in .NET 4.0, reviewing the whole round trip from object to serialized content and Deserialization back to object
• Fabulous Adventures In Coding :"foreach" vs "ForEach" – Eric Lippert talks about the lack of ForEach method on sequences, looking at why it has not been implemented

Community

• Free Typemock licenses – Welcome the ASP.NET Unit Testing Bundle – Roy Osherove announces a deal for .NET Bloggers which will allow you free license(s) of TypeMock Isolator

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Software

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 available for the MSDN subscribers on Monday May 18th – Jose R. Guay Paz breaks the news that Visual Studio will reach public beta this week, being released to MSDN Subscribers today, and the general public on Wednesday.
• UppercuT – The Insanely Easy to Use Automated Build Framework – Rob Reynolds highlights UppercuT, a new automated build framework which aims to be able to be set up and running in 5 minutes. Check out Rob’s other recent posts for more detailed information about working with UppercuT
• NH Prof: Release Candidate is out – Ayende announces the release of his Release Candidate of NH Prof, the NHibernate Profiler, with some major performance improvements and a significant re-write of the internals of the program.

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• The Moth: Parallel Tasks – new Visual Studio 2010 debugger window – Daniel Moth shows off the new Parallel Task debugger support in Visual Studio 2010
• Brian’s favorite online content for learning F# – Brian McNamara shares links to some great F# related learning resources
• The always-valid entity anti-pattern – Derek Fowler follows on from Jeffrey Palermo’s recent post on the fallacy of the always-valid entity with a look at some other related anti-patterns
• T is for … Tracepoint – Jim O’Neil explores the use of Tracepoints in Visual Studio to allow you to add tracing when debugging without having calls to Trace.WriteLine throughout your code.
• Comparing a S#arp Architecture ASP.NET MVC Project to Classic ASP.NET with LINQ to SQL – Billy McCafferty compares a number of Software Development Metrics on ASP.NET MVC using S#arp and traditional Web Forms applications, with interesting results
• Localizing ASP.NET MVC – Guy Smith-Ferrier takes a look at the Localisation capabilities of ASP.NET MVC
• Why Are Mutable Value Types Even Possible? – Davy Brion explores one of the confusing compiler errors which can be caused by using value types and not realising

Community

• Next Europe VAN – 1st June 2009 – Questions for Udi Dahan – Colin Jack announces the next European Timezone Virtual Alt.NET gathering, which will feature a question and answer with Udi Dahan – get your questions in before the 25th May if you want an answer!
• LINDUG: The LinkedIn .NET Users group – Darrel Carver talks about the Linked In .NET User Group, a rapidly growing virtual usergroup which has been having a number of excellent virtual events over the past few weeks, and has a few big names in the next few.
• Happy 2nd Birthday SilverlightCream – Congratulations to the Silverlight Cream on its 2nd birthday. I don’t tend to post much on Silverlight (other than major announcements), and the Silverlight Cream is where I keep myself up to date with the more general Silverlight news.

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