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• MEF Preview 6 Available – Nicholas Blumhardt announces the release of the 6th preview of the Managed Extensibility Framework, bringing it closer to RTM, and also introducing MEF for Silverlight, along with a bunch of other new features across the board.
• Office 2010: popcorn previews – Yesterday was a big Office 2010 day, with the products going into technical preview. The Inside Office Blog has a number of screencasts of the new products in action, and in the InfoPath Team’s post Install the Office 2010 Technical Preview and win an Xbox 360 Elite! they have the details of the Preview Programme and also an incentive to get it installed

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• Throw away and rebuild or refactor from within – Derik Whittaker discusses on of the great programmer debates, should you start over and rebuild a product or should you refactor it from the inside?
• A programmers secret weapon: the humble to-do list – Richard Dingwall talks about one of my favourite Programmer Productivity tips, keeping a simple to-do list.
• Using NHibernate for Legacy Databases – Jan Van Ryswyck examines some techniques for dealing with legacy databases when working with NHibernate
• Easier Multithreaded Debugging – John Robbins shares some Visual Studio macros which help make debugging multi threaded programs a little easier by allowing you to make your breakpoints stop on particular thread ids
• Building a Presentation Framework with Prism for Silverlight – John Papa talks about his presentation framework he has constructed using Prism for Silverlight, in this post exploring the concepts of the framework, with future posts to look at the actual code
• User Interface Patterns – Greg Malcolm writes up a talk he gave at ColArc looking at the common User Interface patterns in use in software development, exploring MVC, MVP, Presenter-Abstraction-Control, Hierarchical MVC, and Model-View-ViewModel.
• AspPathGuru: A little T4 love for ASP.NET WebForms – David Ebbo brings some of his T4 expertise to WebForms with a template which allows yo to load controls using LoadControl using strongly typed names rather than string filenames
• Lambda Expressions: A C# 3.0 Language Enhancement – ‘logicchild’ explores Lambda expressions in this Introductory article for CodeProject
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 2: Rich Data Query – Brad Abrams continues his series of posts updating his sample application to Silverlight 3 and the July RIA services update. In part 2 Brad looks at the data querying and retrieval, and in Part 3 explores authentication
• Why There’s Nothing Wrong With Dependency Injection in NerdDinner – Tim Barcz responds to last weeks post from Jimmy Bogard talking about the the good points of the NerdDinner Dependency Injection implementation
• Test Doubles: My current approach – Mark Needham talks about his current test double methods, looking at his uses of Stub objects, Fake Objects, mock objects and dummy objects

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