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• Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta – The Internet Explorer 9 Team announces updates to the Internet Explorer 9 Beta which addresses stability of the beta in general. This update will be distributed via the standard Windows Update process.
• David Reveman lands GPU acceleration for Moonlight – Miguel de Icaza highlights the completion of the work to add GPU acceleration to the Moonlight, the Mono port of Silverlight. David Reveman has been busy working on bringing hardware acceleration to 3D transforms, surface rendering and pixel shaders, and his changes are now available in the main source tree and daily builds.

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• Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Eight: More Exceptions – Eric Lippert continues his series looking at the C#5 Async CTP, continuing his exploration of how exceptions work, discussing 4 types of exception, exogenous, vexing, boneheaded and fatal exceptions.
• Back to Basics: Understanding IoC – John Sonmez continues his back to basics look at Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection / Inversion, and in this part focuses in the Inversion Of Control side with a look at Interface Inversion.
• BIN Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 with Razor to a Windows Server without MVC installed – Scott Hanselman discusses Bin deployment of ASP.NET MVC 3, looking at what this is, the options for doing it, and shares a neat (and unsupported) all in solution to make it easier to do this.
• Multi-lingual web applications using ASP.Net 4 – K. G. Sreeju Nair discusses the creation of webpages which are localised into English and Arabic, showing the various ASP.NET features that make this easier including local and global resources, and automatic right to left support.
• RavenDB – The Image Gallery Project (XVI) – Adding Edit Functionality (I) – Rob Ashton resumes his series on building an Image Gallery application using ASP.NET MVC and backending the system on RavenDB. This part looks at creating a rich editing experience for the records in the system.
• Working with GIF images in Windows Phone – Jaime Rodriguez discusses the decoding of GIF images on the Windows Phone 7 platform where there is no native support for this format, discussing the use of two of the most popular libraries comparing the results.
• Debugging SQL Queries, Functions, & Stored Procedures with SQL Management Studio’s Integrated Debugger – Doug Rathbone reminds us all that debugging can be performed in the database too, allowing you to step through stored procedures from within Management Studio.
• Tic-tac-toe – Phillip Trelford highlights the Visual Studio 2010 Support for creating Silverlight applications in F#, and shares a simple sample application with a suite of BDD tests in TickSpec, giving a taste of what you can learn at the F#unctional Londoners event tomorrow.
• But who’s going to set up their own email server? – Raymond Chen shares another amusing Microsoft story from the past, providing a useful reminder about trusting information from external sources.

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