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• SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: Linq Has Landed – Rob Conery announces the first preview release of SubSonic 3.0 which promises a huge range of improvements over version 2, not least support for Linq. In this post Rob walks through the setup, and getting started and the new features. A download link is provided at the end of the post so you can have a play with the preview.
• Papercut – Easy Email Testing – Scott Watermasysk highlights Papercut, a simple SMTP Server which captures the messages which are passed to it and displays them in a GUI rather than actually sending them – great when you need to test email sending without actually wanting to send to an actual recipient.

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• Code Contracts for .NET 4.0 – Spec# Comes Alive – Matthew Podwysocki introduces the new Code Contracts Library and shows it in use in a simple example
• Transforming Tree Surgeon using the Adaptive Console Framework – Bil Simser talks about improving the command line utility part of Tree Surgeon by using the Adaptive Console Framework to process his command line functionality.
• Visual Studio Tip: Debugging Hints – Kevin Babcock shares some debugging tips, looking at a few of the new debugging features in VS 2008 SP1
• IE7 user agent bug – Vladimir Enchev highlights an interesting bug which is likely to be on the increase given the huge amount of information being crammed into the User Agent string these days.
• Be careful with optional parameters in C# 4.0 – Jan Van Ryswyck highlights some potentially surprising behaviour of derived types and optional parameters
• How to Use Visual Studio jQuery IntelliSense Supported Through Hotfix – Bill Beckelman talks about the hotfix for Visual Studio that adds support for -vsdoc.js documentation files for JavaScript code allowing you to get full intellisense for JavaScript without having to pollute your actual JS files.
• The F# "ref" type – Brian, who is on the F# Team, talks about one of the less used F# types, showing how it works, and posing a related C# puzzle at the end.
• Fine Grained Parallelism – Daniel Moth talks about Fine Grained Parallelism and how your code should allow the framework to be able to take as much advantage of the underlying hardware available
• Hiding generated code from Code Analysis, Metrics and Test Coverage – Terje Sandstrom looks at the behaviour of a couple of attributes when it comes to hiding code from code analysis and metrics.
• Demeter’s law (suggestion) and tell don’t ask – Part 1 – Sriram Narayan looks a Demeter’s Law and illustrates it in practice with a short code sample.
• Converting VS2010 CTP to Hyper-V – Grant Holliday shares the steps to enable you to run the Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4.0 CTP Virtual PC image in HyperV, allowing you to make use of more of your physical PC hardware.

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