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• MSDN Community CD, June 09 Release – .Net 4, VS2020, IIS SEO, Win 7 and ASP AJAX videos and more – Greg Duncan highlights the release of the MSDN Communuty CD for June 09, containing Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, along with a whole host of other goodies, including a number of screencasts too.

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• Refactoring XmlWriter – Chris Brandsma talks about some recent work he did with refactoring the use of XMLWriter in some code, using Lambda expressions to help make the code safer and easier
• Logging is not Tracing – Alois Kraus talks about the performance of the Logging Application Block from the P&P team, and how logging is different from tracing
• Getting more information than the exception class provides – Andrew Pardoe shows how you can get more information about an exception by calling Marshal.GetLastWin32Error(); to get the Windows error code for the exception, which may help with your debugging
• Y is for… Yield – Jim O’Neil reviews the yield keyword along with the collections, arrays and IEnumerable
• Open Source Framework and Library Recommendations – Eric Nelson highlights 23 Opensource frameworks and tools as a part of the latest MSDN UK Flash newsletter
• The ASP.NET MVC ActionController & The controllerless action, or actionless controller – Jeffrey Palermo weighs in on the latest debate in the ASP.NET MVC space, questioning the existence of Controllers as we know them
• I Love Code Generation – Why Don’t You? – Chris Love gives the reasons he finds code generation to be such a useful technique, and encourages the reader to give it a go.
• Inconvenient Accessibility Makes Self-Documenting Code – Sharon Cichelli talks about making the intent of your code more clear by making good use of the access modifiers available to you

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