The Silverlight 4 Release Candidate – René Schulte highlights the MIX10 announcement of the release of the Silverlight 4 Release candidate, sharing a high level overview of the new features in version 4. Tim Heuer joins in with his post A guide to what has changed in the Silverlight 4 RC – in which he provides the key lnks to download the tools and takes a more detailed look at a number of the new features. ‘snoutholder’ also highlights the release of Silverlight 4 RC documentation available online or as an offline takeaway CHM in the post Docs for Silverlight 4 RC now available
Enterprise Library 5.0 is near: Beta 2 is out! – Grigori Melnik shares the news of the second beta release of the Enterprise Library 5.0. This release includes a substantial number of bugfixes and some improvements to the configuration tool.
VsVim Update Released (Version 0.7.2) – Jared Parsons announces the latest release of VsVim his VIM emulation for Visual Studio provided by way of a Visual Studio Extension. This release responds to user requirements and bugfixes, and has full source available on GitHub
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What is map/reduce for, anyway? – Ayende continues on from his previous visual explanation of Map/Reduce with a look at some of the situations where the map/reduce pattern is applicable, and others where it is not
SubSonic Migrations Without SubSonic – Rob Conery talks about the changes made to SubSonic migrations, and why they aren’t included in SubSonic 3, showing how they have been moved into their own project and are now open to use by anyone regardless if they use SubSonic.
Prism, A Look Ahead – The Patterns & Practices Client Team set out their plans for a Prism Version 4 release in September 2010, and talking about their testing and findings of running Prism 2.1 on .NET 4 / Silverlight 4 Release candidates.
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Index – Brad Abrams kicks off an updated series of posts on Silverlight RIA applications updated for the Version 4 Release candidate. The linked post is the index, and so far 3 parts out of 15 have been completed.
Poll on Entity Framework 4 – one year on – Eric Nelson re-issues his Entity Framework 4 poll for 2010 to provide a comparison set of results against those provided in 2009 to see how far the platform as come in terms of knowledge and awareness.
Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Three – Eric Lippert shares the 3rd part in his series of posts on naming of classes in namespaces talking about the process of creating naming hierarchies and why we as humans do it, along with why having an interior node with the same name as a parent represents a failure of classification.