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• TIP support for any ADO.NET app – Cameron Skinner takes another look at the Tier Interaction Profiler, looking at how it works for any ADO Data access, and how it can be enabled for application types other then web applications
• Effective MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) – Geoff Cox shares 10 guidelines to help you get the most out of working with the Managed Extensibility Framework, based on his experiences working with the library and his questions to the development team.
• Coming in Autofac 2.3 – OnRelease() – Nicholas Blumhardt explains the new custom component release functionality which is being included in AutoFac 2.3, allowing the correct disposal for objects which require custom means of release beyond the standard IDisposable
• Using Ruby Classes In C# With IronRuby – Davy Brion looks at integrating Ruby classes with C# code, showing that it is relatively easy with the latest versions of IronRuby and C#4 dynamic keyword.
• My Visual Studio (with ReSharper) color settings – Krzysztof Kozmic shares his rather nice looking Visual Studio 2010 colour scheme which also makes use of the ReSharper 5.1 Color Identifiers option
• What is Functional Programming? – Christopher Bennage shares his initial learnings about Functional Programming, looking at a number of the key concepts of Functional Programming
• Mark Methods and Types as Hidden from IntelliSense and the Object Browser – Zain Naboulsi looks at the use of the EditorBrowsable attribute which allows you to control the visibility of methods and properties in the object browser and Intellisense, allowing you to hide, restrict, of always display the method.
• Why ASMX web services are not an excuse anymore with WCF 4.0 – Pablo M. Cibraro takes a look at the improvements in WCF4 which make it easy to implement an ASMX like web service with minimal effort, allowing you the easy of development of ASMX with the power and extensibility of WCF.
• Parallel Programming in F# (I.): Introducing the samples, (II.): Using PLINQ and Tasks, (III.): Aggregating data & (IV.): Financial dashboard example – Tomáš Pet?í?ek has been involved in the creation of F# ports of the samples for the Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET Patterns and Practices guide, and in these 4 posts how runs through the interesting points in the samples.

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• UK TechDays special event: keynote speech from Steve Ballmer – Rachel Collier highlights a special UK Techdays event to be held in London on the 5th October, featuring a keynote from Steve Balmer with sessions on Windows Phone 7, The Windows Azure Platform, Internet Explorer 9, and building Windows 7 Applications. Registration for the event are now open.

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