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- Feature Pack 2 is Available! – Brian Harry announces the release of the second Feature Pack for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Premium and Test editions. Feature Pack 2 includes all the goodness from Feature Pack 1 along with support for testing Silverlight applications, recording tests in Firefox, and an editor for Coded UI tests.
- Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 – Videos – Mathew Aniyan highlights videos of the new Feature Pack 2 features
- Castle Windsor/Core 2.5.2 – Krzysztof Kozmic announces the second bugfix release of Castle Windsor and Castle Core, this release addresses reported issues, along with upgrading to NLog 2 and includes a logging facility for Silverlight
- F# in MonoDevelop and cross-platform web sites & screencasts – Tomáš Pet?í?ek announces the first beta release of his F# binding for MonoDevelop which brings first class support for the F# language to the MonoDevelop IDE providing Intellisense autocompletion and the F# interactive tool window. Tomáš also shares two screencasts to help you get up and running with F# on Mono under Linux.
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- Back to (Parallel) Basics: Don’t Block Your Threads, Make Async I/O Work For You – Scott Hanselman takes a back to basics look at multi-threading with the Async CTP and the Task Parallel Library, building on an example posted by Steve Smith.
- Exploring resources, a resource programming model, and code-based configuration – Glenn Block shares an early prototype of a Resource programming model which he presented at Oredev, along with discussing the background of resource based programming
- Finalization Uncovered – Maoni shares some background on what actually happens as a part of the Finalisation Process within the CLR, including discussing the output of the windbg !finalizequeue.
- Http Processors in the WCF Web Programming Model – Pablo M. Cibraro takes a look at the newly introduced Http Processor pipeline in the WCF Web Programming Model showing where the processors operate in the request response process and discussing their use.
- The Future of F#: Type Providers – Rob Pickering reflects on Don Syme’s talk at PDC on F# Type Providers discussing their use and speculating on the future direction of the language.
- Migrating to FAKE – Mauricio Scheffer discusses his reasons for porting the 250 line MSBuild script for the SolrNet project to the FAKE build tool
- A less abrupt progress bar for Windows Phone developers – Jeff Wilcox shares another replacement Windows Phone 7 Control, this time replacing the built in progress bar with one which provides a nice finish by allowing the animation to complete smoothly before disappearing. Source and sample application are available.