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• Update: Process Explorer v14 – The Sysinternals team announce a new major update to the Process Explorer tool. This new version introduces disk and network monitoring, further memory and CPU statistics and much more.
• Sync Framework 4.0 October 2010 CTP Refreshed on 11/16 – Sreedhar Pelluru of the Sync Framework Team highlights the release of a CTP refresh whcih brings two new features to the framework, a wizard UI for working with SyncSvcUtil and a sample application for the iPhone showing how to build offline applications on that platform.
• SharpVectors – SVG# Reloaded: An Introduction – Paul Selormey discusses his SharpVectorGraphics (AKA SVG#) library which is a project on CodePlex which aims to provide libraries for working with SVG on Windows and WPF.

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• Updates to the Microsoft CDN – Scott Hunter gives an update on the status of the Microsoft CDN which now hosts jQuery 1.4.3 and 1.4.4 along with the VSDocs for Visual Studio Intellisense, along with announcing a new (non Microsoft.com) additional domain for accessing the CDN.
• Essential JavaScript And jQuery Design Patterns – A Free New Book – Addy Osmani has released a Free e-book on JavaScript and jQuery Design Patterns, available to read online or to download (in a download which includes design pattern quick reference sheets from Jason MacDonald and a copy of the Dzone Reference Card for Design Patterns.
• jQuery Selectors (Basic and Basic Filters) – Bipin Joshi takes a look at the wealth of features provided in jQuery to allow you to select elements in the HTML page, looking at the use of the 8 major groups of selectors.
• Supercomputing 2010 – Somasegar shares some of the news from Microsoft from the SuperComputing 2010 conference, that Azure can now be used to supplement the computing power of your on-site HPC Server instances.
• Top 7 Coding Standards & Guideline Documents For C#/.NET Developers – Anoop Madhusudanan highlights 7 freely available Coding Standards documents and resources from sources outside and inside Microsoft.
• Basic to Basics: What is Dependency Inversion? Is it IoC? Part 2 – John Sonmez continues his Back to Basics look at Dependency Inversion discussing how the principles can be applied to your code, and talks about Inversion of Control as a specific technique for helping to implement Dependency Inversion.
• How to make sharing code between .NET and Silverlight (a little) less painful – Krzysztof Kozmic finds a very good use for the conditional attribue support in the BCL to provide a means for sharing code between .NET and Silverlight when the Serializable attribute needs to be used.
• Using ASP.net Output Caching with WCF Data Services – Peter Qian takes a look at the use of ASP.NET output caching when working with WCF Data Services, showing how cache dependencies and cache variation may be used.
• A one-stop-dev-shop for WP7 Dev, the "Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices" wiki – Greg Duncan highlights the Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices Wiki, a nice collection of the general consensus for best practices on the Windows Phone covering all aspects of development for the WP7 device.

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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.

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• jQuery 1.4.4 Released – The jQuery Team announce the release of jQuery 1.4.4. This release addresses a number of community reported issues, along with a new method ‘fadeToggle’. The team are now turning their attention to planning jQuery 1.5
• Prism 4.0 For Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, WPF & Silverlight 4 – Karl Shifflett announces the release of Prism 4.0 , available for Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, WPF, Silverlight 4 & Windows Phone 7. The major feature is the support for Windows Phone 7, and this is joined by documentation in the form of sample applications, Quick Start Guides, and Hands on labs.
• Introducing Power Assert .NET – Rob Fonseca-Ensor highlights his latest Open Source Project. Power Assert .NET is a port of the Groovy PowerAssert which gives a complete output of an expression tree when assertation fails.
• MVVM Technical Description – Karl Shifflett shares an excerpt from his In the Box – MVVM Training, available through the Visual Studio Gallery. In the Box is a multi media training delivered through the Visual Studio IDE

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• WS-I Completes Interoperability Standards for Web Services – Bruce Kyle highlights the completion of over a decades work by the Web Services Interoperability Organization with the ratification of the final 3 web service profiles. Burce also provides some links to futher information on these standards.
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Server-Side Comments with Razor – Scott Guthrie highlights one of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 features, support for server side comments in the Razor View Engine.
• MVC 3 RC Enhancements – ‘nmarun’ looks at a number of the improvements in the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate, including improved control of session in controllers, Output caching, request validation and NuGet.
• ASP.NET MVC 3 RC Bug and Quick Solution – Imran Baloch talks about the improved Granualr Request Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC and highlights a bug (and a workaround) with HTML being passed with ValidateInput set to false.
• AOP in C#? Over Anders Hejlsberg’s Dead Body! – Gael Fraiteur responds to Anders Hejlsberg’s answers to whether C# will gain Aspect Oriented Programming capabilities in later versions with a good myth busting set of points and responses – very interesting reading (as are the comments)
• Basic to Basics: What is Dependency Inversion? Is it IoC? Part 1 – John Sonmez continues his Back to Basics series with an introductory look at Dependency Inversion and how it relates to IoC.
• Migrating a Silverlight Application to Windows Phone 7 – Dan Wahlin discusses porting Silverlgiht Applications to the Windows Phone device, porting his Album Viewer sample application to the Phone, discussing the key points of the process.
• Basic JavaScript Part 2 : Objects – Jan Van Ryswyck continues his JavaScript series with a look at objects, methods, constructors, and encapsulation in JavaScript
• Combinatorial Testing: Testing Highly Probable Combinations – Bj Rollison discusses choosing combinations of values for testing in Combinatorial Testing, talking about how its most worth testing the highly probably combinations first
• Getting started with F# using an online book – Don Syme highlights a great F# learning tool in e-book form – The F# Survival Guide, by John Puopolo with Sandy Squires.

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• Silverlight Firestarter 2nd December 2010 – Scott Guthrie heads up a fantastic lineup of Silverlight talks as a pars of the Silverlight Firestarter event, an in person and streamed live event on Thursday 2nd December, starting 9am PST

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