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- Windows Azure SDK 1.5 update released (Previous 1.5.20830.1814 , Latest 1.5.20928.1904) – Avkash Chauhan highlights an update release of the Azure SDK 1.5 which addresses the issue with partial blob downloads when connections get closes not throwing IOExceptions.
- ASP.NET MVC 3 for VS 11 Developer Preview – Microsoft have released an installer for ASP.NET MVC 3 whcih installs on top of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview release allowing you to create ASP.NET MVC 3 applications using the developer preview IDE.
- Json.NET 4.0 Release 3 – LINQ to JSON performance – James Newton-King announces release 3 of his Json.NET 4 library, bringing a significant improvement to the performance of the LINQ to JSON implementation along with the usual bugfixes and enhancements.
- dotCover Roadmap, Subscription Renewals, and 1.2 EAP – JetBrains announce the Early Access Program for dotCover 1.2, along with outlining their plans for this and future releases and discuss their licensing options.
- ORM Profiler v1.0 has been released! – Frans Bouma announces the first release of his new ORM Profiler tool. This tool hooks in between your ORM of choice and your database allowing you to inspect the behaviour of your application. Initial pricing is €99, and customers of the LLBLGen Pro product pay €69
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- Visual Studio 11 Programming Language Advances – Somasegar discusses some of the major new features of the various programming languages produced by Microsoft for the .NET Platform as the starting point of a new series of posts discussing the technologies released as previews at //Build/
- The Sweet Spot of Multiple Monitor Productivity: That Magical Third Monitor – Scott Hanselman discusses the benefits of multiple monitors, talking about his decision on 3 monitors as the ‘sweet spot’ for multiple monitors, discussing how he uses monitors in different scenarios. Now might be a good time to buy shares in Monitor manufacturers as ever developer will now be asking for 3 😉
- Don’t Forget To Complete Your Task &Keeping Async Methods Alive – Stephen Toub discusses why it is important to ensure that all your tasks are correctly completed, illustrating with discussion of an issue which was caused by not completing, and also explores a scenario where objects may be getting disposed before tasks complete.
- JavaScript Has Built-In Mix-ins With "apply" Or "call" – Derick Bailey discusses one of the suprising things you can do in JavaScript which illustrates how JavaScript supports mixins out natively.
- Mailbag: Do I need still need older versions of the .NET Framework on my system after installing the .NET Framework 4? – Aaron Stebner discusses the requirement for previous versions of the .NET Framework to be installed along with .NET 4 in answer to a reader question.
- Visual Studio 11 Preview and .NET 4 Platform Update 1 Side by Side Bug – Ron Jacobs highlights a bug when the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is installed side by side with .NET 4 Platform Update 1, sharing a work around for the issue.
- NHibernate for Entity Framework Developers: Part 1 – Writing and Mapping Classes – Morteza Manavi kicks off a series looking at NHibernate from the point of view of someone familiar with Entity Framework, discussing the NHibernate platform, looking at creating the domain model, and mapping them to the database.
- Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap – Colin Eberhardt takes a look at building Mobile applications for Windows Phone 7 using the PhoneGap platform running through the process of creating a simple application, sharing a video of the final product.