XNA Game Studio 3.0

blogs.msdn.com — The good folks who put together our gaming tools have released XNA Game Studio 3.0. read more...

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Functional .NET - LINQ as a Monad

codebetter.com — As part of my talk at the Richmond Code Camp earlier in October, I had the opportunity to talk about how to implement functional aspects in C# 3.0. This talk revolved around such concepts as from mutable to immutable, from inheritance to functional composition, and the mind shift that is required. Part of this discussion involved very briefly a talk about monads. It's a very misunderstood part of computer science and one of the most powerful concepts to learn. Much like continuation passing style, this style is often maligned as a result. But, let's work to change that. read more...

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Visual Studio snippet designer

blogs.microsoft.co.il — Recently Microsoft released source code and compiled version of previously internal tool, that helps to create and manage code snippets in Visual Studio IDE read more...

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Using SQL CE with LINQ to SQL

blogs.msdn.com — Shows how to correctly use LINQ to SQL with SQL CE. read more...

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Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

lovethedot.blogspot.com — Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better. read more...

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Closures and Pass by Reference

blogs.msdn.com — What happends when you use pass by reference and closures in the same method? read more...

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Combing Silverlight2 and JavaScript

blogs.msdn.com — Silverlight 2 allows you to combine a webpages JavaScript code with Silverlight .NET Code. For example you can call a C# method from JavaScript and call a JavaScript function from C#. This posts shows how this is done and demonstrates it with a nifty little web page. read more...

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Why Silverlight 2 Deep Zoom Really is Something New

published 8 months, 4 days ago, submitted by rimsystems 8 months, 11 days ago

weblogs.asp.net — "The reactions to [Deep Zoom] have fallen into two groups. Some folks say it's incredible, and some say they were impressed when they saw it in 2005, was called Google Maps (and zoomed all the way from outer space to their house). The unimpressed folks point out that there are other Flash applications that handle this, too, like Zoomify and Zoomarama. Haven't we seen this before?" read more...

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