MIX'08 Session Recordings Now Available Online

published 8 months, 28 days ago, submitted by crpietschmann 8 months, 28 days ago

pietschsoft.com — The MIX'08 Session Recordings are now available online. So far, its just the recordings from yesterday, but all the recordings for the entire event should be up by Monday. This is really awesome, you can almost attend the event for free online. Go check it out. read more...

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blogs.msdn.com — With the release of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1, there are some bug fixes and improvements in ADO.NET (A list of the general fixes is at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945757) We worked with the CLR team to get improvements like the thread pool improved scalability, and that was important for making sure our SqlReader performance is better in multithreaded scenarios (like your ASP.NET applications under load). read more...

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Screencast: Test-Driven Domain Model

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