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MIX'08 Session Recordings Now Available Online

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:01:02 GMT

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.

Property VS Distinguished Promotion

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:14:02 GMT

how should I decide to use Property, or Distinguished promotion?

TDD for Beginners Series

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

Series of posts geared towards the beginner developer to TDD. These are meant to be as simple as possible to get the understanding across about TDD.

IronPython Studio

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:01:02 GMT

IronPython Studio is a free full IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for the Python programming language. It is based on the existing IronPython example that is included in the VS SDK. IronPython Studio is based on the Visual Studio 2008 Shell runtime (royalty free) and can be installed without requiring any version of Visual Studio.

ADO.NET performance improvements with the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:51:35 GMT

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).

Jeremy hearts C# 3.0

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:55:20 GMT

Never let it be said that I can't say something nice about a Microsoft product. I'm not enthusiastic about VS2008 itself until ReSharper 4.0 is here and stable, but the new language features rock! I haven't even touched any of the LINQ dialects yet, but all those little features that Anders and co added to support LINQ are already making my life easier.

HowTo: SubSonic Introduction

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:40:34 GMT

Why Another SubSonic Introduction Blog Posting?: In my ever growing quest for programming godliness, I've feel that its important to equip myself with all the tools that I can to get the job done. SubSonic is one of those ORM tools that can help save me/you A LOT of initial setup time when it comes to the DAL of the application. 3 tools come to mind when I think of DAL, NHibernate, SubSonic, and LINQ. I've tried NHibernate and frankly I wasn't impressed. I've read about LINQ but haven't had a chance to experiment with it. SubSonic was next on my list of "tools" to experiment with.

Multi Threaded Window Service

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:31:02 GMT

Multi Threaded window service , used as scheduler for the BizTalk Orchestration! On High Availability Setup BizTalk , it is not black magic .. you can learn it .. and I am trying to help in this

Screencast: Test-Driven Domain Model

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:50:03 GMT

This TDD screencast was created after having the same conversation over and over again. It boils down to the topic of whether people can actually write their unit tests before writing their code. With this screencast, I wanted to illustrate that it's not only possible, but that it's also highly productive (once you get the tooling right).