An excellent Introduction to Microsoft F# by Luca Bolognese (PDC 2008)

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channel9.msdn.com — Learn about Microsoft's new language, F#, a typed functional programming language for the Microsoft .NET Framework. F# combines functional programming with the runtime support, libraries, tools, and object model of .NET. Understand how F# asynchronous workflows help tame the complexity of parallel and asynchronous I/O programming and how to use F# in conjunction with tools such as Parallel Extensions for .NET read more...

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How to script all my database objects?

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blogs.msdn.com — One question that sometimes arises is "How can we script all database objects throught some kind of automation?" read more...

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Suspicious DNK Accounts

mattberseth.com — Conclusion There is an incentive for publishers that use DNK to setup phony accounts that will help get stories from certain domains on the front page. So guess what happens ... it would appear that a certain number of people are doing this. read more...

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Visual Studio Tip: Bring up Intellisense Shortcut

victorchen.info — When I first started, I would attempt to access an object’s method only to realize I had selected the wrong method. I would then need to delete past the period, then press period again to see all the Intellisense options. Now, I know and use all the time the shortcut CTRL+SPACE to bring up the Intellisense menu. read more...

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Free IIS7 Web Deployment sandbox accounts: DiscountASP.NET

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blogs.iis.net — MS Deploy - Fundamentals If you aren’t familiar with this tool yet, you’re going to want to take the time to browse the documents and give it a try. It is one of the fundamental building blocks that IIS will be building on the next several years. In it’s current beta form, it can be used to: •Migrate entire servers or individual sites from one machine to another (IIS6 –> IIS7) •Sync Servers, Sites, and Applications (IIS6 –> IIS6, and IIS7 –> IIS7) •Create offline packages that can be used as backups, version control, and deployment units Visual Studio 10 Integration! The beta also provides support for ‘delegated’ publishing, which enables Administrators to grant control to developers and Web site owners to do the packaging and publishing without being a machine administrator. This is going to be a huge boon for Shared Hosters especially, allowing richer application publishing than ever before. DiscountASP.net, one of our close hosting partners, is offering 2000 free accounts as part of a limited Beta which allows you to try out this new functionality – sign-up today, availability is limited. read more...

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Delete entity or collection in Linq to SQL without getting them

msmvps.com — In order to delete an entity or a collection of entity in Linq to SQL, you have to first get them and then delete them. This requires additional database roundtrip. Here's a strongly typed maintenance free way to delete entities directly using their primary key. read more...

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LINQ Farm: Covariance and Contravariance in C# 4.0

blogs.msdn.com — This post is designed to help you begin to understand a new feature in the next version of Visual Studio that involves covariant and contravariant support for delegates and interfaces. Eric Lippert’s series of posts on this subject are definitely the definitive reference at this time. I’m writing this overview of the subject simply as an appendix to his explanation, and as quick reference for folks who want to get up to speed on this technology. read more...

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Windows Azure is born

snowball.be — Ray Ozzie announces the new new for the new Windows-in-the-cloud. read more...

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