Mono 2.11.0 is out(tirania.org)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 2 months ago

Michael de Icaza details the various new features and enhancements that come with the important new 2.11 milestone of the Mono project. This includes largely complete support for the new SGen garbage collector, .NET 4.5 and C# 5.0 support (including partial WinRT support), and a number of other exciting changes. read more...

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Mindscape Blog » Blog Archive » 5 reasons not to use a micro ORM(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 5 months, 16 days ago

An interesting counter-argument against the recent trends towards lightweight micro-ORM frameworks in the .NET database world. read more...

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Roslyn Syntax Visualizer Tools(www.sellsbrothers.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 5 months, 16 days ago

Chris Sells highlights some of the tools provided as a part of the Roslyn CTP which allow you to gain a better understanding of the details of the syntax tree, discussing the use of the Syntax Visualizer Extension and Syntax Debugger Visualizer. read more...

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New Bundling and Minification Support (ASP.NET 4.5 Series) - ScottGu's(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 5 months, 16 days ago

Scott Guthrie explains and gives examples of the new bundling and minification features for HTML and Javascript content served by your web server, introduced in ASP.NET 4.5 read more...

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I Just Don't Like Object Mappers(openmymind.net)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 5 days ago

Karl Seguin also discusses the use of Object Relational Mappers, and Data Mappers and how he has a growing dislike of them. read more...

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Why IL? - Fabulous Adventures In Coding - Site Home - MSDN Blogs(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 5 days ago

Eric Lippert discusses the role of the Intermediate Language versus Low-Level Virtual Machines in terms of the implementation of Roslyn. read more...

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Compiling F# to JavaScript with Pit(www.trelford.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 5 days ago

Phil Trelford introduces the Pit F# to JavaScript compiler: an ideal tool for those who like functional programming / .NET or have seen the wonders of CoffeeScript and are looking to the future of client-side web programming. read more...

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PLINQ Queries That Run in Parallel in .NET 4.5 - Parallel Programming (blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 14 days ago

Igor Ostrovsky demonstrates the improvements that have been made to Parallel Extensions in the .NET Framework 4.5, and shows how you can use PLINQ queries to good effect. read more...

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Introducing the Project2NuGet approach.(www.dknaack.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 14 days ago

Denis Knaack introduces his utility to easily convert a Visual Studio project into a NuGet package, making it easier to distribute you programs and libraries using the NuGet system. read more...

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CoffeeScript -- 1.1.3 Release(coffeescript.org)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 16 days ago

The CoffeeScript team announce the latest version of CoffeeScript. Version 1.1.3 brings improvements to the formatting of the generated JavaScript, support for binary numbers, along with a number of other new features and bug fixes and improvements. read more...

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Secure Strings - CodeProject(www.codeproject.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 16 days ago

Abhishek Goenka gives a short introduction to the .NET Framework's SecureString class which stores strings in memory in an encrypted form so that the data contained in the strings in memory cannot easily be ready from outside the application. read more...

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31 Days of Mango | Day #7: Raw Camera Data « Blankenblog(www.jeffblankenburg.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 16 days ago

Jeff Blankenburg continues his month of posts looking at the Windows Phone Mango developer experience, continuing today with a look at using a live feed of data from the camera included in all Windows Phone devices (Courtesy of the Morning Brew.) read more...

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ha4: An F# Web Server From Sockets and Up(t0yv0.blogspot.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 16 days ago

Anton Tayanovskyy takes a look at F# Async and combines it with sockets to create a simple web server implementation which offers pretty impressive performance for such little code. (Courtesy of the Morning Brew.) read more...

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jQuery: » jQuery 1.7 Released(blog.jquery.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 16 days ago

The jQuery team announce the release of jQuery 1.7, the latest major version of this JavaScript framework. By now, the library will be available on the Microsoft and Google Content Delivery Networks, and you can also download it directly from the site. The new release brings a new event API, improved performance, better HTML 5 support in older Internet Explorer Version, and mich more. (Courtesy of The Morning Brew) read more...

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SourceMonitor V3.2.0.208‏(geekswithblogs.net)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 16 days ago

Tatworth highlights an updated version of SourceMonitor, a tool for examining source code and gathering metrics for a vast array of languages (including C#, VB.NET, C++, C, Delphi, HTML, and much more) (Courtesy of The Morning Brew) read more...

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The Entity Framework (v1 and v4) Deal Breaker: TPT Inheritance(samscode.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 23 days ago

Samuel Meacham highlights a crucial performance issue when dealing with many inheritance models in the Entity Framework 4. Microsoft has to this day not dealt with the issue, and in something of a scandal, has deleted the bug report on Connect that Sam filed. Sam offers a good reason to stay clear of the Entity Framework for the time being and perhaps a long time to come too. read more...

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