Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit - Nov. Preview

submitted by Jemm 22 hours, 5 minutes ago

microsoft.com — November Preview of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit (Direct link to download) read more...

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Creating Streamlined, Simplified, yet Scalable WCF Connectivity

submitted by Jemm 2 days ago

netfxharmonics.com — "One of the most awesome things about WCF is that the concepts scale extremely well. If you understand the ABCs of WCF, then you can do anything from creating a simple Hello World to a complex sales processing service. It's all based on having an address, a binding, and a contract. All the other concepts like behaviors, validators, and service factories are simply supplemental to the core of the system. When you understand the basics, you have the general essence of all of WCF." read more...

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ASP.NET Connection Session Slides and Samples Posted

submitted by rstrahl 3 days ago

west-wind.com — I've published my session slides and samples from the Fall 2008 ASP.NET Connections conference. The sessions include: jQuery and ASP.NET, WCF REST and JSON with ASP.NET and Dealing with Long Running Requests in ASP.NET. read more...

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ScottG:Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend

published 5 days, 17 hours ago, submitted by Jemm 5 days, 21 hours ago

weblogs.asp.net — "One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and designers can collaborate together on projects. Developers can use Visual Studio to open and edit Silverlight 2 projects and get a powerful code-focused .NET development environment, and designers can use Expression Blend 2 SP1 to open and edit the exact same project and use a creative tool to sculpt and create optimal user experience designs." read more...

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Best Practices for Integrated Full Text Search (iFTS) in SQL 2008

submitted by Jemm 7 days, 19 hours ago

blogs.msdn.com — "This blog [post] is a result of lessons learned while working with the new Integrated Full Text Search in SQL Server 2008. It is not intended to be an in-depth tutorial on how to implement it. Instead, it will concentrate on best practices." read more...

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jQuery Intellisense Updates from Microsoft

published 9 days, 17 hours ago, submitted by rstrahl 10 days, 9 hours ago

west-wind.com — With Microsoft's recent releases of the jQuery Intellisense file plus the hotfix released this week using jQuery in Visual Studio has become a lot easier and more convenient. Here is a little more detail on what you need and how it works. read more...

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Aggiorno 1.3beta with the all powerful -SMART SEARCH and REPLACE

aggiorno.com — Aggiorno now has a very powerful SMART SEARCH and REPLACE. Just like a Find & Replace that understands and takes into consideration markup while working. read more...

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Microsoft ADO.NET team: The future of LINQ To SQL

submitted by wisemx 13 days, 15 hours ago

blogs.msdn.com — I always get the same question about the future of LINQ to SQL. Finally the ADO.NET Team, which is supporting both LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework, made some clear statements. It is now clear that as of .NET 4.0, LINQ to Entities will be the recommended data access solution for LINQ to relational scenarios. The original statements can be found here: 1st: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/29/update-on-linq-to-sql-and-linq-to-entities-roadmap.aspx 2nd: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/31/clarifying-the-message-on-l2s-futures.aspx read more...

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