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16 January 2008
.NET Framework Source Now Available
Scott Guthrie has just posted the excellent news that everything is now in place for people to access the source code for the .NET Framework! You can now configure Visual Studio 2008 to step through your code and directly into the source for classes in
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03 October 2007
Speaking on Enterprise Library at Beantown .NET UG on 10/4
I'll be in Boston tomorrow night (10/4), giving a talk about the Patterns & Practices group and Enterprise Library for the Beantown .NET User Group. If you're in the Boston area and are interested in learning about how Enterprise Library can help
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03 October 2007
.NET Framework Libraries - Source Code Coming!
Big news again from Scott Guthrie. We're announcing coming availability of the source code for the .NET Base Class Libraries! From Scott's post : "One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download
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06 July 2007
New CTPs of .NET Framework 3.5, Acropolis, and ADO.NET Entity Framework
This week brought a host of new CTPs (Community Technology Previews) to the MSDN Download Center: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 June 2007 CTP download .NET Framework 3.5 builds incrementally on the new features added in .NET Framework 3.0, for example,
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11 June 2007
C# Day in Waltham on June 23rd
Interested in learning C# (for free)? Michael de la Maza is coordinating a community hands-on C# learning event on Saturday, June 23rd right here in Waltham! What: Microsoft C# Day When: June 23rd, 9am - 4pm (8:30am - 9am registration) Where: Microsoft,
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06 March 2007
XNA Game Development News
It's great that with XNA, my job now officially lets me combine my hobby of gaming with my profession of software development. With the announcements at the 2007 Game Developer Conference , the XNA Creator's Club Online site and the Dream-Build-Play contest
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05 March 2007
SqlConnectionStringBuilder
[Perhaps old news for some, but I've found there's enough people I've bumped into who haven't heard of this to make it worth mentioning.] In ADO.NET 2.0, there is a new class, SqlConnectionStringBuilder that can both create a connection string from strongly-typed
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22 February 2007
Reflector 5.0 Released
Lutz Roeder posts word that he's released version 5.0 of his (free) Reflector tool. If you haven't heard of Reflector, it's truly one of the top 10 tools that every .NET developer must have. Adding to the already indispensable functionality of Reflector
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22 December 2006
Enterprise Library 3.0 CTP Released
Hot off the press, the Patterns & Practices team's Tom Hollander has announced the availability of the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Enterprise Library v3.0! Download it from the new CodePlex site at http://www.codeplex.com/entlib .
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