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Izindaba #20
30 November 07 05:48 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET .NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS 7) - Scott Guthrie announces the upcoming initiatives and releases for .NET web development for the months ahead. Silverlight 2.0 Beta with Go-live license Q1 2008! So glad they decided to rename to 2.0 and not stick with 1.1. Advanced C# - Free chapter from the C# 3.0 in a Nutshell book published by O'Reilly...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Learning, Linq, C#, VisualStudio, SOA, Coding, SQL

Izindaba #14
19 October 07 05:52 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content: Should I commit to Silverlight 1.1 or Flex - Jesse Liberty is struggling with a case of some Silverlight addiction LINQ to DataSet: Data Binding - Erick Thompson explores the data binding options for LINQ to DataSet query results. Also see the follow up post about the LinqDataView . Understanding the Difference between Owners and Schemas in SQL Server - An article that explains the concept of schemas...

Filed under: Agile, Languages, Linq, Silverlight, VisualStudio, ASPNet, BDD, StaticCodeAnalysis, SQL, DynamicCodeAnalysis, Misc

Izindaba #10
20 September 07 03:28 PM | cjlotz | with no comments

A bit earlier than normal, but it is time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: NCover 2.0.1 released - NCover follows the route of other tools before it like TestDriven.NET , NDepend and CodeSmith and becomes a commercial product. Here's the what's new for the latest release. NCoverExplorer 1.4.0 - Grant Drake has released an update to his excellent NCoverExplorer tool containing some fixes and new features . This will be...

Filed under: DeveloperTools, Agile, Linq, Ajax, Ruby, CLR, Teamwork, DynamicCodeAnalysis

Izindaba #9
14 September 07 08:25 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: Visual Studio to Finally Address Performance Issues - InfoQ links to a Channel 9 Video on the performance improvements made to the VS 2008 IDE. LINQ to SQL: Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression with the control - Scott Guthrie continues with his LINQ to SQL series. Programming Silverlight 1.0 with C#: Part 1 - Nikhil Kothari shows how to use Script# instead of Javascript to build an application...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Linq, Silverlight, VisualStudio, IoC, ASPNet, Ruby

Izindaba #7
31 August 07 07:32 AM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: Lamda Expressions - The Basic Instincts column of the September 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine has a great article on lamda expressions that shows how the compiler uses a process called variable lifting to create a closure class to contain the free variables used in the lamda expression. Scott Hanselman's 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows - Be aware, this may turn out...

Filed under: DeveloperTools, Agile, Languages, Linq, Ajax, Silverlight, Orm, VisualStudio, ASPNet, Teamwork, XML, Compilers, VB.NET, ADONet, SQL

Izindaba #6
24 August 07 07:43 AM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: NUnit 2.4.3 Released - Another update that includes mostly bug fixes. SketchPath - A XPath development and XML analysis tool. PowerShell Toolbox - Collection of PowerShell links. LLBLGen Pro v2.5 Released - Frans Bouma reports on the new features in the latest release of this .NET ORM. Mocking Linq: Preview - News from Eli Lopian on the forthcoming support for mocking LINQ queries from the TypeMock...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Object-Orientation, Learning, Linq, Ajax, Orm, VisualStudio, IoC, ASPNet, Ruby, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, Javascript, Powershell, XML

Izindaba #5
17 August 07 07:33 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: What's new with VS 2008 Express Editions - Somasegar highlights what VS 2008 features made it into the Express Editions. New VS 2008 Spelling Rules - The Code Analysis Team blogs about the FxCop spelling rules that have been included in VS 2008 Code Analysis. Expression Suite to run on Apple Computers? - Leon Bambrick has the scoop. SQL Server 2005 TableDiff GUI - GUI for the new SQL Server 2005...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Linq, Orm, VisualStudio, ASPNet, Frameworks, StaticCodeAnalysis

Izindaba #4
10 August 07 08:01 AM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: VS 2008 Beta2 Fixes - Scott Guthrie on issues discovered with Beta 2 and workarounds for the issues. One Mock per Test - Some TDD advice from David Laribee Applying Agile to Ruby - Steve Eichert links to a talk by Fred George from ThoughtWorks on how important many of the core agile practices are when working with a dynamic language like Ruby. Domain Model Test Helper - Test helper that provides...

Filed under: TDD, Agile, Linq, Orm, VisualStudio, Ruby, BDD, DDD, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, SOA

Izindaba #3
03 August 07 07:26 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and MS development related content: VS 2008 Code Editing Improvements - Scott Guthrie on some improvements made to editing code within VS 2008. Nice to see they are incorporating some of the functionality and ideas from existing excellent add-ins like ReSharper . ASP.NET AJAX in .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 - Scott Guthrie on what version of ASP.NET AJAX will be supported in the final VS 2008 and on a minor issue and workaround with the current...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Learning, Linq, Ajax, VisualStudio, ASPNet

Izindaba #1
20 July 07 12:34 PM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)

I try to publish a short, weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and MS development related content internally to the .NET community within my company . I've decided to publish this on my blog as well. I'll call these posts Izindaba ( Zulu for news) to give it a local SA flavour Here is the first public issue: VS 2008 JavaScript Debugging - Scott Guthrie on the excellent VS 2008 Javascript debugging features. C# 3.0 language features - Jeremy Miller links to some articles that shows...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Learning, Linq, C#, Ajax, Dsl