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Izindaba #21
07 December 07 05:35 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 Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework CTP - News from the BCL Team on the CTP and newly created Parallel Computing Developer Center . ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing and ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views - Scott Guthrie continues with his series on the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. CTP coming soon! ASP...

Filed under: SDLC, DeveloperTools, Learning, C#, Silverlight, Orm, VisualStudio, ASPNet, CLR, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, Javascript, ADONet, Misc, Mono, Design, TeamSystem, F#

Izindaba #19
23 November 07 05:06 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 Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! - Just in case you missed the announcement Any idea on how long we will have to wait for our MSDN Subscriber DVD's? Hidden Gems in Visual Basic 2008 - The top 10 new features according to the Visual Basic Team. Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - Scott Guthrie...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Learning, Ajax, Silverlight, Dsl, VisualStudio, ASPNet, CLR, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, VB.NET, SQL

Izindaba #18
16 November 07 05:06 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 ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 1) - Scott Guthrie builds an e-commerce store application to illustrate how to use the cool new ASP.NET MVC Framework So Many Tools - So Little Time! - Jesse Liberty tries to summarize when to use what tools for doing Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 development. Code Metrics as Check-in Policy - The Code Analysis Team shows how to prevent...

Filed under: SDLC, TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Object-Orientation, Silverlight, Orm, ASPNet, CLR, Architecture, SQL, DynamicCodeAnalysis, Misc

Izindaba #16 Reloaded
01 November 07 09:42 PM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. As Windows Live Writer has kindly overwritten Izindaba #15 with the new Izindaba #16, I am re-posting the Izindaba #16 content. .NET Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience - Scott Guthrie shows how to include the Silverlight install directly from your own site. Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without Viewstate or Postbacks - Article by Jeffrey Palermo (code samples...

Filed under: SDLC, DeveloperTools, Agile, Object-Orientation, Silverlight, ASPNet, CLR, SOA, Javascript, Coding, Mono

Izindaba #16
26 October 07 06:28 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. .NET Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience - Scott Guthrie shows how to include the Silverlight install directly from your own site. Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without Viewstate or Postbacks - Article by Jeffrey Palermo (code samples included) that show the future ASP.NET MVC Framework in action. Reference Implementation for the Web Client Software Factory ...

Filed under: SDLC, DeveloperTools, Object-Orientation, Silverlight, ASPNet, WinForms, CLR, SOA, Javascript, Coding, Mono

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 #13
12 October 07 05:54 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

It is time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: Optimizing SQL Server CPU Performance - Nice TechNet article on the topic from Zach Nichter. What's new in SQL Server 2008 Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 - Short series of articles that highlights all the new SQL Server 2008 features from Don Schlichting. 8 October: ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight links - Another set of links on these different technologies from Scott Guthrie. FxCop 1.36...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Ajax, Silverlight, VisualStudio, ASPNet, SOA, SQL, WCF

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 #8
07 September 07 07:47 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta White Paper Counting Wastes Time and How Are You Going To USE That Information - Some thoughts from Fred George on collecting metrics and using metrics in an Agile development environment. Scott Bellware expands on his thoughts with reference to BDD. 20 Tips to Improve ASP.NET Application Performance - Nice list of ASP.NET performance enhancement tips. MbUnit 2.4...

Filed under: TDD, Agile, C#, Silverlight, Orm, ASPNet, BDD, DDD, Frameworks, Teamwork, OS, Misc, Mono

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