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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...
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Getting .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008 Adopted
31 October 07 10:15 PM | cjlotz | 4 comment(s)
I'm currently trying to pro-actively drive the adoption of the .NET Framework 3.5 and VS 2008 within my company to start using it when it is released early next year. Our current standard is C#, using the .NET Framework 2.0 and VS 2005 SP1. We have a small portfolio of applications still running on .NET 1.1. Unfortunately we also have a big portfolio still running on VB6 . As part of the adoption I need to look at a migration roadmap for these applications and answer questions like: What's...
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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...
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