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PDC09  has started. Unfortunatelly I’m not there. But no worries! Everythings get recorded by the Channel 9 chaps.
I thought: let’s share my recommended movies / the movies I’ll watch :).
So here we go:

Data Programming and Modeling for the Microsoft .NET Developer
Don Box! The main guy behind Oslo, someone you should always watch!
Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Core Runtime for [...]

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Funny, check this post on From handling by Scott Guthrie. Why exactly do we want to move away from the ASP.NET Control model to MVC? To write more code? Even creating a form becomes harder. Wasn’t MVC designed to display… Models? I might be to tired right now to understand this. But I can’t see [...]

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Bug in .NET 3.5 SP1

We’ve sent out this message today after some heavy investigation:
Dear Sitecore Enthusiast,
You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the Sitecore Product Issues and Patches mailing list.
On Monday, August 4th, Microsoft released the following service packs: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1.
Sitecore has discovered that these [...]

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A funny thing I noticed recently while having a discussion about parallelism is that everybody is convinced that Microsoft should solve this issue. I’m sure they are on the good way with the Parallel Framework, although they we’ re kind of late. Haven’t they promised use to do the spreading over available resources [...]

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Recently, a lot of blogs have written about the new Microsoft Extensibility Framework(MEF). From an ISV(Independent Software Vendor) perspective, this is really interesting. As you all know, Sitecore has rebuild a lot of functionality such as events, hooking, threading, etc. It is nice to see that Microsoft has figured out that they [...]

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VS2008 and .NET 3.x install issues

The past few months I’ve seen a lot of issues when people had to install Visual Studio 2008 and/or .NET 3.0 or 3.5. Mostly this is caused by beta software they’ve installed once.
Unatfortunetelly Microsoft’s Beta uninstaller aren’t always clearing the system as you would expect. Therefor, Microsoft released an uninstall tool for pre-released .NET 3.0 [...]

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With the public release of Visual Studio 2008 this month, .NET 3.5 and particular C# 3.0 is released to the broad public. This does mean that the new functionality will be exposed a lot. And I guess Extension Methods will be the most used functionality.I’m actually not 100% happy with this language extension. Of course [...]

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Scott Guthrie announced this morning that the Web Deployment project of Visual Studio 2008 is finally released. Short from now I’ll write  tutorial for all you guys how to work with Sitecore and the deployment project.For those guys who can’t wait, please review this tutorial by Scott himself.
 
Last weeks lots of interesting movies passed my [...]

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One of the coolest things with new initiatives such as PLINQ is that they are extremely early adopted by developers to work and test with. On MSDN Forum a lot of interesting discussions started this weekend. When you’re interested in the way Microsoft handles the feedback, take a look at the following topics. And when [...]

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On Kim’s request, I’ve written some additional tests:
private void PerformWorkOldFashioned()
{
using (new SectionTimer("Old fashioned using the foreach and if statement", true))
[...]

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