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Visual Studio 2010 upgrade shows dynamic language capabilities

The upcoming Visual Studio 2010 release boosts interoperability between the Visual Basic and C# languages and dynamic languages, Microsoft's senior vice...

0 replies - 758 views - 08/21/09 by CodeJustin in News

The first rule of exception handling: do not do exception handling.

Back when I was a VB developer, we used to wrap every single function with an exception handler. We would catch it and write it to a log. More sophisticated...

1 replies - 1694 views - 08/20/09 by mikehadlow in News

Quality Sounds Good...I Think.

Thanks to recent legislation passed by the United States Congress, many people in American are trading in their old run-down gas guzzling cars for much more...

0 replies - 649 views - 08/19/09 by justin_etheredge in News

Pulling from github on Windows

My colleague Dave Cameron has been telling me about his adventures playing around with Git Sharp (a C# port of the Java Git implementation jGit) so I thought...

0 replies - 442 views - 08/18/09 by markhneedham in News

Video: Smart & Lean Organizations

Everyone is talking about Lean organizations, but what does that mean? A lot of people think becoming more efficient means minimizing cost and time to...

2 replies - 668 views - 08/17/09 by Maxfield Pool in Videos

Windows 7 Taskbar: Tabbed Thumbnails and Previews in Native Code

A few months ago, we’ve taken a look at how you can extend your MDI or TDI application with an individual thumbnail and live preview for each tab (or...

0 replies - 604 views - 08/15/09 by sashag in News

Silverlight 3 Programmer's Reference

As a developer who typically doesn't venture too far into the "visual" side of things, normally hiding in the invisibility of server side logic, I was really surprised by this book. I've...

0 replies - 582 views - 08/14/09 by chris.baughman in Book Reviews

Video: Thinking Digital 2009 Talks: Johnny Chung Lee - Research into Interface Technology

Full presentation "Research into Interface Technology" given by Johnny Chung Lee, of Microsoft at the 2009 Thinking Digital conference, held at The...

0 replies - 608 views - 08/14/09 by alashcraft in Videos

How to "Send To" DZone from Google Reader

Google Reader has added a Send To feature today. There are several built-in options to choose from in...

0 replies - 909 views - 08/13/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Windows 7 RTM Training Kit Updates

Windows 7 RTM is out for a few days now for MSDN and TechNet subscribers, and together with the release of the final bits, Microsoft DPE released the final...

0 replies - 442 views - 08/12/09 by sashag in News

ScaleOut Unveils Management Pack for Parallel Backup

ScaleOut Software, a provider of distributed caching and data grid technology, has released the ScaleOut Management Pack, extending its current offering for...

0 replies - 1092 views - 08/12/09 by CodeJustin in News

How to create a DropDownList with ASP.NET MVC

The DropDownList html helper differs a bit from the standard Html helper methods, and, not surprisingly, the way it works is one of the questions I get asked...

0 replies - 2200 views - 08/11/09 by Simone Chiaretta in News

Part 3: MS Azure and Green Computing

In Part 2, Peter described optimization of infrastructure for green computing and how Windows Azure is different from other clouds.  In this final part, Peter...

0 replies - 811 views - 08/10/09 by pkoen in Articles

OpenGL 3.2 Brings Better Performance

The Khronos Group announced OpenGL 3.2, the third major update in twelve months to the most widely adopted 2D and 3D graphics API for personal computers and...

0 replies - 1376 views - 08/07/09 by CodeJustin in News

Fun With the ?? Operator in C#: if { } or ?? – Which is Faster?

Yesterday evening at work a team member and I were pair programming.  We had a disagreement about how to code a few lines.  The question was around whether...

3 replies - 1899 views - 08/07/09 by Keith Elder in News