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ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC 2 (Release Candidate 2) Now Available - ScottGu announces the shipping of ASP.NET MVC (Release Candidate 2) for VS 2008/.NET 3.5. ScottGu has the list of changes. He says that they will be releasing the VS 2010 RC soon that will include ASP.NET MVC support built-in. ASP.NET MVC...

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Number 400! SOA/REST/M/Oslo SOA in a Nutshell - A new JP Morgenthal’s post “The Busy Executive’s Service Oriented Architecture Reference Guide” is a great starting point for gaining a quick understanding of what SOA is without getting too deep into technology jargon and hype Don...

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Big day for Azure announcements Windows Azure/Windows AppFabric/WCF February 2010 release of Windows Azure Tools and SDK - Blog announces the release the February 2010 (v1.1) release of the Tools and SDK today. This release supports a couple of new features in the platform, namely Windows Azure Drives...

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ESB/WCF/REST/BizTalk/Azure/Identity NServiceBus 2.0 Release Candidate 2 Available - Congrats to Udi for shipping 2.0 about a year after 1.9. As he explains it's a service bus, like an ESB - just an open source one which gives you an easy way to integrate transactional messaging into your applications...

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ADO.NET Data Services Data Services Update for .NET 3.5 SP1 - Now Available for Download - The team has been re-released Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 having resolved the issue with the previous update VS2010 and .NET 4.0 Extensible Output Caching with ASP.NET 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4...

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The last few months have really taught me a lot about what I don't want . For instance, writing and running Ad-Hoc SQL queries at the whim of the business is probably not the best use of my talent. In addition, people that just haven't caught up to what ORMs offer (Gosh, even Microsoft has two free ones...

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First N&N in about 2 months... WCF/Windows Server AppFabric/REST Pretty much the stuff that was REST support in WCF has been relabeled WCF WebHttp Services. This post back on Jan 7th was part one of a twelve part series that introduces the WebHttp Services in .NET 4. Speaking of that relabeling,...

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Some mostly old Windows Azure links for me to bookmark, from oldest to newest New Training Kit for the Holidays Sign up for a Windows Azure platform offer today and get visibility into your usage Announing Windows Azure commercial offer availability and updated AppFabric pricing Now Available: New Identity...

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"Short but sweet, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will launch on Monday, 12 April 2010." Published Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:18 PM by Rob Caron...

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