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New and Notable 208

Lots to catch up on.

ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC

It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP, This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5. You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here to download the MVC Toolkit extras).
ScottGu also has a great series on the ASP.NET MVC Framework, which is up to Part 4. Check out the post for earlier links.
Also ScottGu::December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008
We may was well make it the ScottGu show today (he deserves it) - .NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7)
Some great links from Brad Abrams -

ADO.NET/Entity Framework

Resharper/Code Rush/Refactor! Pro

Mark Miller gets it right, "With the recent release of Visual Studio 2008, some developers have noticed that at least one third-party tool has fallen woefully behind in delivering support for new language features in C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 Perhaps overly-complicated list of tips to assist customers in making a smooth transition to VS 2008:
Tip #1. Install CodeRush and Refactor! Pro

And that concludes my extensive list of tips for becoming immediately productive in VS 2008.

SOA/BPM

Fitting SOA+BPM into the software lifecycle
Get BPM into IT project funding
"Jeff misses information modeling for SOA in his post on Next Phase of SOA. I absolutely agree. Indeed, while we are talking about ESBs, BPELs, WS-*, REST, etc. - the lack of systematic approach to how we model SOA can result in mess and chaos (this time in angle brackets)." - Radovan
Podcast by D. Linthicum on the topic of IT Failures and the need for SOA
ISC Capabilities: The Service Registry

CLR/Concurrency

Software Architecture/Patterns