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Software Development Tools

• TestDriven.Net 3.0 Alpha - Support for Visual Studio 2010 - Yes! My #1 tool of choice has been upgraded with support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2!
• Typemock Isolator 5.4.3 released - This version fixes some issues raised after releasing Intellitest last week, as well as releasing a new extensibility model
• Another Great SQL Azure Query tool - Stephen Forte speaks about a cool new query tool from Microguru that in their words, "provides an intuitive user interface to connect to and work with SQL Azure databases. Gem Query Tool supports execution of any DDL and DML script supported by SQL Azure. To facilitate authoring of SQL queries, Gem Query Tool for SQL Azure displays tables and columns in your database."
• ASP.NET 4 Web Server Here Shell Extension - Phil Haack comes out with a neat script to quickly spawn a web server aggainst a local folder to preview a web application
• XAML PowerToys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 - The release includes a Grid Layout tool, as well as new menu options that provide some neat tweaks for inserting controls in a grid cell and having the width modified to fit the current width of the column, as well as additional alignment tweaks.
• Spec Explorer: A Model-Based Testing Tool - Soma talks about the latest from DevLabs
• IronPython 2.0.3 and 2.6 RC2 - Harry's group has been real busy this week "Just under a week ago, we shipped a CTP for .NET Framework 4.0. Since then, we’ve shipped two – yes, two! – more versions of IronPython. Three releases in one week!"

Visual Studio 2010/.,NET Framework 4.0

• WPF4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series) - ScottGu, in the 11th of this series, covers all the changes and improvlements in WPF4
• Some Comments on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 - My very good friend, Tomas, takes an in-depth look at the latest, particuarly in the area of the Text Editor, and comes up with a list of like/dislike
• Extending Visual Studio 2010 UML Designers - Part 1: Getting Started - Peter begins a series  to show how the new UML Modeling capabilities in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate can be extended.
• New Silverlight Tooling Support in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 - The post details the new Silverlight 3 tooling support in 2010 Beta 2
• .NET Framework 4.0: Enumerating file system objects - Gunnar continues to explore what is new in System.IO

ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates: Part 1 Introduction - Brad Wilson begins a new series on Templates, one of the major new features in ASP.NET MVC 2
• ASP.NET MVC Templates: Part 2: ModelMetadata - Brad continues his series with this new class, "This class is designed to tell you interesting things about the objects you want to display or edit."

Windows Azure/Windows Workflow

• Voice 2.0 for Silverlight/Azure is Coming November 5, 2009 - My friend, David Pallmann, talks about a jointly developed Microsoft-Ribbit-Neudesic collaboration working to make Ribbit’s Voice 2.0 technology available to Silverlight developers in the form of customizable Silverlight controls integrated with Visual Studio and Expression Blend.
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/26/2009+ - The latest set of links from the master Azure collector
• Why should you consider Cloud Computing?: Part 1 - My friend, Michael, bloud egins a series on the scenarios for Computing
• Types, Metatypes and Bears, Redux - Matt Winkler relooks at a way the designer works and lets us design WF types, as well as simply configure instances of types
• Flowcharts in Workflow 4 and the Switch activity - Maurice talks about the new Flowchart workflow

Entity Framework

• LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 10/19/2009+ - Roger also continues this link series