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Its about time to clear out the backlog.

CLR/.NET/Visual Studio/TDD/ALT.NET

• Jeremy has a nice piece here, Before you use an IoC tool, some concepts to know first
• Favorite Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Shortcuts (Corey Schuman) [via Alvin]
• MbUnit in Visual Studio Team System 2008 and MbUnit v3 Beta 3 Updates (Andrew Stopford) [via Alvin]
• Castle Visual Studio Integration 0.3 Released
• Tree Surgeon 2.0 Released
• Microsoft StyleCop, Totalitarian Rules
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF - June 2008 on Microsoft Downloads and Community Site

WCF/SOA/SaaS/Enterprise Architecture

• Jesse has a must-read WCF Gotcha in that the WCF developers made a choice that goes against everything you thought you knew about IDisposable. Chris Rolon, from Neudesic, really made me aware of this in internal emails and I was going to write a MSDN column in the magazine starting with this article. Make sure you read Jesse's piece and follow the advise!
• Speaking of this, Jesse has started a new site, iServiceOriented, for "Practical Service Oriented Architecture" with an "Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture." Subscribed!
• David Chappell on What is S+S?
• July's must See WF/WCF Influencer MSDN Webcasts
• Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #10 - July 1, 2008

Software Architecture

• Microsoft Architect Insight Conference 2008 Presentations