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We Need Your Feedback on the Documentation
The doc teams are looking for your feedback on the .NET Framework and Visual Studio docs. Help us improve the developer documentation by taking the Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey . This survey will give us a better
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Mozilla and Microsoft work together on WPF\ClickOnce plugins
Recently some friends mentioned that they saw Firefox had block-listed some Microsoft WPF\ClickOnce add-ons. As Mike Shaver (VP Engineering for the Mozilla) noted in his blog post , this action is the result of Mozilla and Microsoft working together
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Book Plug: Essential LINQ
I was very happy to get a chance to look through my copy of Essential LINQ today. While there are a number of books out there on LINQ , this one from Dinesh Kulkarni and Charlie Calvert is a must read! They do an excellent job of explaining
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Uninstalling the Clickonce Support for Firefox
A couple of years ago we heard clear feedback from folks that they wanted to enable a very clean experience with launching a ClickOnce app from FireFox. James Dobson published FFClickOnce and got very good reviews, but we had many customers that wanted
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Top Ten Reasons Why The Most Important Machine Is Unlabeled
Today is office move day across much of .NET Framework land.. Good folks across building 41 and 42 are doing a little shuffling around… As part of the move, we all had to be out of the office today. Like any good manager, I wanted to keep my team productive
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What Does that .NET Namespace Mean: System.* and Microsoft.*
I need your feedback... I am chatting with some co-workers about the perception of in the .NET Community of what the System.* and Microsoft.* namespaces mean. So I had the crazy idea of just asking you! For this exercise,
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Book Plug: The C# Programming Language (3rd Edition)
At PDC2008, we shipped the third edition of the C# Language specification ... If you are a language-lawyer type or just like to know exactly how the latest version of the language works, this book is for you! In this addition, we tried something
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Cohesion And Coupling
On the plane ride back from the PDC, I had a chance to read Jeremy Miller's excellent article in the October issue of MSDN magazine. Cohesion And Coupling While there is nothing earth-shatteringly new in here, Jeremy does a great job
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Best Practices for Wrapping Native Code
At our talk on Framework Design Guidelines at the PDC , Krzysztof and I were asked about resources for wrapping a native code library in a nice managed code framework. This is an extremely common pattern. Organizations frequently have large
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.NET Framework: What do you use?
One of the common things we discuss on the .NET Framework prod uct team is around the popularity of different features of the .NET Framework. We have some very interesting semi-scientific methods for gathering data like this, but Hanselman and I thought
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Simple Introduction to Extensible Applications with the Managed Extensions Framework
Recently my team has been working on the Managed Extensions Framework (MEF)... I have gotten a chance to explain the concept to folks and I think I have discovered a way to talk about MEF that folks can easily get. So I thought I'd spend a little time
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Evolving a .NET Framework 2.0 Application to .NET Framework 3.5
I reader recently forwarded me an interesting case study that covers a very common scenario: Porting a .NET Framework 2.0 based application to .NET Framework 3.5. The paper does a nice job of providing resources to get started with, how to learn
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VS2008 Multitargeting Gets Even Better with SP1
One of my favorite features of VS2008 is the ability to target older versions of the .NET Framework. This allows developers to use the latest and greatest tools even if some client machines can't be upgraded to the latest version of framework right away.
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.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Allows managed code to be launched from a network share!
This has got to be one of the most consistently asked for "features" of .NET from the start! Download .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Run off a network share with local permissions - You have voted and we have listened
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Some Results from Visual Studio and .NET Framework Developer Documentation Survey
Recently our documentation team hosted a survey on how you use VS and .NET Framework documentation. Here are a few things that I thought was interesting. I'd love to have your comments as well... Any thoughts from you on this?
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Books by Brad Abrams
[2005] Framework Design Guidelines (First Edition)
[2005] .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2
[2004] .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1
[2004] Base Class Library Reference Poster
[2002] Programming in the .NET Environment
[2008] Framework Design Guidelines (second edition)
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