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Sunday, February 29, 2004 11:41 AM

New .NET Show on Indigo

You’ve probably heard about our upcoming technology called Indigo and how it offers secure, reliable, and transacted messaging between applications. If you’re interested in a more in-depth look, check out the latest episode of the .NET Show
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Friday, February 27, 2004 10:32 AM

Migrating to ASP.NET

We’ve published some migration guides to help developers move to ASP.NET from ASP, JSP and PHP. They provide documentation, samples and utilities to assist with migration of skills and code. Note that these are not automatic conversions…but
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Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8:48 AM

Windows XP SP2 Training Course for Developers

Related to my recent post about the developer impact of Windows XP Service Pack 2, we also have an online training course that is now available.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:51 AM

Returning Empty Arrays

Wesner Moise has a good blog entry about returning empty arrays instead of nulls . I agree with him. Without repeating everything he wrote, if I call a method like GetListOfSomething, I expect a list back...even if it contains 0 elements.
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Monday, February 23, 2004 6:36 PM

SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) Deployment Toolkit

You can now download a release candidate of the SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) Deployment Toolkit which adds a plug-in to Visual Studio .NET that allows you to create an integrated package that includes both the application and the MSDE database.
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Monday, February 23, 2004 6:31 PM

Developer Impact of Windows XP Service Pack 2

If you're a developer, you'll want to read about the changes in Windows XP Service Pack 2 so that you can build/modify your applications appropriately. We're delivering a lot of security functionality in this release, and this document will fill you in
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Monday, February 23, 2004 6:26 PM

Free .NET Code Coverage Tool

As you probably know, we don't ship a code coverage tool with Visual Studio .NET. However, it is handy to be able to report which IL instructions have been executed and how much time was spent executing them. With large codebases, it's often difficult
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Friday, February 20, 2004 9:42 PM

Whidbey IDE Enhancements for C# Developers

MSDN TV has a new 20-minute episode that covers some of the Whidbey IDE enhancements . I've been using various releases of the IDE for awhile now, and I really like where we're taking the product. It seems more responsive, and there are many features
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Friday, February 20, 2004 4:07 PM

ObjectSpaces First Look

The project I've been working on for over a year now uses an object-relational mapping layer to persist its business entity data to SQL Server 2000. Because of this, I've been involved with a team who has evaluated almost every third-party tool/library
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Friday, February 20, 2004 8:58 AM

Longhorn Architectural Vision

Looks like the .NET Architecture Center has posted some streaming video clips that help explain the thinking behind the architectural vision for our Longhorn technology. I think it's great that we're sharing this kind of information. Personally, I appreciate
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Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:56 AM

Wayback Machine

Okay...I'm not sure why I ran across this site, but I've been having so much fun looking up old web pages that I feel compelled to pass it along. The Internet Archive has a Wayback Machine that allows you to browse web sites as they existed in the past.
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Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:36 AM

Code Complete, 2nd Edition

If you call yourself a developer, I hope you've read Steve McConnell's excellent Code Complete . It's one of those books that should be on every developer's shelf. If you missed the first edition, the good news is that the 2nd Edition is scheduled to
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 7:55 PM

Windows Security Update CD

You can now order a free copy of the Windows Security Update CD which includes critical updates through October 2003.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:02 AM

The NxOpinion Project

As many of you know, I've been working with one of our Microsoft partners, Sagestone Consulting , for the past year+ on an incredibly ambitious and exciting project called NxOpinion. I'm sure I'll post more about this project in the future, but for now,
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:56 AM

Our Official Statement Regarding the Illegal Posting of Windows Source

By now, I'm sure you've heard about the Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 source code that's been making its way around the Internet. Here is Microsoft's official response .
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Monday, February 16, 2004 1:19 PM

ReSharper

Luke Hutteman has some first impressions on the ReSharper VS.NET plugin on his blog. If you've ever heard of IntelliJ IDEA (or heard a Java developer sing its praises), you'll understand that this should end up being a fairly capable developer tool.
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Monday, February 16, 2004 1:13 PM

Whidbey Beta

Read about the upcoming Whidbey release schedule on Chris Garty's Weblog.
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Monday, February 16, 2004 11:58 AM

What's New with FxCop

If you're interested in Microsoft's FxCop tool, it's worth following Michael Fanning's Blog . It sounds like there are a lot of nice improvements in the upcoming version.
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Monday, February 16, 2004 11:54 AM

Handy Visual Studio .NET Features

Incremental Search Type Ctrl-I to enter this mode. The cursor should turn to binoculars and an arrow. Start typing the text you are looking for. The IDE will automatically jump to the matched items in the code. If you have more than one match, F3 will
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Monday, February 16, 2004 11:51 AM

In Case You Missed PDC 2003

If you missed the PDC in Los Angeles last year, you can find many of the presentations at http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/ .
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