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The Reactive Extensions (Rx)

The Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a library to compose asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections and LINQ-style query operators.

The “A” in “AJAX” stands for asynchronous, and indeed modern Web-based and Cloud-based applications are fundamentally asynchronous. In fact, Silverlight bans all blocking networking and threading operations. Asynchronous programming is by no means restricted to Web [...]

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ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers)

ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is an application-wide error logging facility that is completely pluggable. It can be dynamically added to a running ASP.NET web application, or even all ASP.NET web applications on a machine, without any need for re-compilation or re-deployment.
Once ELMAH has been dropped into a running web application and [...]

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NuGet extension

NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update open source libraries and tools in Visual Studio.
When you use NuGet to install a package, it copies the library files to your solution and automatically updates your project (add references, change config files, etc). If you remove a package, [...]

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HTML5 & CSS3 in Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Visual Studio 2010 was originally released without HTML5 support, so does SP1 finally add support for it? Yes, to some extent. The entire HTML5 specification isn’t supported but most of the new elements and attributes are. That means you get both intellisense and validation for HTML5 with SP1.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdevtools/archive/2011/01/27/html5-amp-css3-in-visual-studio-2010-sp1.aspx

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Vingy – Visual Studio Instant Search Addin – Goes Open Source

A simple, but effective add in for Visual Studio 2010 so that you can search the web in a non intrusive way, and can filter results based on sources.
http://vingy.codeplex.com/

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ASP.NET Padding Oracle fix released!

Scott Guthrie’s blog reports that a fix is now available for the Padding Oracle attack, which enables successful attackers to break the security of ASP.NET applications. Read all about it here:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/09/28/asp-net-security-update-now-available.aspx
You can find a demo of ASP.NET Padding Oracle Attack here:
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/demo-aspnet-padding-oracle-attack-091710

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Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0

Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 is a new process template from Microsoft. Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for project management and agile software development.  This template includes work items and reports to help your Scrum team be successful.   Click here more information about this release.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/59ac03e3-df99-4776-be39-1917cbfc5d8e

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Azure Storage Explorer

Azure Storage Explorer is a useful GUI tool for inspecting and altering the data in your Azure cloud storage projects including the logs of your cloud-hosted applications. All three types of cloud storage can be viewed: blobs, queues, and tables.
You can also create or delete blob/queue/table containers and items. Text blobs [...]

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PhoneGap: build cross-platform mobile apps

PhoneGap is an open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps. Build apps in HTML and JavaScript and still take advantage of core features in iPhone/iTouch, iPad, Google Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs
http://www.phonegap.com/

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Google Chrome Developer Tools

The Google Chrome Developer Tools provide an integrated environment for debugging, optimizing, and understanding a web application, or website, running in Google Chrome. The developer tools are developed partly through the open source project, WebKit, where the tools are called Web Inspector.

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Pex and Moles – Isolation and White box Unit Testing for .NET

Pex and Moles are Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools that help Unit Testing .NET applications.
Pex automatically generates test suites with high code coverage. Right from the Visual Studio code editor, Pex finds interesting input-output values of your methods, which you can save as a small test suite with high code coverage. Microsoft Pex is a [...]

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Prism for Silverlight

Prism can be thought of as a set of libraries that help Silverlight applications be scalable and testable. It has a number of features (modularity, view regions and commanding) that help with this.
The project can be found on codeplex and here are some useful guides and how-to’s.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Is Here

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces lot many new features for Business Intelligence users, Developers and Database Administrators.
The main new features include:

Master Data Services
Support for 256 logical processors
Self-service BI with Project Gemini
Geospatial visualizations in Reporting Services
Improvements in multi-server management
Report Builder 3.0
StreamInsight
SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse
SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
PowerPivot for SharePoint
Multi [...]

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