PowerUp is a simple, language neutral, Powershell based build and deployment framework

Andrew Binstock opines: Unless we relearn portability skills, the C++ renaissance will be a short affair...

ExtensionMethod.NET is a database of C# 3.0, F# and Visual Basic 2008 extension methods. It contains many user-rated extension methods that will expand your code library immediately.

The Windows Developer Preview Samples Gallery contains a variety of code samples that exercise the various new programming models, platforms, features, and components available for the BUILD conference.

This post covers how to setup mercurial(HG) as are local source control repository to sit in front of a Team Foundation Server .

This is the widget most likely to make it into full-time rotation on my build-management rotation chumby.

The WPF control for Bing Maps has been released (in beta)

A list of the most widespread and critical errors that can lead to serious vulnerabilities in software. They are often easy to find, and easy to exploit. They are dangerous because they will frequently allow attackers to completely take over the software, steal data, or prevent the software from working at all.

One feature of the CLR that is not available in C# or VB.NET are module initializers (or module constructors). A module initializer is simply a global function which is named .cctor and marked with the attributes SpecialName and RTSpecialName. It is run when a module (each .NET assembly is comprised of one or more modules, typically just one) is loaded for the first time, and is guaranteed to run before any other code in the module runs, before any type initializers, static constructors or any other initialization code.

Ayende's written his own CI server ... in PowerShell.

Part one of 6 (and a half) introducing Scala for the C# developer

Miguel de Icaza's working on the Visual Studio integration for Scala.Net to be released this fall along with full access to CLR types from Scala

We're collecting all the shims, fallbacks, and polyfills in order to implant html5 functionality in browsers that don't natively support them.

An open source, cross-platform Paint app ...

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All Will Be Revealed: ~7 Hours Recordings from the WIF Workshops

WS-Security, WS-Trust, and WS-SecurityPolicy provide a basic model for federation between Identity Providers and Relying Parties. These specifications define mechanisms for codifying claims (assertions) about a requestor as security tokens which can be used to protect and authorize web services requests in accordance with policy.

Introductory articles on lots of aspects of WPF

How Windows Phone 7 implements the viewport meta tag and associated tags device-width