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"Microsoft SQL Server performs dynamic memory management based on the memory requirements of the current load and activities on the system. On a Windows Server 2003 or a Windows XP or later version system, SQL Server can use the memory notification mechanisms that are provided by the QueryMemoryResourceNotification Windows API. On a Microsoft Windows 2000 Server-based system, SQL Server periodically calculates the free physical memory on the system by using the native Windows API. Based on this information from the QueryMemoryResourceNotification Windows API or from the memory calculation, SQL Server responds to the current memory situation on a specific system. This provides the following benefits:"

"Welcome to the Apache NMS project, the .NET Messaging API. This allows you to build .NET applications in C#, VB, or any other .NET language, using a single API to connect to multiple different providers."

TweetSharp is a Twitter API library that greatly simplifies the task of adding Twitter to your desktop, web, and mobile applications. 

"What social authentication solutions are available for .NET developers? What are their features? These are questions I was looking to get answered. I've provided my findings in this article, which focuses primarily on active solutions, that have compatibility with ASP.NET MVC. I've listed four solutions: a direct DotNetOpenAuth implementation example (several exist), SimpleSocialAuth, SocialAuth.NET, and a third-party, API-based solution called Janrain Engage."

In this tutorial, you will create your first HTTP service using ASP.NET Web API.

"The CTP includes some work called the Productivity Improvements for EF which aims to provide a simpler and more productive experience writing data access code with EF. Along with a bunch of conventions that take care of a lot of common tasks the Productivity Improvements also include some more subtle improvements over the core EF API. One of these is the introduction of an Include method that uses a lambda rather than strings to specify the include path."

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

" Are you tired of fighting with overly complex ORMs such as Entity Framework and NHibernate? Are you tired of poorly generated SQL or having to change your business objects to work with your ORM? Do you miss the power and performance of ADO.NET and SQL, but not the manual tedious work? If so FluentData might be the framework for you."

"The Firebug command line provides these special functions for your convenience:"

"In SQL Server 2008 Microsoft has introduced a number of new date and time data types. One of these is the datetimeoffset data type. This data type includes an offset from UTC time as well as the datetime value and ensures that the datetime can be retrieved in UTC or a particular timezone based on this offset. There are also new functions to allow for conversions between different time zones using the new function SWITCHOFFSET(). "