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The Microsoft .NET platform, originally introduced in 2002, is mature and it provides developers with great options for creating software that can meet the requirements of any project. With many options, though, it can be difficult for today's .NET developer to choose the correct .NET technologies for a project. Addressing this problem, Telerik has assembled its senior technical leaders to produce the Microsoft Platform Guidance 2012. This document attempts to provide prescriptive guidance for .NET developers trying to determine the best .NET technologies to use for specific software challenges.

"Microsoft StreamInsight consists of a set of programming tools, and most of what is written about StreamInsight is written specifically for programmers. But what if you are, for example, a database administrator or data analyst without an extensive programming background? You're wondering if StreamInsight might be a solution for a problem you have, but the existing documentation leaves you scratching your head."

"Some people claim agile has "crossed the chasm." Certainly, many people are aware of agile. Many people understand that a cross-functional team works in increments, delivering features asking for feedback. That's at the team level. So when I say 'Agile is Not for Everyone' what do I mean? The problem is agile is not just for teams. "

"Interfaces are wonderful for a language like C#. Interfaces give us everything we need to work with an object in a strongly-typed manner, but place the least number of constraints on the object implementing the interface. Interfaces make the C# compiler happy without forcing us to pay an inheritance tax for working with a class hierarchy. We'll define an interface that describes exactly how we want to fetch customers and how we want the customers packaged for us to consume."

In this article you can find a simplest way to create your first ASP.NET MVC application. This is a tutorial for absolute beginners to ASP.NET MVC. Only prerequisite for following this tutorial is that you know how to use Visual Studio, and to understand

"But even in today's SW industry, there does not seem to be much of an expectation from SW professionals that we should have the 'capability/tools to build our own tools' that do much of the project work for us. I am not talking about the simple automation, things like rename/refactor or autocorrect, or intellisense and all that, I am talking about the kind of automation and tooling that writes or deploys software for us and saves hours, days and weeks of our time from handcrafting software solutions from scratch again."

"Some of my favorite blog posts that I've read in the last several years focus on the subject of developer turnover, and I think that these provide an excellent backdrop for this subject. The oldest one that I'll list, by Bruce Webster, is called "The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea Effect," and it coins an excellent term for a phenomenon with which we're all probably vaguely aware on either a conscious or subconscious level. The "Dead Sea Effect" is a description of some organizations' tendency to be so focused on retention that they inadvertently retain mediocre talent while driving better talent away"

Visual Studio 2012 gets rid of "VS Setup" projects. However, the WiX toolset provides a strong open alternative for creating your installation packages. This PowerShell script (vdproj2wix.ps1) is a very simple one for converting a Visual Studio setup project (aka a .vdproj file) into a WiX format one (i.e. a .wxs file).

"The various ways of comparing two values for equality in .NET can be very confusing. In fact if we have two objects a and b in C# there are at least four ways to compare their identity, plus one operator that looks like an identity comparison to add to the confusion"

"We've been working with, building, and evangelising message queues for the last year, and it's no secret that we think they're awesome. We believe message queues are a vital component to any architecture or application, and here are ten reasons why:"

"I've done a number of talks on Productivity in the past. Lots of folks ask me what my tips are for being productive. I've taken all those tips as well as tips from Kathy Sierra, Stephen Covey, David Allen, The Pomodoro Technique and many more and aggregated them into a system that works well for me. I talk about how to effectively handle large amounts email, sorting your personal data stream, how to conserve your keystrokes, the "one email rule" that you need to be effective"

"Asynchrony is essential  for scalability and performance on the server side. Although it has always been possible to write asynchronous code, there has, up to now, been a downside: it is difficult to understand and maintain. Now, with the async/await. keywords, the whole approach is radically simplified for the programmer."

"Switching from developing ASP.NET WebForms to MVC might seem awkward at first, but Ed demonstrates why the change needn't be painful, and how best to build a set of tools for rapid MVC development."

This article will focus on one of the most important functional programming constructs: working with values as opposed to identities. I'll discuss the strong support C++ has always had for working with values, then show how the new C++ 11 standard expands this support with lambdas. Finally, I'll introduce a method of working with immutable data structures that maintains the speed C++ is known for while providing the protection that functional languages have long enjoyed.

"After a good discussion with a colleague for the merits of code review I thought I should give some of the reasons I use as to why a development team should adopt a code review process."

TechEd Europe 2012: how different is developing a Metro app for Windows 8 from building a WPF application? Well, not very different at all, as you can see in this presentation. There are some differences, but there are not really any new or difficult concepts.

It is natural to think of the public methods and properties of a class as the public interface of the class. When implementing a class that is meant to be derived there is also another interface - the one meant for child classes. A clear separation of the two interfaces makes the code cleaner. The one construct to avoid is public virtual methods.

"As soon as you have more than a trivial set of tasks you'll need a better system than a simple list and for agile teams, we have Scrum's product backlog."

"While Visual Studio 2012 Professional supports several new technologies (for example, Windows Store apps and the ASP.NET Web API), the Visual Studio team seems to have taken the opportunity to concentrate on creating a "better IDE.""

NuGet is a package management system for .NET. The goal of NuGet is to make the process of incorporating third party libraries into your solutions as simple as possible.