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The Beta of .NET 3.5 and VS2008 SP1 is out. I'm sure everyone is blogging the heck out of it, so I'll try to add my own specific kind of value. There's fixes, many improvements (some subtle, some dramatic), and some new technology. Should You Fear This (Beta) Release? Maybe a little bit. Don't be afraid of the new assemblies or the bug fixes, I ...

I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-fourth in a infinite number of posts of ''The Weekly Source Code.'' There's a lot of ways to ''extend'' an application or framework. ...

And so, Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-first in a infinite number of posts of "The Weekly Source Code." I'm doubling up this week, but the ASP.NET MVC Source was released today and I wanted to share more thoughts. I would also encourage you to check out TWSC 17 on Community ASP.NET MVC code. Read the Comments Look ...

Any problem in computer science can be solved with one additional layer of indirection. - David Wheeler Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke. ...

ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 released today and you can head over to http://www.asp.net/mvc to get the new stuff. I put together four new screencasts for this release. I really feel that a well-done screencast is a great learning tool. Last month I did a survey of you all, Dear Reader, and got 1000 responses and published the ...

My one-hundred-and-second podcast is up. In this episode, I sit down with Michael Pizzo, the Principal Architect of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. He gets technically down and dirty pretty fast and I get answers to all the hard questions like ''Are LINQ to SQL and LINQ to ...

One of my first projects when I started working here is an ASP.NET Wiki. ScottGu had the idea and my team had to make it happen. The Beta (finally!) launched today. A lot of work went into the development and seeding of this project. The idea is that folks spend a lot of time trolling the ...

If you're new to this, each week I post some snippets of particularly interesting (read: beautiful, ugly, clever, obscene) source and the project it came from. This started from a belief that reading source is as important (or more so) as writing it. We read computer books to become better programmers, but unless you're ...

It's live and you can give it a try now! Ten minutes ago Shawn and Scott released the hounds. If you'd like to step through .NET Framework Source code, here's what you need to do. Install this QFE. Note, if you're on 64-bit Windows, read the description as there is a ...

My ninety-sixth podcast is up. This episode was recorded at CodeMash in Ohio last week. Dustin Campbell is a lead developer at DevExpress working on CodeRush and ''Refactor!'' He's also a gifted teacher and gave a great session on F# at CodeMash so I know I wanted to get him on the show. He's ...