Korayem/dotnet

From the page: "In December 5th, 2007 Microsoft announced an incubation project they have been working on called Volta labs.live.com/volta [labs.live.com/volta] ). The announcement talked about a new way of writing applications that allowed developers to work in familiar environments and leave various decisions, which are often decided during the design phase, till later in the development cycle. Along with the Volta announcement Microsoft posted a version of the Volta infrastructure for people to start experimenting with. This is not an official CTP or beta, simply a way for people to get an early view of what Microsoft are looking at and to be able to provide feedback. The infrastructure requires Visual Studio 2008 and creates a number of new Volta project types."

The .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the .NET 3.5 Enhancement features including: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX History, ASP.NET Silverlight controls, ADO.NET Data Services and ADO.NET Entity Framework.

CruiseControl.NET (CCNet) consists of a suite of applications, but at its core is the CruiseControl.NET Server which is an automated integration server.

The Server automates the integration process by monitoring the team's source control repository directly. Every time a developer commits a new set of modifications, the server will automatically launch an integration build to validate the changes. When the build is complete, the server notifies the developer whether the changes that they committed integrated successfully or not.

From the page: "The WDK is a fully integrated driver development system that contains the Windows DDK and tests for stability and reliability of Windows drives, including:

Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) simplifies the development and support of Windows drivers.

Header file refactoring (Windows Vista and later versions) reduces header file complexity by providing a simpler directory structure, eliminating declaration conflicts, and using a single set of header files for all supported Windows versions.

Installable File Systems (IFS) Kit headers, libraries, samples, and documentation is distributed as part of the WDK.

Verifiers and static analysis tools such as PREfast and Static Driver Verifier to help you find bugs at compile time."

From the page: "Some tips and techniques for using NUnit, the testing framework used in this book."

From the page: "The samples that shipped with the downloads are all web based and the technology that caught all the commentators eye was the ability to write the application in C# but then have post compilation rewrite the IL to JavaScript so the application ran as a true web application. On that basis Volta has been compared to Google Web Toolkit (GWT). However, Volta is much more than that and so this article attempts to explain the real power behind the Volta infrastructure."

From the page: "The LINQ to XSD preview illustrates our initial thinking on a strongly-typed programming experience over LINQ to XML. Instead of working with untyped XML trees, LINQ to XSD allows you to program in terms of strongly-typed classes, generated based on an XSD schema. The LINQ to XSD project is still incubation, but we are looking at ways to incorporate its functionality into future Visual Studio and .NET Framework releases. We are very much interested in gathering your feedback on the product, so please download it, give it a try, and send us some feedback. "

From the page: "We were screwing around last weekend looking a houses and found a big empty lot that some folks are building houses on. I was surprised that the Real Estate folks (at least these) weren't very computer savvy. Everything's pushed around on paper. There's no kiosk, no 3D renderings, nada. I wanted to understand how the neighborhood would lay out and where houses would sit, but other than pencil sketches, they couldn't help me. Seems that this kind of thing could be very useful to a prospective buyer."