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Solution Navigator: Killer replacement for Solution Explorer - Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog
Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools contains now Solution Navigator that merges many good features of Visual Studio 2010, Solution Explorer and some Power Tools features to single view. After playing shortly with Solution Navigator I found it to be very good replacement for Solution Explorer. In this posting I will show you some very cool features of Solution Navigator.

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SerialSeb: An intro to what OpenWrap is
OpenWrap is currently classified as a package management system. In reality, it’s an export management system. The reason for OpenWrap existing is to deliver stuff to whatever environment is needing it, be it at development time within Visual Studio, at deployment time when pushing an OpenRasta or MVC web-site, or at run-time for a rich client.

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Loading Strategy for Entity Framework 4.0 - Fredrik Normén
Here is a simple generic Repository (I left out some other methods, they aren't important in this current context) using Entity Framework 4.0, where a Loading strategy is added:

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Entity Framework 4 “Code-First” - Custom Database Schema Mapping - ScottGu's Blog
Last week I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option.  The EF “code-first” option enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data.

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Mercurial for Subversion Users - Pylons Cookbook
Mercurial is intentionally similar to Subversion in its command syntax, but it has some unfamiliar concepts. This article is based on the Mercurial book and usage chart. I'd recommend reading the book after this article because it contains several tips not covered here. The Mercurial site also contains other good tutorials and references. "hg help" and "hg help COMMAND" give exensive usage notes.

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Brad Wilson: Testing Routing and URL Generation in ASP.NET MVC
In ASP.NET MVC, getting your routes setup properly can be tricky if you have a lot of routes. Whenever something is tricky, and might be touched often, having a set of unit tests around it can very helpful to ensure you aren't breaking it when you make changes. Lots of routes can definitely qualify; your users rely on unbroken links and stable URLs for a good experience.

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ironruby - Release: 1.1
IronRuby 1.1 is the first release after IronRuby 1.0, the first stable version of the Ruby 1.8.6 compiler for the .NET framework.

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Perfection kills » How ECMAScript 5 still does not allow to subclass an array
Subclassing an array in Javascript has never been a trivial task. At least for a certain meaning of “subclassing an array”. Curiously, new edition of the language — ECMAScript 5 — still does not allow to fully subclass an array.

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A simple example of the Open/Closed Principle
The Open/Closed Principle says that we should strive to write code that doesn’t have to be changed every time the requirements change. When using Java, C# or other statically typed languages the solution often involves inheritance and polymorphism, which is what this simple example illustrates.

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EF CTP4 Released! - ADO.NET team blog
We’ve release an updated Entity Framework Feature CTP which is available for download. This is our fourth CTP and includes updates to the Code First feature along with the first preview of our Productivity Improvements for EF.

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