EF Debate…

As the new VS2008 SP1 is coming out the door, Scott have a great post for all the improvements… One of the data development improvement is ADO.NET Entity Framework.
Danny Simmons, a Microsoft developer for ADO.NET Entity Framework project, has recently written a blog post comparing the Entity Framework with other data access solutions, which create [...]

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Microsoft’s DI … Unity or MEF… will there be a big change?

Not long ago (early April), P&P team just released the Unity as a lightweight, extensible dependency injection (DI) container, it facilitates building loosely coupled applications… CodePlex site is here http://codeplex.com/unity 
Last week, Microsoft’s .NET Framework program manager Krzysztof Cwalina announced that his team is working on a new framework for .NET — Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) — designed [...]

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Framework Design Studio Released…

Krzysztof Cwalina and team released a Framework Design Studio that is a set of tools for framework and library developers to view, review, and compare versions of managed APIs.
It allows you to

List APIs exposed from a managed code assembly
Compare APIs in two versions of an assembly
Review APIs
Comment on API design
File bugs to a defect database [...]

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