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Windows Azure and Office 365
Last week’s Beta release of Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint introduced several great enhancements, including a bunch of developer improvements. Developers can now extend SharePoint by creating web apps using ASP.NET (both ASP.NET Web Forms and now ASP.NET MVC), as well as extend SharePoint by authoring custom workflows using the new Workflow Framework in .NET 4.5.
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Entity Framework and Open Source
The Entity Framework has advanced significantly over the last few years. A little over a year ago we released EF 4.1, which introduced the new DbContext API and EF “Code First” support. Earlier this year we delivered EF 4.3, which provides Code First Migration support that enables developers to easily evolve database schema in a code optimized way. And we are now in the final stages of wrapping up the EF 5 release, which adds enum support, spatial data types, table-valued function support and some significant performance and Visual Studio Tooling improvements.
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aspConf - Free Virtual ASP.NET Conference this week
aspConf is a free, virtual conference dedicated to ASP.NET. It's the sequel to the popular mvcConf conference - expanded to two full days of great content on the entire ASP.NET platform. Best of all you can watch it live online for free.