#region == Failcode

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Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developer

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Free eBook: Practical .NET Unit Testing

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Free eBooks: ADO.NET Entity Framework, Powershell & C#

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25 Years Microsoft Press – 2 books for free

Microsoft Press celebrates his 25th anniversary and offer you two books. These offers expire on February 25, 2009. If you want to download the books you have to register to the MS Press Book Connection Newsletter: Microsoft® Visual C#® 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! Windows Vista Resource Kit, Second Edition

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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC published

The ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate was today published by Scott Gu. Scott wrote a great blogpost about the improvements in the RC in his blog.

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Windows 7 Beta – First impressions

Last week was the public release of the Windows 7 Beta – you can download it here. In installed it on my ThinkPad R61 and take a look at it. Here are my first impressions. Is it better than Vista?  

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