#region == Failcode

This is a very old subject. But thanks to a way to motivated workmate, who used to drop “regions” in every code, we talked about this subject again. Are #regions good or not? For all of you who don´t know what the hell Im talking about: #region on MSDN.

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Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developer

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Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – May Preview

Microsoft released a preview Training Kit for .NET 4.0 & VS 2010: Download. It includes 28 presentations, 13 demos & 16 Hands-on Labs.  

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Free eBook: Practical .NET Unit Testing

Nice intro to unit testing (& mocking) with .NET: – Practical .NET Unit Testing

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Free eBook: Testing Chapter from Beginning ASP.NET MVC

Just found an interesting eBook: – Free Chapter of Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Testing ASP.NET MVC Applications (Blogpost)

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

Just found 3 eBooks: – ADO.NET Entity Framework: Learning Guide  – Effective Windows Powershell – Illustrated C# 2008

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Live Framework SDK is now public

The Live Framework is the API for Live Mesh. Since the PDC last year you could register for the Live Framework key to download the SDK. With the new update you have now public access to the SDK & Visual Studio Tools: Live Framework SDK April 2009 CTP Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio …

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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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