IliaJ on .NET

Microsoft patterns & practices Team has released the first version of WCF 3.5 Security Guidelines. As J.D. Meier writes in his blog the WCF Security guidelines are organized using the following categories:

• Auditing and Logging
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Binding
• Configuration Management
• Exception Management
• Hosting
• Impersonation and Delegation
• Input/Data Validation
• Proxy Considerations
• Deployment considerations

The Ext Team has released Ext JS 2.1 and changed the licensing model. Now the choices are: GNU GPL license v3 (and sure, you must make your application open source), OEM or a commercial license. LGPL 3.0 has been removed. If you use LGPL Ext in a commercial project you should probably re-evaluate the licensing or stick to Ext 2.0.2.

Along with Visual Studio 2008 RTM Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit. The kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos, which help to learn the newest Microsoft technologies such as LINQ, C# 3.0, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX and Application Lifecycle Management. Most of these technologies are parts of .NET Framework 3.5

Recently Microsoft published .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit. This kit includes information on

• ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• ASP.NET AJAX History
• ASP.NET Silverlight controls
• ADO.NET Data Services
• ADO.NET Entity Framework.

According to Microsoft this is an intermediate release, and the full kit follows.