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For those who struggle with the language of Shakespeare, Gilles Tourreau (another MVP) has recently released a book on C# in French! And God knows how rare French technical books are!

Click here to order it (Amazon Canada)

While reading the MSDN article on converting VBA applications to C# 4.0, I remembered the famous ALT+[Selection] function that allows you to insert the same text/code on multiple lines at once. So, here is the English version of that part of the article:

Press ALT and select where you want to insert your code (selection in light blue in the image below):

Type your code and boom! All the selected lines have been filled with your code:

As I previously highlighted, an ASP.Net vulnerability can be exploited by malicious individuals. Here is a demo exploiting it on the DotNetNuke platform.

For all those who have ASP.Net sites, all versions included, please pay special attention to this security issue: details on this entry from ScottGu.

Thanks to Éric for publishing the news. A free book of over 300 pages, it’s not every day you get that!

Go directly to the eBook

The tools for developing for Windows Phone 7 are now available in the final version. You can download them here. For more information, read Scott’s excellent article.

The WPF team recently released a new Ribbon completely in WPF (no wrapper around native code). So you can play with your XAML to give it the look and contextual menus you want!

Download the Ribbon

See Pete Brown’s article
WPF Team Blog: Introducing the Microsoft Ribbon for WPF

I previously talked to you about LightSwitch, now you can download the Beta 1 version.

Go ahead, have fun!

The 0.5 beta version of the Orchard project has just been released. Here are 4 points that I really like about this engine:

1. ASP.Net MVC
2. Allows multiple Wikis under the same site
3. Management of static pages
4. AND ABOVE ALL, the ability to translate posts and pages into different languages!! Which is quite rare in this field.

You can download the source code or simply install it with WebPI

Microsoft has just unveiled LightSwitch, a tool for developing business applications without having to touch the code. Jason Zander provides an excellent introduction on his site.

There will be a template for C# and VB. At first glance, the generated application seems to run on WPF for the Desktop version, and probably Silverlight or XBAP for the web version.

The beta will be available on August 23rd.

Stay tuned