You can find them in 3 distinct areas of the MSDN Library:

• Featured Books on ASP.NET
• Featured Books on Visual Studio 2008
• Featured Books on .NET Development

And here’s the list of the books that have some of their chapters featured on the library:

ASP.NET:

• Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5: Learn How to Build a State-of-the-Art Ajax Start Page Using ASP.NET, .NET 3.5, LINQ, Windows WF, and More
• Learning ASP.NET 3.5, Second Edition: Build Web Applications with ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX, LINQ, and More
• Programming ASP.NET 3.5, Fourth Edition

Visual Studio 2008:

• C# 3.0 Cookbook, Third Edition: More than 250 solutions for C# 3.0 programmers
• C# 3.0 Design Patterns: Use the Power of C# 3.0 to Solve Real-World Problems
• C# 3.0 in a Nutshell, Third Edition: A Desktop Quick Reference
• Learning C# 3.0: Master the fundamentals of C# 3.0
• Programming Visual Basic 2008: Build .NET 3.5 Applications with Microsoft's RAD Tool for Business

.NET Development:

• ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook, Second Edition
• Programming .NET 3.5: Build N-Tier Applications with WPF, AJAX, Silverlight, LINQ, WCF, and More
• Programming Entity Framework: Building Data Centric Apps with the ADO.NET Entity Framework
• Programming WCF Services, Second Edition: Building Service Oriented Applications with Windows Communication Foundation
• RESTful .NET: Build and Consume RESTful Web Services with .NET 3.5

Enjoy!

We’ll update our portal (.NET Framework Version and Assembly Information) that points to different migration issues topics to include the .NET 4 version as well. So in a nutshell, these are the migration issues topics we have published so far and their locations:

• .NET Framework 4 Migration Issues (from .NET 3.5 SP1 to .NET 4)
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Migration Issues (from .NET 3.5 to .NET 3.5 SP1)
• .NET Framework 2.0 Migration Issues (from .NET 1.0/1.1 to .NET 2.0)

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You can access all the videos posted, by clicking here.

This is the list of videos published so far:

• CLR Through the Years : CLR Architect Vance Morrison talks about some of the history of the CLR, a look inside the upcoming version and some insights into the future.
  
• Inside .NET 4: Meet the BCL Team : Get to know the people behind the base class library and some of the innovations coming in .NET 4.
  
• CLR 4 Garbage Collector - Inside Background GC : Software developer Maoni Stephens and PM Andrew Pardoe explains how GC has evolved over the years and talk about Background GC, an evolution to concurrent GC.
  
• CLR 4: Debugging and Profiling API Enhancements : Developers Thomas Lai and David Broman join Program Manager Jon Langdon to share with us some of the new debugging and profiling enhancements in CLR 4
  
• CLR 4 - Inside No-PIA : Principal Architect Raja Krishnaswamy, Program Manager Jesse Kaplan and team have created a new way to streamline and simplify PIA-based COM Interop. Understand what this new feature is and get some questions answered.
  
• CLR 4 - Inside the new Managed Security Model : Senior SDE Shawn Farkas digs into the new security model in CLR 4.
  
• CLR 4 - Resilient NGen with Targeted Patching : PM Surupa Biswa talks about what the NGen (CLR's Native Image Generator) team will be delivering in CLR 4 to enable resilient NGen via targeted patching.
  
• CLR 4 - Inside the Thread Pool : Developer Eric Eilebrecht and PM Erika Parsons talk about thread pool’s significant advances in performance and support for concurrency and parallelism.
  
• CLR 4 - Side-by-Side In-Process - What. How. Why. : Developers Simon Hall and Rick Byers explain exactly what went into the SxS In-Proc design, the challenges and opportunities.
  
• CLR 4 - Inside Type Equivalence : Architects Raja Krishnaswamy and Vance Morrison dig into the thinking behind the technology.
  

You can download the Channel 9 videos in different formats so that you can even watch them at your Zune or IPod.

Enjoy!

And we’re also shipping today the documentation on MSDN online!

For .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 documentation, click here.

For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 documentation, click here.

As usual, send your feedback on the documentation so we can get your comments and suggestions incorporated before we ship the final release.

More is on the way for the next releases, so stay tuned!

“The instruction at "0x749860a0" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program.”

Today we had a presentation from a Program Manager of the IE group and I asked him about this error after he finished. What he told me is that usually is an add-on that is causing the issue. So he suggested me to go to Tools –> Manage Add-ons, select all add-ons and click on Disable all. Close the browser, reopen and close it again. If the message box disappears (in my case it did), I’d know that is one of the add-ons that was causing the issue.

Adding back one add-on at a time (closing, reopening and closing again after I enabled each one to see if the message would show up) , I was able to find some culprits. ;-)

I hope this helps!

Some of the new features include:

· Mapping a location: Highlight a street address in your Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, or other web mail account, right-click on the blue button that appears, and hover over “Map with Live Search.”  Presto!  You’ll see the map with the location right there—no more copying and pasting street addresses from web mail to a mapping site.  Plus, you can choose what mapping service you want to use.

· Instant Search Box: Go to the search box in the top right, and type a search item—see how the enhanced Instant Search Box is more helpful, providing real-time search suggestions, including images, from your chosen search provider.

· InPrivate Browsing: Click on a new tab, and see the options that are presented there, including “InPrivate Browsing.”  Click InPrivate Browsing and watch what happens—you are now in a browser session that is leaving no trail behind, so research gift suggestions for your significant other to your heart’s content without worrying about who might pick up the crumbs after you. 

Also, IE8 is supposed to be faster, easier to use, safer and more reliable. It is worth to check it out!

This month’s article is about Best Practices For Managed And Native Code Interoperability. It was written by Jesse Kaplan, the PM for Managed/Native Interoperability on the CLR team. The article provides high-level architectural guidance and discusses the three techniques available in the .NET framework for managed-native interoperability: P/Invoke, COM Interop and C++/CLI.

To see a list of all articles already published on the 'CLR Inside Out' column, go here.

Check it out at https://blogs.msdn.com/clrteam/.

Because it's a translation wiki, the default view has both languages side-by-side (English and Portuguese). For me, as a moderator, that is great because I can review the original  sentence and the translation. What struck me today is that I've never realized that you could choose to show only the English frame or only the translation frame, which is very helpful for someone that is not interested in the English version. And I only realized that because of a customer feedback bug that I was translating today!

So I'll switch to Portuguese now to try to help our customers facing this issue...

Se você está visualizando uma página em português no MSDN, como por exemplo Guia de Programação C#, observe que tem um filtro no menu superior chamado Exibir Conteúdo. A opção pré-selecionada é Lado a Lado, que vai exibir o conteúdo tanto em inglês como em português, o que pode dificultar a leitura. Por isso, você pode selecionar entre as opções Apenas em Inglês ou Apenas Tradução.