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General

• StructureMap 2.5 Is Released: Jeremy D. Miller announces the long-awaited v2.5 of StructureMap!
• Microsoft Kills LINQ to SQL: Oren Eini has a few choice comments about Microsoft canning the LINQ to SQL project, a sad shame.
• Code Coverage With NCover: Grant Palin writes about how to use NCover to see how much of your code is covered by your unit tests.

Web Development

• Silverlight Tools RTM: The Visual Studio 2008 tooling for Silverlight 2 has reached RTM!
• Silverlight Control Suite From Microsoft: A nice overview of the newly released & free Silverlight control suite.
• ASP.NET And Exceptions In Asynchronous Tasks: A gotcha that may be hard to track down – exceptions that are thrown from a secondary thread.
• JSON.NET 3.5 Beta 1 – Performance Gains, Compact Framework Support, And Much More: The best JSON toolkit just got better!
• jQuery IntelliSense Documentation File Available: Go get the IntelliSense file for jQuery directly from the source.
• Run ASP.NET MVC On Windows Azure: Aaron Lerch shows us how to get an MVC application running in the cloud on Windows Azure.