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Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:00
September 2010
Protect against obsolescence, gain new capabilities and increase your marketability by getting on board with the .NET Framework 4. You can start right here by learning how to migrate older applications to the latest and greatest.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:00
September 2010
When building custom SharePoint 2010 solutions, it makes a lot of sense to take advantage of Silverlight 4 on the front end. We’ll walk you through the process of building a Silverlight Web Part with Visual Studio and Expression Blend.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:00
September 2010
While SQL Server is a good repository for geospatial data, it doesn’t communicate with MapPoint as well as it could. So our geo-data experts show you how to read point and polygon objects from SQL Server and render them in MapPoint and how to write points and polygons back to SQL Server using Entity Framework 4.0 included with Visual Studio 2010.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:00
September 2010
Software development isn’t all about object-oriented design; it’s about finding what works best, and incorporating it into your solution.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:00
September 2010
Readers weigh in on the question of whether U.S. schools are preparing students for software development jobs.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:00
September 2010
The Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern is an evolution of MVC. We take a look at implementing MVP for ASP.NET Web Forms and compare it to ASP.NET MVC and MVVM for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:00
September 2010
IronRuby expert Shay Friedman goes mobile and shows you how to build a Windows Phone 7 app with Microsoft’s implementation of the popular Ruby dynamic language.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:00
September 2010
Beef up your testing toolset by learning how to perform HTTP request-response tests of your ASP.NET Web apps using IronPython, a .NET Framework-compliant implementation of Python.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:00
September 2010
The MSF-Agile project template for Team Foundation Server makes it easy for your team to implement Agile techniques. The new MSF-Agile+SDL template adds Security Development Lifecycle requirements. We’ll show you how it works.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:00
September 2010
Charles Petzold continues his exploration of multi-touch Manipulation events in the Windows Presentation Foundation and shows you how to design custom classes to decorate elements and provide visual feedback to users.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:00
September 2010
Euphemisms are the refuge of cowards.
Fri, 07/30/2010 - 01:00
August 2010
The goal of federated security is to provide a mechanism for establishing trust relationships between domains. Platform tools like Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) make it much easier to support this type of identity federation. We show you how.
Fri, 07/30/2010 - 01:00
August 2010
Windows Azure is already helping many companies move their apps into the cloud. We’ll share some of the tips and tricks that we discovered working with customers on real-world migrations.
Fri, 07/30/2010 - 01:00
August 2010
The Sync Framework can be used to build apps that synchronize data from any data store using any protocol over a network. We’ll show you how it works and get you started building a custom sync provider.
Fri, 07/30/2010 - 01:00
August 2010
Learn how to use the AtomPub protocol to pump up your blogs. Chris Sells includes a practical demonstration of mapping so you can expose a standard AtomPub service from a Web site and use Windows Live Writer to provide a rich editing experience against the service.
Fri, 07/30/2010 - 01:00
August 2010
Tier interaction profiling (TIP) is a feature of the Visual Studio profiling tools that measures the duration of synchronous calls to ADO.NET-compliant data stores. We’ll show you how TIP works and provide some best practices for using TIP to diagnose performance problems in your apps.
Fri, 07/30/2010 - 01:00
August 2010
Smart client applications are responsive and promote interactivity with the user. In this article, we continue building a smart client application using NHibernate for data access and Rhino Service Bus for reliable communication with the server.
Fri, 07/30/2010 - 01:00
August 2010
See how easy it is to create a Windows Phone 7 app and tie it to a Web service as Ramon Arjona walks you through the creation of a language translation tool.
Fri, 07/30/2010 - 01:00
August 2010
When building your program, are you content with “good enough”? If so, your expectations are fatally low.
Fri, 07/30/2010 - 01:00
August 2010
Being lazy in software development can be a good thing, but until the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, coders had to implement lazy behavior themselves. Dino Esposito shows how to use the new Lazy class to maximize your resources.