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App Migration: Migrate Your ASP.NET 1.1 Apps to Visual Studio 2010

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.
Categories: .NET

Data-Bound Design: Create a Silverlight 4 Web Part for SharePoint 2010

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.
Categories: .NET

SQL Server and MapPoint: Making MapPoint 2010 and SQL Server Spatial Work Together

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.
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The Working Programmer: Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 1

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.
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Editor's Note: U.S. Schools Not Getting It Done

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.
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Cutting Edge: Better Web Forms with the MVP Pattern

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.
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Going Places: IronRuby on Windows Phone 7

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.
Categories: .NET

Test Run: Request-Response Testing Using IronPython

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.
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Security Briefs: The MSF-Agile+SDL Process Template for TFS 2010

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.
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UI Frontiers: Touch and Response

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.
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Don't Get Me Started: Weasel Words

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 01:00
September 2010

Euphemisms are the refuge of cowards.
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Federated Identity: Passive Authentication for ASP.NET with WIF

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.
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Windows Azure: Tips for Migrating Your Applications to the Cloud

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.
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In Sync: Creating Synchronization Providers with the Sync Framework

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.
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OData and AtomPub: Building an AtomPub Server Using WCF Data Services

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.
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Speed SQL: Tuning Your Database Calls with Tier Interaction Profiling

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.
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Smart Client: Building Distributed Apps with NHibernate and Rhino Service Bus, Part 2

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.
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Windows Phone 7: Windows Phone and the Cloud--an Introduction

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.
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Editor's Note: Does Your Program Smell Like Bacon?

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.
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Cutting Edge: Don’t Worry, Be Lazy

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.
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