MSDN Magazine September 2006

Integrated Desktop is a loosely coupled hosting architecture and composite UI that runs on the desktop and is supported by a loosely coupled architecture on the back end. It collapses the number of applications a user must deal with when making decisions.

Enterprise Library is a collection of application functionality blocks that you can re-use in your application for common functionality you'd otherwise have to write again and again. Here Jay Hilyard explains how to use them.

In this article, Chandu Thota highlights some of the most salient features of the Virtual Earth APIs and shows you how to build your own powerful mapping and local search applications using them.

If you were to build a new communications protocol from scratch, how would you address security? Here the authors take a look at that question and generate some valuable insights into secure protocols.

MSDN Magazine Executive Editor introduces this issue

This month we look at creating documentation, guarding intellectual property, automating the build process, and a book on writing software.

The System.Array and System.Collections.Generic.List classes provide methods that let you avoid writing code to loop through every element of an array or list to find the items you’re looking for. Ken Getz explains.

In this installment of Test Run, James McCaffrey discusses how you can generate random test case data.

Because of the popularity of multiprocessor machines, many concurrency articles focus on how to make concurrency safe in your code. However, they don't deal with how to get concurrency into your code in the first place.

The progress bar is great for keeping users informed about the progress of a task. Unfortunately, there’s no progress bar element built into ASP.NET, so Dino Esposito solves that problem with his ProgressPanel control.

In this installment of Service Station, Aaron Skonnard takes a long hard look at System.Xml 2.0.

What can a robot-programming toolkit do for you? Read on and find out.

This month Stephen Toub explains how you can get some of the functionality found in the TransactionScope class in your own classes.

This month Paul DiLascia teaches readers the right way to create dynamic dialogs, explains satellite DLLs and discusses language resource DLLs.

Here Jon Schwartz discusses a programming environment designed just for kids.