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Editor's Note:
Head in the Clouds: This month Editor-in-Chief Howard Dierking comes down from Cloud 9 when he realizes that employing cloud services is less about magic and more about planning. Take a few tips from his recent experiences. |
Toolbox:
Easy File Backup, Exploring Files And Folders Inside Visual Studio, Multiple Monitor Software, And More: If the responsibility for creating, managing, and executing routine backups is yours, these tools will make it easier. Also see how you can browse folders and files from inside Visual Studio. |
Basic Instincts:
Documenting Your Code With XML Comments: XML comments provide an easy and effective way to document your code. We’ll show you how to use and customize XML comments in your Visual Basic projects. |
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CLR Inside Out:
Understanding The CLR Binder: In this article, we cover some of the best practices for assembly binding and loading using the CLR. |
Cutting Edge:
Build Rich User Interfaces with jQuery: In this month's installment we build modal and modeless dialog boxes in jQuery and explain how to post data from them to the Web server. |
Extreme ASP.NET:
The Life And Times of an ASP.NET MVC Controller: Here the author dissects the ASP.NET MVC framework and looks at how controllers work. He then explains how the framework interacts with your controllers and how you can influence those interactions. |
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Foundations:
Versioning Workflows: Developers often struggle with versioning workflows and their related classes. Matt Milner discusses the core issues related to workflow versioning and provides recommendations for making changes to workflow definitions, activities, and workflow services. |
Going Places:
Gaming In The Key Of Zune: Mike Calligaro shows you the basics of using XNA Game Studio 3.0 to write games for Zune. |
Office Space:
Custom Field Types for SharePoint 2007: Custom field types provide a powerful way to define a reusable SharePoint column definitions. |
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Security Briefs:
A Conversation About Threat Modeling: Listen in on a chat between a developer and security pro that delves into some of the major Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) requirements we impose on product teams here at Microsoft |
Under the Table:
Programming with FileStreams in SQL Server 2008: There's always been disagreement about whether large blobs, such as document and multimedia items, should be stored in the database or file system. In SQL Server 2008 you don't have to choose; filestream storage provides the best of both approaches. |
Patterns and Practices:
Simplifying Patterns and Practices: This month we in introduce a new column that takes you inside the Microsoft patterns & practices group. This first installment focuses on ways groups inside Microsoft have implemented the Dependency Injection pattern in Microsoft products and tools. |
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Usability in Practice:
Useful, Usable and Desirable: Usability as a Core Development Competence: In this month's installment, learn how to achieve the most important outcome of all UI design: ensuring that your software is useful, useable, and desirable. |
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The Unconference: Where Geeks JIT Together: This month the author takes us on a tour of the unconference and other unconventional get-togethers. Learn how these unique approaches to conferences are being widely adopted. |