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One-time passwords offer solutions to dictionary attacks, phishing, interception, and lots of other security breaches. Here's how it all works.

Dan Griffin

MSDN Magazine May 2008

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When incorporating the ASP.NET DataGrid control into your Web apps, common operations such as paging, sorting, editing, and deleting data require more effort than you might like to expend. But all that is about to change. The GridView control--the successor to the DataGrid-- extends the DataGrid's functionality it in a number of ways. First, it fully supports data source components and can automatically handle data operations, such as paging, sorting, and editing, as long as its bound data source object supports these capabilities. In addition, ...

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Learn how to automate custom SharePoint application deployments, use the SharePoint API, and avoid the hassle of custom site definitions.

E. Wilansky, P. Olszewski, and R. Sneddon

MSDN Magazine May 2008

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This article introduces 10 development tools that can increase your productivity, give you a better understanding of .NET, and maybe even change the way that you develop applications. The tools covered include NUnit to write unit tests, Reflector to examine assemblies, FxCop to police your code, Regulator to build regular expressions, NDoc to create code documentation and five more.

James Avery

MSDN Magazine July 2004

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C# 2.0 introduces a wealth of exiting new features, such as generics, iterators, partial classes and anonymous methods. While generics are the most talked-about feature especially for former classic C++ developers, the rest of the new features are important additions to your .NET development arsenal, enhancing power and improving overall productivity. This article is dedicated to all the new C# 2.0 capabilities besides generics to give you a good overall picture of the upcoming features.

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C# developers can use the Visual Studio Tools for the Office System (VSTO) Power Tools Office interop API extensions to streamline Office application development. The extensions provide a thin, strongly typed layer over the loosely typed Office object models.

In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Andrew Whitechapel, Phillip Hoff, and Vladimir Morozov walk you through developing ...

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Earlier this year MSDN Magazine embarked on a collaborative project with Behind the Code, an interview program airing on MSDN Channel 9. In this program, Robert Hess interviews prominent developers at Microsoft, and those developers also write a column for { End Bracket } in MSDN Magazine. In the newest interview, Richard Ward talks about working on the core infrastructure components of future versions of Windows, as well as ...

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The "Geneva" Framework, formerly called "Zermatt," is the code name for the new framework for building claims-based applications and services, and for implementing federated security scenarios.

In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Michele Leroux Bustamante describes how to approach claims-based ...

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First Look: WCF And WF Services In The .NET Framework 4.0 And “Dublin”
We explore some of the key new WCF and WF features in .NET Framework 4.0 as well as the new application server capabilities provided by the “Dublin” extensions. Aaron Skonnard
Geneva Framework: Building A Custom Security Token Service
A Security Token Service, or STS, acts as a security gateway to authenticate callers and issue security tokens carrying claims that describe the caller. See how you can build a custom STS with the “Geneva” Framework. Michele Leroux Bustamante
Silverlight: Build Line-Of-Business Enterprise Apps With Silverlight, Part 1
Take a walk through the creation of a call center client application to learn how to build real-world enterprise solutions using Silverlight. Hanu Kommalapati
Windows Mobile: Use GPS And Web Maps For Location-Aware Apps
We show you how to build a location-aware task list application for Windows Mobile devices that uses GPS to remind you of a task when and where it’s appropriate. Christopher Mitchell
VSTS 2010: Agile Planning Tools In Visual Studio Team System 2010
Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 introduces product backlog and iteration backlog workbooks and reports that will help agile teams plan and manage releases and iterations. Ajoy Krishnamoorthy
ASP.NET Workflow: Web Apps That Support Long-Running Operations
Integrating workflow into ASP.NET applications means communicating with activities via a workflow queue and hosting the runtime in the global application class. We’ll show you how. Michael Kennedy

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Editor's Note: A Look Back As We Move Forward
Here’s a look at a year’s worth of coverage and changes at MSDN Magazine in response to reader requests. Howard Dierking
Toolbox: C# JavaScript, Eric Lippert’s Blog, And More
Writing your JavaScript code in C# and having it converted, Eric Lippert’s programming blog, and reading up on T-SQL 2008. Scott Mitchell
CLR Inside Out: Best Practices For Managed And Native Code Interoperability
There are many factors to consider when building your app with both managed and native code. Find out how to employ interop and how to choose the interop that’s right for you. Jesse Kaplan
Basic Instincts: Inspecting COM Objects With Reflection
Reflection is useful for debugging and logging and otherwise providing the type information you need. Here you’ll see how to use reflection on COM types. Lucian Wischik
Cutting Edge: Managing Dynamic Content Delivery In Silverlight, Part 1
This month Dino tackles the problem of large download size for Silverlight applications, explaining when to use streaming, when to divide the download, and other techniques for better performance over the wire. Dino Esposito
Test Run: Analyzing Project Exposure And Risk Using PERIL
Here James McCaffrey uses some statistical methods and a technique he calls PERIL to estimate risks to software projects involving timing, costs, and other potential resource shortfalls. Dr. James McCaffrey
Service Station: An Introduction To RESTful Services With WCF
We discuss some of the basic tenets of REST as well as present an implementation of a RESTful service using WCF. Jon Flanders
Security Briefs: Getting Started With The SDL Threat Modeling Tool
The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) threat modeling tool helps you develop great threat models as a backbone of your security process. We'll show you how it works. Adam Shostack
Extreme ASP.NET: Routing with ASP.NET Web Forms
See how to get the benefits of rerouting while alleviating the risks with this in-depth look at URL rewriting in ASP.NET. Scott Allen
Foundations: Easily Apply Transactions To Services
Managing state and error recovery using transactions is the topic of this month’s installment of Foundations. Juval Lowy
Net Matters: Round-Robin Access To The ThreadPool
Stephen Toub shows you how to add round-robin scheduling support on top of the ThreadPool for more granular processing control. Stephen Toub
Usability in Practice: When Things Go Wrong
This month our usability experts explain what it takes to create informative, useful error messages. Dr. Charles Kreitzberg and Ambrose Little
{ End Bracket }: The Emergence Of Machine Translation
Vikram Dendi looks at how machine translation is poised to change the world and why it is so important to deliver information in multiple languages. Vikram Dendi
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