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ASP.NET AJAX

How Do I: Get Started with ASP.NET AJAX?	How Do I: Get Started with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit?	How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX NoBot Control?
7 minutes, 51 seconds	11 minutes, 15 seconds	21 minutes, 53 seconds
How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX ListSearch Extender?	How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX CascadingDropDown Control Extender?
11 minutes, 49 seconds	27 minutes, 56 seconds

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Devices

How Do I: Use the Virtual Earth Geocode Web Service on Windows Mobile Devices?	How Do I: Display a Background Image on a Form?	How Do I: Establish NetworkConnections with Connection Manager?
25 Minutes 19 seconds	12 Minutes 4 seconds	21 Minutes 2 seconds

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Dynamics AX

How Do I: Use X++ SQL Select Statements?	How Do I: Apply a Hotfix to an Installation?	How Do I: Navigate the Developer Center
5 minutes, 54 seconds	7 minutes, 46 seconds	3 minutes, 50 seconds

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009

How Do I: Successfully Configure Outlook Synchronization with NAV 2009 SP1?	How Do I: Warranty Lots In Warehouse Management with NAV 2009 SP1?	How Do I: Revaluation Journal Process for Inventory in NAV 2009 SP1
19 minutes, 11 seconds	8 minutes, 41 seconds	19 minutes, 21 seconds
How Do I: Use Exact Cost Reversal with Dynamics NAV SP1?	How Do I: Use Expiration Lots in Warehouse Management?	How Do I: Master 3 Tier Installation/ Delegation wiht NAV2009?
17 minutes, 50 seconds	11 minutes, 00 seconds	25 minutes, 53 seconds
How Do I: Set up a multiple web service instances in NAV2009?	How do I: perform a backup of Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 Database using SQL Server?	How Do I: Determine which granule the customer needs to use a specific function in Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1
19 minutes, 58 seconds	04 minutes, 17 seconds	13 minutes, 22 seconds

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013

How Do I: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Management Pack for System Center, Part I	How Do I: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Management Pack for System Center, Part II	How Do I: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Management Pack for System Center, Part III
10 minutes 47 seconds	10 minutes 39 seconds	14 minutes 22 seconds
How Do I: Consume a Query in Microsoft Dynamics NAV	How Do I: Create a Document Report	How Do I: Implement a Microsoft Dynamics NAV Solution using RapidStart Services
05 minutes 47 seconds	25 minutes 15 seconds	09 minutes 41 seconds
How Do I: Consume Query data in Windows 8	How Do I: Build a Chart Based upon a Query	How Do I: Integrate Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 with Yammer
14 minutes 05 seconds	15 minutes 37 seconds	15 minutes 31 seconds
How Do I: Build a Fact Box based on a Query	How Do I: Monitor and Tune the Performance of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013	How Do I: Asyncronously Call Web Services
17 minutes 24 seconds	09 minutes 06 seconds	11 minutes 31 seconds
How Do I: Build a List Report	How Do I: Show a Custom Web Control in the Windows Client	How Do I: Use NAS Services to Generate a Report
14 minutes 23 seconds	17 minutes 36 seconds	10 minutes 21 seconds
How Do I: Build a Dashboard Report	How Do I: Authenticate Using OAuth Protocol	How Do I: Build a Query using SQL Advanced Options in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
15 minutes 43 seconds	14 minutes 18 seconds	12 minutes 36 seconds
How Do I: Use XMLports in Web Services Calls in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013	How Do I: Group Data in a Report in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013	How Do I: Get Started with Provisioning Tools for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 on Windows Azure
14 minutes 11 seconds	09 minutes 19 seconds	13 minutes 15 seconds
How Do I: Automate Provisioning of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 on a Windows Azure Virtual Machine	How Do I: Automate Provisioning of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Across Two Windows Azure Virtual Machines	How Do I: Create an ASP.NET Website and Invoke Automated Azure Virtual Machine Provisioning
16 minutes 27 seconds	15 minutes 25 seconds	11 minutes 36 seconds

Internet Explorer 8

AJAX Navigation	Selectors API	Native JSON
3 minutes, 11 seconds	4 minutes, 46 seconds	2 minutes, 38 seconds

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Internet Explorer 9

How Do I: Work with the Document Compatibility Modes in Internet Explorer 9?	How Do I: Work with Script Profiling in Internet Explorer 9?	How Do I: Work with Icon Overlays in Internet Explorer 9?
8 minutes, 16 seconds	3 minutes, 05 seconds	4 minutes, 29 seconds
How Do I: Create a Dynamic Jump List in Internet Explorer 9?	How Do I: Create a Thumbnail Toolbar in Internet Explorer 9?
6 minutes, 23 seconds	5 minutes, 31 seconds

Native Coding

How Do I: Use the Animation Control in MFC?	How Do I: Use the CComboBoxEx Control?	How Do I: Use the SysLink Control in MFC?
10 minutes 7 seconds	15 minutes 8 seconds	12 minutes 12 seconds

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Security

How Do I: Get Started with Encryption?	How Do I: Export and Import Certificates?	How Do I: Compare Schemas UsingVSTS Database Edition?
3 minutes, 55 seconds	3 minutes 28 seconds	9 minutes 9 seconds

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Silverlight

Overlaying HTML and Silverlight Content	Basic Keyboard Input with Silverlight	Building Video Overlays with Silverlight
5 minutes, 9 seconds	2 minutes, 1 seconds	4 minutes, 21 seconds

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Visual Basic

How Do I: Print Forms?	How Do I: Build Reports?	How Do I: Create a Database?
4 minutes, 30 seconds	7 minutes, 22 seconds	17 minutes, 23 seconds

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Visual Studio

How Do I: Create a Breakpoint Using Conditions?	How Do I: Create a Breakpoint Using Hit Count?	How Do I; Learn Tips and Tricks for Debugging in Visual Studio?
10 minutes 34 seconds	11 minutes 38 seconds	9 minutes 46 seconds

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Visual Studio Tools for Office

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WebMatrix

How Do I: Install and Use the Microsoft WebMatrix Tool?	How Do I: Create a Website using the WebMatrix Tool?	How Do I: Change the Visual Style of the Web Page using the WebMatrix tool?
2 Minutes 40 seconds	2 minutes, 38 seconds	4 minutes, 19 seconds
How Do I: Use the Layout Features in WebMatrix?	How Do I: Create a Web Interface in WebMatrix to Allow the Users to Add the Data?	How Do I: Create an Edit Data page in WebMatrix?
5 minutes, 16 seconds	3 minutes, 27 seconds	3 minutes, 32 seconds
How Do I: Create a Data-Driven Dynamic Webpage in WebMatrix?	How Do I: Create a Delete Data Page in WebMatrix?	How Do I: Publish a website to the internet using the Webmatrix tool?
4 minutes 31 seconds	3 minutes 02 seconds	4 minutes 00 seconds
How Do I: Use the WebMatrix App Gallery?	How Do I: Add a NuGet Helper?
(7 minutes 09 seconds)	(6 minutes 12 seconds)

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Windows 7

How Do I: Create an Overlay Icon in a Windows 7 Application?	How Do I: Create a JumpList for Common Tasks in a Windows 7 Application?	How Do I: Use Multitouch in a Windows 7 Application?
3 minutes, 46 seconds	4 minutes, 49 seconds	5 minutes 28 seconds
How Do I: Create Custom Thumbnails and Previews for a Windows 7 Application?	How Do I: Use a Progress Bar on Icon in a Windows 7 Application?	How Do I: Create an Internet Explorer 9 Pinned Site in Windows 7?
9 minutes 32 seconds	5 minutes 08 seconds	4 minutes 43 seconds
How Do I: Create a Custom Thumbnail for a Windows 7 Application?	How Do I: Use XNA for Game State Management in a Windows Phone 7 Application?	How Do I: Encode a Silverlight Out-of-Browser Webcam Capture Application in Windows 7?
6 minutes 7 seconds	6 minutes 43 seconds	6 minutes 54 seconds
How Do I: Create a Thumbnail for Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications in Windows 7?	How Do I: Create a Jumplist for Silverlight OOB Application in Windows 7?	How Do I: Create an Icon Overlay for Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications in Windows 7?
6 minutes 35 seconds	5 minutes 35 seconds	5 minutes 28 seconds
How Do I: Access the Portable Devices in the Silverlight OOB Apps in Windows 7?
6 minutes 05 seconds

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Windows Forms

Creating Menus and Status Toolbars	Simple DataBinding in Windows Forms	Tool Strips
6 minutes 24 seconds	5 minutes, 11 seconds	21 minutes, 13 seconds

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Windows Live

ASP.NET Contact Sample Walkthrough	ASP.NET Profiles Sample Walkthrough	ASP.NET Chat & IM Sample Walkthrough
5 minutes, 44 seconds	8 minutes, 33 seconds	12 minutes, 02 seconds
ASP.NET OAuth WRAP Callback Handler Sample Walkthrough	PHP OAuth WRAP Callback Handler Sample Walkthrough	Java OAuth WRAP Callback Handler Sample Walkthrough
06 minutes, 01 seconds	05 minutes, 42 seconds	05 minutes, 27 seconds
ASP.NET Activities Sample Walkthrough	Python OAuth WRAP Callback Handler Sample Walkthrough	How Do I: Using Windows Live Templates?
06 minutes, 26 seconds	05 minutes, 41 seconds	15 minutes, 03 seconds
Sign In Page	OAUTH Overview	OAuth Handler Overview
09 minutes, 36 seconds	06 minutes, 51 seconds	11 minutes, 12 seconds
0 - MsgrConnect Overview	5 - OAuthHandlerDebug	6 - ASPNET SignIn
06 minutes, 38 seconds	08 minutes, 46 seconds	13 minutes, 11 seconds
7 - ASPNET Refresh	Registering an application with https://manage.dev.live.com
06 minutes, 34 seconds	03 minutes, 50 seconds

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Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 in 7: Push Notifications	Windows Phone 7 in 7: Developing for the Windows Phone 7 Web Browser	Windows Phone 7 in 7: Using the Windows Phone 7 Cameras
(08 minutes 08 seconds)	(05 minutes, 57 seconds)	(07 minutes, 00 seconds)
Windows Phone 7 in 7: SIP Layout	Windows Phone 7 in 7: Silverlight and Windows Phone 7	Windows Phone 7 in 7: Globalization and Localization
(07 minutes, 19 seconds)	(07 minutes 03 seconds)	(07 minutes 07 seconds)
Windows Phone 7 in 7: XNA and Windows Phone 7	Windows Phone 7 in 7: Manipulations	Windows Phone 7 in 7: Using Media in Windows Phone 7 Apps
(07 minutes 18 seconds)	(07 minutes 13 seconds)	(06 minutes 18 seconds)
Windows Phone 7 in 7: The Application Bar	Windows Phone 7 in 7: Introducing Windows Phone 7	Windows Phone 7 in 7: Getting Started with Windows Phone 7
(07 minutes 25 seconds)	(07 minutes 10 seconds)	(06 minutes 53 seconds)
Windows Phone 7 in 7: Connecting to Web Services	Windows Phone 7 in 7: Windows Phone 7 Controls	Windows Phone 7 in 7: Building a Location-aware Application
(07 minutes 12 seconds)	(06 minutes 59 seconds)	(07 minutes 02 seconds)
Windows Phone 7 in 7: Security and Windows Phone 7	Windows Phone 7 in 7: Using the Accelerometer	Windows Phone 7 in 7: Using Isolated Storage
(07 minutes 28 seconds)	(07 minutes 08 seconds)	(07 minutes 11 seconds)
How Do I: Implement Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7 Applications?	How Do I: Migrate an Android Application to a Windows Phone 7 Application?	How Do I: Use Page Turn Animation in a Windows Phone 7 Application?
(07 minutes 11 seconds)	(03 minutes 57 seconds)	(5 minutes 58 seconds)
How Do I: Use MVVM in a Windows Phone 7 application?	How Do I: Implement Tilt Effects in a Windows Phone 7 Application?	How Do I: Use Touch Manipulation in a Windows Phone 7 Application?
(6 minutes 13 seconds)	(5 minutes 17 seconds)	(5 minutes 15 seconds)
How Do I: Make Windows Phone 7 Applications Support Orientation Changes?	How Do I: Migrate an iPhone Application to a Windows Phone 7 Application?	How Do I: Use XNA for Game State Management in a Windows Phone 7 application?
(6 minutes 15 seconds)	(6 minutes 44 seconds)	(6 minutes 43 seconds)
How Do I: Use XNA for Gestures and Collision Detection in a Windows Phone 7 Application?	How Do I: Save Images to the Pictures Hub and Retrieve them back from the Hub in a Windows Phone 7 Application?	How Do I: Use Push Notifications for Tile Customization in a Windows Phone 7 Application?
(7 minutes 00 seconds)	(5 minutes 26 seconds)	(8 minutes 4 seconds)
How do I: Use Push Notifications in a Windows Phone 7 Application?	How Do I: Use XNA for Game State Management in a Windows Phone 7 Application?	How do I: Use Reactive Extensions to Enable Accelerometer Emulation in a Windows Phone 7 Application?
(7 minutes 33 seconds)	(6 minutes 43 seconds)	(6 minutes 41 seconds)
How Do I: Use a Microsoft Advertising pubCenter Advertisement in a XNA Game App?	How Do I: Measure Ad Performance of Windows Phone 7 Apps in Microsoft Advertising pubCenter?	How Do I: Register Ad-Enabled Windows Phone 7 Apps using Microsoft Advertising pubCenter?
(9 minutes 17 seconds)	(3 minutes 03 seconds)	(5 minutes 37 seconds)
How Do I: Develop a Windows Phone 7 App to Access the SharePoint List Data?	How Do I: Develop a Windows Phone 7 2D Silverlight Game Application?	How Do I: Develop a Windows Phone 7 3D XNA Game Application?
(7 minutes 12 seconds)	(7 minutes 18 seconds)	(5 minutes 19 seconds)
How Do I: Optimize the Performance of Windows Phone 7 Applications?	How Do I: Develop a Windows Phone 7 2D XNA Game Application?	How Do I: Create a Progress Barfor Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications in Windows Phone 7?
(6 minutes 33 seconds)	(7 minutes 11 seconds)	(7 minutes 43 seconds)
How Do I: Start Making Money using the Microsoft Advertising Solution for WP7?	How Do I: Develop a Windows Phone 7 Custom Touch Application?	How Do I: Leverage Microsoft Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone 7 Apps?
(7 minutes 49 seconds)	(8 minutes 15 seconds)	(9 minutes 06 seconds)
How Do I: Consume REST Services in Windows Phone 7 Applications?	How Do I: Consume Live Services in Windows Phone 7 Applications?	How Do I: Design an User Interface for Windows Phone 7 Applications?
(6 minutes 19 seconds)	(4 minutes 57 seconds)	(7 minutes 11 seconds)
Testing Network Availability in Windows Phone	Implicit Data Templates in Windows Phone Mango	How Do I: Work with the JSON Data in Windows Phone 7 Applications?
(3 minutes 32 seconds)	(7 minutes 24 seconds)	(6 minutes 31 seconds)
How Do I: Use the Search Extensibility features in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?	How Do I: Work with the Execution Model in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?	How Do I: Update Tiles and Use Secondary Tiles in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?
(12 minutes 03 seconds)	(15 minutes 39 seconds)	(14 minutes 20 seconds)
How Do I: Use the System Tray features in Windows Phone ‘Mango'?	How Do I: Use the new Bing Tasks in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?	How Do I: Use the Profiler in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?
(11 minutes 28 seconds)	(7 minutes 50 seconds)	(8 minutes 8 seconds)
How Do I: Use the new features in the Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Emulator and Tools?	How Do I: Use HTML5 in the WebBrowser Control in Windows Phone 'Mango'?	How Do I: Access OData Resources in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?
(13 minutes 38 seconds)	(12 minutes 00 seconds)	(9 minutes 28 seconds)
How Do I: Work with a Local Database in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?	How Do I: Create an Augmented Reality Application in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?	How Do I: Access Contacts and Appointments Data in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?
(13 minutes 19 seconds)	(13 minutes 38 seconds)	(12 minutes 10 seconds)
How Do I: Localize an Application in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?	How Do I: Communicate with Sockets in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?	How Do I: Use the Rich TextBox control in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?
(14 minutes 36 seconds)	(17 minutes 10 seconds)	(9 minutes 54 seconds)
How Do I: Combine Silverlight and XNA in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?	How Do I: Programmatically access the Camera Features in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?	How Do I: Use Toast, Tile and Raw Notifications in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?
(9 minutes 23 seconds)	(12 minutes 21 seconds)	(17 minutes 15 seconds)
How Do I: Use the WebBrowser Control in Windows Phone ‘Mango’?	How Do I: Unit Test a Windows Phone Application?	How Do I: Build a Windows Phone Game with the Farseer Physics Engine?
(11 minutes 17 seconds)	(11 minutes 42 seconds)	(19 minutes 12 seconds)
How Do I: Build a Cross-Platform XNA Game?	How Do I: Use the Windows Phone Performance Analysis Tool?	How Do I: Use the Windows Phone Marketplace Test Kit?
(15 minutes 52 seconds)	(08 minutes 53 seconds)	(10 minutes 07 seconds)
Persisting an Image in Windows Phone Mango
(8 minutes 01 seconds)

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Windows Presentation Foundation

Build a Standard WPF Application	Creating Navigation Applications in WPF	Creating Animated Buttons in Blend
8 minutes, 25 seconds	11 minutes 45 seconds	13 minutes, 6 seconds

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Windows Azure

How Do I: Use PowerShell to Manage Windows Azure deployments?	How Do I: Use Windows Azure Startup Tasks?	How Do I: Use Windows Azure Connect to Connect to an On-Premises SQL Server Database?
(10 minutes 17 seconds)	(03 minutes 35 seconds)	(05 minutes 47 seconds)
How Do I: Use Windows Azure Storage Analytics?	How Do I: Use the Blob Storage Service?	How Do I: Use the Table Storage Service?
(06 minutes 51 seconds)	(10 minutes 33 seconds)	(21 minutes 06 seconds)
How Do I: Use the Service Bus Relay Service?	How Do I: Use Service Bus Topics and Subscriptions?	How Do I: Use Service Bus Queues?
(14 minutes 12 seconds)	(11 minutes 50 seconds)	(13 minutes 21 seconds)
How Do I: Access Windows Azure Blob Storage from Node.js?	How Do I: Access Windows Azure Table Storage from Node.js?	How Do I: Access the Windows Azure Queue Service from Node.js?
(14 minutes 31 seconds)	(16 minutes 49 seconds)	(11 minutes 32 seconds)
How Do I: Use Windows Azure PowerShell for Node.js?	How Do I: Use SQL Azure?	How Do I: Authenticate Web Users with Windows Azure Access Control Service?
(09 minutes 43 seconds)	(10 minutes 14 seconds)	(16 minutes 04 seconds)
How Do I: Use the Windows Azure Queue Storage Service?	How Do I: Use the Blob Storage Service from Java?	How Do I: Use the Queue Storage Service from Java?
(15 minutes 48 seconds)	(09 minutes 44 seconds)	(13 minutes 36 seconds)
How Do I: Use the Windows Azure Cache to build scalable applications?
(12 minutes 22 seconds)