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Collecting IntelliTrace Information
You can switch from a live debugging session to debugging with IntelliTrace and "time travel" through your code.

Walkthrough: Customizing Team Foundation Build with a Custom Task
You can extend Team Foundation Build by creating your own custom tasks and running them during a build.

DynamicObject Class (Visual Studio 2010 Beta)
Specify dynamic behavior of your objects at run time.

Using Dynamic Data in ASP.NET Applications
Dynamic Data has the runtime ability to infer the appearance and behavior of data fields from the default or custom metadata stored in the data model which represents the underlying database.

Optimizing Your Code (Visual C++ 2010 Beta)
Optimization is the process of fine-tuning executable code for best performance and smallest code size. This topic introduces several mechanisms to optimize code that Visual C++ provides.