We introduce you to the benefits of building composite applications with the Composite Application Guidance for WPF from Microsoft patterns & practices.

By Glenn Block (September 2008)

ADO.NET Data Services provide Web-accessible endpoints that allow you to filter, sort, shape, and page data without having to build that functionality yourself.

By Shawn Wildermuth (September 2008)

See how routed events and routed commands in Windows Presentation Foundation form the basis for communication between the parts of your UI.

By Brian Noyes (September 2008)

Technology changes at a lightening-fast pace. This month Howard Dierking considers how the rapid changes affect developer priorities and magazine focus.

By Howard Dierking (September 2008)

Active Scripting is a powerful tool for adding advanced features such as macro capabilities to custom applications. This creates a need for integrated debugging services for new features added with scripting. To address this need, Microsoft has provided a set of COM interfaces for developing debugging services from within the Active Scripting framework. This article illustrates how to use the debugging services published within the Active Scripting framework to create a full-featured script debugger that can provide a multitude of debugging actions including setting breakpoints, call stack viewing, variable browsing, immediate-window viewing, thread enumeration, and application enumeration.

By Mike Pellegrino (December 2000)

See how routed events and routed commands in Windows Presentation Foundation form the basis for communication between the parts of your UI.

By Brian Noyes (September 2008)

Learn how to create a workflow that uses InfoPath forms and other office documents for passing data to targeted activities and for use in Office documents.

By Rick Spiewak (June 2008)

Efficient parallel applications aren’t born by merely running an old app on a parallel processor machine. Tuning needs to be done if you’re to gain maximum benefit.

By Rahul V. Patil and Boby George (June 2008)

We build a Silverlight 2.0 application using the InkPresenter to let users annotate a pre-defined collection of images, perform handwriting recognition, and save the annotations and recognized text into a server-side database.

By Julia Lerman (August 2008)

SQL Server 2008 supports a new data type, HierarchyID, that helps solve some of the problems in modeling and querying hier­archical information. In the September 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Kent Tegels introduces you to the ...
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Many people using SharePoint technologies don't realize that there is auditing support built directly into the Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 platform. In the September 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Ted Pattison walks you through a ...
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The September 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. Here's what's in the issue: Hierarchy ID: Model ...
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Silverlight 2 features a rich and robust control model that is the basis for the controls included in the platform and for third-party control packages. You can also use this control model to build controls of your own. In the August 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Jeff Prosise describes how to ...
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In the August 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Matt Milner covers several topics regarding development with Windows Workflow Foundation, some that are intended to address specific reader questions, such as how to safely share a persistence database ...
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LINQ is a powerful tool enabling quick filtering data based on a standard query language. It can tear through a structured set of data using a simple and straightforward syntax. In the August 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Jared Parsons demonstrates a ...
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