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Security: Safer Authentication with a One-Time Password Solution

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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A Sidebar gadget is a powerful little too that's surprisingly easy to create. Get in on the fun with Donavon West.

Donavon West

MSDN Magazine August 2007

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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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Jeff Prosise explains when it's better to use UpdatePanel and when it's better to use asynchronous calls to WebMethods or page methods instead.

Jeff Prosise

MSDN Magazine June 2007

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Data Points: Data Binding in WPF

WPF is one of the most important new technologies in the .NET Framework 3.0. This month John Papa introduces its data binding capabilities.

John Papa

MSDN Magazine December 2007

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Web Site Improvements Using jQuery and jQuery UI A Brownfield Development Series by MSDN Magazine

Written by James Kovacs

This is part 5 of a multipart article series about improving an existing "classic" ASP.NET Web application. This fifth part focuses on jQuery and jQuery UI. Part one helps to get your house in order with good development practices, part two covers testing, part three covers XHTML and CSS improvements, and part four focuses on refactoring ScrewTurn Wiki’s JavaScript using jQuery, and testing it with QUnit.

July 2009

Testable MVC: Unit Testing ASP.NET MVC
Justin Etheredge

Usability in Practice: Usability Testing
This month's column describes the benefits and methodologies of usability testing. Ambrose Little; Charles B. Kreitzberg

Inside Windows 7: Windows 7 Taskbar APIs
This is Part 2 of a multipart article series on Windows 7. The focus of Part 2 is the Windows 7 taskbar. Yochay Kiriaty; Sasha Goldshtein

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Editor's Note: Viva la Evolution! The Web is a dynamically changing environment where technology changes behavior, and behavior drives technological innovation. This month, Howard Dierking describes this cycle in context of the Microsoft Developer Network.
Toolbox: Static Analysis Database Tools, Managing Remote Computers, and More If you want to apply static analysis to your databases, connect to remote computers, find out more about the Entity Framework, or just check into some cool podcasts for your daily commute, then you'll want to read more about these latest tools and resources. Scott Mitchell	CLR Inside Out: Building Tuple This article covers the introduction of a new type, called System.Tuple, and other new additions to the upcoming release of the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. Matt Ellis	Basic Instincts: Stay Error Free with Error Corrections In Visual Studio 2010 Error corrections are an essential part of the Visual Basic coding experience. This article explores the many error correction features offered by Visual Basic and provides a glimpse at the future release of Visual Studio 2010. Dustin Campbell
Cutting Edge: Dino Esposito on Comparing Web Forms with ASP.NET MVC In this month's column, we’ll explore the pros and cons of both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC. Dino Esposito	Test Run: Request-Response Testing with F# This month we show you how to use F# to perform HTTP request-response testing for ASP.NET Web applications. James McCaffrey	Foundations: Securing the .NET Service Bus This column shows you how to secure the .NET Services Bus and also provides some helper classes and utilities to automate many of the details. Juval Lowy
Silverlight: Composing Applications with Silverlight and Prism Cobra, a descendant of Python, offers a combined dynamic and statically-typed programming model, built-in unit test facilities, scripting capabilities, and much more. Feel the power here. Ted Neward	RESTful XHTML: RESTful Services with ASP.NET MVC and XHTML This article describes how to use XHTML and ASP.NET MVC to implement REST services. Aaron Skonnard	Scale Out: Distributed Caching and Scalability Developers frequently face issues related to scalability bottlenecks when they have applications that need to handle a lot of load. This article describes the role of a distributed cache in building scalable applications. Iqbal Khan
Service Station: SOAP, REST, and More This month's column answers frequently asked questions about implementing REST. Jon Flanders	Extreme ASP.NET: Guiding Principles for Your ASP.NET MVC Applications In this column, the author lays out some guiding principles that you should follow when working with the ASP.NET MVC framework. Scott Allen	Wicked Code: Taking Silverlight Deep Zoom to the Next Level With the help of Silverlight Deep Zoom and a remarkable control named MultiScaleImage, you can create scenes with many levels of zoom. Jeff Prosise illustrates with what else but the Mandlebrot set. Jeff Prosise