Cloud Diagnostics: Take Control of Logging and Tracing in Windows Azure It’s difficult to troubleshoot any application without a trail of clues to follow, and cloud apps are no different. We look at how logging and tracing are enabled for Windows Azure, and how you can use Windows PowerShell to manage diagnostics for a running service. Mike Kelly Input Validation: Enforcing Complex Business Data Rules with WPF Windows Presentation Foundation has a rich data binding system that includes flexible support for business data validation. We take a look at implementing some complex data input validation scenarios that include customized data errors for users. Brian Noyes

Express Yourself: Encoding Videos Using Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 SDK
Video on the Web involves huge amounts of data. Learn the best way to manage and move that data with the help of Microsoft Expression Encoder 3.
Adam Miller

Silverlight Online: Silverlight in an Occasionally Connected World
We discuss the latest incarnation of occasionally connected Silverlight applications, which come with a highly interactive user experience and can run either inside or outside of a browser.
Mark Bloodworth and Dave Brown

SOA Tips: Address Scalability Bottlenecks with Distributed Caching
SOA makes application scalability easier, but getting the best performance out of your SOA means paying close attention to the details. We’ll give you some tips for coding your app more effectively and using distributed caching to remove data access bottlenecks.
Iqbal Khan

Windows Azure Cache: Real-world Usage and Integration
Windows Server AppFabric provides a distributed cache for both web and desktop applications. Well show you how to integrate Windows Azure caching into your apps, along with some hints for taking advantage of new cache features in the .NET Framework 4.
Andrea Colaci

Thread Performance: Resource Contention Concurrency Profiling in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 includes new resource contention profiling features that help detect concurrency contention among threads. We walk through a profiling investigation to demonstrate how you can pinpoint and fix resource contention problems in your code.
Maxim Goldin

Practical OData: Building Rich Internet Apps with the Open Data Protocol
See how you can build Rich Internet Applications that take advantage of the OData protocol to creatively interact with Silverlight, PowerPivot, SQL Server, SharePoint, the Windows Azure, “Dallas” and more.
Shayne Burgess

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