October 2009

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October 2009 issue  

First Look: Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Development
This article provides a first look at tools in Visual Studio 2010 designed to support development and deployment of SharePoint 2010 solutions. The article provides an example of designing and deploying a visual Web part.
Steve Fox

Event Tracing For Windows: Core Instrumentation Events in Windows 7, Part 2
In Part 2, the authors cover core OS Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) events as well as present simple scripts to demonstrate a few basic accounting techniques on some of the OS events introduced.
Alex Bendetov; Insung Park

 

SharePoint and Open XML: Generating Documents from SharePoint Using Open XML Content Controls
A manager of a department at a bank needs to regularly send a nicely formatted status report to the owners of the bank. A team leader needs to send a weekly status report to a number of interested parties. Because the manager and the team leader keep their data in SharePoint lists, you can put together a small document generation system that takes unique advantage of Open XML content controls, and puts the manager and team leader in charge of their reports.
Eric White

Contract-First Web Services: Schema-based Development with Windows Communication Foundation
Schema- first contract-first modeling of Web Services gives you the ability to model your contracts with an XML-centric mindset. This process keeps you focused on universally acceptable types and the hierarchical data structures that can be represented in XML.
Christian Weyer; Buddhike de Silva

Columns

Editor's Note:
The Capability-Delivery Business

This month’s issue of MSDN Magazine takes a look at some of the new features and tools in Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 that will continue improving the experience of creating business applications that run on the Microsoft Office platform. Howard Dierking

Toolbox:
User Interfaces, Podcasts, Object-Relational Mappings and More

This column covers common user interface groupings, configuring NHibernate using C#, and a look at interesting books and podcasts. Scott Mitchell

CLR Inside Out:
Profiling the .NET Garbage-Collected Heap
In this article, the authors complete the picture for Garbage Collected (GC) heap related memory issues by providing step-by-step instructions on using the CLR Profiler for .NET GC heap memory investigations. Subramanian Ramaswamy

Basic Instincts:
Collection and Array Initializers In Visual Basic 2010
Collection Initializers are a great addition to the language and allows concise syntax in order to initialize both framework and user defined collection types. Spotty Bowles

Data Points:
Data Validation with Silverlight 3 and the DataForm
In this article, the author reviews the pillars of real-world AJAX development as supported in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0. It focuses on client-side templates and data binding but won't ignore other goodies, such as ADO.NET Data Services proxy classes and programming facilities. John Papa

Cutting Edge:
Data Binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0
In this article, Dino reviews the pillars of real-world AJAX development as supported in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0. In doing so, he mostly focuses on client-side templates and data-binding but doesn't ignore other goodies, such as ADO.NET Data Services proxy classes and programming facilities. Dino Esposito

Patterns in Practice:
Functional Programming for Everyday .NET Developers
This article examines how the new support for functional programming techniques in .NET 3.5 can developers make code more declarative, reduce errors in code, and write fewer lines of code for many common tasks. Jeremy Miller

Team System:
Customizing Work Items
Team Foundation Server's work iIem tracking system provides a number of advanced customization options.This article explores custom control support that lets you link to date, enhance the user experience, present data, and more. Brian A. Randell

Test Run:
Partial Anitrandom String Testing
This column presents an approach to Antirandom (AR) testing the author calls partial AR string testing, which can be used to test a wide range of software systems. James McCaffrey

Service Station:
Building RESTful Clients
This column how to build clients applications based on the REST architecture using HTTP AP1s. The article describes how to address the question of autogenerated types and code. Jon Flanders

Foundations:
Routers in the Service Bus
This article describes aspects of using routers with the .NET service bus, especially their use in a message-based architecture. Juval Lowy

Usability in Practice:
Getting Inside Your Users' Heads
This article explores techniques developers can use to gather information about and incorporate their users' mental models in their software designs. Ambrose Little

Concurrent Affairs:
Four Ways to Use the Concurrency Runtime in Your C++ Projects
This article describes how to integrate the new parallel computing libraries in the Visual Studio 2010 Beta into existing C++ projects. Based on four common scenarios, the column explains a few of the ways developers can use the APIs and classes that are part of the Parallel Pattern Library (PPL), Asynchronous Agents Library, and Concurrency Runtime. Rick Molloy