In this article we introduce you to BizTalk Services, new technology that offers the Enterprise Service Bus features of BizTalk Server as a hosted service.

By Jon Flanders and Aaron Skonnard (June 2008)

See how to build a document-level Visual Studio Tools for Office customization and integrate it with a content type in SharePoint.

By Steve Fox (May 2008)

We take a look at planned support for parallel programming for both managed and native code in the next version of Visual Studio.

By Stephen Toub and Hazim Shafi (October 2008)

Here the author introduces SQL Server Data Services, which exposes its functionality over standard Web service interfaces.

By David Robinson (July 2008)

Long-running processes are common in distributed computing. Some business processes are made up of multiple execution sequences which may last many days or even weeks. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Juval Lowy discusses several techniques ...
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Correctly engineered concurrent code must live by an extra set of rules. Reads and writes from memory and access to shared resources need to be regulated so that conflicts do not arise. Additionally, threads often need to coordinate to get the job done. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Joe ...
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Well designed code keeps things that have to change together as close together in the code as possible and allows unrelated things in the code to change independently, while minimizing duplication in the code. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Jeremy Miller shows you some design ...
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The process for ink capture and analysis on the Tablet PC is straightforward in managed code. To the uninitiated developer, however, creating unmanaged Tablet PC applications can be rather daunting. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Gus Class a quick introduction to the Tablet PC ...
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Multicore systems are becoming increasingly prevalent, but the majority of software today will not automatically take advantage of this additional processing ability. And multithreaded programming, for anything but the most trivial of systems, is incredibly difficult and error prone today. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN ...
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Concurrent programming is notoriously difficult, even for experts. You have all of the correctness and security challenges of sequential programs plus all of the difficulties of parallelism and concurrent access to shared resources. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, David Callahan describes ...
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