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Here are some design patterns that allow you to achieve higher cohesion and looser coupling for more flexible, reusable applications.
Jeremy Miller
MSDN Magazine October 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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Kenny Kerr sings the praises of the new Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack, which brings modern conveniences to Visual C++.
Kenny Kerr
MSDN Magazine May 2008
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The MVP pattern helps you separate your logic and keep your UI layer free of clutter. This month learn how.
Jean-Paul Boodhoo
MSDN Magazine August 2006
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Writing a Web application with ASP.NET is unbelievably easy. So many developers don't take the time to structure their applications for great performance. In this article, the author presents 10 tips for writing high-performance Web apps. The discussion is not limited to ASP.NET applications because they are just one subset of Web applications.
Rob Howard
MSDN Magazine January 2005
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Choosing the best alternative is a common task in software development and testing. A group of beta users may need to choose the best user interface from a set of prototypes. Or imagine the members of an open source project voting for a policy.
In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Dr. James McCaffrey describes five of the ...
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We're currently in the process of stepping back and taking a critical look at our Web site to see how you all are using it - and how we can redesign parts of it (big or small) to make that experience better. We are continuously receiving your feedback on existing frustrations and we are working hard to remedy those (as a general fyi, most of the frustrations have to do with navigation). However, in order to get a sense of whether we need to look at some of the more fundamental ...
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A team project is simply a bucket that stores and partitions all of the artifacts you track and use within a Team Foundation Server (TFS) project.
In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Brian A. Randell explains how you can use and customize the MSF Agile and MFS CMMI process templates to get the most out of them for your ...
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With the releases of LINQ to SQL and the ADO.NET Entity Framework, developers now have two products from Microsoft designed to tie together relational data and object-oriented programming.
In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Anthony Sneed provides a roadmap to these technologies and demonstrates how you can create ...
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) adds functionality to the Microsoft .NET Framework so that you actually can reliably keep bound controls synchronized with their data sources.
In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Ken Getz demonstrates how to use the ObservableCollection class provided by WPF to keep bound controls in ...
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