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James Avery does it again with his popular list of developer tools. This time he covers the best Visual Studio add-ins available today that you can download for free.
James Avery
MSDN Magazine December 2005
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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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Learn how to automate custom SharePoint application deployments, use the SharePoint API, and avoid the hassle of custom site definitions.
E. Wilansky, P. Olszewski, and R. Sneddon
MSDN Magazine May 2008
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C# allows developers to embed XML comments into their source files-a useful facility, especially when more than one programmer is working on the same code. The C# parser can expand these XML tags to provide additional information and export them to an external document for further processing. This article shows how to use XML comments and explains the relevant tags. The author demonstrates how to set up your project to export your XML comments into convenient documentation for the benefit of other developers. He also shows how to use comments ...
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Ray Djajadinata
MSDN Magazine May 2007
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Silverlight provides a browser interoperability layer that allows managed code to access the document object model (DOM) of the underlying page. At the same time, JavaScript code running in the page can access the XAML content of the plug-in and even make modifications.
In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Dino Esposito discusses the ...
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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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It’s helpful to think about secure design from a more holistic perspective by using threat models to drive your security engineering process.
In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Michael Howard proposes using the threat model to help drive other SDL security requirements, primarily code review priority, fuzz testing priority, ...
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So many factors can affect the performance of a Web page—the distance between server and client, the size of the elements on the page, how the browser loads these elements, available bandwidth. Finding those bottlenecks and identifying the culprits is no easy task.
In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Jim Pierson introduces ...
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