C# 2.0 introduces a wealth of exiting new features, such as generics, iterators, partial classes and anonymous methods. While generics are the most talked-about feature especially for former classic C++ developers, the rest of the new features are important additions to your .NET development arsenal, enhancing power and improving overall productivity. This article is dedicated to all the new C# 2.0 capabilities besides generics to give you a good overall picture of the upcoming features.

Juval Lowy

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Now you can perform efficient, sophisticated text analysis using regular expressions in SQL Server 2005.

David Banister

MSDN Magazine February 2007

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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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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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When incorporating the ASP.NET DataGrid control into your Web apps, common operations such as paging, sorting, editing, and deleting data require more effort than you might like to expend. But all that is about to change. The GridView control--the successor to the DataGrid-- extends the DataGrid's functionality it in a number of ways. First, it fully supports data source components and can automatically handle data operations, such as paging, sorting, and editing, as long as its bound data source object supports these capabilities. In addition, ...

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Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) imposes some restrictions on the developer authoring programs that target it. But in return WF offers a powerful, flexible, and extensible set of runtime services such as support for long-running code.

In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Josh Lane provides some best practices to consider ...

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Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build (better known as Team Build) is a core feature of Team Foundation Server 2008. Microsoft designed Team Build to be an industrial-strength build automation tool.

In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Brian A. Randell introduces you to Team Build 2008 and walks you through the process ...

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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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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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Silverlight and SharePoint provide a simple, yet powerful, infrastructure for building intranet and extranet applications with sophisticated user interface designs and interactions.

In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Steve Fox and Paul Stubbs demonstrate how to build a SharePoint Web Part as a wrapper for a Silverlight application.

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