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Jeff Prosise explains when it's better to use UpdatePanel and when it's better to use asynchronous calls to WebMethods or page methods instead.
Jeff Prosise
MSDN Magazine June 2007
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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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Here is an ASP.NET AJAX data-driven Web application that takes the best features from server- and client-side programming to deliver an efficient, user-friendly experience.
Bertrand Le Roy
MSDN Magazine October 2008
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Here we describe some of the more common challenges to concurrent programming and present advice for coping with them in your software.
Joe Duffy
MSDN Magazine October 2008
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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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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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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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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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Because Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is based on a runtime that manages the execution of workflows and activities, testing must, in almost all cases, involve the use of the runtime – and this can introduce some interesting challenges.
In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Matt Milner presents some techniques for unit testing ...
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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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