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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Earlier this year MSDN Magazine embarked on a collaborative project with Behind the Code, an interview program airing on MSDN Channel 9. In this program, Robert Hess interviews prominent developers at Microsoft, and those developers also write a column for { End Bracket } in MSDN Magazine. In the newest interview, Richard Ward talks about working on the core infrastructure components of future versions of Windows, as well as ...
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