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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 present techniques for programmatic and declarative data binding and display with Windows Presentation Foundation.
Josh Smith
MSDN Magazine July 2008
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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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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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This article presents an overview of the motivation behind new techniques that decompose problems into independent pieces for optimal use of parallel programming.
David Callahan
MSDN Magazine October 2008
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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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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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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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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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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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