MSDN Flash - Volume 14, Number 5: March 1, 2010

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Register Now and Ignite Your Coding

Starting in March, every Thursday at 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time, Ignite Your Coding is a webcast series designed to support developers in managing change. Industry experts including Andy Hunt, Glenn Block, Jeremy Miller, David Laribee, Richard Campbell, Scott Hanselman, Jeff Atwood, and Robert C Martin will be here to share all sorts of things including how they keep up with changing technologies and how they got started. Then, it will be your turn to ask these experts questions in real time.

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Visual Studio 2010 Launch: Experience Bob Muglia and Scott Guthrie Live

Join us for the Visual Studio 2010 Launch Event in Vegas to experience Bob Muglia and Scott Guthrie live and get three days of deep technical sessions from the best speakers in the industry.

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Learn How to Develop Apps on Windows Phone at MIX10
MIX10 attendees will receive access to the Windows Phone 7 Series development tools and have access to a dedicated track on the Windows Phone 7 Series platform throughout the event. Attendees will also receive exclusive free developer support for the Windows Phone 7 Series development tools. Don't miss this unique opportunity - attend MIX10.

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A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control
This book gives you information to evaluate claims-based identity as a possible option when you're planning a new application or making changes to an existing one.

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Free Web Application Toolkits

These free Web app toolkits help you complete common Web development tasks and quickly add new features to your apps. Whether it's Bing Maps integration or adding social capabilities to your site, there's a toolkit for you.

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Accessing Web Camera and Microphone
This video demonstrates how to use a Web camera and microphone attached to a user's computer via the browser. This demonstrates the basics of the core API for capturing audio and video.

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Getting Started with Team Foundation Server 2010
In this webcast, we explain how you can take advantage of the great facilities and features of TFS 2010, from simplified setup to tracking tasks and tests.

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Developing a Microsoft Outlook 2010 Social Connector Provider
OSC is an add-in that shows social network data in Outlook 2010. Learn about the Outlook Social Connector (OSC) provider model, which provides an abstraction layer between the OSC and the APIs offered by social networks, and the interfaces that an OSC provider must implement. Also, learn how to keep your customers active on your social network while they're in Outlook!

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Secure Software Development Across the SDLC from Design to Implementation
In this webcast, we give you a taste of the various techniques developers should use when designing and implementing secure software across the software development life cycle (SDLC). Plus, read about implementing the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) at a large insurance company.

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Hosting Days: Deploying PHP on Windows
For the last decade PHP has been available for Windows, and although developers often chose the Windows platform during their application development, when it comes to deployment far fewer apps found their way onto the platform. View other Hosting Days sessions.

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Enhance Your Web Application with Components from the ASP.NET Control Gallery
Add social bookmarking, time and weather, file and folder browsing, and more to your Web applications with the newest components in the ASP.NET Control Gallery.

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Implementing Futures

In parallel computing, a future is a task that computes a result. Futures let you asynchronously compute a value for later use. This walkthrough shows how to implement futures in your application.

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F# Support for Functional Programming
F# supports functional programming constructs such as treating functions as values, using unnamed functions in expressions, composition of functions to form new functions, curried functions, and the implicit definition of functions by way of the partial application of function arguments.

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Three New WPF Controls in the February Release of the WPF Toolkit
This release includes AutoCompleteBox, Accordion, and Rating, plus bug fixes and the introduction of the concept of Quality Bands to rate the quality of the controls and features in the release.

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Why Develop on Windows 7?(Touch and Multitouch)
Windows 7 Touch allows developers to create new experiences that go beyond simple mouse pointing, clicking, and dragging. The new multitouch APIs support rich gestures, such as pan, zoom, and rotate. The Windows 7 Multitouch Platform also provides raw touch data inputs and advance manipulation and inertia. Follow msdev in Facebook and YouTube.

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Exploring SQL Server Modeling Through MCsla
Rockford Lhotka (Magenic) discusses the benefits and use of the SQL Server Modeling technologies in the context of MCsla, a model-driven prototype of his CSLA.NET development framework.

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IronPython 2.6.1 Release Candidate
This version of IronPython makes great strides in stability and compatibility, including a considerable number of targeted bugfixes. Also, get IronRuby 1.0 RC2.

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The Windows Azure TCO and ROI Calculator
This "Why Windows Azure?" episode shows users how to use the TCO and ROI calculator. Bill and the ever-present whiteboard walk users through this online tool, and how users can use it to calculate how much it will cost them to move to windows Azure, and what kind of savings they can anticipate. Watch the whole series: "Why Windows Azure?"

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MSDN Magazine March 2010

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