MSDN Flash - Volume 16, Number 5: March 5, 2012

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Download the Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Visit the Windows Developer Center and learn how to sell your apps via the Windows Store.

CSS3 Transitions and Animations
Learn about these two features for web pages and Windows 8 Metro style apps written in HTML.

Adding HTML5 Drag and Drop to SharePoint
The XsltListViewWebPart and its XSL transformations can make using SharePoint interfaces better and faster.

Scott Hanselman

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101 Code Samples for SharePoint 2010
This list of samples was compiled from suggestions submitted by the SharePoint community. Download all 101.

Download Visual C++ 11 Beta Today
What can C++ developers expect from this new version compared to Visual Studio 2010?

Screencast: Bring Your SQL Server DBs into the Cloud Using Your MSDN Cloud Benefits
Use your current skills to harness the cloud. Walk through the SQL Azure Migration wizard and learn how to put an on-premises high-availability database in the cloud using the SQL tools you know and love. Use your MSDN cloud benefits available at no charge to you.

How Do I: Unit Test a Windows Phone Application?
Watch this new how do I video using Windows Phone 7.5 demonstrating how to use a specialized version of the Silverlight Unit Test Framework to create unit tests for your Windows Phone applications.

MSDN Virtual Lab Express: Exploring SQL Server 2012 Integration Services
Learn to introduce project connection managers and parameters, create an SSIS Catalog, deploy an Integration Services project to and execute packages from the SSIS Catalog, script package execution commands, and monitor the Integration Services environment and package executions.

MSDN Virtual Lab Express: Exploring Transact-SQL Improvements in SQL Server 2012
After completing this lab, you will be better able to create and use sequence objects, query rows through paged results, and raise and catch exceptions using Throw/Catch.

What to Expect at the SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event
Today we welcome Bruno Aziza, Worldwide Product Marketing Director for SQL Server, as he tells us what we can expect to see, hear, and learn, plus how to sign up and how you can interact with other attendees online.

How Do I: Use the WebMatrix App Gallery?
In this brief video, you will see the steps necessary to get started with WebMatrix application templates and how to add an app from the App Gallery. Click to watch the video.

How Do I: Build a Cross-Platform XNA Game?
This video demonstrates techniques using Windows Phone 7.5 for building a cross-platform game using XNA Game Studio, and includes recommendations for handling differences in screen size, resolution, and different input methods.

MSDN Virtual Lab: How to Build Your First Web App with SQL Server 2012 and ASP.NET
Learn how to design a class in C# that makes it easy to work with SQL Server data using a business object (BO), bind data from SQL Server to ASP.NET web server controls using a BO, display images on web pages that are stored in SQL Server, and more.

MSDN Virtual Lab: Managing Rich Unstructured Data in SQL Server 2012
After completing this lab, you will be better able to create FileTables, create Fulltext Indexes with semantic extraction capabilities, retrieve information about document properties, and retrieve semantic information.

What Can You Do with .NET Gadgeteer?
See some of the many cool projects people are working on with .NET Gadgeteer, including robots, binary clocks, and an infrared remote control helicopter controller in action.