April 2009
Lessons Learned: Optimizing A Large Scale Software + Services Application
Dynamic WPF: Create Flexible UIs With Flow Documents And Data Binding
Cloud Computing: Building Distributed Applications With .NET Services
Take Control: Use SharePoint to Manage Your Windows Services
Sync Up: Manage Your Data Effectively With The Microsoft Sync Framework
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Editor's Note: What's In Style
From fat to thin to fat again--Howard Dierking chronicles the dieting habits of a Web client and the technologies that continue to fuel the shifts.
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Toolbox: Microsoft Chart Controls, Visual Studio Automatic Code Snippets, And More
In this installment we look at the Microsoft Chart Controls; Snippet Designer, a free, add-in for Visual Studio 2008 for creating and editing Code Snippets; refactoring SQL applications; and this month’s favorite blog.
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CLR Inside Out: CLR Optimizations In .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
See the changes the CLR team made to the CLR .for NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and the improvements you’ll get running your existing CLR 2.0-based apps against this service pack.
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Data Points: Using Silverlight 2 With ADO.NET Data Services
ADO.NET Data Services and Silverlight make a powerful combination, but to make them work well together, there are a few things you need to understand. Here, John Papa explains.
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Cutting Edge: Explore Rich Client Scripting With jQuery, Part 2
Achieving cross-browser compatibility for events is no easy task. The jQuery event handling API addresses the differences in event handling across browsers, allowing you to write more predictable JavaScript.
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Patterns in Practice: Persistence Patterns
Here we examine data persistence patterns to help you determine which best suits your needs. We look at a number of patterns, including the Active Record, the Data Mapper, the Repository, the Identity Map, the Lazy Loading, and the Virtual Proxy.
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Service Station: Creating And Consuming Web Feeds
Jon Flanders demonstrates creating and consuming Web feeds with Windows Communication Foundation and AtomPub.
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Foundations: Working With The .NET Service Bus
The .NET Services Bus is arguably the most accessible, powerful, and useful piece of the new Windows Azure Cloud Computing initiative. See how it manages cloud communications.
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Windows With C++: The Virtual Disk API In Windows 7
This month we look inside the Windows 7 beta to examine the Virtual Disk API and the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format.
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.NET Matters: Parallelizing Operations With Dependencies
In this month’s installment, Stephen Toub examines some techniques for enforcing dependencies in the running order of asynchronous operations and builds a DependencyManagement class to help.
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Usability in Practice: The Power of Personas
A persona is a description of a fictional person representing an amalgamation of traits found in a segment of your users. Emplolying personas arms you with a powerful foundation on which to base design decisions.
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{ End Bracket }: Translate This Page
This month we examine the Microsoft translation Web service and show you how you can incorporate translation services into your own Web application.
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