MSDN Magazine December 2011
MVPVM Design Pattern:The Model-View-Presenter-ViewModel Design Pattern for WPF
Bill Kratochvil delves deep into the history of design patterns as he presents the advantages of developing extensible enterprise apps with what he calls the MVPVM pattern, inspired by the Microsoft patterns & practices Prism project. Bill Kratochvil
Building HTML5 Applications:Integrating Geolocation into Web Applications
Much of what the world is calling HTML5 is a set of technologies geared toward making real application development possible on the Web—and geolocation is a great example. Brandon Satrom introduces the Geolocation spec and shows you how to get started using it in your applications. Brandon Satrom
ASP.NET Security:Hack-Proofing Your ASP.NET Applications
Almost every day, the mainstream media reports that another site has been hacked. Luckily, many of these attacks are surprisingly easy to protect against. Adam Tuliper explains how these attacks occur and discusses best practices for preventing them. Adam Tuliper
Sysinternals ProcDump v4.0:Writing a Plug-in for Sysinternals ProcDump v4.0
Capturing a memory dump of an application is a common troubleshooting tactic, but most dump capture tools give you either too much or too little. Now Sysinternals ProcDump v4.0 let you make the memory inclusion decisions, as Andrew Richards explains. Andrew Richards
Video Encoding:Saving and Reusing Settings for Video Encoding
Here's a simple way to allow video-processing applications to save compressed video using any codec available on the machine, without the need to manually specify the codec settings each time the app is started or used on multiple/remote/embedded machines. Adi Shavit
ALM Rangers:Visual Studio ALM Rangers -- Rise of the VM Factory
The Rangers are back with some ALM guidance about the use of the Virtual Machine Factory, exploring its concepts and advantages. Willy-Peter Schaub, Brian Blackman, Paul Meyer
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Editor's Note:31 Days of Mango
Michael Desmond
The Cutting Edge:A Context-Sensitive Progress Bar for ASP.NET MVC
Dino Esposito tackles the issue of reporting the status of remote operations, providing context-sensitive feedback that faithfully represents the status of the operation for a given session.Dino Esposito
Windows with C++:Thread Pool Timers and I/O
Kenny Kerr finishes his series on the Windows 7 thread pool by delving into the two remaining callback-generating objects provided by the API—timer objects and I/O completion objects.Kenny Kerr
Data Points:Handling Entity Framework Validations in WCF Data Services
Windows 8 Metro Style adds yet another UI that can consume OData. Julie Lerman helps you sharpen your OData creation skills with WCF Data Services, Code First and the Entity Framework Validation API.Julie Lerman
Forecast: Cloudy:Completing the Trip with AppFabric Queues
Joseph Fultz completes his store inventory project based on the new features found in the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus, using a mix of Topics and Queues.Joseph Fultz
Test Run:Tabu Algorithms and Maximum Clique
Dr. McCaffrey wraps up his examination of the challenging and mysterious maximum clique problem—often used in social networking scenarios—with an advanced solution called the tabu algorithm.James McCaffrey
The Working Programmer:Parser Combinators
Ted Neward puts parser combinators to work in a real-life scenario as he designs custom configurations for neuro-optical scientific experiments in which optical tissue is stimulated and the results are recorded.Ted Neward
UI Frontiers:Video Feeds on Windows Phone 7
While the initial release of Windows Phone included only one camera API, that deficiency has been corrected with two new sets of APIs that Charles uses to have some fun with video.Charles Petzold
Don't Get Me Started:Jobs and Ritchie: Entangled Photons
Steve Jobs died on October 5, and the tributes resounded through the universe. Far less noted was the passing of Dennis Ritchie on October 8. He deserves more recognition than he’s gotten, because Jobs couldn’t have accomplished anywhere near what he did without Ritchie’s work.David Platt