First Look: Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Development
This article provides a first look at tools in Visual Studio 2010 designed to support development and deployment of SharePoint 2010 solutions. The article provides an example of designing and deploying a visual Web part. Steve Fox
SharePoint and Open XML: Generating Documents from SharePoint Using Open XML Content Controls
A manager of a department at a bank needs to regularly send a nicely formatted status report to the owners of the bank. A team leader needs to send a weekly status report to a number of interested parties. Because the manager and the team leader keep their data in SharePoint lists, you can put together a small document generation system that takes unique advantage of Open XML content controls, and puts the manager and team leader in charge of their reports.
Eric White
This month’s issue of MSDN Magazine takes a look at some of the new features and tools in Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 that will continue improving the experience of creating business applications that run on the Microsoft Office platform. Howard Dierking
Data Points: Data Validation with Silverlight 3 and the DataForm
In this article, the author reviews the pillars of real-world AJAX development as supported in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0. It focuses on client-side templates and data binding but won't ignore other goodies, such as ADO.NET Data Services proxy classes and programming facilities. John Papa
Cutting Edge: Data Binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0
In this article, Dino reviews the pillars of real-world AJAX development as supported in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0. In doing so, he mostly focuses on client-side templates and data-binding but doesn't ignore other goodies, such as ADO.NET Data Services proxy classes and programming facilities. Dino Esposito
Team System: Customizing Work Items
Team Foundation Server's work iIem tracking system provides a number of advanced customization options.This article explores custom control support that lets you link to date, enhance the user experience, present data, and more. Brian A. Randell
Service Station: Building RESTful Clients
This column how to build clients applications based on the REST architecture using HTTP AP1s. The article describes how to address the question of autogenerated types and code. Jon Flanders
Concurrent Affairs: Four Ways to Use the Concurrency Runtime in Your C++ Projects
This article describes how to integrate the new parallel computing libraries in the Visual Studio 2010 Beta into existing C++ projects. Based on four common scenarios, the column explains a few of the ways developers can use the APIs and classes that are part of the Parallel Pattern Library (PPL), Asynchronous Agents Library, and Concurrency Runtime. Rick Molloy