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Reader feedback: Back to the future
A reader took issue to my latest Editor’s Note. That doesn’t bother me at all; I love a good...
Author: Keith Ward1 Date: 06/02/2010
alt.msdn – What Media Says on MS Development
Edd Morgan shows IronRuby interaction with POCOs and considerations to make this implementation run...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 05/14/2010
msdn Flash Newsletter, Volume 14, Number 10
Model-View-Controller for the Masses Joe Stagner starts a new "ASP.NET MVC for the Rest of...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 05/10/2010
alt.msdn - What Media Says on MS Development
Dojo father talks on how HTML 5 and JavaScript will take mobile web application development to the...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 05/07/2010
Full text indexing
Hi Gang, An interesting thread got going in my email the other day, and I thought it might be of...
Author: Keith Ward1 Date: 05/07/2010
Introduction to NUMA
by Bob Golding The introduction of NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) required changes in memory...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 05/06/2010
Gone With the Week (APR 12 – 16, 2010)
Take a look to what independent media was covering while Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0 and...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 04/16/2010
Calling for Papers ON Office Development
We're looking for articles on Microsoft Office development using .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. If...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 04/02/2010
Gone With the Week (Mar 22 – 26, 2010)
Here we offer our review on .NET development topics published on independent media. Microsoft...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 03/27/2010
Sound Off: Send Us Your Product Reviews
Hello all, We're going to be adding something special to both the print and online versions of MSDN...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 03/22/2010
Gone With The Week (Mar 15 – 19, 2010)
What did media have to say about .NET and development in general while most of attention was caught...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 03/19/2010
Gone With the Week (Mar 8 – 12, 2010)
Here we highlight some topics that media was covering about general development (and .NET in...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 03/12/2010
Gone With The Week (Mar 1 – 5, 2010)
The following is a selection of five news about .NET development published on independent media....
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 03/06/2010
Writing for MSDN Magazine: A Primer
Ever wanted to publish an article in MSDN Magazine? If so, here's what you need to know. First, send...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 12/23/2009
A Tentative Content Plan for 2010
Dear readers, while we could yet make some few tweaks to the agenda, these below is for now the most...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 11/12/2009
Lining Up Columns
Continuing with this series on my plans for MSDN Magazine, I’ll address here another question that...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 10/08/2009
A Necessary 101 on Professional Application Development
I’m in the job of establishing partnerships with different stakeholders (authors, readers, vendors,...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 10/08/2009
File > New > Project: Developing a New MSDN Magazine!!
For some while now, my colleagues were asking me about my plans for the magazine. In other words, my...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 10/07/2009
MSDN Magazine Gets New Editor (Introducing Diego Dagum)
Hello, everybody. Mi name is Diego Dagum and I recently became the new editor director for MSDN...
Author: Diego Dagum Date: 09/28/2009
brownfield development – other ideas?
If you haven’t been following it over the last couple of months, we’ve been running a series of...
Author: howard dierking - MSFT Date: 09/02/2009
2010 Column Planning
It’s that time of year once again where I go through my column lineup to see how individual columns...
Author: howard dierking - MSFT Date: 08/07/2009
Announcing a New Series: From Web Dev to RIA Dev
I’m sitting here in my hotel room at MIX 2009, where a ton of really huge announcements were made...
Author: howard dierking - MSFT Date: 03/19/2009
ASP.NET Presentation Patterns
In a layered Web app, the presentation layer is just as important as navigation logic, business...
Author: tdorsey Date: 12/19/2008
How Connection Manager Connects
Without Connection Manager, for all but the simplest network environments, the only way an...
Author: tdorsey Date: 12/18/2008
x64 Debugging With Pseudo Variables
For many years, Visual C++ has included a set of pseudo variables and format specifiers for use in...
Author: tdorsey Date: 12/15/2008
Configuration Testing With Virtual Server
In the September 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Dr. James McCaffrey introduced you to software...
Author: tdorsey Date: 12/12/2008
Claims-Based WCF Services with Geneva Framework
The "Geneva" Framework, formerly called "Zermatt," is the code name for the new...
Author: tdorsey Date: 12/10/2008
Rendering Text On A Path With WPF
Text is more than just its literal meaning. By treating text characters as graphical objects, the...
Author: tdorsey Date: 12/08/2008
Design Patterns for Testability
Testability is both as an important quality of your designs and another tool you can use to create...
Author: tdorsey Date: 12/05/2008
LINQ To SQL And The Entity Framework
With the releases of LINQ to SQL and the ADO.NET Entity Framework, developers now have two products...
Author: tdorsey Date: 12/03/2008
VSTO Power Tools Office interop API extensions
C# developers can use the Visual Studio Tools for the Office System (VSTO) Power Tools Office...
Author: tdorsey Date: 12/01/2008
Advanced Basics: The ObservableCollection Class
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) adds functionality to the Microsoft .NET Framework so that you...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/28/2008
Visual Studio Team System Process Templates
A team project is simply a bucket that stores and partitions all of the artifacts you track and use...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/26/2008
Meeting Richard Ward
Earlier this year MSDN Magazine embarked on a collaborative project with Behind the Code, an...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/24/2008
Best Practices For Windows Workflow Foundation
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) imposes some restrictions on the developer authoring programs that...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/24/2008
Thread Management and other CLR TidBits
Every month, the CLR team gives us insight into the core of managed code, .NET programming best...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/21/2008
Browser Interoperability In Silverlight 2
Silverlight provides a browser interoperability layer that allows managed code to access the...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/20/2008
Unit Testing For Workflows
Because Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is based on a runtime that manages the execution of...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/19/2008
The Road To a New Web Site - Your Thoughts Please?
We're currently in the process of stepping back and taking a critical look at our Web site to see...
Author: howard dierking - MSFT Date: 11/17/2008
Team System: Team Build 2008 Basics
Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build (better known as Team Build) is a core feature of...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/17/2008
Silverlight 2 Web Parts for SharePoint
Silverlight and SharePoint provide a simple, yet powerful, infrastructure for building intranet and...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/14/2008
Security Briefs: Threat Models Improve Your Security Process
It’s helpful to think about secure design from a more holistic perspective by using threat models to...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/12/2008
Faster Web Pages With Visual Round Trip Analyzer
So many factors can affect the performance of a Web page—the distance between server and client, the...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/10/2008
Test Run: Group Determination in Software Testing
Choosing the best alternative is a common task in software development and testing. A group of beta...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/07/2008
Data Points: Silverlight 2 and Web Services
Whether Web services are supplied by third parties or custom services hosted on the same server as...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/05/2008
Windows File And Registry Permissions
The basic security mechanism of Windows involves having a trusted system component check permissions...
Author: tdorsey Date: 11/03/2008
Security Development Lifecycle for Agile Development
The concept of Agile security does not have to be a contradiction in terms. The Microsoft SDL team...
Author: tdorsey Date: 10/31/2008
Service Station: Authorization In WCF-Based Services
Once you start adopting service-oriented principles for your distributed applications, you are...
Author: tdorsey Date: 10/29/2008
Building Concurrent Apps with F#
One stumbling block that developers encounter with asynchronous programming is that they become so...
Author: tdorsey Date: 10/27/2008
Basic Instincts: Dynamic Data Entry With XML Literals
Wouldn't it be nice to generate all your maintenance screens in your data-driven applications...
Author: tdorsey Date: 10/24/2008