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Async Agents - Actor-Based Programming with the Asynchronous Agents Library

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The agent model provides an effective method of hiding latency for efficient parallel execution. The Asynchronous Agents Library (AAL) lets you use this actor-based model with message-passing interfaces, and we’ll show you how it works. (more)

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tags: MSDN, MSDN Magazine, Asynchronous

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Concurrency - Throttling Concurrency in the CLR 4.0 ThreadPool

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The trend toward manycore architectures and parallel apps has resulted in many changes to the CLR 4.0 ThreadPool. If you’re emphasizing concurrency in new apps or adding it to old ones, or making use of ASP.NET or Parallel Extension technologies, this is for you. (more)

category: How To | clicked: 0 | 1 comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com

tags: MSDN, thread pool, Threading, MSDN Magazine, ThreadPool

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Async Tasks - Simplify Asynchronous Programming with Tasks

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Asynchronous programming lets you run expensive operations concurrently without blocking the UI thread. We’ll show you three simple techniques for implementing asynchronous operations in your code. (more)

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tags: MSDN, Asynch, MSDN Magazine, Asynchronous

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Script Junkie - Somasegar's WebLog

published 998 days, 11 hours, 4 minutes ago posted by

raju 1000 days, 19 hours, 37 minutes ago

Earlier this year in February, I blogged about key software development trends. The second trend, The Web as a Platform, continues to grow at an astounding rate. Browser-based applications such as MugTug show the increasing flexibility and power of web technologies. New and experienced developers alike are anxious to learn everything they can about how to take advantage of the web to deliver experiences to their audience. But learning HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and other web standards technologies can b... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: Web, MSDN, JavaScript, CSS, HTML

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Visual Studio Lab Management - Somasegar's WebLog

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raju 1005 days, 20 hours, 4 minutes ago

Managing the needs of a quality assurance lab can be quite challenging. A dizzying number of machines need to be set up, torn down, or restored to a particular snapshot so the software team can work at maximum efficiency. Daily builds need to be available on schedule. Multiple virtual machine environments need to be managed. Managing a lab efficiently can be a significant task. (more)

category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: Visual Studio 2010, MSDN

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LightSwitch Beta 1 Available to MSDN Subscribers! - Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog

published 1005 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes ago posted by

iftekharahmedamit 1006 days, 9 hours, 44 minutes ago

We just released Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 to MSDN subscribers. Public availability will be this Monday, August 23rd but if you are an MSDN subscriber visit your subscriptions page to get access to the download now. Otherwise check the the LightSwitch Developer Center on Monday for the public download. Here are some resources to help get you started -- we have a lot more for you on Monday via the Dev Center so stay tuned!! LightSwitch Beta 1 Documentation on MSDN... (more)

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tags: Visual Studio LightSwitch, Beta, MSDN, LightSwitch

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MSDN Magazine: UI Frontiers - Multi-Touch Manipulation Events in WPF

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https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1023 days, 17 hours, 31 minutes ago

Multi-touch has progressed from being a futuristic prop of sci-fi films to a mainstream means of user interface. We’ll show you how support for multi-touch in Windows 7 has filtered down and settled into various areas of the .NET Framework. (more)

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tags: multitouch, WPF, MSDN, MSDN Magazine

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MSDN Magazine: The Working Programmer - Inside SQLite

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https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1023 days, 17 hours, 33 minutes ago

After tackling NoSQL, Ted Neward turns back to the relational world of SQL—SQLite, that is. Learn all about the lightweight, embedded database whose running footprint can be as small as one file installed in a client file system. (more)

category: Data | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com

tags: MSDN, SQLite, MSDN Magazine

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MSDN Magazine: Test Run - Fault Injection Testing with TestApi

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https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1023 days, 17 hours, 34 minutes ago

Fault injection testing is the process of deliberately inserting an error into an application to determine whether it deals with the error properly. We’ll explain how you can introduce faults into .NET applications at run time using the Managed Code Fault Injection APIs of the TestApi library (more)

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tags: MSDN, Testing, MSDN Magazine

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MSDN Magazine: Data Points - Deny Table Access to the Entity Framework Without Causing a Mutiny

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Julie Lerman shows database administrators how to limit access to databases from the Entity Framework by allowing it to work only with views and stored procedures instead of tables—without impacting application code or alienating developers. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com

tags: entityframework 4, entityframework4, Entity Framework, EF4, MSDN, MSDN Magazine

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MSDN Magazine: Cutting Edge - Don’t Worry, Be Lazy

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Being lazy in software development can be a good thing, but until the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, coders had to implement lazy behavior themselves. Dino Esposito shows how to use the new Lazy class to maximize your resources. (more)

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Windows Phone 7 - Windows Phone and the Cloud--an Introduction

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See how easy it is to create a Windows Phone 7 app and tie it to a Web service as Ramon Arjona walks you through the creation of a language translation tool. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com

tags: Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, MSDN, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7 Series, MSDN Magazine

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Smart Client - Building Distributed Apps with NHibernate and Rhino Service Bus, Part 2

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https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1023 days, 17 hours, 47 minutes ago

Smart client applications are responsive and promote interactivity with the user. In this article, we continue building a smart client application using NHibernate for data access and Rhino Service Bus for reliable communication with the server. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com

tags: NH, MSDN, NHibernate, MSDN Magazine

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Speed SQL - Tuning Your Database Calls with Tier Interaction Profiling

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https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1023 days, 17 hours, 48 minutes ago

Tier interaction profiling (TIP) is a feature of the Visual Studio profiling tools that measures the duration of synchronous calls to ADO.NET-compliant data stores. We’ll show you how TIP works and provide some best practices for using TIP to diagnose performance problems in your apps. (more)

category: Data | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com

tags: MSDN, MSDN Magazine

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OData and AtomPub - Building an AtomPub Server Using WCF Data Services

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https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1023 days, 17 hours, 49 minutes ago

Learn how to use the AtomPub protocol to pump up your blogs. Chris Sells includes a practical demonstration of mapping so you can expose a standard AtomPub service from a Web site and use Windows Live Writer to provide a rich editing experience against the service. (more)

category: Web Dev | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com

tags: MSDN, WCF Data Services, DataServices, WCF, WCF DataServices, OData, MSDN Magazine

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In Sync - Creating Synchronization Providers With The Sync Framework

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https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 1023 days, 17 hours, 53 minutes ago

The Sync Framework can be used to build apps that synchronize data from any data store using any protocol over a network. We’ll show you how it works and get you started building a custom sync provider. (more)

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tags: Sync Framework, MSDN, MSDN Magazine

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Scott Hanselman - The Weekly Source Code 55 - NotABlog: A Local XML-RPC MetaWebLog Endpoint That Lies To Windows Live Writer

published 1024 days, 13 hours, 44 minutes ago posted by

raju 1025 days, 17 hours, 54 minutes ago

My team has to write a lot. We write some blog posts, sure, but we also write a lot of tutorials for various sites. Right now the http://www.asp.net site runs on Umbraco, but MSDN runs on custom internal what-not, and there's other sites as well. The only common thread is HTML. Sometimes someone will write a tutorial or document in Word, then try to get some HTML out of that, that will only ends in pain and suffering. We could use something like Markdown or Dreamweaver or Expression Web, or write the H... (more)

category: Web Dev | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.hanselman.com

tags: MSDN, HTML

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View local help in Visual Studio 2010 with this extension - Cheryl

published 1029 days, 11 hours, 55 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1030 days, 12 hours, 42 minutes ago

Although I am involved with content creation (meaning I write the stuff) and not the actual publishing mechanisms for MSDN documentation, I've still heard the rumblings about the new help experience with Visual Studio 2010. A lot of folks don't like the separate browser-based experience for viewing offline documentation. (more)

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tags: Visual Studio help, MSDN

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MSDN: Double the Azure - Somasegar's WebLog

published 1034 days, 8 hours, 52 minutes ago posted by

raju 1035 days, 15 hours, 14 minutes ago

Today we are announcing that we are doubling the initial Windows Azure benefits to MSDN subscribers by extending the offer from eight months to 16 months. Windows Azure is a is a flexible cloud-computing platform that provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft datacenters. (more)

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tags: Windows Azure, MSDN

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Herding Code 88: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4

published 1036 days, 11 hours, 6 minutes ago posted by

raju 1037 days, 20 hours, 5 minutes ago

This week on Herding Code, the guys talk with Microsoft MVP, MSDN Magazine columnist and Programming Entity Framework author Julie Lerman about what’s new in Entity Framework 4. The show begins with Julie providing a broad look at the new features and improvements around the EF designer, the run-time, POCO support and disconnected entities. Julie talks about her world of data... (more)

category: Podcast | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: herdingcode.com

tags: MSDN, HerdingCode, Entity Framework 4, MVP

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MSDN

Async Agents - Actor-Based Programming with the Asynchronous Agents Library

Concurrency - Throttling Concurrency in the CLR 4.0 ThreadPool

Async Tasks - Simplify Asynchronous Programming with Tasks

Script Junkie - Somasegar's WebLog

Visual Studio Lab Management - Somasegar's WebLog

LightSwitch Beta 1 Available to MSDN Subscribers! - Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog

MSDN Magazine: UI Frontiers - Multi-Touch Manipulation Events in WPF

MSDN Magazine: The Working Programmer - Inside SQLite

MSDN Magazine: Test Run - Fault Injection Testing with TestApi

MSDN Magazine: Data Points - Deny Table Access to the Entity Framework Without Causing a Mutiny

MSDN Magazine: Cutting Edge - Don’t Worry, Be Lazy

Windows Phone 7 - Windows Phone and the Cloud--an Introduction

Smart Client - Building Distributed Apps with NHibernate and Rhino Service Bus, Part 2

Speed SQL - Tuning Your Database Calls with Tier Interaction Profiling

OData and AtomPub - Building an AtomPub Server Using WCF Data Services

In Sync - Creating Synchronization Providers With The Sync Framework

Scott Hanselman - The Weekly Source Code 55 - NotABlog: A Local XML-RPC MetaWebLog Endpoint That Lies To Windows Live Writer

View local help in Visual Studio 2010 with this extension - Cheryl

MSDN: Double the Azure - Somasegar's WebLog

Herding Code 88: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4

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