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• Setting defaults for null values in data sources in WPF

  Tip -Dealing with null values in data sources can be tricky. Windows Presentation Foundation has built in support for binding to null data sources.

• At PDC: Microsoft's Muglia talks about Azure Platform as a Service advances

  News -Windows Azure as platform for applications gained attention at Microsoft’s PDC in Redmond, Wash. Platform as a Service [PaaS] is where the future of the cloud computing resides, said Bob Muglia, President of Server and Tools Business for Microsoft.

• Ray Ozzie out as Microsoft CSA - pursuing entertainment projects

  News -Microsoft announced today that Ray Ozzie plans to step down from his position as Chief Software Architect for the company.

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• Unit testing in Visual Studio 2010

  Tip -Visual Studio 2010 contains a unit testing framework, and I’ll show you how to use it to automate your own unit tests.

• Understanding the testing tools in Visual Studio 2010

  Tip -Get an overview of the testing tools available in Visual Studio. You will learn which testing features are in which Visual Studio edition.

• Taming the help engine in Visual Studio 2010

  Tip -Learn a few pointers that are find handy when using the help engine in Visual Studio 2010.

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• Microsoft launches Silverlight 3 and Expression 3

  News -Microsoft launched Version 3 of both Microsoft Expression and Silverlight, becoming core parts of ongoing Web content creation strategy for both developers and designers.

• Microsoft takes on Adobe with Silverlight 3

  News -Microsoft continues to enhance Silverlight as it looks to compete with Adobe Flex's scope and depth. The Rich Internet Application (RIA) software is expected in Microsoft-centric organizations wishing to leverage .NET platform skills.

• WPF application speeds development, back-end integration

  News -A WPF application can give you the best of a .NET back end and a browser-based front end. When a Xerox design lead had trouble finding a Flash programmer who could also work with the company's .NET back end, he tried replacing the Flash component of his software with a WPF application.

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• Testing methods in Visual Studio 2010

  Tip -This is the second part in a two part series on unit testing in Visual Studio 2010.

• Unit testing in Visual Studio 2010

  Tip -Visual Studio 2010 contains a unit testing framework, and I’ll show you how to use it to automate your own unit tests.

• Understanding the testing tools in Visual Studio 2010

  Tip -Get an overview of the testing tools available in Visual Studio. You will learn which testing features are in which Visual Studio edition.

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• Using the client networking stack in Silverlight

  Tip -There are many scenarios where you need to communicate with a webserver from your Silverlight application. For example you might want to lazy load files from your server to your application when the application is idle. Another common situation is during file uploads or when calling REST services. In these circumstances you need to use the Silverlight networking stacks to gain programmatic access to the remote computers.

• At PDC: Microsoft's Muglia talks about Azure Platform as a Service advances

  News -Windows Azure as platform for applications gained attention at Microsoft’s PDC in Redmond, Wash. Platform as a Service [PaaS] is where the future of the cloud computing resides, said Bob Muglia, President of Server and Tools Business for Microsoft.

• Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide

  Feature -In "Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide," author Joe Mayo provides a gradual on-ramp to development with Visual Studio 2010. Read a free excerpt from the book.

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• Windows development tutorials

  Tutorial -SearchWinDevelopment.com offers tutorials for developers, architects and development managers tasked with building and maintaining enterprise applications using Visual Basic, C# and the Microsoft .NET platform including design, architecture, coding, testing, and deployment and also addresses qualitative issues.

• At PDC: Microsoft's Muglia talks about Azure Platform as a Service advances

  News -Windows Azure as platform for applications gained attention at Microsoft’s PDC in Redmond, Wash. Platform as a Service [PaaS] is where the future of the cloud computing resides, said Bob Muglia, President of Server and Tools Business for Microsoft.

• Ray Ozzie out as Microsoft CSA - pursuing entertainment projects

  News -Microsoft announced today that Ray Ozzie plans to step down from his position as Chief Software Architect for the company.

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• The 'VB.NET or C#' debate: It's all in the syntax

  News -Microsoft development experts say Visual Basic and C# have become nearly identical in function as the .NET Framework has matured. Choosing whether to use VB.NET or C# is more or less a matter of which syntax style you prefer. Despite the similarities, many developers still carry a stigma against VB, said Lance Keene, president of .NET consultancy Keene Systems.

• IronRuby offers options for .NET developers, brings open source to Microsoft

  News -The moat around the .NET programming community has long been difficult to cross from either direction. Developers from both sides see IronRuby, an open source implementation of Ruby for the .NET platform, as a possible crossing point.

• Some of the Zen of Volta

  News -Coming from Microsoft Labs and still in its early gestation, Volta is a methodology allowing developers to create apps without regard to eventual deployment, and to declaratively partition Web application elements across tiers.

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• Microsoft lightens up to Eclipse for PHP, Azure related application building

  News -Microsoft is working with open source companies Tasktop Technologies and Soyatec on interoperability projects focused on using the Eclipse platform to take advantage of the new features in Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2, and improve Java and PHP interoperability with Windows Azure and Microsoft Silverlight.

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• Static methods are a code smell

  Tip -Static methods work best as only utility methods. Learn what constitutes a code smell and how to best avoid these potential issues.

• .NET

  Definition -.NET is both a business strategy from Microsoft and its collection of programming support for Web services. (Continued...)

• On managing a .NET Framework 1.x migration

  News -There are many compelling reasons to migrate projects from .NET 1.0 and 1.1 to a later version of the .NET Framework. A recent Burton Group report offers advice for developers considering such migrations.

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• Where can I find Visual Basic 6.0 DataEnvironment code samples?

  Answer -Get information on the best places to find Visual Basic DataEnvironment 6.0 code samples.

• Inside Visual Studio 2010

  News -Microsoft is released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. Find out key features of Microsoft's next-generation development environment, and learn key features of the Framework, Visual Basic, and C#.

• VB code: Windows operations downloads

  Feature -We've added four new Visual Basic code snippets to help you with Windows operations such as changing the attributes of a folder and writing to a Windows Event Log.

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