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Top News Start off the New Year with 50% off on the Official Design Tools for Silverlight and WPF Check out this limited-time offer on all Microsoft Expression Blend, Expression Web, and Expression Studio products. Special Offers on Visual Studio 2008 Help You Be More Productive in a Tough Economy With special pricing promotions available to help you move from Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition to Team System or to attach an MSDN subscription to your Visual Studio license, Microsoft is helping you be more competitive at a lower cost. Featured Content New Softimage Mod Tool Pro for Commercial Use Now available to XNA Creators Club Premium members only, Autodesk has released the Softimage Mod Tool Pro - a special version of the Mod Tool enabled for commercial production use for Xbox LIVE Community Games only. Download it now at our partner page. If you are not a premium member, sign up today on our membership page. 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Virtual Lab: Visual Studio 2008 Windows Communication Foundation and REST This lab will serve as an introduction to creating Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services. It will also illustrate how a WCF service can easily be adopted to meet the ever-changing needs of service-based software by adapting the service we create to use REST. Security for Developers Announcing CAT.NET CTP and AntiXSS v3 Beta Anti-XSS v3 Beta includes performance improvements, localization enhancement, and a Security Runtime Engine (SRE) that uses an HTTP module to provide a level of protection against XSS for your application without the need to rebuild your code. CAT.NET (Code Analysis Tool) v1 CTP is a binary analysis tool that can be used to identify some common vulnerabilities that can lead to attack vectors such as XSS, SQL injection, and XPath injection in your code. 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