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Test Run: Request/Response Testing with Windows PowerShell
The most fundamental form of Web testing is HTTP request/response testing. This involves...
Author: tdorsey Date: 07/06/2008
Concurrent Affairs: Simplified APM With The AsyncEnumerator
In the November issue of MSDN Magazine, Jeffrey Richter demonstrates some recent additions to the C#...
Author: tdorsey Date: 07/04/2008
July 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine now online
The July 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. Here's what's in the issue: Data...
Author: tdorsey Date: 07/03/2008
Patterns In Practice: The Open Closed Principle
The June 2008 issue features the first installment of a new MSDN Magazine column on software design...
Author: tdorsey Date: 07/02/2008
Windows With C++: Decoding Windows Vista Icons With WIC
In the April 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Kenny Kerr introduced the Windows Imaging Component (WIC),...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/30/2008
Foundations: Bitmaps And Pixel Bits
A combination of the retained-mode graphics system and notification mechanisms such as dependency...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/27/2008
A C++ Library That Simplifies Windows Forms
One problem with GUI programming in C++ is that most libraries are too low level, putting much of...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/25/2008
Workflows That Capture Data And Create Office Documents
Business processes that call for workflow often require that process-related documents be consumed...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/23/2008
A Survey of .NET Languages And Paradigms
Hundreds of languages target Windows either directly through the Win32 API or through the CLR, and...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/20/2008
Going Places: Building Adaptable Windows Mobile Apps
In 2008 there are now more than 140 different Windows Mobile phones available that support a variety...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/19/2008
Tools for Identifying Concurrency Issues
Performance improvements in many-core systems can only be achieved by writing efficient parallel...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/18/2008
Screen Shots and ClearType
Here is a collection of posts about taking screen shots and ClearType font smoothing (which affects...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/17/2008
Virtual Labs: Testing with LINQ
Today we are launching another new Virtual Labs. In the April 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, James...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/16/2008
Microsoft Robotics Studio
Microsoft Robotics Studio is more than just a way to play with robots. Robotics Studio allows you to...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/16/2008
CLR Inside Out: the Large Object Heap
The CLR garbage collector divides objects into small and large categories. When an object is large,...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/13/2008
CLR Inside Out: More Measuring for Performance
To reliably create high-performance programs, you need to understand the performance of the...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/13/2008
Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack
Although the Visual C++ compiler has been improved in a areas including performance, security, and...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/12/2008
Connect Enterprise Apps With BizTalk Services
Microsoft has blended the most compelling characteristics of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) into a new...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/11/2008
Security: a One-Time Password Solution
Passwords can be a big security and manageability headache for enterprise IT administrators. Because...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/09/2008
Cutting Edge: AJAX Design Patterns and Client-Side Templates
In the May 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Dino Esposito continued his discussion of AJAX programming...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/06/2008
Building a WCF Router
In the April 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Michele Leroux Bustamante started a series of columns in...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/04/2008
MSDN Magazine Virtual Labs for June!
With the June 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine we are launching an exciting new feature for our readers:...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/03/2008
Elevation PowerToys and other Security content in TechNet Magazine
Whether you’re a developer or an IT pro – or maybe your job involves a little of both – security is...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/30/2008
June 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine now online
The June 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. Here's what's in the issue: SAAS:...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/28/2008
Automate Web App Deployment with the SharePoint API
Because SharePoint provides a complex and sophisticated application platform, deployment can present...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/26/2008
Integrate VSTO with SharePoint Content Types
Building a document-level Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) customization and integrating it...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/23/2008
Foundations: Loading Workflow Models in WF
Workflows in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) can be modeled in several ways, and this flexibility...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/21/2008
Wicked Code: Silverlight Page Turning Made Simple
In the May 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Jeff Prosise demonstrates a general-purpose page-turning...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/19/2008
May 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine now online
The May 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. Our May issue starts with a focus on...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/16/2008
Cutting Edge: ListView Tips and Tricks
In the March 2008 installment of our Extreme ASP.NET column, Fritz Onion introduced to the ASP.NET...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/14/2008
Test Run: Testing SQL Stored Procedures Using LINQ
The need to test a program that accesses and manipulates a back-end SQL Server database is very...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/12/2008
Managing Metadata with Office Document Information Panels
The Microsoft Office platform allows you to maintain both standard and custom properties for...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/09/2008
Going Places: Provisioning Mobile Devices
Going Places is a new MSDN Magazine column devoted to mobile device development. The main focus will...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/07/2008
Building Advanced 3D Animations with Silverlight 2.0
Silverlight is a new cross-browser plug-in from Microsoft that brings the power of the .NET...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/05/2008
Scaling Strategies for ASP.NET Applications
Performance problems can creep into your ASP.NET app as it scales up, and when they do, you need to...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/02/2008
What is green programming?
One of our editorial counterparts over in MSDN, Mitch Irsfeld, the Managing Editor of the U.S. MSDN...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/01/2008
Basic Instincts: My Namespace Extensions with My Extensibility
With the My Extensibility feature, new in Visual Basic 2008, My namespace extensions can be...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/30/2008
CLR Inside Out: Measure Early and Often for Performance
Many applications are written with almost no thought given to performance. But when the need for...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/28/2008
Bjarne Stroustrup interview
Recently, our Editor in Chief Howard Dierking had the pleasure of talking to Bjarne Stroustrup, the...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/25/2008
Free tools you may have missed
Scott Mitchell in our Toolbox column has covered quite a few free tools you’ll love. Here are some...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/24/2008
Building Voice Response Workflows
Need an interactive voice response application for your organization's phone system? Office...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/23/2008
Windows with C++: Windows Imaging Component Basics
The Microsoft Windows Imaging Component (WIC) is an extensible framework for encoding, decoding, and...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/21/2008
April 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine now online
The April 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. In the April issue, we take a look at...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/17/2008
LINQ coverage in March MSDN Magazine
In the March 2008 installment of the Advanced Basics column in MSDN Magazine, Ken Getz shows you how...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/16/2008
OBA Solution Patterns In The Real World
Office Business Applications (OBAs) bridge the divide between business data in line-of-business...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/14/2008
.NET Matters: Asynchronous Stream Processing
Say you want to copy from one stream to another, using only the asynchronous methods on Stream. How...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/11/2008
Foundations: Vector Graphics and the WPF Shape Class
In Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), graphical objects have been elevated to a status nearly...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/09/2008
Find Application Bottlenecks with Visual Studio Profiler
Whether you write your applications in native C/C++, C#, or Visual Basic, Visual Studio Profiler...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/07/2008
Test Run: Web UI Automation with Windows PowerShell
Windows PowerShell, the new Microsoft command shell and scripting language, is a great platform for...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/04/2008