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• VSTS 2008 Web Testing Part 3: Validation Rules

  Mickey wraps up his series on Web Testing with a look at validating Web tests. 02/09/2010

• Oracle Beefs Up SOA with AmberPoint Deal

  Oracle today said it has agreed to acquire AmberPoint, a supplier of software for managing service-oriented architectures, for an undisclosed sum. 02/08/2010

• FAST Search Will Be a Windows-Only Product

  Microsoft plans to eventually discontinue offering its standalone versions of FAST enterprise search products for Linux and Unix. 02/05/2010

• Microsoft, NSF Open Azure to Researchers

  Academic researchers can now apply for free access to Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud services. 02/05/2010

• A Modest Proposal on Validation in the Middle Tier

  Peter looks at a strategic issue: When to do validation? The answer isn't "Everywhere" but it could have been. 02/04/2010

• Creating Nested Folders

  Classic VB provides no simple method to create nested directory folders, but it certainly provides the tools to make such a method. 02/04/2010

• iPad Impacts .NET Developers

  Apple's new tablet PC was announced amid a roar of pre-release hype. What does it mean for .NET developers? 02/04/2010

• Office 2010 Hits RC Stage

  Microsoft Office 2010 reached the release candidate milestone this week, bringing the development process one step closer to the product's planned June release. 02/04/2010

• VSTS 2008 Web Testing: Running a Web Test (Part 2 of 3)

  In the second column of a series, Mickey shows you how to run a Web test using Visual Studio Team System 2008. 02/02/2010

• Microsoft's Azure Cloud Service Now Available

  Microsoft's Windows Azure and SQL Azure cloud services are now generally available, ending the free test period. 02/01/2010

• PC Makers Prepare To Challenge iPad

  It remains to be seen whether the slate-based iPad will help or hurt the prospects of PC-based alternatives with a similar form factor. 02/01/2010

• Weekend Drive

  Suddenly, and for no apparent reason, an internal support application at Joe R.'s company suffered a slowdown in executing queries and returning data. 02/01/2010

• Life After 7: Windows New

  What can Microsoft do to preserve the relevance of Windows -- and the crucial revenue stream that derives from it? 02/01/2010

• Silverlight Ascendant

  Why Silverlight 4 should change the way you make decisions about application development. 02/01/2010

• Using Agile Techniques to Pay Back Technical Debt

  Flawed code is a lot like financial debt. It drags you down and consumes resources that would otherwise go to profit-making ventures. Here's how to avoid getting caught in the technical debt trap. 02/01/2010

• dynaTrace Offers End-to-End Multi-Tier Tracing

  dynaTrace provides continuous monitoring of your application -- from the client to the database -- without requiring you to insert any instrumentation code. 02/01/2010

• The QueryExtender

  Extend runtime sorting and filtering of data with ASP.NET 4's QueryExtender, which provides a single interface for DataSources. 02/01/2010

• VS2010 Release Candidate Expected this Month

  Will the Dev10 improvements be worth it if the result is slower performance? 02/01/2010

• Ballmer Pushes Cloud for Public Safety Agencies

  Public safety managers must begin moving into the cloud, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday at the company's annual Public Safety Symposium. 01/28/2010

• Understanding Visual Studio 2010

  Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 deliver a number of changes to Microsoft's flagship family of IDE products. Here is what to expect when Visual Studio 2010 is released in April. 01/28/2010

• Oracle Plans To Take on Microsoft Office

  Oracle Cloud Office is the next generation of Sun's OpenOffice, company officials revealed. 01/28/2010

• Inserting with jQuery

  Peter Vogel continues to extend his client-side case study by using jTemplate to extend a table to support inserts -- and then sending the user's data to the server to update the database. 01/28/2010