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Features
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Slideshow: Visual Studio Magazine's 2008 Readers Choice Awards [ONLINE ONLY]
July 1, 2008 • by Editors Visual Studio Magazine
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Test-Drive SQL Server Data Services
Microsoft readies its new "cloud database" by hosting beta versions of REST and SOAP protocols for performing CRUD operations on clustered, customized SQL Server 2008 instances. These instances are organized as massively scalable, super-reliable, highly available Web services.
July 1, 2008 • by Roger Jennings
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Decoding Bill
As the mantle of leadership at Microsoft shifts, what is Gates' legacy as a developer?
June 15, 2008 • by William F. Zachmann
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Test Your .NET 3.5 Apps
Take advantage of the tools built into VS.NET 2008 to automate testing your application logic. Also, learn how to design your applications so you can take advantage of unit testing and test-driven development methodologies.
June 1, 2008 • by John Kuhn and Paul D. Sheriff
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Identify Blocked SQL Processes Quickly
Improve application performance by creating a utility that tells you which processes are being blocked.
June 1, 2008 • by Ian Stirk
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Windows 7 Lockdown
Why has Microsoft clammed up about dev projects in the Windows and Windows Live groups, and what does it mean for developers?
May 15, 2008 • by Mary Jo Foley
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Manipulate Data in the Cloud with ADO.NET
ADO.NET Data Services (formerly code-named "Project Astoria") delivers data from relational tables and Windows Live services to Web mashups and Visual Studio 2008 projects, including ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight 2.0 rich Internet applications, as Representational State Transfer (REST) resources over HTTP in response to URI-based requests or LINQ to REST queries.
May 1, 2008 • by Roger Jennings
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In Search of Trust
Microsoft's end-to-end trust initiative is long on vision, but short on developer details.
May 1, 2008 • by John K. Waters
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SPLA: A New Way To License Software
In the era of Software+Services, Microsoft takes a different approach to software licensing than Web hosting companies and managed service providers. Microsoft's Michael van Dijken explains in the Q&A.
April 21, 2008 • by Michael Domingo
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Reduce Code and Server Roundtrips
Utilize table-valued parameters to write less code and to achieve higher application performance.
April 1, 2008 • by Paul Delcogliano
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