July 2008

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.

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June 2008

Test Your .NET 3.5 Apps

Take advantage of the tools built into VS.NET 2008 to automate testing your application logic.

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May 2008

Manipulate Data in the Cloud

ADO.NET Data Services (formerly code-named "Project Astoria") delivers data from relational tables and Windows Live services to Web mashups.

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April 2008

Reduce Code and Server Roundtrips

Utilize table-valued parameters to write less code and to achieve higher application performance.

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March 2008

Inside the Entity Framework

Microsoft's ADO.NET Team readies Entity Framework and Tools 1.0 for release as a VS 2008 add-in with enterprise-level features.

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February 2008

Connect with WCF

Learn when and how to utilize Windows Communication Foundation to develop and maintain your communications layer.

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January 2008

Visual Studio 2008 Kicks Off

Find out how VS 2008's greatly expanded feature set and new .NET Fx 3.5 namespaces can boost your career as a professional developer and add to your programming enjoyment.

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December 2007

Create Rich Web Apps with AJAX

AJAX has caught on tremendously as a method for building dynamic and interactive Web sites. Learn what AJAX is, what its benefits are, and how you can implement the technology in your own applications.

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November 2007

Optimize LINQ to SQL Performance

Learn how to steamline access, avoid costly bottlenecks and maximize flexiblity. Plus designing apps for future flexibility, designers and developers working together, banishing UAC issues, the incredible exploding mindshare of C# and much more.

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October 2007

Beat SharePoint Into Shape

Learn how to simplify integrating SharePoint with your Visual Studio applications. Plus expanding Web apps with SODA and WCF, drilling down on anonymous and nullable types, enabling the framework in VB.NET, writing code that expresses your design and much more!

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September 2007

WPF Goes to Work

Learn how to take advantage of Windows Presentation Foundation in your everyday business apps. Plus creating strongly typed data access code, inside how LINQ is going to change the way you program, simplifying background threads, copy custom data formats in objects to the clipboard and much more!

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August 2007

Load Up With VB's Operators

Take an in-depth look at operators in Visual Basic. Plus integrating Oracle with Windows applications, learn how to write programs that seek out and destroy bugs, writing code for a mutlithreaded world, learn how constraints work when creating custom generic classes, the new Web and much, much more.

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