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Portals to topics of interest to the developer community from Visual Studio Magazine
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.NET Framework
Information about the .Net Framework and the technologies it supports.
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ALM
Application Lifecycle Management
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ASP.NET AJAX
Articles related to Microsoft's framework for interactive Web sites.
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C Languages
Articles dealing with C#.
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Databases
How-to and reviews covering Microsoft SQL Server and other databases.
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Interop
Are you working in (or thinking about) a mixed shop? Whether Windows/Linux, Windows/Mac or Windows/Unix, this is the section for you.
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IT Management
Covering all the topics IT managers need to stay on top of, including compliance, licensing, negotiating, the future of computing and much more.
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Mobile
Articles related to doftware development for mobile devices.
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Office Development
Developing for Microsoft Office.
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Open Source
Articles about the sharing of application code across enterprises.
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Security
The latest security news, advice, how-to and product reviews covering all aspects, including firewalls, encryption, best practices, managing spam, eliminating spyware and more.
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Software Testing
Application lifecycle development.
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VB.NET
Articles and news about developing in VB.NET
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Visual Studio .NET
Topics discussing the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE and all of its incarnations.
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VSTS
Visual Studio Team System
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Web Development
News and articles about developing for the Web
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Web Services
Developing for Web services and distributed technologies
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Windows Development
News, reviews and more about developing for the Moicrosoft Windows platform.
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XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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