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Add Distinction to Your Code

Learn how LINQ, extension methods, and lambda functions can help you add a bit of distinction, simplicity, and robustness to your code.

RIA Warrior

Microsoft's Brad Becker on Silverlight 2 and the enterprise market.

The Changing Role of DBAs: One-to-Many

Have Microsoft's new tools made you the part-time DBA?

Control Exceptions

Take control of casting exceptions, determine whether parent records have children in LINQ to SQL, and resolve cref references in XML comments.

Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010

Details are being released in bits and pieces, instead of Microsoft's usual all-or-nothing approach.

The Simplicity Manifesto

When it comes to new technologies, less is more.

Combine Generics and Functional Programming

Mixing generics and functional programming simplifies writing some extensibility libraries tremendously. For example, combining these techniques makes it easy to create a generic Undo library.

PDC: HP Startup Tests Windows Azure Cloud Platform

A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.

Google Android Flaw Reopens Open Source Security Debate

A security flaw in Google's new Android operating system discovered recently by independent researchers further underscores the security debate between open source and proprietary software.

PDC: Microsoft's Cloud-Based SQL Services Redefined

Microsoft is evolving its strategy for relational data services in the cloud.

PDC: First Look at Live Mesh and Live Framework

Microsoft announced the new Live Framework during a Tuesday keynote that addressed Windows 7 and other tools and technologies that will comprise the front-end infrastructure of the company's unfolding Software plus Services strategy.

PDC: Microsoft Outlines Windows 7, Slew of New Dev Technologies

Microsoft today articulated how it will bridge PCs and mobile devices with an extraordinary blitz of announcements that included the first demonstration of Windows 7, its Live Framework, a bevy of new offerings for developers including WPF support for Visual Studio, and the first preview of Office 14.

Yahoo Rewires with Developers in Mind

Rewiring Yahoo plan establishes a "front door" for developers into its evolving Open Stack of platform services.

PDC: Microsoft Releases Geneva Beta

Microsoft today released the first beta of its federated identity services framework aimed at simplifying the way enterprises deploy authentication services.

Adding Style to Silverlight 2 Controls

Just make sure to avoid duplicating properties between controls, and everyone will be happy.

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