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Doing Architecture with Team System Rosario

Jeff goes through some features in the upcoming Rosario, including UML models and the new Architecture Explorer.

Inside Silverlight 2

Microsoft's new RIA technology extends .NET across platforms.

Take Control of Window Movements

Hook the window message stream to snap your main window to the screen edges as the user moves it about.

Silverlight XAML Primer 13: Starting and Stopping Animations

Controlling Storyboard animations programmatically lets animations play under a variety of circumstances.

Extend Your Apps with External Add-ins

Take advantage of the System.AddIn namespace to handle logic external to your application; don't get caught by Excel's one-based indexes; and make LINQ extension methods work with ArrayLists.

Dundas Chart for .NET, FarPoint Spread for BizTalk, and NetAdvantage for .NET and WPF

This month's new products.

Are Your Incentives Working?

Make sure developers don't sacrifice quality for the sake of finishing.

Is VB the Least Among Equals?

VB.NET gets left behind (again), this time by the Windows Live team.

Treat Code as Data

Take advantage of new features in C# 3.0 that let you treat code as data -- and save time over more traditional, imperative approaches to programming.

Get Source for the Framework

Microsoft's releasing some .NET 3.5 Framework swag: deployment guidelines and the source code itself.

Bring Back the Archives

Been missing the old VBPJ archives? You're not the only one.

Access Non-.NET APIs with PInvoke

Use PInvoke to take advantage of Windows APIs that aren't part of the .NET Framework.

Blending Design

With integrated tools, how will designers work with your dev team?

Simple Asynchronous Downloads

No need to add external dependencies, or even call APIs, to easily grab online data.

Silverlight XAML Primer 12: Using Linear Keyframe Animations

Dan shows you how you can get more control over animations using keyframes in Silverlight apps.

Introducing Silverlight 2.0

Dan gives a rundown of the newest features and controls.

Skills.Equals(null)

Software development gone wrong.

ASP.NET MVC

Is the new MVC pattern right for you?

Silverlight XAML Primer 11: Getting Started with Animations

Dan walks you through using Silverlight to animate images and text, starting with Storyboard elements.

Silverlight XAML Primer 10: Creating a Silverlight Downloader Progress Bar

Jazz up your downloading process with this download bar in Silverlight.

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