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Here are some design patterns that allow you to achieve higher cohesion and looser coupling for more flexible, reusable applications.
Jeremy Miller
MSDN Magazine October 2008
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The MVP pattern helps you separate your logic and keep your UI layer free of clutter. This month learn how.
Jean-Paul Boodhoo
MSDN Magazine August 2006
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A Sidebar gadget is a powerful little too that's surprisingly easy to create. Get in on the fun with Donavon West.
Donavon West
MSDN Magazine August 2007
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Chris Tavares explains how the ASP.NET MVC Framework's Model View Controller pattern helps you build flexible, easily tested Web applications.
Chris Tavares
MSDN Magazine March 2008
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Now you can perform efficient, sophisticated text analysis using regular expressions in SQL Server 2005.
David Banister
MSDN Magazine February 2007
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Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build (better known as Team Build) is a core feature of Team Foundation Server 2008. Microsoft designed Team Build to be an industrial-strength build automation tool.
In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Brian A. Randell introduces you to Team Build 2008 and walks you through the process ...
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Silverlight provides a browser interoperability layer that allows managed code to access the document object model (DOM) of the underlying page. At the same time, JavaScript code running in the page can access the XAML content of the plug-in and even make modifications.
In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Dino Esposito discusses the ...
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So many factors can affect the performance of a Web page—the distance between server and client, the size of the elements on the page, how the browser loads these elements, available bandwidth. Finding those bottlenecks and identifying the culprits is no easy task.
In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Jim Pierson introduces ...
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Once you start adopting service-oriented principles for your distributed applications, you are crossing a security boundary for every service call you make. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides powerful facilities for implementing authorization in your services.
In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Dominick Baier and Christian Weyer explain how to use ...
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We're currently in the process of stepping back and taking a critical look at our Web site to see how you all are using it - and how we can redesign parts of it (big or small) to make that experience better. We are continuously receiving your feedback on existing frustrations and we are working hard to remedy those (as a general fyi, most of the frustrations have to do with navigation). However, in order to get a sense of whether we need to look at some of the more fundamental ...
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