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Microsoft Updates Power Tools for Visual Studio
New releases add four extensions and patches some bugs.
Maximize Your Website's Search Engine Placement Using Microsoft's Free SEO Toolkit
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the practice of improving a website's position in search engines' results using unpaid techniques. The driver behind SEO is that a better (higher) position in the search results will, most likely, lead to more click throughs, increasing the website's visibility, audience, and profit. A previous article here on 4Guys, Search Engine Optimization Enhancements in ASP.NET 4, explored some of ASP.NET 4's new features designed to aid with SEO. Another helpful tool for SEO is Microsoft's SEO
Microsoft Switches Iron Languages to Apache License
The move could make IronPython and IronRuby more business- and developer-friendly.
Developing Applications for Microsoft Dynamics AX with X++ and the .NET Framework
CodeGuru explains how to customize Microsoft's ERP application.
Managing View State in ASP.NET 4 Using the New ViewStateMode Property
The ASP.NET Web Forms model strives to encapsulate the lower level complexities involved in building a web application. Features like server-side event handlers, the page lifecycle, and view state effectively blur the line between the client and the server, simplify state management, and free the developer from worrying about HTTP, requests and responses, and similar matters. While these facets of the Web Forms model allow for rapid application development and make ASP.NET more accessible to developers with a web application background, their behavior can impact your website's behavior and performance.View state is perhaps the most important - yet most misunderstood - feature of the Web Forms
Microsoft Visual Studio Power Tools Get Update
New improvements, features and big fixes are on tap for users of Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010.
Microsoft Ramping Up Windows Phone 7 Rollout
As it moves gears up for the holiday release of a new crop of mobile devices, Microsoft is accelerating the distribution of test copies of Windows Phone 7 handsets.
Puppet System Configuration Gets Bumped to 2.6
The popular, open source configuration management tool receives a handful of enhancements -- including basic Windows support -- while its backer, Puppet Labs, gets new financing.
Rackspace Teams With NASA in Cloud Play
Space agency and cloud player join forces in the OpenStack project, an effort to build an ecosystem around large-scale computing and storage services.
Will New PDK Attract Perl Developers?
An update to the Perl language has been out since April, but developers are slow to adopt it. Will a new kit change that?
Caching Oracle Data for ASP.NET Applications
Narayan Veeramani shows how ASP.NET developers can improve application performance by caching data stored in an Oracle database and keeping the cached data in sync with the data in the Oracle database.
The Perfect Service - Part 1
The first article in this two-part series shows how to get Ambrose Little's .NET Service Manager running and then how to add plug-n-play services to it using drag-n-drop or XCOPY.
Advanced UI Design Using XML and XSL
Joe Slovinski explains how to use XML and XSL to create a Web-based folder tree. Using XML and XSL makes this tree low maintenance and when transformed on the client can reduce load on your server.
Using Open Source .NET Tools for Sophisticated Builds
Building an application can be more than pressing F5. With an increasing number of quality packages being released, developers for the .NET platform now have options to create a very sophisticated build process. Aaron Junod describes a sample build environment and shows how a number of tools can work together to make reliable, predictable, and value-added builds.
Tracing in .NET and Implementing Your Own Trace Listeners
Mansoor Ahmed Siddiqui explains debugging and tracing and shows how to create custom trace listeners to help ensure hassle-free development.
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