Guide to Browser Security and Safe Web Browsing
Ensuring a safe web browsing experience is a key part of any effective Internet security strategy. Are you up-to-date on the latest browser vulnerabilities, security add-ons, and best practices? Download this Internet.com eBook to learn which browser offers the best security, how to extend your browser's security capabilities, and how to stay clear of the top web malware threats.

Windows Phone 7 Quick Start Developer Guide
If you have already developed for other mobile platforms you probably don't want to ignore Windows Phone 7. Or maybe you haven't developed for mobile devices yet but would like to start with the Windows Phone. Either way, this eBook is for you.

40 Ways to Make Your Data Center More Efficient
Managing a collection of computer systems is no easy task. But, through better management and proper planning even the most inefficient data center can change its ways. Download this eBook for 40 steps you can take to the most out of your data center and its employees.

Solving Storage for Your SMB
Many Storage solutions are aimed at large enterprises and are designed to address their concerns surrounding infomation lifecycle management and corporate compliance. But small and medium-sized businesses have storage concerns of their own. Download this Internet.com eBook for a guide to choosing a storage server and building a storage strategy for your SMB.

Exploring the Private Cloud for Your Organization
One of the ways around the issues of security and control that make some businesses wary of cloud computing is to build a private cloud -- one that remains within the corporate firewall and is wholly controlled internally. Private clouds also increase the agility of IT an organization's IT infrastructure and make it easier to roll out new technology projects. Download this eBook to get the facts behind the private cloud and learn how your organization can get started.

Understanding the Windows Azure Blob Service
Windows Azure provides a variety of storage services. In this article, we will learn more about the Windows Azure Blob service.

Integrating Facebook Login with your Website
The most common approach of website authentication is to store membership information into a database and validate users based on their user names and passwords. Bipin Joshi shows you how to use Facebook Helper for WebMatrix to integrate your website authentication with Facebook instead.

Creating Your Own NuGet Package
NuGet is a free, open source package management system for .NET applications. The primary goal of NuGet is to help developers simplify the process of incorporating third party libraries into their .NET applications. This step-by-step article shows what it takes to create your own NuGet package.

Microsoft Won't Stop in 'Albany' After April
Microsoft kills off its subscription Office and OneCare service and gives users two and a half months before Office subscriptions self-destruct.

Will Windows 7 Be a PC Mover?
Microsoft and its PC partners hope Windows 7 can drive PC sales, even in a down economy.

Windows 7's Worst-Kept Secret? Its Release Date
Redmond sticks to its 'by early 2010' mantra but leaks to a tech enthusiast site point to a much earlier ship date for Vista's replacement

Microsoft Looks to 'Elevate America'
The software giant says its initiative of technology training tools and resources could help millions of people in their quest to find a better job.

Microsoft Proposes a More Secure Browser
A secure browser and self-contained OS is Microsoft's answer to the common security problems that bedevil Internet Explorer.

Understanding the Task Parallel Library IProducerConsumerCollection
A substantial number of Task Parallel Library (TPL) Concurrent collections implement IProducerConsumerCollection. Jeffrey Juday explains the scenarios and mechanisms around implementing IProducerConsumerCollections.

Introduction to Entity Framework Code First
Entity Framework (EF) allows you to program against a model, creating models directly at code level. This approach is referred to as Code First because you focus on the source code of the model classes first and let Code First generate the database tables out of those model classes.

Understanding JavaScript Web Workers
Microsoft's recent Windows 8 announcement makes HTML5 and anything HTML5/JavaScript related an important subject for any Windows developer. To most developers HTML is a "tag" based user-interface specification. However, HTML5 is more than just new "tags". Yoked to, but separate from the HTML5 specification is a specification defining background running scripts called Web Workers.

Scaffolding in ASP.NET MVC
Scaffolding involves creating base templates for code or markup of project items through an automated method. In this article Bipin Joshi explains the basics of using the MvcScaffolding package to generate a CRUD interface for a database table.

Advanced Task Parallel Library Continuations
Learn how to build Task Parallel Library Continuation with multiple Antecedents.

Building LightSwitch Extensions Part 1
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch version 1.0 is targeted at quickly creating useful line-of-business applications, but it is quite capable of doing much more. The key to rapid development centers around accessing data and presenting it to the user on template-driven screens. Read on to learn more.

Timers and the Task Parallel Library TaskCompletionSource
Developers typically choose a Timer to have an application perform a concurrent background process after some elapsed interval. Wouldn't it be nice to couple results and Timer control in a single class? Task Parallel Library (TPL) includes a class called TaskCompletionSource that enables this scenario.

Auto-detect CSV Separator
CSV files use various characters, such as <,>, <;>, <\t> as separators. It is hard to build a generic CSV reader when the separator is unknown. This article gives one possible solution for how to figure out which character is used as a separator in CSV file.

DataBinding in Silverlight
Silverlight is the application framework that allows us to create apps that provide rich interaction in a web environment. One of the most important concepts in this technology that one must clearly understand is Databinding. This article will explain the composition, creation and inner workings of databinding in Silverlight.

Connecting Azure Services Using Windows Azure Connect
Windows Azure Connect allows Azure developers to enable IP-level network connectivity between Azure services and external resources. This article discusses how you can go around using Windows Azure Connect to create a virtual network of all our computing assets.

HTML5 Isn't Replacing the Windows Client Any Time Soon
Early previews of Windows 8 have caused quite a stir in the developer community due to the emphasis on HTML5 and JavaScript as the "primary" way for building new apps for the Windows 8 platform. At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference there was a slightly different picture presented.

Using Microsoft SQL Azure Reporting to Present Your Data
Microsoft SQL Azure Reporting is a cloud-based reporting platform which can work with SQL Azure. This article walks you through how use SQL Azure Reporting to present your cloud-hosted data.