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    Working with WCF RIA Services

    By Joydip Kanjilal
      -  Published 11/18/2011

    Learn how WCF RIA Services can be used in conjunction with Silverlight to access server objects easily using reflection.

    How to Write World Ready Windows Phone Applications

    By Vipul Patel
      -  Published 11/16/2011

    Today's app user base isn't restricted to just one region. In this article, we walk through the platform support available for developers targeting Windows Phone to develop world ready Windows Phone applications.

    [Updated] Tracing in .NET and Implementing Your Own Trace Listeners

    By 15Seconds.com
      -  Published 11/15/2011

    Mansoor Ahmed Siddiqui explains debugging and tracing and shows how to create custom trace listeners to help ensure hassle-free development.

    [Updated] A Step-by-Step Guide To Using MySQL with ASP.NET - Part 1

    By 15Seconds.com
      -  Published 11/15/2011

    Back in the days of classic ASP, if you were building a database-driven web site, your choice was either to invest a lot of money to get a copy of Microsoft SQL Server (or some other enterprise-ready database) or invest a lot of time finding a way to deal with the performance and scalability limitations of Microsoft Access. Luckily these days there's another viable alternative: MySQL.

    [Updated] Web Application Error Handling in ASP.NET

    By 15Seconds.com
      -  Published 11/15/2011

    One of many improvements ASP.NET brings to the development table is in error handling. Adam Tuliper whips up a simple ASP.NET solution for handling those pesky and unexpected post-production errors.

    [Updated] Introducing .NET Generics

    By 15Seconds.com
      -  Published 11/15/2011

    Generics is new feature in .NET v2.0. This article explains Generics, shows how to create them, and includes some simple examples of where they could be useful.

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    Faster Microsoft C++ Programming With The MFC Class Wizard

    By Nick Wienholt
    | Article Published 02/23/2011

    During the glory days of MFC and ATL in the 1990s and early 2000s, The Visual C++ class wizard was a highly-used and useful IDE tool that simplified life for developers. The re-introduction of the class wizard, after the absence of a decade, demonstrates commitment to the 'glory day's' ideal and adds simplicity to class management tasks inside the IDE.

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    .NET NUTS & BOLTS
    .NET Framework: Collections and Generics
    By Mark Strawmyer
    | Article Published 06/23/2011

    The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...

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    Input and Output with VB.NET 2010
    By Paul Ferrill
    | Article Published 06/08/2011

    The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.

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    WCF Data Services Providers
    By Jeffrey Juday
    | Article Published 10/28/2011

    OData's simplicity and common underlying Web standards have made it a popular Data protocol in the Microsoft stack. WCF Data Services includes several Providers that surface OData from .NET classes.

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    Touch Screen without a Touchable Screen

    A larger clickpad could make it possible to use multi-touch without having a multi-touch screen. This embedded video below shows the Synaptics ClickPad experience on Windows 8. In many scenarios, this approach makes a lot more sense than touching the...

    Is Windows 8 Apple's Chance?

    I wrote most of this blog entry prior to the news of Steve Job's passing and thus held off posting it. Jobs made a huge impact on the computing industry and his impact will continue to be felt for a...

    Drop In for some Android Development

    We have launched a new area on Developer.com. Our Android Development Center is now live. Check it out at http://www.developer.com/ws/android.  Let us know if you like what we've done....

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