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    Service Discovery Techniques Introduced in WCF 4.0

    WCF 4.0 introduces a couple of service discovery techniques that the client can use to discover services dynamically through client probing or service announcement. WCF 4.0 provides the ability of dynamic discovery, which allows the client to probe for the services or reversely the services can also announce their presence on the network. Read on to learn more.

    Creating a Tag Cloud for Your ASP.NET Blog

    Most blogs display a Tag Cloud that presents keywords in font sizes proportional to the number of blog posts having that tag. If you are building your own blog engine or website you will need to build the tag cloud on your own. This article shows how to do just that.

    Whatever Language You Speak...
    Whether you use Ruby, JavaScript, HTML5, ObjectiveC, Java, Python, or something else, you will want to join fellow developers on January 8th and 9th at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas for the 2012 AT&T; Developer Summit. If you are a mobile developer, then you'll want to check it out!

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    Multitasking for Microsoft Windows Phone

    Windows Phone Mango brought about the most anticipated feature in the platform, multitasking. In this article, we explore what that excitement is all about.

    Creating a Custom Output Cache Provider in ASP.NET 4

    ASP.NET 4 follows a provider model for output caching, which means you can now define a custom cache provider and plug it in using a configuration file. This article illustrates how such a custom output cache provider that stores cached output in disk files can be developed.

    Using Background Agents in your Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) Apps

    Windows Phone 7.5 supports the ability to execute scheduled tasks and background agents. In this article, we explore how we can use background agents in our Windows Phone Mango applications.

    Creating OData Entries in WCF Data Services

    To fully exploit Open Data Protocol (OData) with WCF Data Services there are classes and interfaces a .NET app must instantiate or implement. Using a sample WCF Data Services application, this article explains how to implement data creation on an OData Endpoint.

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    MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)

    The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.

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    .NET Framework: Collections and Generics

    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

    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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    Creating OData Entries in WCF Data Services

    To fully exploit Open Data Protocol (OData) with WCF Data Services there are classes and interfaces a .NET app must instantiate or implement. Using a sample WCF Data Services application, this article explains how to implement data creation on an OData Endpoint.

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    Looking Backwards: Next Generation Web Services

    It is New Year's Eve, which is a great time to look back. I recently had a discussion with a few people about an interesting topic. Have you heard of Next Generation Web Services (NGWS)? If you search for Next...

    What Tools are Developers Using?

    The Developer's Toolkit is an infographic that shows the top tools being used by developers. The information based in this infographic is based on a survey of 500 developers around the world that was conducted by BestVendor. More importantly, this...

    Windows 8 Developer Preview - Have You Downloaded It?

    At Microsoft Build, Microsoft released a developer preview of Windows 8. There are a variety of pre-beta downloads you can grab today if you want to check out the preview of Windows today. In addition to including the next version...

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