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Discover this simple way to start using Microsoft Azure tables for data storage.

At Microsoft's CEO Summit 2010, CEO Steve Ballmer tells many of the world's most influential business leaders that the future lies in "the cloud."

This article examines language enhancements added to the Visual Basic programming language with the release of Visual Basic 2010.

Windows Azure Diagnostics is geared to help you with the challenges of gathering and analyzing the diagnostic data you need from the variety of machines in a distributed system. Read on to learn more.

Learn about the new database development features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Interested in learning more about the ASP.NET MVC Framework? Jason Gilmore highlights ten great CodePlex projects in this ASP.NET tutorial which will provide you with all of the source code you need to start learning fast.

VB2010 supports Sub routine Lambda expressions and multiline expressions, read on to see how to define these little method packages.

Curtis Dicken sifts through ASP.NET controls to help ASP.NET Developers decide how to fill their programming toolbox.

ASP.NET Developer, Scott Mitchell, shows how to use the open source Twitterizer project to integrate Twitter into an ASP.NET website.

Debugging ASP.NET AJAX applications is a challenge because they contain both server-side and client-side code. Use this ASP.NET tutorial to get some helpful tips for using debugging and tracing in ASP.NET AJAX applications.

This article, by Scott Mitchell, shows how to store (and load) the data generated by the Microsoft Chart Controls to disk or some other store.

February 1 was the date the company had named to begin charging for Azure services.

This article by Jeff Niblack debscribes how to build a component in Visual Basic that executes FTP commands. He demonstrates how to build the component with the WinInet functions provided by Internet Explorer using Visual Basic as a itermenderary between the COM interface and WinInet.

This article by Rolando Lopez describes how to build a TCP/IP component in Visual Basic that you can use to connect to another machine and exchange data. He builds the component using Visual Basic and gives some examples of calling the component from ASP. Source code is included.

Remie Bolte begins his series on developing .NET SMTP and POP3 e-mail components for an outlook express look-alike Web-based e-mail application. This article provides a thorough overview of the SMTP RFC.

The file system object (FSO) is a wonderful tool that few web developers know about. You can do nearly anything with the FSO, from making databases, to message boards, to content management. The FSO is an essential block in an ASP developer's foundation. We'll discuss the basic operations of the FSO here, along with some examples on creating a guestbook, and some more complex features.

Discuss approaches to determine if an HTTP request is coming from a mobile phone and then redirecting the request to a page optimized for a mobile browser. Also it shows how to retrieve mobile device capabilities information.

Using skins and themes make it much easier to quickly, uniformly, and easily change the way web application looks.

This is the first article in the 'Facelift to Forms' series. Discover various options to make beautiful, easy to implement and easy to use web forms.

Obtain client-specific information from your Web application using ActiveX, which only works with Internet Explorer and browsers that have ActiveX extensions.

Providing a drop down list in your ASP.NET Web applications help users avoid wasting time with bad data and it's a kinder, gentler thing to do.

Discover how to render an image directly from a database using an IHttpHandler and how to modify the image on its way to the client using GDI+.

Respond to every HTTP request. Just implement event handlers or an IHttpModule (which is a cool way to write a re-deployable solution for multiple projects).

The security-hole testing that hackers engage results in a sparring match where security-conscious companies like Microsoft are forced to—well, make life harder on the rest of us.