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Here we describe some of the more common challenges to concurrent programming and present advice for coping with them in your software.
By Joe Duffy (October 2008)
Here the author introduces SQL Server Data Services, which exposes its functionality over standard Web service interfaces.
By David Robinson (July 2008)
Here we present a rundown of the various language paradigms of CLR-based languages via short language introductions and code samples.
By Joel Pobar (May 2008)
Here is an ASP.NET AJAX data-driven Web application that takes the best features from server- and client-side programming to deliver an efficient, user-friendly experience.
By Bertrand Le Roy (October 2008)
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Multicore systems are becoming increasingly prevalent, but the majority of software today will not automatically take advantage of this additional processing ability. And multithreaded programming, for anything but the most trivial of systems, is incredibly difficult and error prone today. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN ...
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Concurrent programming is notoriously difficult, even for experts. You have all of the correctness and security challenges of sequential programs plus all of the difficulties of parallelism and concurrent access to shared resources. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, David Callahan describes ...
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A major advantage of AJAX and Silverlight applications is that they can transparently and continuously interact with a back-end service. The problem is that they run over HTTP, which wasn't designed with security in mind. In the September 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Dino Esposito shows you ...
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Unhandled exception processing shouldn't be a mystery. It's actually quite useful since it gives a crashing application an opportunity to perform last-minute diagnostic logging about what went wrong. In the September 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Gaurav Khanna discusses how ...
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Silverlight 2 data-binding features are simple to implement and let your apps communicate via WCF services with line-of-business applications, databases, and other services in your organization. In the September 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, John Papa demonstrate how to build a ...
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The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team recently released details of the SDL process at microsoft.com/sdl. What you won't find in the publicly available SDL documentation is guidance specific to securing Web applications or online services. In the September 2008 issue of MSDN ...
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