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Getting Started with Silverlight

Dan starts a new series of columns on Silverlight 1.0 by walking you through the fundamentals.

Express Your Designs Clearly

Your code is the expression of your design intent -- make sure you communicate clearly.

CodeGear RAD Studio 2007

New RAD environment for Windows released. Plus Code Rush and Refractor! Pro 2.5, and Dotfuscator Professional 4.1.

Enable the Application Framework in VB

Learn what enabling the application framework in VB actually does and what an invariant culture is and how you take advantage of it.

Hands-On Product Report: Altova XMLSpy 2007

Visual Studio Magazine reviews Altova XMLSpy 2007 Release 3.

Using Microsoft's Silverlight Control in a Web Site

Dan Wahlin walks you through the steps and code for creating a Silverlight application from scratch.

Hands-On Product Review: WebUI Studio.NET 2007

A close look at Intersoft Solutions Corp.’s WebUI Studio.NET 2007

SOA Quick Start

Expose your business tasks as services.

Vista Versus VB

Microsoft's pledge to support the VB 6.0 runtime via Vista may not be as promising as it seems -- here's what you really need to know.

Consuming Remote Web Services with ASP.NET AJAX

Notice that ScriptManager can't generate a client-side proxy object that can be used to call the remote service? Dan shows you the workaround.

VSM 2.0: The Redesign

Our magazine has a new look.

Accessing User Profiles with ASP.NET AJAX

Using AJAX to personalize your Web sites.

Simplify Background Threads

It requires a lot of plumbing to create, manage, and communicate with background threads. The System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker class already contains the functionality you need to follow best practices.

Serialize Data to the Clipboard

Learn how to copy all the custom data formats in objects to the clipboard and determine which ones are appropriate when you paste.

OpenDocument Format

The Open XML-encoded file format that competes with Microsoft's Office Open XML.

Authenticating Users with ASP.NET AJAX

Dan walks you through configuring this method as well as walks you through all the parameters.

VS 2008 Beta 2 Debuts

Get the latest downloads related to Visual Studio 2008 (formerly Orcas).

September 2007 Letters

The increasing complexity of software design shouldn't take anyone by surprise.

Creating and Consuming ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods

Using Page Methods when adding the ScriptService attribute is overkill for a single page -- find out how to add the functionality directly using AJAX.

Consuming Web Services with ASP.NET AJAX

Leverage .NET Web services using the ScriptServiceAttribute through the ScriptManager control.

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