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Article :: Debugging Tools for Windows: SOSEX Is Now CLR 4.0 Ready

With the advent of CLR 4.0, Steve Johnson has not only updated his SOSEX debugger extension to work on the new version of the CLR but also added a bunch of new and useful commands. Mario Hewardt details some of these new commands and how they work in relationship to a faulty application.

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Article :: Jumping in with Both Feet: A Visual Basic 2010 Programming Tour

New to programming and Visual Basic? James Foxall offers a quick tour of Visual Basic that takes you step by step through creating a complete, albeit small, Visual Basic program.

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Article :: Practical Code Generation in .NET: Generating a Connection String Manager

Peter Vogel walks you through an end-to-end solution for code generation that concentrates on integrating with Visual Studio and working with the CodeElement objects.

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Article :: The Visual Studio IDE

Mike Snell and Lars Powers cover the basics of Visual Studio installation; configuration; booting up the IDE; and getting to know the layout of the tool in terms of projects, menus, tools, editors, and designers.

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Article :: Debugging Tools for Windows: The psscor2 Managed Code Debugger Extension

Microsoft very recently decided to release a very commonly used debugger extension to the public called psscor2. Mario Hewardt takes a look at some of the powerful commands that are available as part of the psscor2 debugger extension.

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Article :: Understanding Classes and Objects the C# Way

This chapter teaches the basics of both object-oriented and component-oriented programming, moving on to creating a class in C# and examining how it fulfills the goals of object-oriented and component-oriented programming.

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Article :: Building Dynamic Systems with Expressions in .NET

The Expression API and the capabilities of the DLR lower the barriers to entry for creating systems where code and algorithms are created at runtime. Bill Wagner, author of Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition, shows how to use the Expression API and dynamic runtime support to build dynamic systems based on the data in your application.

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Article :: How to Build a Strong Virtual Team

Karen N. Johnson provides valuable advice for establishing and maintaining virtual relationships with team members. Using senses other than just your sight, paying attention to subtle clues, and putting in a little extra effort to be available when needed can help you to build a strong team that works together even when they're physically separated.

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Article :: The Design of Design: Exemplars in Design

Few designs are all-new. Usually, even novel designs derive from earlier artifacts intended for similar purposes and built with similar technology. What then is the proper role of exemplars, precedents, in design? How should the designer study and use them? Should each design domain develop an accessible cumulative store of exemplars? Frederick P. Brooks considers these questions in this excerpt from his book, The Design of Design.

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Article :: Introduction to SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010

This chapter helps you create your first SharePoint solution by introducing you to some of the projects, project item templates, and tools that are in Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint development.

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Article :: Improve Your Testing and Your Testers with Paired Testing

Have you ever had testers on your team whose knowledge and skill sets were complementary, and wondered how you could encourage them to exchange and collaborate so that they could both increase their skills? Author Karen Johnson shows a different approach to testing and some of the advantages of pairing testers.

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Article :: Windows Parallelism, Fast File Searching, and Speculative Processing

Johnson (John) M. Hart, author of Windows System Programming, shows how to speed up simple file comparison by a factor of 10 or more, using parallelism with speculative processing, combined with memory-mapped files. These techniques work just as well in Linux/UNIX, and they can be extended to parallelize and speed up other file and data stream computations.

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Article :: A Glitch in Time Saves Nine

Whether you're a car manufacturer or a state tax agency, software glitches can have extensive — and expensive — repercussions. In this article, Jeff Papows, President and CEO of WebLayers, explains that proper IT governance can prevent many of these problems.

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