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Article :: Code Contracts in .NET 4.0

Code contracts in .NET 4 provide a language-agnostic way to describe the contract of a method or class using pre-conditions, post-conditions, and invariants. .NET expert Scott Dorman shows how code contracts, when used in combination with the code contracts tools, can be used to improve testing through runtime checking, perform static contract verification, and produce documentation based on expanded XML documentation comments.

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Article :: ASP.NET 4 Unleashed: An Interview with Kevin Hoffman and Nate Dudek

Eric Vogel interviews Kevin Hoffman and Nate Dudek, two of the co-authors of ASP.NET 4 Unleashed. Kevin and Nate talk about why you should upgrade to ASP.NET 4, their opinion on the Update Panel, and what HTML5 will bring to the table.

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Article :: All Systems Are Go: An Interview with Rob Pike, the Co-developer of Google's Go Programming Language

Danny Kalev talks with Rob Pike, the co-developer of Google's new Go programming language. In this interview, Pike speaks about the limitations of C++ in large-scale projects, the design philosophy of Go and its unusual type-system, and Go's future.

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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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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 :: Interview with Andrei Alexandrescu (Part 1 of 3)

In part 1 of this three-part series, Eric Niebler talks with his pal and fellow InformIT contributor Andrei Alexandrescu about the D programming language and Andrei's new book about it: what makes D different from other languages, whether D's class libraries rival those of Java and .NET, and why Andrei claims not to be a guru.

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Article :: Domain-Specific Languages: An Introductory Example

In this excerpt from his book, Domain-Specific Languages, Martin Fowler offers a concrete example to demonstrate the different forms a DSL can take.

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Article :: Scrum, Agile Practices, and Visual Studio

This chapter covers the characteristics of software engineering and management practices, the "situationally specific" contexts to consider, and the examples that you can apply in Visual Studio (VS). In this chapter, you learn about the mechanisms that VS (primarily Team Foundation Server [TFS]) provides to support the team enacting the process.

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Article :: Events in XAML-Based Applications

Matteo Slaviero explores how events management in XAML-based applications changes due to Binding technology and the MVVM pattern. Learn how to work with the ICommand interface, RoutedUICommands, and Triggers.

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Article :: Introduction to Classes, Objects, Methods and Strings in Visual C# 2010

In this chapter, the authors begin by explaining the concept of classes using a real-world example. Then they present five complete working applications to demonstrate how to create and use your own classes.

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Article :: Get Started Using ASP.NET MVC for Your .NET Applications

Programming expert Jesse Smith shows you the easy way to get started with the popular ASP.NET MVC framework. Learn how to build a simple "Hello World" application with ASP.NET MVC in only a few steps.

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Article :: Interview with Andrei Alexandrescu (Part 3 of 3)

Eric Niebler and Andrei Alexandrescu conclude their conversation about the D programming language by discussing concurrency, the complications of sharing data, dynamic loading, specification and licensing, and the future of D.

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Article :: Introduction to C# Applications

In this chapter you'll learn some C# basics, including how to write simple C# applications using code rather than visual programming, write input/output statements, declare and use data of various types, use arithmetic operators, use message dialogs to display messages, and more.

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Article :: Windows Phone 7 for iPhone Developers: Object-Oriented Programming

This chapter covers some of the core concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) and how they apply to both iPhone and Windows Phone 7 programming.

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Article :: Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010: Planning Your Testing

In this chapter from Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010, Jeff Levinson covers how to create a Test Plan with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and the various options that the Test Plan provides to you. More important, this chapter covers what to test and how to get involved as a tester early in the development process.

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Article :: Automate Tedious Debugging Tasks Using Debug Analyzer.NET

Today there are mechanisms to automate debugging tasks via custom native debugger scripts or even VB script. Unfortunately, these approaches force us to learn new technologies instead of leveraging what we already know. Mario Hewardt, author of Advanced .NET Debugging, shows you how Debug Analyzer.NET is the solution to that problem by providing a comprehensive set of Debugger .NET APIs as well as a harness with powerful debugger automation features.

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