March 2011

Editor's Note:
How to Get Rejected
A guide to not getting published in MSDN Magazine.
Keith Ward

Don't Get Me Started:
Missing the (Power) Point
It’s time to start licensing PowerPoint users until they learn the true point of the program.
David Platt

Test Run:
Diffusion Testing
The doctor prescribes a little-known technique that—under the right circumstances—lets you automatically generate new test case data from existing test cases that yield a pass result, saving time and work.
James McCaffrey

UI Frontiers:
Touch Gestures on Windows Phone
Charles this month takes a look at multi-touch APIs and delves into the workings of the new gesture support in the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit.
Charles Petzold

Cutting Edge:
Application Extensibility: MEF vs. IoC
You can create extensible apps using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), which is built right into the .NET Framework 4. We'll walk through an example to compare plug-in implementations using both MEF and Inversion of Control frameworks.
Dino Esposito

Forecast: Cloudy:
Cloud Services Mashup
Learn how to combine multiple cloud services into a single app, taking advantage of services offered by Windows Azure, Windows Azure Access Control, Bing Maps and Facebook.
Joseph Fultz

Toolbox:
Data Integration Tools and Resources
Data integration is the cornerstone of many apps these days, which means you’ll need to add database expert to the many hats you wear. Or maybe not. We’ll show you some handy tools and resources for maximizing data access while minimizing muss and fuss.
Terrence Dorsey

Data Points:
Server-Side Paging with the Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC 3
You don't always need to get huge amounts of data with your database queries. See how Julie Lerman uses new features of ASP.NET MVC 3 and Entity Framework to perform efficient server-side paging when you don't need to return those big data payloads.
Julie Lerman

Mobile Matters
Windows Phone Navigation: The Basics
In the first installment of our new monthly column focusing on Windows Phone 7 development, we present the basics of the page navigation model, best practices to get the most out of the current APIs and some actionable, easy-to-follow recipes to create complex navigations not implemented with those APIs.
Jaime Rodriguez and Yochay Kiriaty

The Working Programmer:
Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 6: Reflective Metaprogramming
Code generation can simplify many programming tasks, but harnessing reflection gives you an entirely new kind of variability. Now names can refer to elements within the program at a much later time than the compiler traditionally permits. We'll show you how it works.
Ted Neward