July 2009

Silverlight: Composite Web Apps With Prism

This article reviews the Prism project developed by the Microsoft patterns & practices group and demonstrates how to apply it to composite Web applications using Silverlight. Shawn Wildermuth

RESTful XHTML: RESTful Services With ASP.NET MVC

This article describes how to use XHTML and ASP.NET MVC to implement REST services. Aaron Skonnard

Scale Out: Distributed Caching On The Path To Scalability

Developers frequently face issues related to scalability bottlenecks when they have applications that need to handle a lot of load. This article describes the role of a distributed cache in building scalable applications. Iqbal Khan

Inside Windows 7: Introducing The Taskbar APIs

This is Part 2 of a multipart article series on Windows 7. The focus of Part 2 is the Windows 7 taskbar. Yochay Kiriaty & Sasha Goldshtein

Testable MVC: Building Testable ASP.NET MVC Applications

Justin Etheredge

Columns

Editor's Note: Viva la Evolution! It's interesting to see how far the pendulum has swung in terms of the fundamental problems related to content and the Web. Not too long ago, the major challenge was making content available. Howard Dierking	Toolbox: Static Analysis Database Tools, Managing Remote Computers, And More If you want to apply static analysis to your databases, connect to remote computers, find out more about the Entity Framework, or just check into some cool podcasts for your daily commute, then you'll want to read more about these latest tools and resources. Scott Mitchell	Usability in Practice: Usability Testing This month's column describes the benefits and methodologies of usability testing. Dr. Charles B. Kreitzberg and Ambrose Little
CLR Inside Out: Building Tuple In this column, the author lays out some guiding principles that you should follow when working with the ASP.NET MVC framework. Matt Ellis	Basic Instincts: Stay Error Free With Error Corrections Error corrections are an essential part of the Visual Basic coding experience. This article explores the many error correction features offered by Visual Basic and provides a glimpse at the future release of Visual Studio 2010. Dustin Campbell	Cutting Edge: Comparing Web Forms And ASP.NET MVC In this month's column, we’ll explore the pros and cons of both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC. Dino Esposito
Test Run: Request-Response Testing With F# This month we show you how to use F# to perform HTTP request-response testing for ASP.NET Web applications. James McCaffrey	Service Station: More On REST This month's column answers frequently asked questions about implementing REST. Jon Flanders	Extreme ASP.NET: Guiding Principles For Your ASP.NET MVC Applications In this column, the author lays out some guiding principles that you should follow when working with the ASP.NET MVC framework. Scott Allen
Wicked Code: Taking Silverlight Deep Zoom To The Next Level With the help of Silverlight Deep Zoom and a remarkable control named MultiScaleImage, you can create scenes with many levels of zoom. Jeff Prosise illustrates with what else but the Mandlebrot set. Jeff Prosise	Foundations: Securing The .NET Service Bus This column shows you how to secure the .NET Services Bus and also provides some helper classes and utilities to automate many of the details. Juval Lowy