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What's new in Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory?

By Kathryn Barrett
April 21, 2009 | Comments: 1
What's new in Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory?
Bring your Active Directory questions and come learn what's new in Active Directory for Windows Server 2008 R2. In this free webcast, taking place Friday, April 24, Active Directory MVPs and authors Brian Desmond (Active Directory, 4th Edition) and Laura E. Hunter (Active Directory Cookbook, 3rd Edition) discuss exciting new features in R2 for AD including the AD Recycle Bin, AD PowerShell, the Active Directory Administrative Center, Managed Service Accounts, and more. They'll reserve half of the event time to answer questions about the presentation and Active Directory in general, so this is your chance to get the answers you need. Register now!

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Getting Started with Silverlight 2

By Kathryn Barrett
February 17, 2009
Getting Started with Silverlight 2
You've learned how Silverlight can produce stylish interfaces and highly interactive applications in a variety of browsers, and now you want to build a Silverlight application. Not just a bouncing ball, an embedded video, or a spiffy-looking series of buttons, but a walking, talking, fully functional line-of-business application. Of course, you still want the snazzy interface, too. The good news is that you can have it all with Silverlight 2. The following excerpt is from John Papa's new book, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2.

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Introducting the ADO.NET Entity Framework

By Kathryn Barrett
February 13, 2009 | Comments: 4
Introducting the ADO.NET Entity Framework
Julia Lerman, the leading independent authority on Microsoft's Entity Framework, claims that this technology changes the game for .NET developers so that they no longer have to be concerned with the details of the data store as they write their applications. Now they can focus on the task of writing the applications, rather than accessing the date. The following is an excerpt from Programming Entity Framework, in which Julia introduces the technology and explains the concept of programming against a model, not against the database.

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Juval Lowy explains Service-Orientation

By Kathryn Barrett
November 18, 2008 | Comments: 2
Juval Lowy explains Service-Orientation
Juval Lowy's Programming WCF Services is considered to be the most definitive treatment of Microsoft's WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) available. In it, Juval provides both the guidance and insight needed to master the skills for building maintainable, extensible, and reusable WCF-based applications. Juval's talent as a teacher—that for tackling vast subjects and making them easy to learn—comes through especially well in this appendix from his book: An Introduction to Service-Orientation. These days, there's no avoiding the phrase "service-oriented," but few people can explain what it means and why it's so important. Juval gets to the heart of the matter in this excerpt.

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Relational Database Technology: A Crash Course

By Kathryn Barrett
November 6, 2008 | Comments: 4
Relational Database Technology: A Crash Course
The following is an excerpt from the newly released Programming ASP.NET 3.5 by Jesse Liberty, Dan Maharry, and Dan Hurwitz. According to them, ASP.NET 3.5 is possibly the fastest, most efficient, most reliable, and best-supported way to create interactive web applications today. Combined with the development tools available from Microsoft (both free and commercial), it is incredibly easy to create websites that look great and perform well.

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