Whether you’re a developer or an IT pro – or maybe your job involves a little of both – security is an ever-present concern. The June 2008 issue of our sister publication, TechNet Magazine , is focused on security issues. While I recommend reading the...

The June 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. Here's what's in the issue: SAAS: Connect Enterprise Apps with Hosted BizTalk Services – We introduce you to BizTalk Services, new technology that offers the Enterprise Service Bus features...

Because SharePoint provides a complex and sophisticated application platform, deployment can present some puzzles to the uninitiated. In the May 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , we will show you how to automate custom SharePoint application deployments by...

Building a document-level Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) customization and integrating it with custom SharePoint content types allows you to leverage the rich user functionality of the Office platform on the client while seamlessly extending data...

Workflows in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) can be modeled in several ways, and this flexibility is a powerful feature that allows for modeling tools that target different audiences. In the May 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Matt Milner explains two...

In the May 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Jeff Prosise demonstrates a general-purpose page-turning framework for Silverlight that makes it incredibly simple to incorporate page turns into your applications with just a few lines of JavaScript. Be sure to...

The May 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. Our May issue starts with a focus on developing Office-based business applications based on SharePoint. We also delve into the details of development language by delving into new features for...

In the March 2008 installment of our Extreme ASP.NET column, Fritz Onion introduced to the ASP.NET 3.5 ListView control, which provides more control over generated markup, support for paging, and full integration with the data source-based binding model...

The need to test a program that accesses and manipulates a back-end SQL Server database is very common. In many such cases, the application interacts with the back-end data through the use of SQL stored procedures. In the April 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine...

The Microsoft Office platform allows you to maintain both standard and custom properties for documents. Document Information Panels, however, let you implement additional functionality such as metadata-based search and automation of information-driven...

Going Places is a new MSDN Magazine column devoted to mobile device development. The main focus will be on Windows Mobile phones and Tablet PCs, although any topic related to mobility is fair game. In the April 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Mike Calligaro...

Silverlight is a new cross-browser plug-in from Microsoft that brings the power of the .NET Framework to bear on an area that was previously reserved for Flash or Java Applets. Silverlight also supports a range of .NET-compliant languages, including Visual...

Performance problems can creep into your ASP.NET app as it scales up, and when they do, you need to determine what the actual problem is and find the best strategies to address it. In the April 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Richard Campbell and Kent Alstad...

One of our editorial counterparts over in MSDN, Mitch Irsfeld, the Managing Editor of the U.S. MSDN Flash and TechNet Flash newsletters, visited Imagine 2008 and reported back on what the computer industry is doing to promote the principles of environmental...