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I'm featuring my own article... How to Become an MVP or MCC You're own article? Really? Yes, really. (And now I'm talking/writing to myself.) But I'm passionate about it, and it's been featured on the front page of TechNet and has received...

Today's featured article is BizTalk + WF/WCF, Better Together from Trace Young . Summary All versions of BizTalk Server use a publish/subscribe messaging engine architecture. In a publish/subscribe architecture, all messages that flow through...

Welcome to my TechNet Wiki article spotlight! Elevation of Privilege (abbreviated "EoP") is a card game developed by Adam Shostack with assistance from many patient Microsoft developers, and it is designed to provide a fun and educational introduction...

Today's featured TechNet Wiki article can be found here . It was originally authored by Larry Franks . =============== Which Edition of SQL Server Express to Use There are several editions of SQL Server Express, from a database only install to...

Today's featured TechNet Wiki article can be found here . It was originally authored by Larry Franks . =============== This page provides a listing of available resources for developers who are working with SQL Server. TechNet Wiki Introduction...

Today's featured TechNet Wiki article can be found here . It was originally authored by Larry Franks . =============== Intended audience : Application developers who are not familiar with Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) yet need more...

Today's featured TechNet Wiki article can be found here . It was originally authored by Larry Franks . =============== Intended audience : Web developers who are not familiar with SQL Server, yet want to learn how to use a SQL Server database with...

Are you a Business Intelligence Professional? Do you use technologies and tools like SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services), BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio), SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio), and SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools)? The SQL...

Today's featured TechNet Wiki article can be found here . It was originally authored by Larry Franks . =============== Intended audience : Web developers who are not familiar with SQL Server, yet want to learn how to use a SQL Server database...

Today's featured TechNet Wiki article can be found here . It was originally authored by Brian Wren . =============== The Visio Management Pack Designer is an add-in for Microsoft Visio 2010 that lets you quickly create management packs for Operations...

Today's featured TechNet Wiki article can be found here . It was originally authored by Mike McKeown . =============== AppFabric evolves the existing application server capabilities of Windows Server to make it easier to build, scale and manage...

Today's featured TechNet Wiki article can be found here . It was originally authored by Mike McKeown . =============== AppFabric General Development Q: What do I need to do to my WF or WCF applications to have then work in AppFabric? A: There...

What is ASP.NET MVC? ASP.NET MVC is a part of the ASP.NET Web application framework. It is one of the two different programming models you can use to create ASP.NET Web applications,the other being ASP.NET Web Forms. An MVC Application is...

Technologies Here are the MSDN Forums listed by technology and in alphabetical order: .NET .NET Compact Framework ADO.NET - Managed Providers DataSet Entity Framework & LINQ to Entities ASP.NET BizTalk Server Commerce Server DevLabs Axum...

Today's featured TechNet Wiki article can be found here . It was originally authored by Luigi Bruno . =============== .NET General Debugging Microsoft® .NET 2.0 Applications, 3rd Edition John Robbins - Microsoft Press, November 2006 ...

Today's featured TechNet Wiki article can be found here . It was originally authored by Steve Danielson . =============== Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) provides a programming model, in-process workflow engine and rehostable designer to implement...

Today's featured TechNet Wiki article can be found here . It was originally authored by Tord Nordahl . BizTalk host throttling and host threshold, is a scary topic. It is vital to know these settings if you are working with BizTalk. Knowing the uses...

This is Day 7 of 30 Days of Integrated Assistance . Rush hour Have you ever noticed that when you do something regularly, you develop a pattern? Yeah, I know, I’m a genius, but think about it. You build habits and routines. You take...

This is Day 6 of 30 Days of Integrated Assistance . Confusion is a good thing. I look for it and ask people about it whenever I see it. If I can identify what the confusion or mistake is, then I can identify a solution. Sure, confusion means there’s...

This is Day 5 of 30 Days of Integrated Assistance . This is the third part of my discussion on Solicited and Sought Content. We went through Solicited Content (remember Clippy? now forget him) and Sought Content (RTFM – read the fascinating...

This is Day 4 of 30 Days of Integrated Assistance . The customer must be able to seek and find content at any time. Providing customers with the basics of what they require is the least that we can do. It doesn’t have to be a ton of content....

This is Day 3 of 30 Days of Integrated Assistance . So now that we’ve established that no help is the best kind and that your elevator is a labyrinth of Integrated Assistance solutions (IAS), I’d like to divide the types of IAS and Help...

This is Day 1 of 30 Days of Integrated Assistance . The best Help that users can have... is none : It’s a better user experience if users never have to use Help . While that is ultimately impossible, the degree to which that is true can always...

This is Day 2 of 30 Days of Integrated Assistance . Ingegrated Assistance is not unique to software. The more we see it in everything around us, the easier it is for us to automatically implement it into our user interface (UI) designs. For example...

Here are 30 days of Integrated Assistance, one day at a time. Why 30 days? 1. The best help is NO HELP!!! 2. IA and... your elevator 3. Solicited Content 4. Sought Content 5. Solicited and Sought Content...