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October 2008 - Posts

Security Development Lifecycle for Agile Development

The concept of Agile security does not have to be a contradiction in terms. The Microsoft SDL team has defined a set of process improvements that increase security focus while respecting the need to release new code on an ultra-short timeline. In the Read More...
Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Service Station: Authorization In WCF-Based Services

Once you start adopting service-oriented principles for your distributed applications, you are crossing a security boundary for every service call you make. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides powerful facilities for implementing authorization Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:49 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Building Concurrent Apps with F#

One stumbling block that developers encounter with asynchronous programming is that they become so concerned with getting concurrency right that they forget the core simplicity of the program. F# lets you separate simple programs from the concurrent control Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 1 Comments

Basic Instincts: Dynamic Data Entry With XML Literals

Wouldn't it be nice to generate all your maintenance screens in your data-driven applications automatically? In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Beth Massi shows you how to create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) user interfaces at run time Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

.NET Matters: False Sharing in Parallel Programming

There’s no programming model that magically eliminates all concurrency-related issues, so understanding how memory and caches work is still important to write efficient parallel programs. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Stephen Toub, Igor Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 4:32 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 and Data-driven Apps

Using AJAX, many tasks that were traditionally performed on the server can happen in the browser instead. But many developers would still like the full power and flexibility of server apps at their disposal. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Windows With C++: High-Performance Algorithms

Algorithm efficiency is not as straightforward as you might think. A well-designed algorithm on a single processor can often outperform an inefficient implementation on multiple processors. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Kenny Kerr walks Read More...
Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 1 Comments

Foundations: Managing State With Durable Services

Long-running processes are common in distributed computing. Some business processes are made up of multiple execution sequences which may last many days or even weeks. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Juval Lowy discusses several techniques Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:21 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Fixing Concurrency Problems In Your Code

Correctly engineered concurrent code must live by an extra set of rules. Reads and writes from memory and access to shared resources need to be regulated so that conflicts do not arise. Additionally, threads often need to coordinate to get the job done. Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Patterns In Practice: Cohesion And Coupling

Well designed code keeps things that have to change together as close together in the code as possible and allows unrelated things in the code to change independently, while minimizing duplication in the code. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine Read More...
Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Going Places: Ink-Enabled Apps For Tablet PC

The process for ink capture and analysis on the Tablet PC is straightforward in managed code. To the uninitiated developer, however, creating unmanaged Tablet PC applications can be rather daunting. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Gus Class Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:26 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

Parallel Programming with Visual Studio

Multicore systems are becoming increasingly prevalent, but the majority of software today will not automatically take advantage of this additional processing ability. And multithreaded programming, for anything but the most trivial of systems, is incredibly Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 12:34 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

Design Considerations For Parallel Programming

Concurrent programming is notoriously difficult, even for experts. You have all of the correctness and security challenges of sequential programs plus all of the difficulties of parallelism and concurrent access to shared resources. In the October 2008 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 4:58 PM by tdorsey | 1 Comments
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Cutting Edge: Building A Secure AJAX Service Layer

A major advantage of AJAX and Silverlight applications is that they can transparently and continuously interact with a back-end service. The problem is that they run over HTTP, which wasn't designed with security in mind. In the September 2008 issue of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:10 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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