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January/February 2008

This issue of CoDe Magazine focuses on improving application productivity.

Features

Building WCF Services for Deployment in Transiently Connected Networks

Users increasingly rely on their applications to work both on site and on the go, so they can remain productive anywhere and at any time—regardless of how they connect to the network.

Design for Extensibility

Build extensibility and flexibility into your applications to simplify maintenance and accommodate changes.

C# 3.0 Syntax AdditionsDesign Guidelines

These guidelines will help you understand new additions to C# 3.0 syntax and avoid some of the pitfalls you can encounter when using them.

Never Write an Insecure ASP.NET Application Ever Again

Learn to take advantage of the inner workings of ASP.NET's security model to help eliminate security vulnerabilities from your web applications.

The Baker's Dozen: 13 Tips for Querying OLAP Databases with MDX

MDX is a SQL-like query language used to retrieve data from OLAP databases and to define Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services.

Visual Basic and Respect

Will VB's new LINQ to XML prowess finally gain it the community respect accorded to other mainstream languages?

Departments

It's an Agile World

Open Space conferences aren't made up of your usual speaker-in-front, audience-take-notes sessions.

Ask the Doc Detective

Finding what you need in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 documentation, which has over 200,000 topics, can be a daunting task. The Doc Detective is here to help, utilizing his investigative skills to probe the depths of the documentation.

Heard on .NET Rocks! Don Demsak on LINQ to XML

In episode #271 of .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) Richard and I spoke with Don Demsak about LINQ to XML. Here's an excerpt from that interview.

MVP Corner: Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without ViewState or Postbacks

Finally, those who are comfortable with the stateless nature of web programming will be able to develop ASP.NET sites without the insulating layer that ASP.NET has always provided.

Special Code Focus Issue on Tablet PC Development

This issue demonstrates concepts of enabling your Web applications to use pen input, shows you how to trap stylus input, how to store Digital Ink, how to make your applications network- and battery-aware and numerous other mobility development issues.

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