The XML Files: XML-based Persistence Behaviors Fix Web Farm Headaches

Over the past few years, federated security models and claims-based access control have become increasingly popular. Platform tools in this area have also come a long way. Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) is a rich identity model framework designed for building claims-based applications and services and for supporting active and passive federated security scenarios.Michele Leroux BustamanteMSDN Magazine November 2009

Schema- first contract-first modeling of Web Services gives you the ability to model your contracts with an XML-centric mindset. This process keeps you focused on universally acceptable types and the hierarchical data structures that can be represented in XML.Christian Weyer, Buddhike de SilvaMSDN Magazine October 2009

In Visual C++ 10 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft is introducing new libraries and runtimes to significantly ease the process of expressing parallelism in your code base, together with new tool support for performance analysis and debugging of parallel applications. In this article, you will learn about debugging support in Visual Studio 2010, much of which is focused on task-based programming models.Stephen Toub, Daniel MothMSDN Magazine September 2009

Use Test-Driven Development with mock objects to design object oriented code in terms of roles and responsibilities, not categorization of objects into class hierarchies.Isaiah PerumallaMSDN Magazine June 2009

Jeremy Miller continues his discussion of persistence patterns by reviewing the Unit of Work design pattern and examining the issues around persistence ignorance.Jeremy MillerMSDN Magazine June 2009

If the responsibility for creating, managing, and executing routine backups is yours, these tools will make it easier. Also see how you can browse folders and files from inside Visual Studio.Scott MitchellMSDN Magazine May 2009

Here we examine data persistence patterns to help you determine which best suits your needs. We look at a number of patterns, including the Active Record, the Data Mapper, the Repository, the Identity Map, the Lazy Loading, and the Virtual Proxy.Jeremy MillerMSDN Magazine April 2009

We introduce you to "Oslo" and demonstrate how MSchema and MGraph enable you to build metadata-driven apps. We'll define types and values in "M" and deploy them to the repository.Chris SellsMSDN Magazine February 2009

Here we introduce Microsoft Code Name "Geneva," the new framework for building claims-based applications and services, and federated security scenarios.Michele Leroux BustamanteMSDN Magazine December 2008

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides an easy role-based system and a more powerful and complex claims-based API for implementing authorization in services.Dominick Baier and Christian WeyerMSDN Magazine October 2008