UI Frontiers: Sound Generation in WPF Applications

I'll explain in this article why memory leaks exist in .NET and how to avoid them. Don't worry, I won't focus here on the inner workings of the garbage collector and other advanced characteristics of memory and resources management in .NET.

It's important to understand leaks and how to avoid them, especially since they are not the kind of things that is easy to detect automatically. Unit tests won't help here. And when your application crashes in production, you'll be in a rush looking for solutions. So, relax and take the time to learn more about this subject before it's too late.

Creating and maintaining a unit test suite for legacy code can be a challenge. Pex automatically produces a small test suite with high code and assertion coverage.Nikhil SachdevaMSDN Magazine December 2009

This article describes how to use the Windows Touch API and related APIs to enhance mobile application. The discussion focuses on general usability, object selection and implementing a natural user interface.Gus ClassMSDN Magazine December 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

John Charles OlamendyMSDN Magazine September 2009

This article discusses the Project Linker tool and other techniques to create applications that target both WPF and Silverlight from a single code base.Erwin van der ValkMSDN Magazine August 2009

Justin EtheredgeMSDN Magazine July 2009

In this column, the author lays out some guiding principles that you should follow when working with the ASP.NET MVC framework.Scott AllenMSDN Magazine July 2009

Danny Simmons explores some anti-patterns you should look out for when building n-tier applications with the Entity Framework.Daniel SimmonsMSDN Magazine June 2009

Memory usage can have a direct impact on how fast an application executes and thus is important to optimize. In this article we discuss the basics of memory optimization for .NET programs.Subramanian Ramaswamy and Vance MorrisonMSDN Magazine June 2009