MSBuild: Best Practices For Creating Reliable Builds, Part 2

Silverlight provides support for dynamic languages such as IronRuby and IronPython. We'll walk you through the creation of a custom Silverlight control using Bing Maps and IronRuby.Ashish GhodaMSDN Magazine February 2010

This article is an overview of digital signature practices and user considerations necessary to write applications in compliance with ISO/IEC 15408 Common Criteria security. Signing categories are described, including those that are a potential risk to the implied trust association that goes with a digital signature.Jack DavisMSDN Magazine November 2009

This article discusses how to write a library or framework that uses the Dependency Injection pattern and how the change in focus affects the usage of the pattern.Chris TavaresMSDN Magazine November 2009

In Part 2, the authors cover core OS Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) events as well as present simple scripts to demonstrate a few basic accounting techniques on some of the OS events introduced.Alex Bendetov, Insung ParkMSDN Magazine October 2009

Developers deploy a wide variety of development philosophies and architecture styles. This article explores three common perspectives on application development and describes how the Entity Framework can be employed in each. Specifically, the article looks at the forms-centric, model-centric, and code-centric development styles and their relationship to the Entity Framework.Tim MallalieuMSDN Magazine August 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

This month we in introduce a new column that takes you inside the Microsoft patterns & practices group. This first installment focuses on ways groups inside Microsoft have implemented the Dependency Injection pattern in Microsoft products and tools.Alex HomerMSDN Magazine May 2009

Achieving cross-browser compatibility for events is no easy task. The jQuery event handling API addresses the differences in event handling across browsers, allowing you to write more predictable JavaScript.Dino EspositoMSDN Magazine April 2009

Jon Flanders demonstrates creating and consuming Web feeds with Windows Communication Foundation and AtomPub.Jon FlandersMSDN Magazine April 2009

Here we summarize a number of best practices for developing SharePoint solutions.E. Wilansky, T. Stojecki, P. Olszewski and S. KowalewskiMSDN Magazine March 2009