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This article describes methods for designing screens in a user interface and the technology frameworks that support screen design.Ambrose Little, Charles B. KreitzbergMSDN Magazine September 2009

The end goal of software projects is to deliver value to the customer. Software design is a major factor in how successfully a team can deliver that value. The best designs are a product of continuous design rather than the result of an effort that tries to get the entire design right up front. This approach lets you strive to apply lessons learned from the project to continuously improve the design, instead of becoming locked into an erroneous design developed too early in the project.Jeremy MillerMSDN Magazine August 2009

Design patterns provide a common, repeatable approach to solving software development tasks, and many different patterns can describe how to accomplish a certain goal in code. When developers begin working with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), they often ask about how to accomplish common tasks with the technology. This month's column discusses several design patterns used in WF.Matthew MilnerMSDN Magazine August 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

Now that you're even managing projects in the cloud, you'll need some tools to help. This month we illustrate one, discuss UX design patterns, a book by Anders Hejlsberg, and more.Scott MitchellMSDN Magazine June 2009

Steven M. ListMSDN Magazine June 2009

This month the author takes us on a tour of the unconference and other unconventional get-togethers. Learn how these unique approaches to conferences are being widely adopted.Steven M ListMSDN Magazine May 2009

This month we examine the Microsoft translation Web service and show you how you can incorporate translation services into your own Web application.Sandor Maurice & Vikram DendiMSDN Magazine April 2009

We give you a gentle introduction to designing and evolving rich domain models as part of integrating Domain-Driven Design (DDD) into your coding efforts.David LaribeeMSDN Magazine February 2009

In this article we explain just how simple it can be to build a WPF application the right way using the MVVM Pattern.Josh SmithMSDN Magazine February 2009