.NET Matters: Handling Messages in Console Apps

Glenn Block explains how the Managed Extensibility Framework, a new library coming in .NET Framework 4.0, tackles the longstanding issue of building applications and components that can be reused and extended by others. Learn how to build apps that can use new functionality introduced by developers, framework authors and third-party extenders.Glenn BlockMSDN Magazine February 2010

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

This article is the third in a series about n-tier programming with the Entity Framework, specifically about building custom Web services with the Entity Framework and WCF. This article looks at features coming in the second release of the Entity Framework (EF4) and how you use them to implement the Self-Tracking Entities and Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) n-tier patterns.Daniel SimmonsMSDN Magazine November 2009

Axum is not a general-purpose language like C# or VB, but one aimed squarely at the problem of concurrency, designed from the outset to be part of a suite of languages that collectively cooperate to solve a business problem.Ted NewardMSDN Magazine September 2009

Exceptions in .NET are the fundamental mechanism by which errors and other exceptional conditions are communicated. This month's column provides information about how to aggregate exceptions to help manage a variety of scenarios in which multiple exceptions might result from one operation, including scenarios involving parallelism and concurrency.Stephen ToubMSDN Magazine August 2009

This article reviews the Prism project developed by the Microsoft patterns & practices group and demonstrates how to apply it to composite Web applications using Silverlight.Shawn WildermuthMSDN Magazine July 2009

Microsoft Velocity exposes a unified, distributed memory cache for client application consumption. We show you how to add Velocity to your data-driven apps.Aaron DunningtonMSDN Magazine June 2009

In this month's installment, Stephen Toub examines some techniques for enforcing dependencies in the running order of asynchronous operations and builds a DependencyManagement class to help.Stephen ToubMSDN Magazine April 2009

In this article, you'll learn how to avoid problematic tight coupling by applying the Model-View-ViewModel pattern in Silverlight 2.Shawn WildermuthMSDN Magazine March 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