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Volume 13, Number 19: September 14, 2009 Top News MSDN Magazine: Disentangling Our Tangled Web Part 8 of this multipart series about improving an existing "classic" ASP.NET Web application focuses on better ways to wire together loosely coupled applications using dependency injection and an inversion of control container. Get the Free Internet Explorer Debugging Tool Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer is a free stand-alone visual debugging tool that makes it faster and easier to migrate your sites from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 7 or 8. Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer shows your Web pages rendered in IE 6 and either IE 7 or IE 8, depending on which version you have installed on your machine. Also, download the Microsoft Expression Web 3 Trial. Download the New Doloto Time Optimizer for AJAX Applications Doloto is a performance optimization tool for AJAX applications. Doloto works by rewriting the application to load its JavaScript code on demand, thereby reducing the startup time and making the application more responsive. Mark Your Calendar for September 29: "The New Efficiency" Virtual Event Join Microsoft on September 29 at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time for the New Efficiency Virtual Event live from San Francisco. Find sessions related to new releases of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Mark your calendars; watch it live; and submit questions in advance to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Your Featured Content Update Your Selected Topics Ensure that the content most relevant to you is presented in this section. Web Resources SQL Server 2008 Express How-to Video Series Available on demand starting September 21, this series of short how-to videos will touch on SQL Server Express 2008 features such as how to back up and restore a SQL Express database, how to back up a remote SQL Express database, how to update SQL Server Express 2005 to SQL Server Express 2008, and more. Security for Developers Application Security Street Fighting As a developer, you are faced with an almost impossible task. If you make one mistake, you lose. An attacker only has to find a single flaw in order to breach the application. HTML Sanitization in Anti-XSS Library Hash Functions in .NET - Right Tool for the Right Job More Security... Training & Books Windows Internals Classes from David Solomon Expert Seminars September 28 - October 2, San Francisco, CA October 19 & 21, online Explore the internals of key Windows kernel components and mechanisms with the Sysinternals tools in David Solomon Expert Seminars' hands-on Windows OS internals classes. Case Studies Insurance Company Improves Time-to-Market with Enhanced Rating Engine Using Visual Studio Team System and Microsoft Visual F#, Grange Insurance parallelized its rating engine to take better advantage of multicore server hardware, and garnered significant performance benefits. Processes that used to require hours now take just minutes. More Case Studies... Partner News RADvolution Designer Special Offer for MSDN Subscribers Enrich yourself with a powerful RAD tool fully integrated into Visual Studio with a special discount for MSDN subscribers only. 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