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Customize MSDN Flash | Unsubscribe Volume 14, Number 23 | November 8, 2010     Top Stories     Free eBook: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold This book is a gift from the Windows Phone 7 team at Microsoft to the programming community. Within its pages, you'll learn the basics of writing applications for Windows Phone 7 using the Silverlight and XNA 2D frameworks. PDC On Demand: The Future of C# and Visual Basic Technical fellow Anders Hejlsberg talks about the roadmap for C# and Visual Basic in vNext and beyond. Plus: Asynchrony in C# 5. Part II: Whence await. Part III: Composition. New Release: Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools A set of extensions to Visual Studio Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity. In this third major release of the Power Tools we have made significant improvements to the Solution Navigator and the Tab Well to address our top customer requests. Your Featured Content Windows Azure Features To Expect in 2011 Learn about the announcements made at PDC10 that will make it easier for customers to run existing Windows applications on Windows Azure, enable more affordable platform access and improve the Windows Azure developer and IT Professional experience. The Future of F# Programming today exhibits a voracious appetite for information, and one of the most important trends in languages today is to make access to data and services fluent and seamless. Code-First Development with Entity Framework Entity Framework has a couple different approaches today. You can use a database-first approach where you generate a model from an existing database. You can also use a model-first approach where you use the EF designer in Visual Studio and then generate the database. Patterns and Practices with MVVM and RIA Services Learn about the rewards of using RIA Services together with development patterns, such as the Service Providers, Single Responsibility pattern, Commanding, user Interactions, Messaging, ChildWindows, Design Time Data, Testing, and developing using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern, to build Silverlight and Windows Phone applications. PDC: ASP.NET + Packaging + Open Source = Crazy Delicious Scott Hanselman talks about the great open source software available, when it's hard to figure out the best choice. Beside Visual Studio 2010 we've got ASP.NET MVC 3, Razor, EF Magic Unicorn, SQL Compact Edition, HTML5 and lots more coming at us fast. How can you easily get this stuff and put it together in an application in a reasonable amount of time?   MVP Talks about Top 5 Mistakes .NET Devs Must Avoid Anoop Madhusudanan researched with colleagues and lists down the top 5 developer crimes he picked, among the answers he received. Ars Technica: How to Enable the Beta UI to Just Released IE9 Preview 6 Microsoft released during PDC a 6th preview of IE9, which W3C later crowned as the king in HTML5 conformance results. The preview UI is kind of a bore but here's how you can enable the whole UI as you get today with the previous Beta. Plus: DOMParser and XMLSerializer in IE9. Measuring Add-on Performance. Toolbox: Free HTML5 X-Icon Editor This free tool helps you build high resolution icons that can include up to 4 sizes: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 64x64 pixels. New OData Services and Windows Phone 7 Library Microsoft has been working with a number of partners over the past few months to make their data available via the Open Data Protocol. We're excited to announce the availability of these new OData feeds today. All of these feeds are being hosted on the Windows Azure Platform. 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