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Volume 15, Number 7 | March 28, 2011
 
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Cloud-Based Collaboration with SharePoint Online

Learn how SharePoint Online development is similar to and different from SharePoint 2010 development by following along with Chris Mayo as he builds solutions that run in the cloud.

Visual Studio 2010 HTML5 Templates for jQuery 1.5.1 and Modernizr 1.7

Rey Bango's updated his HTML5 website and page templates; check out his original tutorial on how to create your own.

Debugger APIs: Writing an Extension for Debugging Tools for Windows

Learning how to debug is a crucial developer skill. Fortunately, Visual Studio provides great tools for helping you debug your code. We'll cover the basics of building a custom debugger extension so you can analyze dump files (and also live systems) with ease.

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Video: Microsoft SDL Verification Phase: Security Practices
Aviram Jenik, CEO, Beyond Security, discusses "black box" testing, the importance of testing data entry endpoints with good, bad and fuzzed input, and points to tools that can assist with these tasks. He also demonstrates "JPG fuzzing," generating malformed images, and identifying vulnerabilities in an image processing application.

Security Talk Series Video: Quest Software's Azure Services
Dive into the benefits of claims-based authentication and authorization, which are leveraged by Quest's OnDemand solutions, and see how a customer's Security Token Service (STS) can be interconnected with other public STS systems to provide access to cloud-based solutions.

Attack Surface Analyzer - Quickly Evaluate Changes to the Windows Platform
The Attack Surface Analyzer Beta allows you to take and compare snapshots of your system, enabling you to detect changes that affect a computer's attack surface. Find more information under the Verification tab on the SDL tools site.

Bytes by MSDN Interview with Evan Hutnick
Evan Hutnick, Developer Evangelist for Telerik, and Rob Cameron, Senior Architect Evangelist for Microsoft, swap notes, share best practices, and reveal great resources for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. You won't want to miss this lively conversation between these two developer evangelists!

MSDN Virtual Lab Express: HTML 5 Video
After completing this lab, you will be better able to encode and tag videos.

 
Video: Applying Microsoft SDL Verification Practices within Windows Azure
Aviram Jenik, CEO, Beyond Security, explains how "black box" testing is increasingly relevant to cloud-based applications, discusses classic attacks such as SQL injection and Cross Site Scripting (XSS), and enumerates different inputs that should be focused on in Windows Azure-based applications.

Microsoft SDL Requirements Phase: Security Practices
In this video, Chris Weber, Managing Partner and Robert Mooney, Senior Software Development, Casaba, discuss the security practices of the Requirements phase of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).

MSDN Webcast: Security Talk: Using the Attack Surface Analyzer
April 7, 2011, 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time
By taking snapshots before and after an application is installed, Attack Surface Analyzer highlights weaknesses and security misconfigurations, and generates a report listing changes to securable objects and the computer's attack surface.

MSDN Virtual Lab: Lap Around Internet Explorer 9
After completing this lab, you will be familiar with new features of Internet Explorer such as support for web standards, DOM filtering, SVG support, performance instrumentation, and developer tools.

Expression Web Pro SP1 Is Available for Download
Includes support for HTML5, CSS3, expands support for PHP, and includes enhanced SuperPreview.

 
 
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