Monday, April 11, 2011

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Volume 15, Number 8 | April 11, 2011
 
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NuGet Package of the Week - Deserializing JSON with Json.NET 4.0

Scott Hanselman details James Newton-King's excellent library for accessing and working with JSON on .NET.

Best Practices for Programming Restart / Recover in Windows Applications

Restart and recover allow applications to respond gracefully to unexpected closes, including saving and restoring user data.

Watch the MIX Keynotes Live, April 12 and 13 at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time

Can't attend in-person? Watch the keynotes live from Las Vegas, April 12 and 13 at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time, via live.visitmix.com. Tune-in for the latest announcements on IE, Windows Phone, and Silverlight.

Your Featured Content
All the Videos from PDC 2008, 2009, and 2010
The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the definitive event to inform you about the latest Microsoft technology to enable you to create awesome software. There are tons of great videos that cover a plethora of developer scenarios, best practices, and deep dives into product features.

Video: Microsoft SDL Release Phase: Security Practices
Jason Glassberg, co-founder of Casaba, discusses planning for post-release contingencies by creating an incident response plan; the importance of a final security review, its outcome, and mitigating outstanding issues; and archiving all pertinent data to allow for post-release servicing.

Video: Microsoft SDL Design Phase: Security Practices
Joe Basirico, Director of Security Services, Security Innovation, dives into foundational design principles, including least privilege, compartmentalization, input validation, auditing and logging, cryptography, and avoiding the "not invented here" trap.

Introducing: New Windows Azure Invoicing System
You asked and we listened. Many developers prefer using an invoicing system for Azure usage, rather than a credit card, the same way they use invoicing for other B2B relationships. Refer to the new invoicing guidance page.

New Virtual Lab: BizTalk Server 2010: Deploying and Managing BizTalk Applications
After completing this lab, you will be better able to build and deploy a BizTalk application, manage applications by using MSI packages, move resources and ports between applications, and more.

 
Moving to C# and the .NET Framework, for Java Developers
These learning resources will help you to leverage your existing knowledge of Java solutions architecture, and show you how you can transform your skills to enable you to build Windows solutions based on the .NET Framework and C#.

Video: Applying Microsoft SDL Release Practices in Windows Azure
In Azure, the importance of understanding the platform is doubly important in preparing an incident response plan, because rolling back and stopping deployment is vastly simpler than in on-premises or full-platform hosted deployment.

Bytes by MSDN: IE9 Interview with Ziad Ismail
Ziad Ismail, Director of Product Management for Internet Explorer, and Clark Sell, Microsoft Developer Evangelist, discuss IE9's new notification feature, "pinning," and what "putting sites at the center" means for developers. Ziad also announces "Dev Unplugged," the IE9 developer contest with over US$40,000 in prizes.

Bytes by MSDN: What Is Cloud Computing?
By using just these four simple words - on-demand, self-service, scaleable, and measurable - Dave Nielsen helps simplify the concept so that you'll truly understand cloud computing. When you're done watching this short video, you'll even be able to explain cloud computing to your mom.

Parallel Programming with Visual C++
Ade Miller from the Microsoft Technical Computing group just published the final version of his parallel programming guidance e-book, focused on native development.

 
 
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