msdn May 2011

May 2011 Performance Learn about Visualizing Bing Routes on Windows Phone 7. Business Connectivity Services: Consuming External OData Feeds with SharePoint BCS Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for Microsoft Office and SharePoint helps you bring external data sources into your SharePoint apps. We'll show you how to write a custom .NET Assembly Connector for BCS that lets you read from and write to an OData feed. Eric White Debugger Engine API: Writing a Debugging Tools for Windows Extension, Part 2: Output Continuing to work on his Debugger Engine extension, Andrew Richards shows you how to avoid all the dangerous traps you might find as you enhance the tool’s output. Andrew Richards Web Migration:  Moving Your Web App from WebMatrix to ASP.NET The Web Pages page-centric programming model supported by WebMatrix is a great way to get Web apps up and running. If you later decide that embracing ASP.NET MVC would give you more flexibility, you're covered. We’ll explain why you might choose to migrate and show you how to do it. Brandon Satrom and Clark Sell Windows API Wait Functions: DynWaitList: ID-Based Windows Event Multiplexing Event signals are identified by indexes into an array of object handles, which is problematic with dynamic arrays where events are added or removed from the middle of the list. Here’s a container class to solve the problem. Alex Gimenez Location-Aware Programming: Visualizing Bing Routes on Windows Phone 7 Learn how to bring location-aware features into your Windows Phone 7 applications and visualize routes and locations in different ways as you build an app that shows you the location of nearby restaurants. Sandrino Di Mattia Entity Framework: Code First in the ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 The latest version of the Entity Framework includes two new main features: the DbContext API and the Code First development pattern. We show you how to use these to develop applications, starting with the basics and moving on to more advanced techniques. Rowan Miller Columns Editor's Note: Staying Put You don’t have to move to the “hot” areas of development. Old school still has its place. Keith Ward Don't Get Me Started: R.I.P., DEC Digital Equipment Corporation was an industry pioneer. Its eventual demise doesn't change that fact. David Platt UI Frontiers: Silverlight Printing Basics Get a handle on the nuts and bolts of adding printing capabilities to your Silverlight apps as Charles walks through programs to print an ellipse, an image and a calendar. Charles Petzold Cutting Edge: Code Contracts Settings in Visual Studio 2010 Code contracts in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 rely on a few features in Visual Studio 2010. We'll review the project options for code contracts, how they affect the rewriter tool and some best practices for argument validation. Dino Esposito Data Points: Demystifying Entity Framework Strategies: Model Creation Workflow The Entity Framework now includes more ways than ever to create a conceptual model, starting first with just your code, a model created with the visual designer, or a legacy database. We help you choose which one’s right for you. Julie Lerman Test Run: Super-Simple Mutation Testing Mutation testing is known for being difficult and expensive, but we’re here to show you a real-world system you can build in just a few hours with a little C# code and Visual Studio. James McCaffrey The Working Programmer: Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 7: Parametric Metaprogramming In this series we've examined procedural and structural programming, objects, and metaobjects. Now let's take a look at generics and put them to work as an example of parametric polymorphism in action. Ted Neward Forecast: Cloudy: Load Balancing Private Endpoints on Worker Roles A client needed to load-balance private service endpoints on Windows Azure Worker Roles without taking on the latency of a queuing operation. I'll walk you through one possible solution to this problem. Joseph Fultz Mobile Matters Windows Phone 7 Tombstoning Windows Phone 7 deals with memory and resource constraints through feature called tombstoning. We'll discuss the role tombstoning plays in the application lifecycle and demonstrate how you can implement it in your own apps. Jaime Rodriguez