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PDC2008: News, Blogs, Articles from Visual Studio Magazine
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Define Your Own Item Templates

Define Your Own Item Templates

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VS 2008: The Road Ahead

VS 2008: The Road Ahead

Learn what the future holds for .NET developers in the next version of Visual Studio.

by Roger Jennings

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Use Recursion to Clear out Textboxes

Use Recursion to Clear out Textboxes

Clear out textboxes using recursion and LINQ.

by Kathleen Dollard

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Top Story: SP2 Beta Available for Vista and Windows Server 2008 12/2/2008

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2009: What's Next for Developers?

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Three's the Charm with Silverlight 3

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Oslo: Making Models

Windows 7 Shout-Out

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Inside VSTS

Branching in Visual Studio 2010

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Routing Your ASP.NET Application

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Executing Debuggables

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Creating Master/Detail and Update Pages with Entity Framework

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Using the Entity Model to Create an ASP.NET Page

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Lay Down the Law on Code Rules

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