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It’s rare that a developer doesn’t need some familiarity with the database his or her applications are targeting, so this session (divided in to five parts) provides a bit of insight into features of SQL Server 2008 (and 2005) that they should be aware of when building .NET applications. The…

This is another DevNugget screencast from Brian Hitney. In the previous screencasts, we looked at setting breakpoints and how to work with advanced breakpoints, filters, and working with multiple threads.  We also took a quick look at tracepoints.  In part 4, we'll look at the watch…

REST (Representational State Transfer) is all the rage as a lightweight, web service architecture that relies on existing web standards such as HTTP and XML.  In this session, you’ll get insight into the roots of REST, including its four main tenets, and be able to critically discern how…

In this screencast, Jim O’Neil, Developer Evangelist, takes us on a tour of ASP.NET Dynamic Data, introduced with the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.  Dynamic Data leverages LINQ to SQL and the ADO.Net Entity Framework to provide a scaffolding approach to quickly build a CRUD…

Did you know you can get a 30-day trial account to try out Windows Azure - no strings attached!  Check out this screencast and get your head (and code) into the clouds! To stay in touch with your Developer Evangelists focusing on Windows Azure, bookmark the US Cloud Connection!

Did you know that Windows Azure is free for everyone to use, as in gratis, no cost, complimentary?  Okay, there are some limitations, but if you want to kick the tires of cloud computing, the Introductory Special includes a recurring monthly allocation of computation, storage, and AppFabric…

If you're an MSDN Premium or Ultimate subscriber, and you haven't signed up for your Windows Azure benefits, you're leaving money on the table - to the tune of about $150 worth of Windows Azure compute, storage, and App Fabric services each month! Signing up is a snap: it'll take you less than 10…

Take the Rock Paper Azure Challenge!  Learn the Cloud, make your move, play to win! How do you stack up against the coding competition? Play and find…

This is a DevNugget video from Brian Hitney: In parts 1 and 2, we looked at setting breakpoints, and talked about setting up advanced breakpoints using hit counts and some simple conditions.  In part 3, we’ll dive a little deeper into some conditions by writing methods to help debug our…

SQL Server Profiler is a tool every developer should have in their repertoire. With the use of frameworks and abstractions, we often lose sight of what is actually hitting the database, and there’s no better way to get that information than SQL Server Profiler. It has a few knobs and dials that…