Design Patterns

Tao Liu, an engineer on the F# team, explains (and demonstrates) the importance and value of design patterns for F#. Many programmers who work on large or complex software systems are accustomed to employing design patterns in the development of these systems.  For experienced C#…

Greg Meredith, a mathematician and computer scientist, has graciously agreed to do a C9 lecture series covering monadic design principles applied to web development. You've met Greg before in a Whiteboard jam session with Brian Beckman. The fundamental concept here is the monad, and Greg…

Many web sites need to deal with long-running tasks. However long-running tasks don'tplay very well with the HTTP request-response paradigm. In this episode we'llgo through a very simple pattern: Request-Acknowledge-Push that enables asimple, efficient, and scalable way of dealing with long running…

Touch User Experiences User Experience Design Patterns for multi-touch devices   Speaker : Sigrid Vandeweghe - Human Interface Group

Touch User Experiences Multi-touch Application Showcase 'The Story of Phebus'

In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Andy Leonard discusses best practices for using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in the enterprise. Andy explains what SSIS does well and doesn't do well and describes common struggles when learning SSIS (expressions,…

In this multi-part blog series, Rob Bagby will be illustrating the use of various design patterns in Silverlight development.  The patterns covered in the series are Repository, Pipeline, Service Agent and Model View ViewModel.  In this screencast, Rob will set up the project, build…

Modern User Interface design and development has been significantly impacted by the features and capabilities of Microsoft XAML. Fortunately the tools team has been active in providing great solutions for harnessing the power of great design with the release of the Microsoft Expression suite. We…