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Silverlight 4 is out and so is the free training from Microsoft for Silverlight 4. If you already have some experience with Silverlight, this training is most recommended to move to Silverlight 4. It is available for both online and offline consumption. Download Silverlight 4 Training Kit What's New in Silverlight 4 Silverlight 4 New Features Silverlight 4 Business Apps: Module 1 –

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Microsoft Learning has released another set of free content called ‘Learning Snacks’. “Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos. At the end of each free presentation, you can view

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Microsoft’s Unified Communications platform integrates traditional communication channels like phone and fax with newer channels like emails, audio and video conferencing. It also brings advanced features like presence information and alerts. This brings lot of productivity in communication and collaboration between teams and also helps in implementing advanced Business Process Communication.

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Check out my latest article : Generate Office 2007 documents using OpenXML SDK Overview of Office 2007 documents format and OpenXML SDK. Step by Step instructions on how to generate Office 2007 documents using OpenXML SDK

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Check out my latest article on - How to configure outgoing mails in Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0. It gives Step by Step instructions on how to configure outgoing mails in Sharepoint using SMTP or Exchange server.

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.NET 3.5 enhancements training kit is available for download now. It contains demos, labs and presentation on all the enhancements to .NET framework which could not make it to .NET 3.5 main release and are in development/preview/beta stage. Currently, the training kit contains six hands-on labs, made up of the following technologies: 1) ADO.NET Data Services 2) ADO.NET Entity Framework 3)

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Check out this recently launched website which hosts lots of .NET videos based on articles published on www.asp.net. This is the message i received from site anchor. "i launched a multi media content website www.dotnetvideos.net on friday. i have over 100  videos on the site right now.  Every registered user of my website will receive a FREE 6-month subscritpion to asp.net PRO

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Command Patterns helps encapculating/mapping a request to object called command. All commands are derived from base command which has mainly two methods Execute & UnExecute. The commands forwards the request data to Receiver for further processing. Either client can decide which Command and  Receiver to be invoked or it can be configuration based for loose coupling. One of the popular

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ChainOfResponsibility Behavioral Pattern helps achieving loose coupling between request sender and receiver object. It helps in introducing a set of chained interceptor objects which can handle the request or pass it to next member in chain. The chaining can be pre-configured or can be done by client before invoking the chain. Consider the below class diagram: Based on the base exception

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If you are new to .NET Development there is a great place to get started on MSDN - Beginner Developer Learning Center. What it contains ? Download Express editions of Visual Studio for free to start programming/development using right set of tools. Content has been divided into two tracks and three levels. Web Development  Windows Development  

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If you want to get started with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Here is my article recently published which covers following : Overview Ecosystem Features Creating Reports Paramterized Reports Data Connection Configuration Access & Delivery of Reports Report Formats Architecture Walk Through : Create and Deploy a simple report using Report

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Proxy Structural Pattern or Proxy object can be used in multiple ways. Some of them could be following : Act as a simpler interface to a complex object. Can be used to transform call from one format to another. can be used to load balance multiple objects. can be used to track concurrency or object numbers. Consider this example where a Proxy Calculator is acting as interface

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Flyweight Structural Pattern is used to manage large number of shared objects. They are maintained in a collection and same instances used whenever required. These objects have their own attributes/features but they can have a common feature also which can be externalized. Consider a scenario where a picture has to be drawn which consists of large numbers of polygons of different colors. All

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'Facade Structural Pattern' is primarily used to unify and simply a set of interfaces of subsystems. This helps the client in using the interface with less effort. Consider the class diagram below : Above shows a typical scenario of a Bank where a new Customer approaches the Bank to open new account and also deposit some initial amount. The Core Banking subsystems provide two different

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Composite Structural Pattern is applicable when you need to deal with whole-part kind of relationships or tree kind of structures. It helps client to deal with individual or composite objects in a uniform manner and thus abstracts the client from complexities of internal structure. Consider the following class diagram : In the above diagram Book is a simple type but LibrarySection is a

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Bridge Structural Pattern decouples an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently. Multiple variants of abstraction can be created provided they implement the common interface. Similarly, multiple variants of implementations can be created provided they implement the common interface. Given the option of multiple abstraction variants and multiple implementation

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Adapter pattern also called as Wrapper pattern lets client adapt a framework/service with different call definitions than what client has been designed for. Clients continue using the original definitions and adapter takes care of transformation. Consider the class diagram below : Client calls the ClientBase class which is client's default framework. Now Client is supposed to use

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One of the most popular creational pattern. It is used to restrict the number of instances of a type to one and so all clients use the same instance. Consider the following class diagram : Client creates two variables of type Singleton, s1 and s2.  The client code looks like following : public class Client { Singleton s1,s2; public void Run() { // s1

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Prototype Creational Pattern provides an interface which can be used by client to get access to already existing instance of a type which can be used as prototype by client to create new instance. Client can clone the existing object using deep or shallow copy and use it. It is used mainly when inherent cost of creating a new object is high. Consider the following class diagram : Above scenario

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It provides an interface for creating an object but lets subclass decide which class to instantiates. So, it can also be called as virtual constructor. Consider the following class diagram : ShapeCreator class provides an factory method to create objects of BaseShape. Client always uses ShapeCreator and BaseShape type variables to work on instances of derives classes. The client looks like

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Builder Creational Pattern separates the process of construction of a complex object from its actual representation. This means that the same process can create different representations of same object. Consider the following diagram : The main class here is ShapeCreator which is called Director and controls the process of construction of object.  // Director public class

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Before we start getting into WCF from coming Monday, following environment needs to be ready : Visual Studio 2005 with SP1 Microsoft.NET 3.0 Runtime (Updated in List) Microsoft.NET 3.0 SDK Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WCF IIS 5.1 / 6.0 Pls let me know if there are any queries regarding this. Next Post ->> WCF : Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) : An Overview

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Dear Readers, I will be blogging exclusively on Windows Communication Foundation from July 30th for 3 weeks till 20th August. It will start with the most basic tutorials & concepts and move towards advanced one. I am also going to cover some posts on how to migrate from Remoting to WCF for existing users. So, Pls join me by giving your ideas and feedback on this great technology.

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Over the past few months I have published various Enterprise Library tutorials to get people started quickly with EntLib. These Tutorials have been one of the most popular downloads from my blog. This post is mainly for those who have just started with my blog. Here is the list of all the tutorials published : Tutorial : Policy Injection Application Block - Enterprise Library

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While Visual Studio 2005 has an integrated add-in for profiling managed code, VSProfiler is a stand-alone profiler for managed code. It can be used to profile production systems or machines where Visual Studio can't be installed. VSProfiler - vs_profiler.exe can be found on Visual Studio installation disc in wcu\profiler folder. Executing the vs_profiler.exe installs required tools in Visual

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