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Past development's articles:

	2013 developments article archive
January	Beware accessing Response.Cookies - Brock Allen Client side support with the ASP.NET Web API - Maurice de Beijer
	2012 developments article archive
December	Create new ASP.NET MVC views the easy way - Michael Kennedy Getting Started with RavenDB in an ASP.NET MVC App - Maurice de Beijer
November	Improve perceived performance of ASP.NET MVC websites with aasynchronous partial views - Michael Kennedy Understanding Text Encoding in ASP.NET MVC (ASP.NET MVC Foundations Series) - Michael Kennedy
October	Secure Sef-Hosted WCF REST Services with a Custom UserNamePasswordValidator - Tony Sneed Updating data with the ASP.NET Web API - Maurice de Beijer
September	Entity Framework 5 + Enumerations => What's not to love? - Mark Blomsma Sharing a single_ViewStart across Areas in ASP.NET MVC - Brock Allen
August	Use Common Instance Factory to Abstract Away the Dependency Injection Container - Tony Sneed No, You Don't Need A Windows App - Michael Kennedy
July	Roll Your own REST-ful WCF Router - Tony Sneed HTML5 WebSockets - Maurice de Beijer
June	HTML5 Background tasks using Web Workers - Maurice de Beijer
May	Dynamic Type Binding in WPF 4.5 - Mark Smith Ninject WCF Extensions for RESTful Services - Tony Sneed
April	INotifyPropertyChanged in .Net 4.5 - Mark Smith Getting started with the ASP.NET Web API - Maurice de Beijer
March	9 Ways Your Brand New ASP.NET MVC Project Can Be Better - Michael Kennedy
February	How to get started with knockout.JS - Maurice de Beijer Mixing Forms and Token Authentication in a single ASP.NET Application - Dominick Baier
January	HTML5 Google Chrome Frame and Older Browsers- Maurice de Beijer Using Ninject with WCF services - Tony Sneed
	2011 developments article archive
December-	WPF + Prism + Biology! - Mark Smith SQL Server 2012- SQL Server Data Tools - Lynn Langit
November-	Using HTML5 File App to read the file contents - Maurice de Beijer HTML5 and Drag & Drop - Maurice de Beijer HTML5 & Geolocation - Maurice de Beijer
October-	What's New in Windows Workflow Foundation in .Net 4.5 - Maurice de Beijer Peeling Back the Onion Architecture - Tony Sneed
September-	Using HTTP Methods in a Rest Service - Maurice de Beijer Build a Multi-Project Visual Studio Template - Tony Sneed
August -	Testing Rdlc Reports - Llewenllyn Falco Using HTTP status codes in a REST service - Maurice de Beijer
July -	Unit Testing with Services in MVVM Helpers - Mark Smith Scalable WCF Services with Queuing - Pinku Surana
June -	Building a Cloud OS for .NET Developers Part 1 - Michael Kennedy Building a Cloud OS for .NET Developers Part 2 - Michael Kennedy
May -	What I like and don't like about WIF's Claims-based Authorization - Dominick Baier Improving WIF's Claims-based Authorization Part 1 - Dominick Baier Improving WIF's Claims-based Authorization Part 2 - Dominick Baier Improving WIF's Claims-based Authorization Part 3 - Dominick Baier Inversion of Control and WCF -Maurice de Beijer
April -	Building a Leak-Proof Eventing Model - Tony Sneed Simple MVVM Toolkit: Ready for RIA services - Tony Sneed
March -	Microsoft SQL Azure vs. Amazon RDS - Ike Ellis & Scott Reed Better Code with C# Code Contracts - Mark Blomsma
February -	Tackling the Problem of Modal Dialogs in MVVM 11 Killer Open Source Projects I found with NuGet
January -	Doing Synchronous Workflow Execution using the WorkflowApplication Reporting using Entity Framework

	2010 developments article archive
December -
November -
October -	User Acceptance Tests (UAT) for Business Analysts
September -	n/a
August -	A Lightning Round with Visual Studio LightSwitch
July -	Hosting WCF Services (with HTTP endpoints) in Windows Azure worker roles
June -	WIF Support for WCF Rest Services and OData Trying the WF ADO.NET Activity Pack CTP 1
May -	The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB Workflow 4 Services and duplex communications
April -	Building Windows Machines in Amazon EC2
March -	EF4 Self Tracking Entities - the new DataSet? Trackable DTO's: Taking N-Tier a Step Further with EF4
February -	n/a
January -	Entity Framework 4 N-Tier Support: Take 2

	2009 developments article archive
December-	Ten Features in .NET 4.0 That Made Me Smile
November -	Six Things That Will Surprise You About .NET 4.0 WF4 Flowcharts & Switch Activity
October -	Agile Demystified (v.2) - A brief explanation of Agile Software Development for managers
September -	Creating Custom Activities with Workflow 4.0
August -	Avoiding 5 Common Pitfalls in Unit Testing How to build a Twitter Application with .NET
July -	What's New and Cool with Entity Framework 4.0 Mentoring - An Approach to Improving Performance & Productivity
June -	ASP.NET Routing in Windows Azure Using WebForms
May -	Java Application Security: Firewalls are No Defense
April -	Azure Storage

	2008 developments article archive
December -	n/a
November -	PDC Round up 2008– By Rich Blewett
October -	n/a
September -	SQL Server 2008 – By Niels Berglund
August -	Microsoft PFX (Parallel Extensions) June 2008 CTP by Andy Clymer
July -	REST and .NET 3.5 Part 2 Full Article by Richard Blewett
June -	REST and .NET 3.5 Part 1 by Richard Blewett
May -	Creating Extensible Applications with MAF by Mark Smith
April -	Using AppDomains to Build Reliable Systems by Pinku Surana
March -	WPF Custom Controls by George Shepherd
February -	The Zen of Volta by Richard Blewett
January -	Introducing ASP.NET MVC by Michael Kennedy

	2007 developments article archive
December -	Introducing Visual Studio .NET 2008 by Mark Smith
November-	A gentle Introduction to the Service Broker by Kent Tegels
October -	Patterns in .NET by Kevin Jones
September -	Introducing LINQ: Language-Integrated Query by Anthony Sneed
August -	SOS – “Son of Strike” by Mark Smith
July -	Workflow Services by Richard Blewett
June -	n/a
May -	Introducing Silverlight by Mark Smith
April -	Vista Security for .NET Developers by Dominick Baier
March -	Windows Workflow Foundation by Richard Blewett
February -	A Quick Look at Windows Communication Foundation by Mark Smith
January -	Welcome to the world of .NET 3.0 by Mark Smith

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