UK MSDN Flash – Best of 2008 #1 in eBook form

IUpdateable from Eric Nelson - FREE MSDN Flash eBook with 13 technical articles spanning dynamic languages to game development to cloud computing

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Every two weeks we send an email out to tens of thousands of UK based developers. This email is called the MSDN Flash. The Flash contains many useful sections including a 400 to 500 word technical article on a developer related topic either written by a member of the Microsoft UK technical team or a member of the broader UK developer community. We have had some great articles over the years which to some extent end up “hidden away” in the archives of the MSDN Flash. This is a shame as the authors have worked hard to condense complex topics into short articles which are informative and take only a few minutes to read.

I decided it was time to surface the best of the articles on a regular basis and provide them in an easy to download and read eBook. This initial edition covers the period January 2008 to January 2009 but we aim to create a new eBook every six months from here on in. The next edition should therefore be out around August 2009.

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Table of Contents for #1

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2
INTRODUCTION 4
From the Editor 4
Would you like to become an author? 5
Subscribe to the UK MSDN Flash 5
VISUAL STUDIO 2008 7
Synchronization made Easy by the Sync Framework 7
WMI Provider Extensions in .NET Framework v3.5 8
Non-Attributed Data Contracts in WCF 9
Introducing the ADO.NET Entity Framework 10
Introducing the .NET Client Profile 11
XNA Game Studio 12
LANGUAGES 13
Combining Dynamic Languages and Static Languages 13
Getting Started with IronPython 14
TOOLS AND DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES 15
Pex: Automated testing for .NET 15
WEB 16
The Integrated Pipeline in IIS7 16
VISUAL STUDIO 2010 17
Introducing Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework 17
CLOUD COMPUTING 18
Azure Services Platform 18
Windows Azure 19
MEET THE AUTHORS 20

While the page count isn’t huge, the information density seems pretty high. Short and sweet read for the train or bio break (did I REALLY just say that? :P  )