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RSS Feeds...
We have extensive libraries to retrieve and display RSS feeds to your website from News, to the latest currency trackers.What is RSS?
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.Why RSS? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS
RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter.Below is the RSS feed for http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/rss.
Get started with Windows Phone 7 development with this Silverlight-based game tutorial that demonstrates key concepts such as the Model-View-ViewModel design pattern, serialization, user storage and multiple orientations.
Adam Miller
Windows Phone 7 Apps: Build Data-Driven Apps with Windows Azure and Windows Phone 7The performance of data-driven Windows Phone 7 apps relies on both good UI coding practices and snappy access to data. We’ll cover some important design considerations for using Windows Azure effectively with Windows Phone apps.
Danilo Diaz, Max Zilberman
BDD Primer: Behavior-Driven Development with SpecFlow and WatiNBehavior-Driven Development techniques let you test and code in the language of your business scenario. We’ll explain how the BDD cycle wraps traditional Test-Driven Development techniques and walk you through an example BDD development cycle for an ASP.NET application.
Brandon Satrom
.NET Performance: Performance Diagnostics of .NET Applications Using ETWEvent Tracing for Windows (ETW) is a powerful logging technology that's leveraged in the .NET Framework 4 CLR to make profiling your managed application simpler than ever. ETW collects system-wide data and profiles all resources (CPU, disk, network and memory) making it very useful for obtaining a holistic view.
Subramanian Ramaswamy
Windows Azure AppFabric: Re-Introducing the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control ServiceSee how to easily authenticate and authorize users from the likes of Windows Live ID, Facebook, Yahoo and Google within your Web sites and services.
Wade Wegner, Vittorio Bertocci
