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Tips and Tricks for Finding Information in the MSDN Library (Mary Lee)

When you have a question about how an API works, most of you will look in the MSDN Library.  There are some tips and tricks to finding what you need in this vast resource.  First of all, there are two main ways you can read the content in the MSDN Library. You can also use the MTPS Web service at http://services.msdn....

Visual Studio 2008 Voted Best IDE! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

The results from InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Awards are in. Visual Studio 2008 was voted Best IDE, with the following commentary:Microsoft Visual Studio 2008Visual Studio stands alone as the preferred development environment for applications using Microsoft's .Net Framework, and it's peerless among IDEs for any language. The 2008 ...