The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new extensibility model in the .NET framework that provides a simple declarative model for application d...

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0 coordinates and manages individual units of work, encapsulated into activities. WF comes with a rich library of ac...

The next version of the Entity Framework adds scenarios in the areas of model driven development, domain driven development, simplicity, and integratio...

Retrieving sessions. Programs coordinate work. The code for coordination and state management often obscures a program's purpose. Learn how programm...

The ADO.NET Data Services Framework (a.k.a. Project "Astoria") introduced a way of creating and consuming flexible, data-centric REST services. By comb...

In the near future, applications will be developed using a combination of custom application code and online building block services, including data-ce...

Eliminate the tradeoff between ease of service authoring and performant, scalable services. Hear about significant enhancements in Windows Communicatio...

Enhancements to the type system in the next version of .NET Framework allow for loose type-coupling of components comprising your application. This tal...

Learn about guidelines that have helped the Microsoft .NET Framework grow into the most popular developer framework Microsoft has ever created. After t...

See how Mono, the open source implementation of the .NET Framework, offers a platform for developers to leverage .NET in new and unconventional scenari...

Learn about the new features in the next major version of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) from the people building it. Hear about support for in-proc...

Doug is a Senior Technical Writer on the Configuration Manager team, and has worked with the product for 10 years.  In this interview, he shows us Supe...