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Whidbey Beefs Up Mobile Development
  Whidbey expands your mobile development with enhanced object models, support for message queues, UI improvements, and a new database engine. Microsoft's Chris Anderson gave VSLive! attendees a glimpse of the possibilities at his keynote on Thursday.
 Watch a 25-Minute Video Clip of the Keynote!
Visual Studio 2005 for Devices
.NET Compact Framework 2.0 Preview
Use BI in Your Apps for Fun and Profit
SQL Server 2005 ("Yukon") will make it easier for you to incorporate Business Intelligence into your apps. Microsoft's Bill Baker outlined SQL Server 2005's BI features in his VSLive! keynote Friday.
 Watch a 15-Minute Video Clip of the Keynote!


Metropolis: Trends in IT
In his keynote address at VSLive! on Thursday afternoon, Microsoft's Pat Helland talked about the four basic tenets of service-oriented architecture, three reasons for using services, and three categories of service use.
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WHIDBEY
Advanced Language Features in VB Whidbey
Discover VB Whidbey's advanced language and IDE features. Microsoft's Amanda Silver shows you the ins and outs of Generics, operator overloading, and more.
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Build ASP.NET Web Apps With Whidbey
Whidbey provides an array of features that enable rapid construction of dynamic Web applications. Microsoft's Rob Howard gives you a tour.
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Data Access and XML From 2- to N-Tier
Microsoft's Steve Lasker shows you how to perform data access tasks in fewer steps and fewer lines of code.
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SPEECH SERVER
Gates' Visual Studio 2005 Vision
Bill Gates adopted the "Seamless Computing" theme for his keynote address at VSLive! Wednesday, which emphasized VS.NET's integrated toolset for an upgraded Windows Mobile 2003 release and Microsoft's newly announced Speech Server 2004.
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Speech Server Advances
Kai-Fu Lee stressed Microsoft's goal to bring speech technology to the mainstream by decreasing costs, increasing flexibility, and improving integration, he said in his VSLive! keynote address on Wednesday.
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The Power of Speech
Ted Cwiok of Convergys talks about the growth, power, and potential of speech technology. Read the Q&A on the Speech Technology Magazine site.
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MOBILE    
Visual Studio 2005 for Devices
Visual Studio .NET 2003's support for the .NET Compact Framework improved developer productivity on Windows Mobile devices. But Whidbey offers even more benefits—find out what they are.
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.NET Compact Framework 2.0 Preview
Developers will get a preview of the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and SQL Server CE 3.0 ("Laguna") at Microsoft Mobile DevCon. Find out about their key enhancements.
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Introducing MapPoint Location Server
The growth of location-based services has been stalled by infrastructure complexity. MapPoint Location Server, launching this week at Microsoft Mobile DevCon, will improve location-based application development.
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Mobility for the Masses
What's on the horizon for Windows Mobile developers? Get the scoop from Microsoft's Ori Amiga as he kicks off the Microsoft Mobile DevCon show co-located with VSLive! this week.
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WHITEHORSE    
Build Distributed Apps a New Way
The Whitehorse modeling technology in Whidbey uses an extensible SDM schema to help you design, build, and deploy distributed heterogeneous apps.
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Model Apps More Effectively
Microsoft's new Visual Studio Distributed Architecture Designer technology, code-named "Whitehorse," will let you use a set of modeling tools that sidestep all those synchronization problems of yore.
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DATABASE    
Pass the Data
Consider the advantages and disadvantages of several ways to pass data. VSLive! speaker Jackie Goldstein outlines your options.
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Optimize Oracle-.NET Data Access
How can you get the most out of your Oracle-.NET database? Take advantage of Oracle Data Provider for .NET's most beneficial features. VSLive! speaker Alex Keh shows you how.
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C#
Compare CodeDom to Reflection.Emit
Whether you should use CodeDom or Reflection.Emit for dynamic assembly generation depends on your situation. VSLive! speaker Josh Holmes discusses the determining factors.
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Interlocked vs. Lock
Use these best practices from VSLive! speaker Richard Hale Shaw to improve the overall performance of your assemblies.
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Tips for Test-Driven Development
How does automatic unit test implementation drive your software design? Get quick pointers for test-driven development from VSLive! speaker Jimmy Nilsson.
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Secure .NET Source Code
Use these free tools to help you produce more secure .NET source code—courtesy of Gabriel Torok, who's presenting ".NET Application Code Security" at VSLive! this week.
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Tips to Prepare You for Indigo
Indigo will unify four distributed technologies into one common programming model. Will you need to change your code when Indigo arrives? These tips from VSLive! speaker Tom Barnaby prepare you for Indigo now.
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Click here to see an ABC News video clip of "Chic Eye 4 the IT Guy" at Midnight Madness.


Check out the VSLive! photo gallery, featuring shots of sessions, the SBC Park party, Midnight Madness, and more.

Product News
Cryptographic Dev Toolkit Debuts
New products introduced at Mobile DevCon include the Security Builder Crypto-C# toolkit and a text-to-speech SDK for Windows Mobile and Windows CE.
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Communicate and Compress
IP*Works! V6 optimizes Internet communications, and LeadTools Raster Imaging Pro enhances imaging and compression functionality in your apps.
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VSM 2004 Readers Choice Awards Announced
You picked them, now see who won. Check out the Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Award winners, for excellence in 21 development categories.
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Share and Validate Your Data
Find out how Ektron's new CMS400.NET content management system and Melissa Data's DQWS data-entry verification software capitalize on Web services.
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Blogs & Chats    
Doing "Real" .NET Development?
VSLive! MSN Group member ProlificWaynesymons wants to know how many members are using .NET on real development projects. See what your peers are saying.
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VSLive! Speakers Blog
Check out recent blog posts by VSLive! speakers.
What's the Big Deal About Speech Server?
.NET Compact Framework Versioning
What is Mobile2Market?
Load Balancing and ASP.NET
Why is TDD So Boring?


Windows Mobile Bloggers
Neil Enns on Chris Anderson's keynote: "The whole keynote just made me super excited for VS.NET 2005. New designer support, new .NET CF features, COM interop, the whole works."
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Even More VSLive! Coverage
• Microsoft Touts Perks of Yukon, Whidbey and Laguna
• Standards needed to boost e-business, says Microsoft exec
• Microsoft Touts OLAP Strides For Yukon, Renames Mobile Database
• IT business processes evolving like cities, Microsoft exec says
• Gates Commits to Outspending IBM on R&D






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