<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>CoDe Magazine News</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/</link><description>CoDe Magazine is the premier online magazine site for .NET developers</description><language>en-US</language><copyright>by EPS Software 1993 - 2008. all rights reserved.</copyright><managingEditor>megger@code-magazine.com</managingEditor><generator>Milos Solution Platform - www.milossolutionplatform.com</generator><item><title>Publisher's Point: What's The Resolution?</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=060083         </link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/7d46e958-0703-44d6-bc35-4a8792784200</guid><description>Exclusive online-only article!&lt;h2&gt;Publisher's Point E-Column: What's The Resolution? &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Markus Egger discusses screen resolutions.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Publisher's Point: How Many Threads Do You Need?</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=060033         </link><pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/ae7b369d-7f59-4ede-aae0-3722f0aa16d7</guid><description>Exclusive online-only article!&lt;h2&gt;Publisher's Point E-Column: How Many Threads Do You Need? &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Markus Egger discusses the need to create multi-threaded applications.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Publisher's Point: Beyond the Mists of Avalon</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=050153         </link><pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/a6b624aa-633f-4cbf-8827-45ff8917ec1a</guid><description>Exclusive online-only article!&lt;h2&gt;Publisher's Point E-Column: Beyond the Mists of Avalon &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Markus Egger discusses tools used to create WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation, formerly "Avalon") interfaces, in particular, WinFX Extensions for Visual Studio as well as the Microsoft Expression product line.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Publisher's Point: LINQ Up!</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=050133         </link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/0cc83d7a-9a1e-4005-be7b-7227561e7554</guid><description>Exclusive online-only article!&lt;h2&gt;Publisher's Point E-Column: LINQ Up! &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;At PDC 2005, Microsoft announced a new technology called Language Integrated Query (LINQ), which will be available with Visual Studio “Orcas” (the next version of Visual Studio). A lot of exciting new technologies are announced at every PDC, and as a result, LINQ got some attention, but not nearly as much as I think it deserves. LINQ represents the ability to run queries right inside of Visual Basic, C#, or any other .NET language. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Publisher's Point: C-Sharpest</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=050123         </link><pubDate>Sun, 4 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/47b9cd6a-7bfa-408c-9012-a1e37fb3272b</guid><description>Exclusive online-only article!&lt;h2&gt;Publisher's Point E-Column: C-Sharpest &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;C# 2.0 just shipped with a number of interesting new features: anonymous methods, nullable objects, iterators, partial classes, generics, and others. But the innovation does not stop there! Microsoft (and Anders Hejlsberg in particular) have already allowed us a sneak peek at some of the new features that will be available in C# 3.0. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Publisher's Point: The Quest for the Killer App</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=050103         </link><pubDate>Wed, 7 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/475e0154-b3f5-44d2-a7f2-36c01848de48</guid><description>Exclusive online-only article!&lt;h2&gt;Publisher's Point E-Column: The Quest for the Killer App &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Markus Egger discusses the evaluation of new technologies.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Publisher's Point: User Interface Challenges</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=050083         </link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/d99ca5d3-3759-47f1-97a4-33a9408596e2</guid><description>Exclusive online-only article!&lt;h2&gt;Publisher's Point E-Column: User Interface Challenges &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Markus Egger discusses user interface technologies developers should familiarize themselves with.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Publisher's Point: Where's Your Logic?</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=050073         </link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/db894a39-5400-4a6d-8da2-ccc7b6bf7de5</guid><description>Exclusive online-only article!&lt;h2&gt;Publisher's Point E-Column: Where's Your Logic? &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Markus Egger discusses the role of business logic in modern application architecture.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Publisher's Point: Who's On First?</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=050063         </link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/433c6441-ea68-4b1f-9227-25355e4031a0</guid><description>Exclusive online-only article!&lt;h2&gt;Publisher's Point E-Column: Who's On First? &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Markus Egger discusses the importance of a solid basis of knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Publisher's Point: Anything To Declare?</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=050053         </link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/1faec54a-3cb0-47d2-92db-caee40c8e673</guid><description>Exclusive online-only article!&lt;h2&gt;Publisher's Point E-Column: Anything To Declare? &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Markus Egger discusses declarative programming&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>CoDe Magazine: 2008 May/Jun</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/DisplayIssue.aspx?id=4659d960-1235-4848-aeb3-a02c1a441300</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/4659d960-1235-4848-aeb3-a02c1a441300</guid><description>&lt;img src="http://www.code-magazine.com/GetIssueCover.aspx?pk=4659d960-1235-4848-aeb3-a02c1a441300" align="right"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;CoDe Magazine, Issue 2008 May/Jun is now available!&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Agile Development&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Individuagility</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0805021        </link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/ac4ef5f2-b8ca-4972-8b85-12d9c2e67f9f</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Individuagility&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;May/June 2008 MVP Corner by Jean-Paul S. BoodhooSo you have researched agile development techniques, and are all fired up to put them into practice.Armed with this drive and passion to learn, what are some steps that you as an individual can take to incrementally grow your knowledge and practice of agile development techniques?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: SharePoint Applied:  CAML, Your New Pet</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0805031        </link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/6983296b-53bf-4711-8f0b-f9e77df909ee</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: SharePoint Applied:  CAML, Your New Pet&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;SharePoint is a very powerful platform. It gives you a very easy-to-setup place to put your data in.And you know what happens when you have a tool like SharePoint? People use it! And then when people have been putting in data, they want to retrieve it, in all sorts of weird ways. Putting in data is only half the story, and I’d argue the easier part. It is fetching the data in a meaningful and targeted manner that separates the wheat from chaff.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Managing an Agile Software Project</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0805041        </link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/d4667ce1-b78f-4a58-9e6e-97ab205c47e2</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Managing an Agile Software Project&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Everything right or wrong with a software project is management’s fault.Either management staffed the right people or the wrong people. Management was absent or involved. Management is hard, and there are numerous factors that can cause success or failure of a project. In the best situation you have great people who do great work. A software manager can even succeed despite themselves if they happen to staff a top-notch team even though the managers, themselves, might not be very competent. The success that a top-notch team achieves is still the manager’s fault. Failure, however, is harder to blame on the team because a manager must be able to solve problems as they come along. This article will focus on tips and knowledge to use when managing an agile software project.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Introduction to Scrum</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0805051        </link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/cb73e16e-9a99-4d42-a655-8cd86ef32dca</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Introduction to Scrum&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scrum is an agile software development process to manage software projects. Scrum is based on three simple principles: visible progress, constant inspection, and adaptation. With Scrum, teams use an empirical approach to adapt to changing requirements and priorities. Teams using Scrum focus on delivering working software to their customers on a frequent basis.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Behavior-Driven Development</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0805061        </link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/403d998a-4946-4600-b274-1156cf1e79c3</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Behavior-Driven Development&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Extreme Programming and Scrum compliment each other, but they weren’t made from the start to fit together hand in glove.Practicing Extreme Programming and Scrum are more effective when practiced together, and even more effective when practiced together as Behavior-Driven Development.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: The Baker’s Dozen:  13 Tips for Building Database Web Applications Using ASP.NET 3.5, LINQ, and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0805071        </link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/dd35aad4-51d7-49a8-8d6c-3ef231e3c31a</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: The Baker’s Dozen:  13 Tips for Building Database Web Applications Using ASP.NET 3.5, LINQ, and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are you moving a Windows desktop application to the browser, and sweating bullets, or perhaps just not quite sure about how all the new Web and data tools work together?With each passing year, Microsoft offers newer and more powerful tools for building rich database applications on the Web. So many and so frequently, in fact, that it can be hard to keep up with the new tools and still meet the requirements of your job! This article will show you how to get the most out of the new features in ASP.NET 3.5. The article will also show how you can use features in LINQ, even if you only use stored procedures for data access. And finally, since most applications use reporting, I’ll throw in a few nuggets on using SQL Server Reporting Services.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Using Continuous Integration to Reduce Project Friction</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0805081        </link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/b3d071d8-34e8-4421-a543-3f9204b47add</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Using Continuous Integration to Reduce Project Friction&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;So you wanna be agile, do you?You want to work in small increments and continuously deliver business functionality. You want to embrace change, even if that means taking on new requirements late in the game. But wait, won’t that be dangerous? It doesn’t have to be if you’ve got a solid Continuous Integration infrastructure in place.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Design and Use of Moveable and Resizable Graphics, Part 2</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0805091        </link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/3ad6f62f-7634-4d0f-b54e-b2d36b9944ec</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Design and Use of Moveable and Resizable Graphics, Part 2&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Part 1 of this article dealt with the idea of moveable/resizable graphics.I wrote about contour presentation and explained the design of common and special types of contours, which allow you to apply them to the widest variety of objects. I used simple examples to illustrate the technique of involving these objects in moving/resizing. In part 2, I describe complicated cases of moveable/resizable graphics, e.g., engineering plotting, as well as objects involved in both forward moving and rotation. I also explain how you can apply the same technique to controls and how you can base customization of the forms on moveable/resizable objects.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Heard on .NET Rocks!  Andy Leonard on Unit Testing Your Database</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0805111        </link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/9859153c-12aa-4464-bd0e-6ac11cb72564</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Heard on .NET Rocks!  Andy Leonard on Unit Testing Your Database&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;May/June 2008 .NET Rocks! column&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Ask the Doc Detective</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0805121        </link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/aaaa0ba2-194f-418b-a6b0-7def39922f55</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Ask the Doc Detective&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;May/June 2008 Doc Detective Column&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Things Fall Apart</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0805131        </link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/4ee45900-6495-4e51-b017-620afacfd233</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Things Fall Apart&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;May/June 2008 .Finalize column&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Boy Scouts, D&D, and Community</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0805011        </link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/2023dee8-86d4-49de-8f12-ac5646911d4b</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Boy Scouts, D&D, and Community&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;May/June 2008 Editorial Article by Rod Paddock&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>CoDe Magazine: 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live </title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/DisplayIssue.aspx?id=69e0f919-baee-46e6-959e-8e33df8e94d8</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/69e0f919-baee-46e6-959e-8e33df8e94d8</guid><description>&lt;img src="http://www.code-magazine.com/GetIssueCover.aspx?pk=69e0f919-baee-46e6-959e-8e33df8e94d8" align="right"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;CoDe Magazine, Issue 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live  is now available!&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Windows Live Code Focus Edition&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Developing Plugins for Windows Live Writer</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0804092        </link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/267c6681-f07c-4e92-b1b1-61608ba37609</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Developing Plugins for Windows Live Writer&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plugins for Windows Live Writer are simple to create and can provide many extra features.This article will show you how to start writing plugins for Windows Live Writer, including how to get started, how to debug, and how to package the final plugin.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Getting Started with the Windows Live Tools</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0804102        </link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/6871dcd9-0374-413d-bcac-bfed4b359489</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Getting Started with the Windows Live Tools&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio enables developers to incorporate a set of Windows Live services into their Web sites using Visual Studio and ASP.NET.Using the Contacts ASP.NET Server Control, your users can easily share their contacts between Windows Live and your Web site. With the SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer ASP.NET Server Control, you can show videos on your Web site from your Silverlight Streaming account with just drag-and-drop. The IDLoginStatus and IDLoginView ASP.NET Server Controls provide Windows Live ID authentication at your Web site for your users. Microsoft released its second community technology preview (CTP) in December, 2007. You can download this CTP from http://dev.live.com/tools.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Live from the Web! Bring the Windows Live Messenger Experience to Your Web Applications</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0804032        </link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/1b8b1dc0-d78f-42a5-985e-467f061c1730</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Live from the Web! Bring the Windows Live Messenger Experience to Your Web Applications&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Windows Live Messenger is one of the central offerings nestled among a suite of products and services under Microsoft’s Windows Live brand.For years online chat has been progressively and swiftly revolutionizing how you communicate with your friends, family, coworkers, and businesses you deal with. It is the foundation of the original chat room concept and the heart of instant messaging applications. Online chat-also called instant messaging or just “IM”-connects people for one-to-one or group chat, for social networking purposes, or for business directives, such as enabling access to technical support, customer services, or sales. Now, Windows Live Messenger supports a rich set of features for Web applications through the Windows Live Messenger IM Control, the Windows Live Messenger Presence API, and the Windows Live Messenger Library. The collective features of these products go beyond the simplicity of a chat application, making it possible to embrace this new era of social networking by leveraging your built-in Windows Live network within any Web application.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Weaving the Windows Live Services into Your Web Site</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0804052        </link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/2ed25078-df0c-48d3-953b-d8f4bf123d49</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Weaving the Windows Live Services into Your Web Site&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ready to build a Web experience your users will love?Windows Live Services are the building blocks of your new site. Get started right now with the Windows Live Quick Applications.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Building Personalized Applications on the Windows Live ID Platform</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0804062        </link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/210a3582-a993-426b-90fa-dc504bf46a44</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Building Personalized Applications on the Windows Live ID Platform&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you have a cool personalized application that you want to offer to over 400 million users? Do you want to light it up with Live controls or create a mashup with Live resources?Windows Live ID now offers a simple way for third parties to get Live ID authentication in your Web or rich client applications, letting you reach millions of Live ID users, integrate with Live Controls, and access Live services.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Windows Live Delegated APIs</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0804072        </link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/f1affef0-5476-4747-8996-edf5845c40ca</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Windows Live Delegated APIs&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;The smart way to share data between computers and other people is to place it in an online Internet store, which the other parties can access, but you want to make sure only the right people can access your data.This article will help you understand how the Windows Live delegated authentication system is used to access certain Windows Live data stores and the technologies Microsoft is building to make this work easier for you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Light Up the Web-Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0804082        </link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/27c7d752-9ba9-4176-8f85-6eded40c6451</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Light Up the Web-Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live™ is a free streaming and application hosting service for delivering rich interactive applications (RIAs) over the Web.In this article I’ll show you how to get started with Silverlight and how to upload your applications and rich media to the Silverlight Streaming Service.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Welcome to the Windows Live Platform CoDe Focus Magazine</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0804012        </link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/80167ca1-34eb-4541-b0ea-64cb04c676f3</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Welcome to the Windows Live Platform CoDe Focus Magazine&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Building compelling applications and Web sites just got easier.Microsoft is opening up Windows Live Services to developers everywhere. This edition of CoDe Focus shows you how to use Windows Live Services to draw users to your Web site, get them hooked, and keep them engaged.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Windows Live Admin Center</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0804112        </link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/f3fb518f-61a4-4c80-88d1-32c0d4f3b45e</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Windows Live Admin Center&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;When developing with Windows Live services, you open your application to a whole new world of software integration.In this fascinating realm of mash-up mania, developers can find tools for adding maps, searches, video, chats, and even social networking services directly into their applications and ultimately right into their users’ browsers. The benefit of adding services like Virtual Earth and Silverlight Streaming are obvious-creating dazzling content and facilitating rich user experiences. Yet services like these are still limited to specific contexts within your program. They are perfectly wonderful for beefing up the user experience in Web sites, but wouldn’t it be great if the folks at Microsoft provided a service that helps you administer user accounts and customize services around your Web site? Well indeed they have, and its name is Windows Live Admin Center (admincenter.live.com).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Introduction to the Live Search API</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0804122        </link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/1bbfe20d-a4f7-41c5-bf5c-dbdbb24c45b3</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Introduction to the Live Search API&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you ever wanted to implement search capabilities on your own Web site but didn’t want to implement the logic and deal with issues such as storage and indexing?The Live Search team now offers two different ways to utilize Search on your site: using the Live Search Box or using the Windows Live Search API.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Introduction to Microsoft’s Windows Live Platform</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0804022        </link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/e776f1ec-0948-4782-8e56-c40d0cb88bce</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Introduction to Microsoft’s Windows Live Platform&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the consumer products associated with the MSN Butterfly, the Windows Live Platform has steadily grown and evolved.In this article you will discover some of the history behind the Windows Live Platform and explore where it is heading now and might be destined to go in the future. This article will explore the opportunities for you as a developer in this brave (nearly) new world.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Article: Virtual Earth-What's New in the Latest Release</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0804042        </link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/8e6df198-cb99-4000-aeb5-af6e35791186</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Virtual Earth-What's New in the Latest Release&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now in its sixth major release, Virtual Earth offers an entire world of opportunities for innovative Web-based mapping.Microsoft’s premier Web-based mapping solution has undergone upgrades to it user interface, compatibility, and functionality making it an ideal time to get started with the platform or upgrade your existing application. 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Pablo Castro on Astoria</title><link>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0803081        </link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>code-magazine.com/rss/c1b35a7c-77a1-4ddd-9b5e-bdaef0788efc</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;Online Article: Heard on .NET Rocks!  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