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April '12 Issue:

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Working with Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Working with Microsoft® FAST™ Search Server 2010 for SharePoint®


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Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise


Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010: Business Connectivity Services


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Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010



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ASP.NET: Simple & Seamless Solutions for Web Development
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Free Webcasts: Meet Experts Online

Building and Upgrading a PC
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From the MVPs: A GUI for Extended Events in SQL Server 2012

Here's the fifth post in our series of guest posts by Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs). This post covers aspects of the newly released Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

Previous posts by Microsoft Most Valued Professionals:

Excerpt #2 from Windows Internals 6E

Windows Internals, Part 1, Sixth Edition Christophe Nasarre here. Today I'd like to share an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Windows Internals, Part 1, Sixth Edition, by Mark Russinovich, David Solomon, and Alex Ionescu.

My introduction to this series of posts, in which I choose excerpts from the book to share with you, and my first excerpt (from Chapter 1, "Concepts and Tools") are here.


Free Ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Friends, the final and complete version of Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012, by Ross Mistry (@RossMistry) and Stacia Misner (@StaciaMisner), is now ready as a free download! You can download the PDF version of this title here (288 pages; 10.8 MB).

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ASP.NET Open Sourcing Discussion with Scott Hanselman

ASP.NET Open Sourcing Discussion with Scott Hanselman

At DevConnections, Scott Hanselman announced that some of the core components of the ASP.NET framework— MVC, Web API, and Razor—are all going open source, and that Microsoft will begin to collect contributions from the community via the new-and-improved-with–Git–support CodePlex web site. In this episode, Brady Gaster talks to Scott about what it all means to the Microsoft web development community.



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