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Interview with Microsoft's Dave Mendlen Formerly asp.netPRO November 2009 www.devproconnections.com Volume 8 Number 12 Building Independent Developer Connections Visual Studio 2010 for ASP.NET Devs What’s Coming in ASP.NET AJAX 4 PLUS New Column Guest Editorial .NET Framework 4 Regular Columnists, New Products, What’s New and More! Entity Framework 2010 New Column Microsoft Insider The Microsoft Web Platform Interview with Microsoft’s Dave Mendlen November 2009 www.devproconnections.com U.S. $6.99 • Canada $9.99 Get ready for… in automated web testing Presenting Telerik Web Testing Tools automating advanced ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight applications WebUI Test Studio Point-and-click web automation. Seamless Visual Studio integration. Click-and-play interface for codeless web automation. Automatically generate common veriöcation or synchronization tasks. Unique browser abstraction allows a single test to be recorded just once and played on multiple browsers without re-recording. 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