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Not responsible for typographical errors. Untitled-2 1 8/1/11 11:20 AM { FRAMEWORKS } 12 Keith Ward, Editor in Chief, Visual Studio Magazine Papa’s Got a Brand New Mag You’ll probably notice a different face at the top of this column. It’s no longer Mike Desmond’s handsome mug, but my far September 2011 // Volume 21 // No. 9 inferior one. Mike did an amazing job with VSM, and I’ll do my best to pick up where he left off. I look forward to getting to know FEATURES you; interactions with readers have always 12 HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers been one of the best parts of my job, and The technologies bundled as HTML5 finally support what developers have your feedback—both positive and negative— been trying to get HTML to do for decades. BY PETER VOGEL can only help the magazine get better. 17 Scale ASP.NET Apps Through Distributed Caching Mine isn’t the only new face you’ll fi nd in If you’re developing an ASP.NET application for a high-transaction environment, these pages this month. I’m giddy to you can use distributed caching to boost performance without major changes introduce our new columnist, John Papa. to your code.