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What's Happening Near You Volume 13, Number 19: September 14, 2009 From the Editor Your Featured Content

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The beach chairs have been packed away, the kids are back at school, and it's Training & Books time to dive back into your local user groups and community events.

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The official Windows 7 launch hits...

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Top News MSDN Magazine: Disentangling Our Tangled Web Part 8 of this multipart series about improving an existing "classic" ASP.NET Web application focuses on better ways to wire together loosely coupled applications using dependency injection and an inversion of control container.

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