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Printed in the USA Untitled-1 1 1/30/12 3:57 PM EDITOR’S NOTE MICHAEL DESMOND What You Want Over the past two months in this space I’ve written about Charles Obviously a lot of this traffi c is being driven by searches, links Petzold and John Papa, two longtime MSDN Magazine columnists from referring newsletters and Web sites, and who knows what other who have seen their share of change over their tenures. Petzold, of organic sources. But it’s interesting that a list dominated by broadly course, came on board while developers were still arguing about deployed technologies includes the presence of one very fresh face: the relevance of GUIs. Today, he leads our coverage of cutting-edge HTML5. Despite being published in the second half of 2011, Brandon mobile and touch UI development. Satrom’s feature, “Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to For Papa, the changes are no less signifi cant. As the man once Know” (August 2011), ranks among the 10 most-read articles over the responsible for our Data Points column, he felt that data access entire year. We’ve seen similarly impressive traffi c for other HTML5- and development had long been neglected by the industry. 10 years related features and columns published over the past several months. later, we’ve experienced a burst of data-oriented advancements in Do these figures mean that there’s little developer interest in the Microsoft .NET Framework space—notably around technolo- articles on contemporary Microsoft platforms such as Windows gies such as LINQ and the Entity Framework—and our coverage Phone and Windows Azure? Not hardly. A glance at average page has scaled to match. More to the point, Papa is arguably the lead- views per article by topic shows that articles on Windows Phone ing authority on Silverlight development. Yet you’ll fi nd him now and Windows Azure published in 2011 actually produce Web writing as much about HTML5, jQuery and JavaScript as you will readership slightly higher than data-oriented articles. about Silverlight and its XAML sibling, Windows Presentation It’s always a challenge to balance coverage of both established and Foundation (WPF). Times change. emerging platforms and technologies in the magazine. Our goal is to And yet, many of the most widely read MSDN Magazine articles ensure that developers are getting insight into the tools and techniques over the past year were written not in 2011, but before 2010. Readers they need to succeed today, even as we introduce them to important on the Web keep returning to articles with titles such as, “WPF Apps new technologies that will defi ne their jobs tomorrow. HTML5 is a with the Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern” (February 2009), case in point. Microsoft has been vocally supporting