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Untitled-2 1 7/1/10 11:31 AM { FRAMEWORKS } 14 Michael Desmond, Editor in Chief, Visual Studio Magazine Flight to Simplicity If you’ve been reading Andrew Brust’s Redmond Review columns and Redmond Diary blog, you know that he’s expressed concern about the complexity of the August 2010 // Volume 20 // No. 8 Microsoft development stack. Last month, Brust lauded the Microsoft eff ort to transform the Access 2010 database FEATURES application into a development environ- 14 Exploit Multi-Core Processors with .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 ment for SharePoint applications New capabilities like Parallel LINQ and Task Parallel Library are enabling Microsoft (“SharePoint is the New Access,” September, .NET Framework developers to optimize applications for multi-core systems. 2010). And in a July blog entry (“WebMatrix, BY PETER VOGEL Razor and a Return to Simplicity,” available 22 Debugging Applications with IntelliTrace at VisualStudioMagazine.com/Brust0710), The new IntelliTrace feature in Visual Studio 2010 gives developers a detailed view Brust explored the new WebMatrix Web of what happened during execution when a bug was filed. Learn how you can get development environment and its roots in