Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint Open XML and Content Controls COLUMNS Toolbox Visual Studio 2010 Tools for User Interfaces, Podcasts, Object-Relational Mappings SharePoint Development and More Steve Fox page 44 Scott Mitchell page 9 CLR Inside Out Profi ling the .NET Garbage- Collected Heap Subramanian Ramaswamy & Vance Morrison page 13 Event Tracing Event Tracing for Windows Basic Instincts Collection and Array Initializers in Visual Basic 2010 Generating Documents from SharePoint Using Open XML Adrian Spotty Bowles page 20 Content Controls Data Points Eric White page 52 Data Validation with Silverlight 3 and the DataForm John Papa page 30 Cutting Edge Data Binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Dino Esposito page 36 Patterns in Practice Functional Programming Core Instrumentation Events in Windows 7, Part 2 for Everyday .NET Developers MSDN Magazine Dr. Insung Park & Alex Bendetov page 60 Jeremy Miller page 68 Service Station Building RESTful Clients THIS MONTH at msdn.microsoft.com/magazine: Jon Flanders page 76 CONTRACT-FIRST WEB SERVICES: Schema-Based Development Foundations with Windows Communication Foundation Routers in the Service Bus Christian Weyer & Buddihke de Silva Juval Lowy page 82 TEST RUN: Partial Anitrandom String Testing Concurrent Affairs James McCaffrey Four Ways to Use the Concurrency TEAM SYSTEM: Customizing Work Items Runtime in Your C++ Projects Rick Molloy page 90 OCTOBER Brian A. 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Second, there seems to be a continued focus on data and improving the experience of creating business more specifi cally on providing the capabilities to extract intelli- applications that run on the Microsoft Offi ce gence from that data. To group both of these thoughts together in platform. Th is is an area of soft ware develop- a single philosophical statement, I would say that traditional offi ce ment that I have always believed holds tremen- client applications are less about being really good stovepipe appli- dous potential in terms of ensuring that we are focused on solving cations and more about being a rich presentation tier for a deeply the right problems—those being the business problems. And with interconnected network of systems in an enterprise architecture. each new release, it’s nice to see improvements made to the plat- To use the iceberg analogy, the offi ce client applications simply fl at- form rather than just to the applications that help to realize this ten the tip a bit so that the iceberg is more comfortable to sit on. potential. We still have a good distance to travel, but we’re getting To get to the next step of really transforming the manner in closer. For example, Steve Fox provides a fi rst look at SharePoint which business is conducted, highly domain-specifi c functional- tooling in Visual Studio 2010 (page 44), while Eric White walks ity must be developed below the metaphorical surface—and thus through techniques for dynamically generating documents from can only be meaningfully implemented by you. When you think SharePoint using XML content controls (page 52). about it, the Offi ce platform lays a tremendous foundation for pro- Offi ce productivity applications have been around for a while viding these sorts of meaningful capabilities—what other platform now—aft er all, wasn’t offi ce productivity one of the main drivers gets you halfway there out of the box with respect to meeting your behind the personal computer revolution? However, if you look at users’ expectations around things like user experience? We, as the features that have been added to various products as they have developers, simply need to adjust our mission a bit: we aren’t in the matured, with a couple notable exceptions such as OLE, it seems application-development business as much as we are in the capability- as though at the core, offi ce applications haven’t really changed delivery business. Seeing our role through that lens will, I all that much since their inception. For example, I’m writing this believe, help to sharpen our focus on whom we build software document using Word 2010, and while I really like the new version for, what those people really need and how they can best use it. (a lot, actually), in the end, it is still a word processing application And in a majority of cases, the people that need the capabilities that I use in much the same way that I used WordPerfect 5.1 back we develop can best leverage them when they are delivered in around 1990. It seems as though these applications help us perform an integrated, frictionless manner, via the productivity tools that the same kinds of tasks more effi ciently—rather than change the they are already using. tasks that we need to perform. However, looking at the current and emerging versions of the Offi ce platform, I think that this is now changing in a dramatic (and much needed) way. 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