Systems Engineering

Scott takes a detailed look at the foundation of automated unit testing, and the code-generation engine included in the Unit Testing Framework provided by Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

This song about code monkeys is brilliantly accurate (and therefore funny :-).

If you are new to Windows Vista:

1. Start by checking What’s New in Windows Vista. These articles summarize the new Windows Vista core UI features that you should use in your Windows Vista UI designs, and how they differ from Windows XP.
2. Next, proceed to the Top Rules, which summarizes the top rules that the Windows Vista Design team suggests you follow to create high-quality, consistent Windows Vista UIs.
3. Check out the Top Guidelines Violations, which summarizes the most common violations that the Windows Vista Design team is finding during design reviews, and offers guidelines for avoiding these violations.
4. Finally, read Designing with Windows Presentation Foundation, which gives you an overview of how to take advantage of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF, codename “Avalon”).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/UxGuide/UXGuide/Home.asp

The primary goal of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is to help developers create attractive and effective user interfaces. Learn how the WPF unified platform helps make designers active participants in creating user interfaces, and provides a common programming model for standalone and browser applications

Atomic transactions are the base part of ACID theory. Using this kind of transaction you can make sure your transaction will not cause any problem for the system if something goes wrong or if multiple requests are sent for the same resource or data. In this article Keyvan shows the simple process to write these transactions in .NET.