Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 First Look--- CTP Out there...

Break through application development challenges faster than ever, a commitment to make parallel development accessible to a wide range of developers with Visual Studio 2010; built in support for parallel programming as well as .Net 4.0 support is there.

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Find Images by Exact Dimensions

Everyone knows that Google Image Search sports a drop-down menu for filtering results by small, medium, large, and extra large sizes, but if you're looking for the perfect wallpaper, for example, the imagesize operator is even better.
Weblog Design Live uncovers the undocumented search operator (that's also new to us) and demonstrates how to use it.
Just use the imagesize operator followed by the WidthXHeight in pixels, like so:
Here's an example:

[imagesize:640x480 muffin] finds 640px x 480px images related to muffins.

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A brief list of Out of the box WCF Bindings

Here is a list of WCF out-of-the-box bindings, brief information about them (from MSDN) and the link which points to further details. I found these brief definitions indeed, very helpful.

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Exposing a WCF Service With Multiple Bindings and Endpoints

WCF supports multiple bindings that allows developers to expose their services in a variety of ways. What this means is a developer can create a service once and then expose it to support net.tcp:// or http:// and various versions of http:// (Soap1.1, Soap1.2, WS*, JSON, etc). This can be useful if a service crosses boundaries between intranet and extranet applications for example. This article walks through the steps to configure a service to support multiple bindings with Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net 3.5 framework.

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All Microsoft SDKs at one place.

My brother shared this page where you can find links to Microsoft Software Development Kits (SDKs), which provide documentation, code samples, tools, headers, libraries, and other files that developers can use to create software applications and libraries. MSDN subscribes already get these kits.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dd299405.aspx

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Improving Web Services Security: Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF

This guide shows you how to make the most of WCF (Windows Communication Foundation). With end-to-end application scenarios, it shows you how to design and implement authentication and authorization in WCF. Learn how to improve the security of your WCF services through prescriptive guidance including guidelines, Q&A, practices at a glance, and step-by-step how tos. It's a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, WCF team members, and industry experts.

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What is your greatest strength/greatest weakness?

My tips on the strengths/weaknesses question: Anticipate this question, and write down your strengths and weaknesses before the interview. Maybe think of three each. Ask the interviewer to clarify the question. Depending on the type of interview, this question may be getting at general competencies, technical skills, teamwork situations...

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