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Very good artilce on silverlight myths.

What is lazy loading object? As per Martin Fowler, "An object that doesn't contain all of the data you need but knows how to get it."

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -- C.A.R. Hoare
 

Ever wondered how to do the branching and looping in a web test. Until VS 2008, this is possible only by creating coded web tests and work through your logic
But with VS 2010, it comes out of the box as Chirs explains.

Nice application on various Visual Studio products with key features and myth busters.

 I have been working on a new build process using TFS 2008 and VS 2008 and were setting up a new build server and were researching whether I could run web tests in the build PC as part of build verification test without installing the Visual Studio test edition. Looks like it is possible with VS 2010 and all you need is VS Team Agent which is a lightweight component running on your build server.

Here is the article, clearly explaining how to go about it.
http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara/archive/2009/12/16/running-tests-in-mstest-without-installing-the-vs-ide.aspx

Have you ever wondered why the @@IDENTITY is not returning the "right" value occassionally when everything was working correctly earlier. Here is the reason.