We rounded up readers' development misadventures for the December 2012 cover story, "Dev Disasters -- Why They Happen, How to Overcome Them".
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 01/01/2013
Eric Vogel covers how to use the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to extend a Windows Store application.
Diego Dagum provides an overview of C++ templates, and how its generics differ from C# and Java.
Peter returns to creating a provider WebPart, but this time passes SharePoint list data from one WebPart to another.
A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects.
The IWebPartParameters interface provides a flexible way for one WebPart to select the data it wants from another WebPart. And, since implementing that interface doesn't require much code, you should consider using it on all your WebParts.
Eric Lippert was a key part of the Roslyn compiler-as-a-service project.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/04/2012
Learn lessons about your own code through the errors committed by other developers.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 12/04/2012
Learn how to effectively create UI automation tests that verify whether a Windows application is performing as expected.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 12/04/2012
Every Silverlight developer needs to know these differences between Silverlight and the Windows Runtime before starting on a WinRT app.
- By Michael Crump
- 12/04/2012
The first native Windows 8 controls suite for creating Windows Store apps fills key gaps in the Visual Studio XAML and HTML5/JavaScript toolbox.
Because SharePoint lists are automatically turned into connectable Web Parts, you can integrate your own Web Parts with any existing SharePoint list by implementing the default interfaces provided by SharePoint.
Readers share opinions about Priority Queues and the Surface tablet.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 12/01/2012
The Build event last year was really just a sneak-peek of this yearโs show; the promise of Windows 8, hinted at then, became the reality of Windows 8 now.
.NET developers are database developers. Whether using ADO.NET, the Entity Framework or data binding, .NET devs work with transactional data as a matter of course.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 12/01/2012
How to use the new Windows Phone 8 SDK to build applications across both Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8.
- By Nick Randolph
- 11/30/2012
The .NET 4.5 Framework includes some changes to the typical reflection use cases. Most importantly, the Type object has been split into two separate classes: Type and TypeInfo. Find out how and when to use each.
.NET and Java developers are perplexed about the indiscreet way C++ discloses private class details. Pimpl (pointer-to-implementation) solves this problem by keeping secrets hidden from peepers.
Nick Randolph looks at the tools that make up the new Windows Phone 8 SDK.
- By Nick Randolph
- 11/28/2012
Learn how Visual Studio 2012 makes exploratory testing quick and easy.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 11/27/2012