When Brett was hired on as a senior analyst, he wasn't surprised to learn that the older platforms were built around Visual Basic 6 (VB6), which was no longer supported by Microsoft.
By responding to potential threats with thoughtfulness, and a zeal to add value, SQL and Big Data could be big business for Redmond.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 02/01/2012
The latest edition of the control suite for ASP.NET offers almost every kind of control that a developer would need -- with one-third of the controls supporting ASP.NET MVC.
Learn how to implement the new sharing contracts in Windows 8 to distinguish your application.
With a little bit of code (along with a .NET interface and collection), you can integrate the properties on your classes with the .NET user interface controls to simplify your presentation layer.
Mocking is generally an overloaded term. But at its base, it's about changing behavior -- specifically, dependency behavior.
Team Explorer in TFS 11 has added a "My Work" page to review active work items, track changes and work with the Code Review process.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 01/19/2012
In WPF and Silverlight,you can separate your UI logic into a set of Command classes that facilitate loose coupling, testable designs, and reusability.
Iterators are available for Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2010. In Part 2 of a series, Joe Kunk discusses Visual Basic iterator syntax, demonstrates how iterators are coded, and compares Visual Basic iterators to C# iterators.
Eric Vogel walks through a soup-to-nuts demo for building a Metro-style RSS reader.
The vulnerability in the .NET Framework could lead to elevation of privilege attack.
Our first annual salary survey shows that developers aren't just surviving, but thriving.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/04/2012
Visual Studio Magazine's first-ever survey shows high salaries and a strong future for Microsoft-focused developers.
Visual Basic development in Visual Studio 11 offers asynchronous methods, iterators, call hierarchy, the Global keyword and Windows 8 Metro-based applications.
Even with a terrible economy, Microsoft-focused developers are doing well, according to our salary survey.
jqChart for ASP.NET MVC leverages HTML5 to deliver more responsive, scalable charting to the browser -- and throws in an HTML helper for ASP.NET MVC developers.
Dueling developers create an unappetizing code stew.
Use Test-Driven Development, generate from usage and a free Visual Studio add-in to let you spend more time doing what programmers want to do: writing code that works.
As the market becomes more diffuse, its practitioners and participants must cope and adapt.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 01/01/2012
Parser combinators are put to work in a real-life scenario as custom configurations are designed for neuro-optical scientific experiments in which optical tissue is stimulated and the results are recorded.