Keith Ward discusses his new position, and has questions for Microsoft's upcoming BUILD conference.
Aspect Oriented Programming is great for handling cross-cutting concerns such as logging, security, and threading.
Developers increasingly prefer cloud-based development tooling.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/17/2011
Agile management tools are maturing as the market defines its needs.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/17/2011
Peter Vogel helps you understand the benefits of dynamic loading at runtime.
Nick Randolph walks through how to define, change and work with orientation within your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/09/2011
On VB columnist Joe Kunk continues his examination of XML comments by extending the XML comment vocabulary with additional default tags in Visual Basic and showing how to process the resulting XML file into API-style reference documentation using the SandCastle Help File Builder.
This article introduces the TAP and the associated .NET language changes that streamline asynchronous programming and extend the multithreading enhancements in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 08/02/2011
Not all business operations finish in seconds. Using Windows Communication Foundation you can still create -- as a single project -- an application that supports business services that take hours (or days or weeks or months) to complete.
Patrick Steele responds to questions about Lambda properties, interface-based code, and unsubscribing from events, among others.
- By Patrick Steele
- 08/02/2011
If you're documenting your .NET code for other developers, you should follow the standards that Microsoft has developed. Document! X 2011 for Visual Studio will make that job considerably faster and easier.
Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management provides a centralized way to create, manage and share environments in your domain-joined Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 development shop.
- By Brian Randell
- 08/01/2011
Starting with Microsoft Office, users have been able to double-click or drag a toolbar and have it become a floating window that can be moved or docked to the side of the application window. Here's how to implement a basic version of this behavior in C# Windows Forms applications.
- By Brian C. Hart
- 08/01/2011
For years, nobody cared that the legacy image-syncing application consumed as much bandwidth and processing time as it did.
Robby Ingebretsen's July VSInsider column on HTML5 produced plenty of opinions.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2011
Microsoft faces new threats today, like smartphones and tablets, but are they more severe than past ones?
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2011
Open Source .NET columnist Ian Davis explores creating domain specific languages to run coded builds.
The July release of Windows Phone 7 'Mango' enables device makers to start testing and working with the new operating system. Current smartphone customers can expect Mango updates to be made available in the fall.
After nearly a full year in beta, Microsoft yesterday released Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011. Andrew Brust explains why LightSwitch defies categorization and is a lot more than just another framework-based tool for generating code.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/27/2011
Microsoft today announced the release of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, a self-service development tool for power users and developers that enables data-driven .NET applications that can be deployed to the desktop, Web or Azure cloud.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/26/2011