Nick Randolph walks through how to leverage the built-in system resources to style your application in line with the Windows Phone 7 Metro design language
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/17/2011
Pre-release development kit for building gesture-based C#, VB and C++ applications available for download today.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/16/2011
Build scripts are finally being treated as first-class development citizens, thanks to tools like psake, FAKE, and Rake + Albacore. Ian Davis explores the Ruby-based, open source Albacore DSL.
Microsoft extends developer guidance and API mapping tools to Android and iOS developers.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/09/2011
NetAdvantage Ultimate 2011 Volume 1 includes a jQuery control toolset, new theme support, extended support for ASP.NET and WinForms, and enhanced Microsoft Word interoperability.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/06/2011
We look at 17 of the best free Visual Studio and .NET tools and add-ins.
Microsoft on Wednesday revealed details about the new Windows 8 operating system, including its Windows Phone-like UI.
HTML 5 enters bug reporting phase, though final endorsement of the specification remains more than two years away.
For MegaCorp's end-of-quarter presentation, the VP of marketing arranged a demo for a feature that he had contracted an outside consultant to add to the new version of the company's customer-facing online application.
When Scott Guthrie, former corporate vice president of the .NET Platform at Microsoft, left the Developer Division to head up a new Windows Azure business unit, I was more than concerned.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/01/2011
Readers respond to the May cover story (".NET at the Crossroads") on the direction of C# and Visual Basic.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2011
A walk through the Windows Phone 7 application lifecycle with some tricks to effectively handle tombstoning.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/01/2011
Windows Communication Foundation has steadily evolved to better support SOA and Web services. Here's how to get the most out of your WCF-based services architecture.
This article will introduce you to the concept of exposing parts of your application logic as lambda properties. By making these properties read/write, you can plug in specific functionality with more control than subclassing.
- By Patrick Steele
- 06/01/2011
Will emerging developer tools and hybrid Platform as a Service features ramp up project and data deployments to Windows Azure?
- By Roger Jennings
- 06/01/2011
On Nov. 2, 2001, Microsoft and the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) reached a settlement in the antitrust action against Redmond. The terms of that decree expired in May.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/01/2011
Test-first development is an approach to software development that focuses on results: Tell me the expected outcome, not the requirements.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 06/01/2011
Visual Studio 2010 brings testers and developers closer together and provides testers the tools they need to be able to do their job more effectively. We look at Test Plans in Microsoft Test Manager 2010 and discuss how they are used within the testing framework.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 05/31/2011
If you're using the ASP.NET DataSources, you may be missing an important part of their functionality: the power of their events. But sometimes the right event isn't on the DataSource.
The Reactive Extensions (Rx) Library is a set of extensions for the IObservable<T> and IObserver<T> interfaces that greatly simplifies the orchestration and composition of asynchronous functions and events.