Jason Zander shows off new features that bring application stakeholders and IT operations into a tighter loop with developers.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/16/2011
It's been 13 years since United States vs. Microsoft was first filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Yesterday, the consent decree from that case finally expired.
Mickey covers the basics of Urban Turtle, an Agile development planning tool for Team Foundation Server.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 05/13/2011
How to use the PostSharp AOP library to encapsulate cross-cutting concerns into efficient and re-usable modules.
The emerging HTML 5 specification provides for structured documents that can support rich hierarchies and enable deep interoperability.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 05/11/2011
Latest version of Gemini Agile project management platform for .NET development adds testing support.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/10/2011
Sources indicate that developer tools for the Mango update to WP7 will be released May 24, ahead of the OS update expected in the fall.
Telerik this week updated a pair of products: The Telerik Test Studio automated test suite and Telerik TeamPulse team project management package.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/04/2011
Microsoft confirms that .NET Platform head Scott Guthrie is leaving to lead a new Azure group as part of a May reorg.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/02/2011
Microsoft's needs to make its cutting-edge products and research more visible if it hopes to capture young organizations that today often align with the LAMP stack.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/01/2011
Complex applications require careful architecting to reduce the amount of code movement between Visual Studio projects and the renaming of corresponding namespaces and folders.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 05/01/2011
Code First is a new development approach in the Entity Framework 4.1 stack that can simplify the understanding and maintenance of your domain model.
Faster performance in business applications comes down to reducing the "critical two" -- disk I/O and trips to the server. Doing that means doing a lot of things right, starting with your database design -- and tweaking your ADO.NET code helps, too.
Someone named Robbie had created a posting asking for assistance in resolving a problem with a simple Visual Basic .NET console application. It was used to retrieve and process product registrations and credit card transactions via the Internet for a piece of niche shareware.
The LightSwitch RAD platform generates apps with "no coding required." What's in it for you? .NET apps that are easier to maintain and extensions built on the Managed Extensibility Framework.
Benjamin Day's exploration of leveraging the ViewModel in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 development ("6 MVVM Tips") generated plenty of feedback.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2011
The relational model and SQL dominate today's database landscape, but NoSQL is gaining adherents in the era of "big data." But Roger Jennings says SQL and NoSQL may not be as exclusive as many developers think.
- By Roger Jennings
- 05/01/2011
Bigger is better. At least, that seems to be the philosophy at the Microsoft Developer Division.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2011
How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2011
Assuming you don't have any beta software installed, what will you get when you apply service pack 1 to your copy of Visual Studio 2010?