As with any big shift in technology, a lot is at stake for developers. No one wants to make significant investments of money, attention and free time on something that will be a mere flash in the pan -- or even a stable, yet niche, technology.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/01/2011
On occasion I've been surprised that Microsoft has put significant effort into developing features and functionality already available within the developer ecosystem.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 03/01/2011
Tips on Windows Phone 7 development and app design with sample code for a Windows Phone Pivot application.
Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology Previews.
- By Roger Jennings
- 03/01/2011
TeamPulse provides economical support for teams implementing the Agile methodology, but it doesn't integrate with Visual Studio.
Everybody in the IT department was quite happy -- even a little surprised -- with how well the outsourced project to replace the legacy billing system was progressing.
In January, On VB columnist Joe Kunk wrote a column entitled "To Comment or Not to Comment." This article evoked some spirited debate about the costs and benefits of commenting code.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 03/01/2011
How to associate unit tests with requirements in Visual Studio 2010.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 03/01/2011
Every year we survey our readership to better understand who we're serving, and set the direction of our coverage in VSM and on the VisualStudioMagazine.com Web site.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/01/2011
The second part of this month's Ask Kathleen column on MVC 3 looks at dependency injection and extending parts of the framework. Part 2 of 2.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 03/01/2011
ComponentOne delivers a solid set of business-related controls with all the functionality developers need, but the reporting tools make this suite unique.
Read these first-person tales of development gone wrong, from the authors of the On VB, C# Corner and Practical ASP.NET columns at Visual Studio Magazine.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/28/2011
C# Corner columnist Patrick Steele recounts an avoidable mistake he made during a transition from WebForms to ASP.NET MVC, and what he learned from his gaffe.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/25/2011
Peter Vogel wraps up his review of the jQuery extensions by waxing philosophical about what those extensions mean to the kind of tools that developers should expect.
In the second part of this two-part series, Mickey Gousset shows how TFS 2010 lets users create Excel reports, including pivot tables and charts, from a work item query. The report can then be published and shared with other users.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/23/2011
TFS 2010 uses SQL Server Reporting Services to provide reports, but because it uses data warehouse and analysis services to store reporting information, users can roll their own. We examine how to use Microsoft Excel to access the Team Foundation Server OLAP cube to create a report.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/22/2011
Peter Vogel implements deletes for rows in a template by adding event handlers to the template. He also looks at a feature of the tmpl plugin that he wasn't able to shoehorn into his sample project. (Part 3 of 4)
Resco MobileForms 2011 Volume 2 adds new controls for Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, iOS and Android Editions.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/18/2011
C# Corner columnist Patrick Steele says writing unit tests can be a time-consuming chore. He looks at some approaches that can make writing unit tests easier and more efficient for C# programmers.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/18/2011
A survey of 1600 software development professionals shows widespread uptake of open source solutions marred by lack of effective policies and integration.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/17/2011