.NET Framework


Managing Projects with Axosoft OnTime

OnTime is a tremendously capable project management system that's good-but not perfect-when supporting Visual Studio developers.

VS Insider: Get Ready for Visual Studio 2010

Dave Mendlen writes that the Visual Studio team at Microsoft is working overtime to give developers the information they need to assess and use Visual Studio 2010.

Big Changes

By almost any metric, Visual Studio 2010 is a big release.

Supporting the ObjectDataSource

You're considering the ObjectDataSource but you're not an object developer. Peter Vogel shows you what you need to do to move into multi-tier development.

Agile Project Management for Everybody

For teams using an agile software development methodology, Team Foundation Server 2010 offers new tools to help you easily visualize the backlog, the workload per iteration and the workload per developer. Jeff Levinson shows how TFS 2010 can help guide agile development.

Static Code Analysis in VS2010

Just because your code compiles when you press F5 in VS2010 doesn't mean it's error free. Use the static code analysis features of VS2010 to analyze managed assemblies.

In Defense of Single-Tier Applications

You put all of your code in the code file of your ASP.NET pages -- but other developers keep kicking sand in your face because you're not doing n-tier development. Peter's here to say that you're not (necessarily) being dumb.

Q&A: Microsoft's Brian Harry Discusses ALM and Team Development in VS2010

Microsoft Technical Fellow and Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server Brian Harry talks about testing, data and team-based development in Visual Studio 2010.

Top 7 Windows Phone 7 Highlights from MIX10

From a scaled-down Office client to the much larger role of Silverlight, here are seven things about Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 preview that stood out at last week's conference.

Easing the Data Cramp

64-bit versions of Windows present perils for Win32 apps, and opportunities too. For example, it's incredibly easy to double your address space.

MIX10: More on jQuery and ASP.NET 4

Microsoft ASP.NET Senior Program Manager Stephen Walther Talks with Peter Vogel about jQuery, AJAX and ASP.NET 4.

Visual Studio's Lab Management Testing Virtualization Platform

Jeff Levinson explores the new Lab Management platform for testing virtualization, which is included in Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.

MIX10: Microsoft Doubles Down on jQuery

Scott Guthrie announces active support for open source jQuery JavaScript library during Day 2 keynote at MIX 10.

Searching Within Byte Arrays

Still using Instr to search within binary arrays? Stop that! Use InstrB instead.

MIX10: Windows Phone Developer Tools Are Free, Silverlight 4 RC

Microsoft is enabling developers to use familiar tools and skills to build Silverlight applications for the Windows Phone 7 Series.

VS2010 Q&A: Directions on Microsoft's Rob Sanfilippo

Directions on Microsoft Analyst Rob Sanfilippo talks about Microsoft's epic VS2010 development effort and what we can expect going forward.

Exploring Directed Graph Markup Language in VS2010

VS2010 Architecture Explorer Edition includes DGML, a powerful, yet easy to use, tool for visualizing almost anything.

Routing in ASP.NET 4 (Part 2)

Peter continues his exploration of the new Routing features in ASP.NET 4 by showing how to bind control properties to both routes and the values passed in a route.

Microsoft Rolling Out Visual Studio 2010 Promotions

Microsoft offering SKU upgrades, MSDN subscriptions to retail buyers of Visual Studio.

Redesign IDE Dialogs

Ever felt the VB IDE dialogs were poorly designed? Here's a way for you to tweak them a bit more to your liking.

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