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.
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.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 03/30/2010
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.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 03/25/2010
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.
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.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/25/2010
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.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/22/2010
64-bit versions of Windows present perils for Win32 apps, and opportunities too. For example, it's incredibly easy to double your address space.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 03/22/2010
Microsoft ASP.NET Senior Program Manager Stephen Walther Talks with Peter Vogel about jQuery, AJAX and ASP.NET 4.
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.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 03/18/2010
Scott Guthrie announces active support for open source jQuery JavaScript library during Day 2 keynote at MIX 10.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/16/2010
Still using Instr to search within binary arrays? Stop that! Use InstrB instead.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 03/16/2010
Microsoft is enabling developers to use familiar tools and skills to build Silverlight applications for the Windows Phone 7 Series.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2010
Directions on Microsoft Analyst Rob Sanfilippo talks about Microsoft's epic VS2010 development effort and what we can expect going forward.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/15/2010
VS2010 Architecture Explorer Edition includes DGML, a powerful, yet easy to use, tool for visualizing almost anything.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 03/11/2010
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 offering SKU upgrades, MSDN subscriptions to retail buyers of Visual Studio.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/02/2010
Ever felt the VB IDE dialogs were poorly designed? Here's a way for you to tweak them a bit more to your liking.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 03/02/2010
More than 8,000 developers have downloaded the first test build since its release at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in November.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/01/2010
Use LINQ outside of databases to make your code easier to read and maintain.
- By Patrick Steele
- 03/01/2010
By many accounts, the Apple iPad has been a disappointment -- even Apple "fanboy" bloggers and tweeters have proclaimed themselves underwhelmed.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/01/2010