How to avoid the end-to-end integration test problem with the Repository pattern.
- By Benjamin Day
- 09/01/2009
Since the birth of Visual Basic and Access, Microsoft has burned through a series of data-access APIs.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 09/01/2009
JetBrains' ReSharper 4.5 is a comprehensive Visual Studio add-in that boasts enhanced IntelliSense-powerful refactoring and code-analysis tools in addition to welcome fixes for many of Visual Studio's biggest annoyances.
When all you have is a hammer, should everything look like SMS?
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 09/01/2009
Optional and named parameters were added to the C# language for COM and Office interoperability, but these features are actually useful in a variety of ways.
A reader responds to our August interview with Scott Guthrie, corporate VP of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform group, about Silverlight 3.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 09/01/2009
Careful planning can help improve the manageability and quality of your next-generation Silverlight applications.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 09/01/2009
Windows 7 has gone RTM and seems poised undo much of the damage Windows Vista has wrought. Is it time to start developing for Windows 7?
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/01/2009
Windows 7 was released to manufacturing (RTM) by Microsoft in July, three months prior to the planned Oct. 22 retail launch.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/01/2009
The final installment in Peter's series on how to use the GridView without a DataSource explores how developers can perform inserts.
Microsoft is hoping developer code camps will help revive the fortunes of its Windows Mobile platform. But no word yet on when Silverlight for Windows Mobile will appear.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/25/2009
The difference between a successful program and a complete flop may come down to how you treat your users. Here's one simple way to avoid needlessly annoying your users.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 08/25/2009
Peter adds the code to support doing updates and deletes with an unbound GridView.
Microsoft is merging its Data Programmability and Connected Systems Group.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/20/2009
Creating and persisting new environment variables can be surprisingly tricky in Classic VB. Here's how to avoid a common trap.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 08/18/2009
On Friday, Microsoft made the new R2 version of its Windows Server 2008 server operating system available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
If you want to let your users edit repeated rows of data, you can use the GridView -- even if your data isn't in a table. You need to do pick the right design for your data but you can enable all of the functionality of the GridView for data held in memory.
Microsoft's Brad Anderson on Tuesday talked about the company's management product strategies, while downplaying those of VMware, at investment banker-sponsored event.
ClassicVB was created in a pre-Mousewheel era, hard as that may be to conceive. Here’s how you can watch for, and react to, the user spinning that now-ubiquitous device.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 08/11/2009
The leading supplier of virtualization technology looks to extend its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) effort by adding the chief sponsor of the open source Spring Framework.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/10/2009