Use the DesignProperties class to prevent code errors in the Blend designer.
New code obfuscation tool secures and manages your applications.
How .NET developers can help Microsoft face growing threats to its .NET franchise.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/01/2009
VSM readers honor the best commercial development tools.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2009
A Junior Developer Learns that Seniority Doesn't Mean Smarter.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 08/01/2009
Exceptions are a way of life in the .NET world. You must follow the rules to make your classes easy to use for other developers. Conforming to the standards will make everyone's life easier.
When Adobe announced that it would periodically have Patch Tuesday releases of its own to coincide with Microsoft's, it became clear that Windows plays a vital role in the third-party software firm's security repertoire.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/31/2009
The maker of the popular Blackberry smart phone this week unveiled new tooling for developers building Web and rich Internet applications for its devices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/30/2009
Peter returns to .NET RIA Services to look at the client side of creating an application.
Redmond on Tuesday released a security advisory concerning its Active Template Library technology, accompanied by two out-of-band application patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/28/2009
Subclass multiple controls with a single class module to add the missing MouseEnter and MouseLeave events.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 07/28/2009
The ASP.NET-related portions of .NET RIA Services aren't ready for primetime yet, but now's a good time to start kicking the tires.
Microsoft announced product names for its latest claims-based identity management server platform, dropping the "Geneva" code name.
Windows XP offers a much-improved method to subclass windows. Is it the right call for you to make?
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 07/16/2009
Telerik’s Premium Collection for .NET, released last week, updates all seven of its product lines including the data access tool and Web UI testing framework that mark the company’s new strategy to diversify beyond UI components for the Microsoft platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/16/2009
Your users may want to get their data in a specific order -- and not get it all at once. You can control both with the ObjectDataSource (and a little code).
The newest version of Microsoft's answer to Flash is now out. Dan gives a quick rundown of what's different, from the improved graphics and networking support to new controls and styles.
To address licensing questions surrounding the Mono Project, Microsoft has agreed to apply its Community Promise to both C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/07/2009
Not content with providing a solution for displaying information from the Content page on its MasterPage, Peter returns to the topic to solve the problem from another direction.
So far, the reviews of VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4 are encouraging.
- By Kathleen Richards, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/01/2009