With a few tweaks, you can turn Visual Studio's basic unit-testing capabilities into a powerful and extensible tool for improving code quality.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 07/01/2009
Learn how to store and retrieve binary large objects in the cloud with Azure's RESTful Storage API.
- By Roger Jennings
- 07/01/2009
Working together as a team can be challenging. Here are three ways to use Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 to deliver the best possible software, with as little friction as possible.
As Jeff shows, it's all about process, process, process.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 06/30/2009
Validator controls make handling errors and reporting them in the UI easy, but what you may not know is how easy it is to create your own Validator.
The inventor of the first PC spreadsheet talks about his new book and challenges facing developers.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/23/2009
If you've consumed an ASP.NET ASMX Web service before, then you'll feel right at home consuming a WCF service.
In his ongoing campaign to convince ASP.NET developers that User Controls are a simple way to start implementing customizable pages, Peter shows how to improve the integration between User Controls and ASP.NET's WebPart framework.
In a significant move for those who develop .NET applications targeting Oracle databases, Microsoft is removing the Oracle data provider from its ADO.NET roadmap.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/16/2009
There's only one add-in that I have auto-loaded every time I fire up the Classic VB IDE. After disappearing from the market, it's back now, and it's free!
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 06/15/2009
If you're concerned about keeping critical information in your Web.config file, then you should encrypt it -- or at least the parts that you're concerned about.
Deciding how work items should relate to each other can be tricky, depending on which version of TFS -- 2008 or 2010 -- you're working with. Jeff guides you through the potential pitfalls.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 06/09/2009
Need to recreate that olde-timey Terminal look? There's a stock object built into every version of Windows that'll serve that need.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 06/02/2009
As applications take flight beyond the desktop, the .NET Framework is trying to keep pace. The programming environment, which debuted in 2002 and today ships with Windows, SQL Server and Visual Studio, remains the consistent foundation for Microsoft's proliferating toolsets.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/02/2009
Microsoft cancelled its standalone Office Developer Conference for this year and instead will fold the content into its SharePoint Conference 2009 event, which is scheduled for the fall.
On Wednesday, Microsoft released the latest Visual Studio (VS) extension preview for building apps that run on its Windows Azure cloud computing operating system and services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/29/2009
Microsoft this week released a new community technology preview (CTP) of its modeling environment code-named "Oslo."
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/29/2009
If you want to use Entity Framework in ASP.NET, you're going to need to handle concurrency problems. Here are some suggestions from a Microsoft "architect evangelist."
Peter revisits the problem of dealing with multiple updates to the same data, but this time he looks at a solution that involves the ObjectDataSource.
Teams developing applications using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 (VSTS 2008) can now better implement Microsoft's security development lifecycle (SDL) process using a new template addition.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/23/2009