A review of Vincent Maraia's book on the best practices for Microsoft's software configuration.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 04/15/2007
It can be intimidating at first, but it helps you in the long run to run your code against a static code analyzer like FxCop; also learn how to use dynamic analysis to test your forms during runtime.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 04/01/2007
This month we look at the latest from SlickEdit, Developer Express, Catalyst Development, Artifiact Software, Perpetuum Software and Guruck Software.
- By Staff of Redmond Developer News
- 04/01/2007
VB's My.Settings class makes it easy for you to remember user-preferred settings; also, what a quirky result in VB's debug window reveals about how its compiler and the .NET runtime work together.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 04/01/2007
Generics can solve many more problems than collections. Use generics to write code once and reuse it more easily.
Learn about the latest and greatest products available from vendors that provide tools and services for Visual Studio .NET.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2007
The belated support for Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista indicates that the coupling of Microsoft's developer tools and operating systems isn't as tight as it has been?or should be.
- By Patrick Meader
- 04/01/2007
WPF is an interesting technology with a great deal of future potential, but you face some serious obstacles if you want to use it today.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 04/01/2007
Readers chime in on Dan Fergus' article on generics, including the whereabouts of a missing file.
The 1-2-3s of threading your apps for Windows.
- By James Reinders
- 03/15/2007
Learn about the latest and greatest products available from vendors that provide tools and services for Visual Studio .NET.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 03/01/2007
A reader details the changes he would like to see in the magazine now that VSM is under new ownership.
Make your Windows Forms apps shine with custom color palettes; pros and cons for creating apps with an Office 2007 look-and-feel; and drill down on anonymous methods in C# and VB .NET.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 03/01/2007
DotNetNuke's CEO Shaun Walker hooked up with VSM's editor in chief Patrick Meader to discuss the formation of DotNetNuke, the project's core features, and what's next for the open source ASP.NET-based Web application framework.
- By Patrick Meader
- 03/01/2007
VSM wants to find the rock star developers in our community and write about them. Do you have what it takes to be a Visual Studio All Star?
- By Patrick Meader
- 03/01/2007
There's too much going on in the Visual Studio space for any one developer to keep track of it all?so we're going to do it for you. New downloads available include Visual Studio SP1 and the latest Orcas CTP.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 03/01/2007
Speech synthesis and recognition in .NET
- By Michael Dunn
- 02/15/2007
How secure is your AJAX? This book can help you avoid the security pitfalls.
- By Rita Zurcher
- 02/15/2007
Learn about the latest and greatest products available from vendors that provide tools and services for Visual Studio .NET.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 02/01/2007
Mobility is infiltrating the enterprise in a big way; if you aren't creating mobile-based applications today, you soon will be.
- By Peter Varhol
- 02/01/2007