In Part 1 of this series, Eric Vogel walks you through a software design pattern that is commonly used to handle UI interactions.
By having your Data Annotations implement the IClientValidatable interface, you can make it easy for developers to integrate your client-side validation into your Views.
VIM is a text editor with a Visual Studio extension. Its time-saving power is well worth the learning curve.
See how a simple interceptor can help reduce the amount of coding needed to initialize your Windows Presentation Foundation ICommand properties.
- By Patrick Steele
- 04/03/2012
Validation should begin as close to your database as possible: in your Entity Framework entities. Here's how you can integrate validation code into both the entities the Entity Framework generates and the ones you write.
Figuring out how much to charge for your product is surprisingly challenging. Arm yourself with knowledge of basic pricing options, then make your best guess about what price will bring you the most profit.
- By Patrick Foley
- 04/02/2012
External templates allow you to reduce the code in your main HTML page, and reuse it in multiple places.
By overriding templates, you can modify the look and feel of the ListBox without changing the underlying behavior.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/01/2012
Our cover story this month on Agile development comes at a good time, coinciding with the recent release of the Visual Studio 11 beta.
The MVP Summit, from which I've just returned, is a very important event.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 04/01/2012
Everything at Henry's company revolved around contracts with vendors. The IT department had relied on the aptly named Contract Manager -- the sole remaining Visual Basic 6 client-server application -- to support that business for the past 12 years.
Our March 2012 cover story, "More Power," offered a tour of the productivity tools in Visual Studio 11 (still a code name) just in time for the release of the beta previews. Readers share their initial reactions to the updated beta tooling.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2012
Nick Randolph shows how to create and work with the Application Bar in your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/30/2012
What does the recent Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh and associated Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 update mean for developers?
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/28/2012
Why it's both necessary -- and dangerous -- to listen to your customers.
Agile Advisor columnist Aaron Bjork talks about why it’s both necessary and dangerous to listen to your customers.
Eric Vogel walks through how to send and receive push notifications in a Windows 8 Metro application.
While you can create classes that contain their own validation code, there are scenarios where it makes sense to separate validation code from the properties it validates using DataAnnotations.
10 questions and answers to help understand the Roslyn complier-as-a-service project for Visual Basic and C# developers.
If you've got a strong version-control system, implementing an automated build process is the next logical step.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 03/15/2012