Why you should update your apps to target the "Mango" software development kit.
- By Nick Randolph
- 12/01/2011
How to integrate your Windows Phone 7 application into the search experience.
- By Nick Randolph
- 11/30/2011
NSpec is a no-nonsense BDD framework for the .NET Framework, influenced by RSpec and leveraging NUnit assertions.
Using lambda expressions is a more compact way of wiring up events in both C# and Visual Basic. It also provides a way of passing parameters to an event without having to redefine the event's parameters.
A new book on Code First Entity Framework is a concise, readable guide to the technology.
Learn how Visual Studio 11 helps developers find duplicate code throughout their projects and solutions.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 11/17/2011
Learn how to utilize the Roslyn Scripting API to host a C# scripting engine in your applications.
ASP.NET 4 upgrades the support for detecting browser capabilities with profiles for the latest mobile browsers. The good news is that you can use that new information with older versions of ASP.NET.
Twitter has revolutionized social networking. If you're not optimizing it, you're missing out.
Iterators are available for Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2010 after installing the latest Visual Studio Async CTP, and natively in Visual Basic 11.
Peter Vogel looks at debugging from a different specific: One incident whose resolution depended, in part, on understanding who'd already searched for the bug and the history of the bug itself.
Visual Studio provides a rich set of tools for finding bugs, though most developers aren't aware or don't take advantage of all of them.
Microsoft's BUILD announcements about Windows 8 and other technologies are a break from the past.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2011
A major validation error in the code resulted in a 60 percent failure rate for an expense form.
Windows 8 is an early preview, but has enough of its shape to show XAML developers that their skills are applicable.
The Windows Azure Marketplace has a hidden jewel: a host of free and nearly free databases ready for monetization.
The October cover story on the unveiling of Windows 8 featured comments about the viability of Microsoft tablets in the market. They provoked a strong response.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 11/01/2011
Microsoft's unveiling of Windows 8 brought back something missing from recent years: excitement.
HTML5 introduces client-side caching for local and session storage. Learn how to boost your app's performance through the new functionality.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 11/01/2011
Aaron Bjork talks about how to motivate your agile teams without getting in their way.