Readers respond to the May cover story (".NET at the Crossroads") on the direction of C# and Visual Basic.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2011
A walk through the Windows Phone 7 application lifecycle with some tricks to effectively handle tombstoning.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/01/2011
Windows Communication Foundation has steadily evolved to better support SOA and Web services. Here's how to get the most out of your WCF-based services architecture.
This article will introduce you to the concept of exposing parts of your application logic as lambda properties. By making these properties read/write, you can plug in specific functionality with more control than subclassing.
- By Patrick Steele
- 06/01/2011
On Nov. 2, 2001, Microsoft and the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) reached a settlement in the antitrust action against Redmond. The terms of that decree expired in May.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/01/2011
Test-first development is an approach to software development that focuses on results: Tell me the expected outcome, not the requirements.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 06/01/2011
Visual Studio 2010 brings testers and developers closer together and provides testers the tools they need to be able to do their job more effectively. We look at Test Plans in Microsoft Test Manager 2010 and discuss how they are used within the testing framework.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 05/31/2011
If you're using the ASP.NET DataSources, you may be missing an important part of their functionality: the power of their events. But sometimes the right event isn't on the DataSource.
The Reactive Extensions (Rx) Library is a set of extensions for the IObservable<T> and IObserver<T> interfaces that greatly simplifies the orchestration and composition of asynchronous functions and events.
Late last year Microsoft took IronRuby, IronPython and the Dynamic Language Runtime projects open source. Here's a look at the open source dynamic language resources for Visual Studio.
Mobile Corner columnist Nick Randolph breaks down some of the key improvements announced at yesterday's Windows Phone "Mango" launch event, and says the raft of new consumer-oriented features make Mango a more attractive developer target.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/25/2011
Aaron Bjork talks about the power of learning from the past and gives some insight into how to get the most out of your retrospectives in your Agile projects.
Nick Randolph walks through how to create and consume resources within your Windows Phone 7 application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/23/2011
If you're considering a move into the world of LINQ and Entity Framework, you have to consider the possibility that LINQ and Entity Framework won't let you issue some bizarrely complicated SQL statement. Don't worry -- should that ever happen, you have options.
Mickey covers the basics of Urban Turtle, an Agile development planning tool for Team Foundation Server.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 05/13/2011
How to use the PostSharp AOP library to encapsulate cross-cutting concerns into efficient and re-usable modules.
The emerging HTML 5 specification provides for structured documents that can support rich hierarchies and enable deep interoperability.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 05/11/2011
Nick Randolph walks through how to use the Grid to layout your Windows Phone 7 application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/09/2011
Microsoft's needs to make its cutting-edge products and research more visible if it hopes to capture young organizations that today often align with the LAMP stack.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/01/2011
Complex applications require careful architecting to reduce the amount of code movement between Visual Studio projects and the renaming of corresponding namespaces and folders.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 05/01/2011