You're considering the ObjectDataSource but you're not an object developer. Peter Vogel shows you what you need to do to move into multi-tier development.
For teams using an agile software development methodology, Team Foundation Server 2010 offers new tools to help you easily visualize the backlog, the workload per iteration and the workload per developer. Jeff Levinson shows how TFS 2010 can help guide agile development.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 03/30/2010
Just because your code compiles when you press F5 in VS2010 doesn't mean it's error free. Use the static code analysis features of VS2010 to analyze managed assemblies.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 03/25/2010
You put all of your code in the code file of your ASP.NET pages -- but other developers keep kicking sand in your face because you're not doing n-tier development. Peter's here to say that you're not (necessarily) being dumb.
64-bit versions of Windows present perils for Win32 apps, and opportunities too. For example, it's incredibly easy to double your address space.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 03/22/2010
Microsoft ASP.NET Senior Program Manager Stephen Walther Talks with Peter Vogel about jQuery, AJAX and ASP.NET 4.
Jeff Levinson explores the new Lab Management platform for testing virtualization, which is included in Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 03/18/2010
Still using Instr to search within binary arrays? Stop that! Use InstrB instead.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 03/16/2010
VS2010 Architecture Explorer Edition includes DGML, a powerful, yet easy to use, tool for visualizing almost anything.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 03/11/2010
Peter continues his exploration of the new Routing features in ASP.NET 4 by showing how to bind control properties to both routes and the values passed in a route.
Ever felt the VB IDE dialogs were poorly designed? Here's a way for you to tweak them a bit more to your liking.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 03/02/2010
Use LINQ outside of databases to make your code easier to read and maintain.
- By Patrick Steele
- 03/01/2010
By many accounts, the Apple iPad has been a disappointment -- even Apple "fanboy" bloggers and tweeters have proclaimed themselves underwhelmed.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/01/2010
Readers respond to Andrew Brust's thoughts on what the next version of Windows ought to look like.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 03/01/2010
Explore the nuances of using WCF Services with Silverlight, and learn troubleshooting tips for working with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 03/01/2010
Taking place March 15-17, MIX offers an exclusive developer focus on Web, rich media, and dev/design issues and technologies.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/01/2010
As an independent .NET consultant, Steve was often called in to help smaller development teams transition to the platform.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 03/01/2010
You may have noticed that more and more sites have URLs that mean something rather than describing the path to the page. ASP.NET 4 makes this much easier to implement for your site and may save you from ever having to redirect users again.
Mickey provides an introduction to the new architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/23/2010
One of the major new features in VS 2010 is IntelliTrace, formerly known as the Historical Debugger. Does it lives up to the hype?
- By Jeff Levinson
- 02/18/2010