Learn how to work through debugging challenges posed by stable composition in MEF Preview 7, and get insight into using MEF with Silverlight.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 11/01/2009
Nobody believed the French. Not the entire country, or Frenchmen in general, but rather the folks who worked at the European Branch Office in Paris. The bug they described-their computer's internal date was randomly changing-reeked of user error and seemed far too implausible to be caused by the corporate reporting system.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 11/01/2009
A few months back, VSM columnist Andrew Brust wrote about Microsoft moving away from building the type of products that fueled its early success.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2009
How factoring out common patterns in your Azure worker roles can improve development.
After the much-delayed release of SQL Server 2005 finally came to pass at the end of its namesake year, Microsoft made a promise to release a new version of SQL Server every two to three years, from that point on.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2009
The FileUpload control and the ASP.NET Response object let you move files between the browser and the server. And moving in each direction just requires a few lines of code.
After years neglecting the VB6 community, Microsoft seems to be missing something. Us!
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 10/27/2009
The MultiView control allows you to swap sets of controls on and off the page. But the MultiView control also makes it easier for you to generate new page content and add it at run time.
By converting composite controls into their templates, you gain full control over the makeup of the control and individual controls within it.
After using a given API for a decade or more, you tend to just take it for granted that it works. Karl Peterson shows how he worked around a challenge when it didn't.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 10/13/2009
Peter wraps up his solutions for getting junk off the page when the user wants to print out a copy. This time by working with Themes and JavaScript.
How to clean up the disabled state of a Silverlight control using Expression Blend.
Peter investigates three solutions for getting junk off your page when the user wants to print a copy.
DEVDISASTERS: After three long interviews for a .NET developer position, Maxim received a fairly generous offer and accepted it on the spot.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 10/01/2009
A VSM reader responds to the September 2009 cover story on how to use the Repository pattern to eliminate dependencies in Test-Driven Development.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2009
ASK KATHLEEN: Readers explore Managed Extensibility Framework, using callback delegates and how to create the equivalent of a C# partial interface in Visual Basic.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 10/01/2009
REDMOND REVIEW: Since Bill Gates proclaimed Microsoft's Internet strategy in his Internet Tidal Wave memo of 1995, people have been cynical of Microsoft's embrace of the public network.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 10/01/2009
ON VB: Four ways to synchronize threads with your app's user interface.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 10/01/2009
Since announcing the Microsoft Interoperability Initiative early last year, we've seen the company move in a consistent and tangible direction toward greater openness, cooperation and interoperability.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2009
Peter asks if business developers should be thinking seriously about social networking and knowledge management.