What's one test of a new technology? Seeing whether you can use it with the old technology.
Control templates let you manage the look and feel of a control and customize the way it's rendered in an application.
Work item hierarchies have finally come into their own in the latest Rosario CTP.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 11/03/2008
Review of the MadPak bundle.
Learn how LINQ, extension methods, and lambda functions can help you add a bit of distinction, simplicity, and robustness to your code.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 11/01/2008
Take control of casting exceptions, determine whether parent records have children in LINQ to SQL, and resolve cref references in XML comments.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 11/01/2008
Details are being released in bits and pieces, instead of Microsoft's usual all-or-nothing approach.
- By Patrick Meader
- 11/01/2008
When it comes to new technologies, less is more.
- By Billy Hollis
- 11/01/2008
Mixing generics and functional programming simplifies writing some extensibility libraries tremendously. For example, combining these techniques makes it easy to create a generic Undo library.
Is your team ready to look beyond object-oriented techniques?
Just make sure to avoid duplicating properties between controls, and everyone will be happy.
To support a real page, your entity model is going to need multiple entities and associations between them. Here's how to add them.
Mickey covers the basics on code metrics in Visual Studio 2008 Team System.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 10/21/2008
Peter begins to explore the usability of Dynamic Data and Entity Framework by adding the simplest possible data model to his application.
Simplify your development of common data-access functionality.
- By Jonathan Bruce
- 10/15/2008
A key feature in SP1 of Team System Web Access, WIWA lets users enter and query items directly into Team System.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 10/13/2008
What's in SP1 for ASP.NET developers? At least one bug fix, a couple of enhancements and -- perhaps -- something that will change your life. But Peter is suspicious.
Learn how to integrate VSTS' Team Explorer into Project and Excel.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 10/06/2008
Sometimes it makes more sense to separate functionality you use repeatedly into its own component. Learn how to create a special command-line processing component.
Is it time to move from classic Web apps to Silverlight clients?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/01/2008