You can repurpose it as a help desk software, for one -- but it takes a little know-how. Jeff walks through the steps.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 07/29/2008
Seriously, don't. Here are two reasons why record locking is simply a bad idea.
Dan walks through one of Silverlight's most flexible and easy to use layout controls.
Optimistic concurrency doesn't work for most tables, but Peter shows you how to change that.
A sampling of letters from the developer community.
- By Readers of Redmond Developer News
- 07/15/2008
Dan walks through how to arrange Silverlight controls on an interface using Grid, Canvas and StackPanel.
For some users, the cost (free) might trump availability issues. For others, though, not so much.
- By Patrick Meader
- 07/01/2008
A rundown of some new releases.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2008
The latest version comes with generous subscription terms, but a slightly stingy upgrade offer. Plus, get your Visual Studio hotfixes.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 07/01/2008
Drill down on how arrays work and learn some cool tips and tricks for taking advantage of them in .NET.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 07/01/2008
Microsoft adds velocity to data-driven apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/01/2008
Readers chime in on VB getting left behind.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2008
Learn how to work around a couple bugs in Excel to return double values; drill down on lists with anonymous types; and learn the
difference between Build and Rebuild.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 07/01/2008
Silverlight may be our first step toward better Web-based applications, but some obstacles still remain.
- By Billy Hollis
- 07/01/2008
The VSTS Database team announced a slew of new improvements at Tech-Ed. Jeff walks through some of the key changes.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 06/23/2008
Don't worry, ASP.NET developers: Siverlight 2 controls aren't so different from what you're used to, as Dan shows.
Finnish bank acquisition goes very awry.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 06/15/2008
How to live a C++ life in an XML world.
- By Stephane Raynaud
- 06/15/2008
Client-side debugging is better, but IntelliSense still has a few issues to be worked out.
You probably write a lot of code to test object state. A better approach might be to make your objects report their own state.