Visual Studio provides a rich set of tools for finding bugs, though most developers aren't aware or don't take advantage of all of them.
Windows 8, unveiled in September, will change the way Microsoft-focused developers build applications.
- By Kathleen Richards, Keith Ward
- 10/04/2011
HTML5 is a key part of Windows 8, and web development, going forward. This series will show you how to build great HTML5 applications.
- By Brandon Satrom
- 09/26/2011
Team Foundation Server 2010 includes process templates. Learn how to customize work item type templates for a smoother workflow.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 09/09/2011
Making the right runtime design decisions can help -- or harm -- your program.
Infragistics provides a toolkit for creating data-driven applications using client-side code that accesses a variety of data sources, both in the page and back on the client.
Using Windows Phone 7 data binding to create customized lists.
- By Nick Randolph
- 09/01/2011
This article introduces the TAP and the associated .NET language changes that streamline asynchronous programming and extend the multithreading enhancements in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 08/02/2011
If you're documenting your .NET code for other developers, you should follow the standards that Microsoft has developed. Document! X 2011 for Visual Studio will make that job considerably faster and easier.
Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management provides a centralized way to create, manage and share environments in your domain-joined Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 development shop.
- By Brian Randell
- 08/01/2011
Starting with Microsoft Office, users have been able to double-click or drag a toolbar and have it become a floating window that can be moved or docked to the side of the application window. Here's how to implement a basic version of this behavior in C# Windows Forms applications.
- By Brian C. Hart
- 08/01/2011
After nearly a full year in beta, Microsoft yesterday released Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011. Andrew Brust explains why LightSwitch defies categorization and is a lot more than just another framework-based tool for generating code.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/27/2011
Microsoft today announced the release of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, a self-service development tool for power users and developers that enables data-driven .NET applications that can be deployed to the desktop, Web or Azure cloud.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/26/2011
Mickey explains the basics of workspaces in Team Foundation Version Control and how they can help you manage code changes.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 07/26/2011
Since the best tool for creating a list is SharePoint itself, why not take advantage of it when deploying a new list to your SharePoint solution? Visual Studio 2010 lets you do that.
Learn how to extend support for Microsoft C#-only BlankExtension/BizType projects to Visual Basic.
Your team won't achieve automated build nirvana overnight. Here's how to break down the process and adopt the changes in the Microsoft build system.
- By Benjamin Day
- 07/01/2011
A look at how developers can use the integrated application analytics capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 to improve software quality.
- By Sebastian Holst
- 07/01/2011
Mickey Gousset discusses test cases and test suites, and how they relate to test plans in Microsoft Test Manager 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 06/28/2011
Inside TFS columnist Mickey Gousset delves into how to create a test case using Microsoft Test Manager 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 06/22/2011