Rather than try to ensure that he's getting the right config file for his production and test systems, Peter Vogel lets the application configure itself, using the Managed Extensibility Framework to enable automatic selection of the right connection string
Learn MVVM fundamentals by building this simple Twitter app.
Visual Studio readers sound off on HTML5; some love it, others, well...
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2011
Peter Vogel introduces you to the new dynamic event model for JavaScript that's available in all the contemporary browsers.
NServiceBus can help you create more reliable .NET services. It may not be as "free" as it appears, though.
Learn how to easily create a toggle button in Expression Blend by retemplating a control and adding visual states.
JavaScript can be unwieldy. But using techniques like separation and Revealing Module Pattern can get it under control.
The technologies bundled as HTML5 finally support what developers have been trying to get HTML to do for decades.
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.
Keith Ward discusses his new position, and has questions for Microsoft's upcoming BUILD conference.
Aspect Oriented Programming is great for handling cross-cutting concerns such as logging, security, and threading.
Papa shows how to build a simple button using Expression Blend.
The makeup of teams working on Windows 8 provides some clues to the OS's functions.
Securing Rich Internet Applications requires an understanding of their vulnerabilities.
- By Itzik Spitzen
- 08/19/2011
Not all business operations finish in seconds. Using Windows Communication Foundation you can still create -- as a single project -- an application that supports business services that take hours (or days or weeks or months) to complete.