VS2010 Architecture Explorer Edition includes DGML, a powerful, yet easy to use, tool for visualizing almost anything.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 03/11/2010
Peter continues his exploration of the new Routing features in ASP.NET 4 by showing how to bind control properties to both routes and the values passed in a route.
Ever felt the VB IDE dialogs were poorly designed? Here's a way for you to tweak them a bit more to your liking.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 03/02/2010
Use LINQ outside of databases to make your code easier to read and maintain.
- By Patrick Steele
- 03/01/2010
By many accounts, the Apple iPad has been a disappointment -- even Apple "fanboy" bloggers and tweeters have proclaimed themselves underwhelmed.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/01/2010
Readers respond to Andrew Brust's thoughts on what the next version of Windows ought to look like.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 03/01/2010
Explore the nuances of using WCF Services with Silverlight, and learn troubleshooting tips for working with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 03/01/2010
Taking place March 15-17, MIX offers an exclusive developer focus on Web, rich media, and dev/design issues and technologies.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/01/2010
As an independent .NET consultant, Steve was often called in to help smaller development teams transition to the platform.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 03/01/2010
You may have noticed that more and more sites have URLs that mean something rather than describing the path to the page. ASP.NET 4 makes this much easier to implement for your site and may save you from ever having to redirect users again.
Mickey provides an introduction to the new architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/23/2010
One of the major new features in VS 2010 is IntelliTrace, formerly known as the Historical Debugger. Does it lives up to the hype?
- By Jeff Levinson
- 02/18/2010
If you're using the ASP.NET Cache object, then somebody is suffering when you first load the Cache. Here's how to avoid that and, potentially, save a bit of money while you're at it.
There's another one coming, and this one's still flying pretty far below the radar. Classic VB apps are only vulnerable to the extent they interact with others.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 02/16/2010
Peter starts looking at the new features in ASP.NET 4, starting with support for compressing Session data and setting up permanent redirects.
Mickey wraps up his series on Web Testing with a look at validating Web tests.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/09/2010
Classic VB provides no simple method to create nested directory folders, but it certainly provides the tools to make such a method.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 02/04/2010
Peter looks at a strategic issue: When to do validation? The answer isn't "Everywhere" but it could have been.
In the second column of a series, Mickey shows you how to run a Web test using Visual Studio Team System 2008.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/02/2010
Suddenly, and for no apparent reason, an internal support application at Joe R.'s company suffered a slowdown in executing queries and returning data.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 02/01/2010