Third-party tools can rock your world; check out a range of offerings here, from report writers, to editors and imaging toolkits. There's something here for everyone.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2006
It can be complicated to move configuration files in a post-build event with Visual Studio Team System. You can make things easier with one of two options.
- By Benjamin Day and Richard Hale Shaw
- 07/24/2006
Team Foundation Build provides an integrated solution for performing automated builds, testing, and reporting build results.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 07/24/2006
Learn how to customize the work item template for a bug to specify that only Testers can change the status to Closed.
- By Benjamin Day and Richard Hale Shaw
- 07/24/2006
Use a Windows User Group to manage permissions across the Team Project, the project's SharePoint Portal, and its SQL Server Reporting Services site.
- By Benjamin Day and Richard Hale Shaw
- 07/24/2006
Using Team Foundation Server and the methodologies it supports can greatly improve the software development experience and lead to successful projects with repeatable processes.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 07/01/2006
A reader explains that job market forces often force developers to opt for the latest and greatest, rather than tried and tested; another reader explains why he voted for no products in the most recent Readers Choice Awards survey.
Visual Studio Team System's many tools provide a wealth of information on the health and progress of a project.
- By Peter Varhol
- 07/01/2006
Graphical imaging tools and components are the theme in July's look at recent releases for VB and .NET developers.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2006
Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) offers more granular security, better centralization, robust auditing and reporting, and more.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 07/01/2006
Create a class that addresses common threading problems and overcome cross-thread calling and resource protection issues.
- By Brian Rogers
- 07/01/2006
Check out these publications, tools, and community sites for additional information about Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/28/2006
WPF is going to change the way you write graphics applications, but it''s going to take a while before you see it adopted broadly.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/08/2006
Microsoft's new Forefront products and Vista security enhancements were highlighted at this week's TechEd keynote.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/08/2006
Developers who work on the UI side of advanced apps must learn new technology for forms-based dev to improve the user experience.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/08/2006
WPF is going to change the way you write graphics applications, but it's going to take a while before you see it adopted broadly.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/08/2006
VSM presented its annual Readers Choice Awards to the Visual Studio vendor community.
The .NET Framework 3.0 represents a major set of functionality in .NET, and yet doesn't change any existing .NET Framework 2.0 libraries, compilers, or features.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 06/08/2006
From libraries to encryption, from refactoring to imaging, debugging, and lifecycle management—don't let anyone tell you there's not a rich selection of third-party tools awaiting.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2006
Take advantage of .NET attributes to provide robust validation for your business objects, while generating user-interface validation automatically.
- By Steve Michelotti
- 06/01/2006