An important part of a software testing -- or coding -- effort is the ability to measure progress. One way for doing this is a technique called Earned Value Management (EVM). Find out how easy it is to apply EVM to your own projects.
- By James McCaffrey
- 01/01/2011
Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) lets you expose interfaces and classes in your Silverlight apps without having to expose the real implementation. See how it works.
- By Sandrino Di Mattia
- 01/01/2011
For many Silverlight programmers, the most exciting news about Windows Phone 7 is its support for Silverlight as one of its two programming interfaces (the other is XNA).
- By Charles Petzold
- 12/01/2010
Anyone doing ASP.NET development probably admits, openly or not, to introducing or stumbling upon a security issue at some point during their career.
With HTML5 promising native support for video and animation, what can developers expect from Silverlight in the months to come?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/29/2010
Visual Studio Magazine readers pick the best developer tools and resources.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2010
Popcap's director of mobile engineering talks about the pros and cons of developing its games for the three top smartphone platforms: iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7.
Sit back, relax and revel in the joy that you weren't involved in these 10 projects.
- By Alex Papadimoulis, Mark Bowytz
- 10/13/2010
ASP.NET MVC and test-driven development show the future of delivering reliable applications. While Visual Studio 2010 enables you to integrate server-side testing into ASP.NET development, client-side testing presents a challenge.
Working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template.
MonoTouch developer and book author Wallace McClure discusses the evolving arena of Mono-based application development for the iPhone.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/29/2010
The industrial-strength Microsoft ORM is finally ready for prime time. Are you?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/01/2010
Visual Studio Lab Management promises to streamline thorny debug and test challenges by enabling an efficient, virtualized test environment.
- By Vijay Machiraju
- 09/01/2010
Microsoft extends its enterprise-capable database platform with powerful new management and scalability features -- and there's plenty in the latest rev for developers.
A new component in SQL Server 2008 R2 gives users the autonomy to set up business intelligence functionality in Excel without taking control of the process away from IT.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 09/01/2010
This week marks Windows 95's birthday, with the venerable operating system turning 15 years old.
If you want to take advantage of the power of multi-core machines, you need to start creating applications with parallel processing using PLINQ, the Task Parallel Library and the new features of Visual Studio 2010.
The new IntelliTrace feature in Visual Studio 2010 promises to eliminate the pernicious scourge of "no repro" bugs by giving developers a detailed view of what happened during execution when a bug was filed. Here's how you can get started with IntelliTrace.
Microsoft's community program manager for the Visual Studio Managed Languages Team talks about the new capabilities in C# 4 and what we can expect going forward.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/29/2010
In part 2 of his series on Web performance testing and load testing in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Ben Day explains how to set up a load test rig to determine how well your application performs with multiple users.
- By Benjamin Day
- 07/12/2010