Microsoft's Aaron Bjork explores how to use acceptance criteria to get everyone on your team running the same play.
Mobile Corner columnist Nick Randolph walks through how to use data binding to automatically display a progress bar when loading data in Windows Phone 7.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/27/2011
In Part 1, VSM columnist Eric Vogel covered the basics of the Reactive Extensions (Rx) library. In this installment he explores how to observe asynchronous methods, tasks and events, as well as how to compose observable sequences using LINQ.
Inside TFS columnist Mickey Gousset delves into how to create a test case using Microsoft Test Manager 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 06/22/2011
If you want to extend your ASP.NET application to include RESTful calls that return JSON results to JavaScript code in an AJAX page, here's how to manage your URLs to reduce errors, integrate with ASP.NET MVC, and pass objects from your browser to your server.
Enhancements in the .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 make Office automation solutions easier than ever to write and deploy. Here's an Excel automation scenario that reflects solutions that I've seen requested by multiple clients.
Nick Randolph walks through how to leverage the built-in system resources to style your application in line with the Windows Phone 7 Metro design language
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/17/2011
This article will introduce you to the concept of exposing parts of your application logic as lambda properties. By making these properties read/write, you can plug in specific functionality with more control than subclassing.
- By Patrick Steele
- 06/01/2011
Will emerging developer tools and hybrid Platform as a Service features ramp up project and data deployments to Windows Azure?
- By Roger Jennings
- 06/01/2011
Visual Studio 2010 brings testers and developers closer together and provides testers the tools they need to be able to do their job more effectively. We look at Test Plans in Microsoft Test Manager 2010 and discuss how they are used within the testing framework.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 05/31/2011
If you're using the ASP.NET DataSources, you may be missing an important part of their functionality: the power of their events. But sometimes the right event isn't on the DataSource.
The Reactive Extensions (Rx) Library is a set of extensions for the IObservable<T> and IObserver<T> interfaces that greatly simplifies the orchestration and composition of asynchronous functions and events.
Aaron Bjork talks about the power of learning from the past and gives some insight into how to get the most out of your retrospectives in your Agile projects.
Nick Randolph walks through how to create and consume resources within your Windows Phone 7 application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/23/2011
How to use the PostSharp AOP library to encapsulate cross-cutting concerns into efficient and re-usable modules.
The emerging HTML 5 specification provides for structured documents that can support rich hierarchies and enable deep interoperability.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 05/11/2011
Nick Randolph walks through how to use the Grid to layout your Windows Phone 7 application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/09/2011
Complex applications require careful architecting to reduce the amount of code movement between Visual Studio projects and the renaming of corresponding namespaces and folders.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 05/01/2011
Code First is a new development approach in the Entity Framework 4.1 stack that can simplify the understanding and maintenance of your domain model.
Faster performance in business applications comes down to reducing the "critical two" -- disk I/O and trips to the server. Doing that means doing a lot of things right, starting with your database design -- and tweaking your ADO.NET code helps, too.
The LightSwitch RAD platform generates apps with "no coding required." What's in it for you? .NET apps that are easier to maintain and extensions built on the Managed Extensibility Framework.
A developer's guide to unlocking the power of code reusability.
Here's everything you need to know to simplify your code about how to make classes look alike and then, when you need to, tell them apart.
In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database.
The DLR Hosting API allows a DLR language to be scripted from a CLR language such as C# and VB.NET, extending the functionality of an application through scripts coded in one of the many DLR supported languages.