Nick Randolph walks through how to define, change and work with orientation within your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/09/2011
On VB columnist Joe Kunk continues his examination of XML comments by extending the XML comment vocabulary with additional default tags in Visual Basic and showing how to process the resulting XML file into API-style reference documentation using the SandCastle Help File Builder.
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.
Patrick Steele responds to questions about Lambda properties, interface-based code, and unsubscribing from events, among others.
- By Patrick Steele
- 08/02/2011
Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management provides a centralized way to create, manage and share environments in your domain-joined Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 development shop.
- By Brian Randell
- 08/01/2011
Starting with Microsoft Office, users have been able to double-click or drag a toolbar and have it become a floating window that can be moved or docked to the side of the application window. Here's how to implement a basic version of this behavior in C# Windows Forms applications.
- By Brian C. Hart
- 08/01/2011
Open Source .NET columnist Ian Davis explores creating domain specific languages to run coded builds.
The WebGrid will certainly make the developers who use it more productive. But is it missing the point of the ASP.NET MVC model?
Nick Randolph walks through how to use visual states to dynamically change the layout of pages in your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 07/22/2011
Use XML comments to generate IntelliSense and custom documentation for your applications. Part 1 of this two-part series explores using standard XML comments to document your code within Visual Studio.
Since the best tool for creating a list is SharePoint itself, why not take advantage of it when deploying a new list to your SharePoint solution? Visual Studio 2010 lets you do that.
In the final installment of this three-part series on Reactive Extensions for .NET, Eric Vogel shows how to put together all the pieces to create a working, reactive application.
Learn about the often-overlooked XAML extensibility resource, and how you can make custom markup extensions of your own.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 07/02/2011
Learn how to extend support for Microsoft C#-only BlankExtension/BizType projects to Visual Basic.
Your team won't achieve automated build nirvana overnight. Here's how to break down the process and adopt the changes in the Microsoft build system.
- By Benjamin Day
- 07/01/2011
A look at how developers can use the integrated application analytics capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 to improve software quality.
- By Sebastian Holst
- 07/01/2011
Lots more cores are coming -- but don't panic. Look for abstract programming methods pioneered by the MIT Cilk project to span to the future to address task parallelism, data parallelism and safety for multicore and manycore development.
- By James Reinders
- 07/01/2011
Mickey Gousset discusses test cases and test suites, and how they relate to test plans in Microsoft Test Manager 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 06/28/2011
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