Tips on Windows Phone 7 development and app design with sample code for a Windows Phone Pivot application.
Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology Previews.
- By Roger Jennings
- 03/01/2011
How to associate unit tests with requirements in Visual Studio 2010.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 03/01/2011
The second part of this month's Ask Kathleen column on MVC 3 looks at dependency injection and extending parts of the framework. Part 2 of 2.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 03/01/2011
C# Corner columnist Patrick Steele recounts an avoidable mistake he made during a transition from WebForms to ASP.NET MVC, and what he learned from his gaffe.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/25/2011
Peter Vogel wraps up his review of the jQuery extensions by waxing philosophical about what those extensions mean to the kind of tools that developers should expect.
In the second part of this two-part series, Mickey Gousset shows how TFS 2010 lets users create Excel reports, including pivot tables and charts, from a work item query. The report can then be published and shared with other users.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/23/2011
TFS 2010 uses SQL Server Reporting Services to provide reports, but because it uses data warehouse and analysis services to store reporting information, users can roll their own. We examine how to use Microsoft Excel to access the Team Foundation Server OLAP cube to create a report.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/22/2011
Peter Vogel implements deletes for rows in a template by adding event handlers to the template. He also looks at a feature of the tmpl plugin that he wasn't able to shoehorn into his sample project. (Part 3 of 4)
C# Corner columnist Patrick Steele says writing unit tests can be a time-consuming chore. He looks at some approaches that can make writing unit tests easier and more efficient for C# programmers.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/18/2011
Peter extends his AJAX page with jQuery's new data linking technology. This supports letting the user make changes on the client that are passed back to a Web service that updates the database on the server.
When "Oops!" becomes "OMG!" On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows how a simple oversight when using SQL Server 2000 Data Transformation Services (DTS) nearly ended in disaster.
Depending on the size of your code base, running unit tests every time a code change is made can be a daunting process. Test Impact Analysis in Visual Studio 2010 (Premium and Ultimate Editions) can speed up that process.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/10/2011
Building on the new jQuery extensions for displaying multiple rows, Peter builds a page that retrieves data from a Web Service based on the user's input -- and filters the data in the client as well.
Explore ways to override the default concepts of object equality, based on reference and value types, in the Microsoft .NET Framework.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/01/2011
In the second part of this tutorial series, Wallace McClure walks you through the basics of creating a MonoDroid app.
- By Wallace McClure
- 02/01/2011
The UML modeler is a powerful new tool, especially when it's backed with a code-generation system.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2011
In the first part of this tutorial series, Wallace McClure walks you through what MonoDroid is and how .NET developers can use it to create Android apps.
- By Wallace McClure
- 02/01/2011
The dynamic keyword brings exciting new features to C# 4. Find out how it works and why it simplifies a lot of your coding tasks, including some handy COM interop possibilities.
- By Alexandra Rusina
- 02/01/2011
ASP.NET developers can have trouble finding their way through the SharePoint maze, because much of what they know is wrong. Here's a baker's dozen of tips to lead you in the right direction.
C# Corner columnist Patrick Steele concludes his exploration of factory patterns in .NET.
- By Patrick Steele
- 01/27/2011
Peter Vogel prepares to try out the new jQuery templating/databinding functionality to create a simple AJAX-enabled page that allows the user to select a customer and retrieve from a Web service all the orders associated with that customer.
On VB columnist Joe Kunk explores the new BigInteger structure in .NET 4 and how it lets you work with astronomically large numbers.
In part 2 of a series of columns on using factory patterns, Patrick Steele shows how factory patterns can be used to make your applications more flexible.
- By Patrick Steele
- 01/21/2011
Just as a car factory creates cars on an as-needed basis, we can create "factories" in our code to create objects for our applications' specific needs. In this first article of a series, we'll explain what the factory pattern is and how you can use it in your code to make your applications more flexible.
- By Patrick Steele
- 01/11/2011