Mickey Gousset walks through the improved Administration Console in Visual Studio TFS 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 04/06/2011
New VSM columnist Nick Randolph kicks off his Mobile Corner column by showing how to build a YouTube search app using Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/01/2011
The Microsoft Model-View-ViewModel pattern is an indispensable tool for developing applications for Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and Windows Presentation Foundation. Benjamin Day helps you avoid architectural pitfalls and create unit-testable and maintainable applications.
- By Benjamin Day
- 04/01/2011
How to translate C# code into expression trees to eliminate strings, standardize parameter validations and interact with other data structures.
- By Patrick Steele
- 04/01/2011
Windows Identity Foundation turns authentication over to token servers, reducing demands on developers while preparing the way for a service-oriented world. It also integrates with the authorization mechanisms you're already using.
When the big merger was announced, the IT staff of both corporations was a little bit nervous, and with good reason: The day after the announcement, many redundant positions were eliminated.
Peter Vogel introduces a new column on application development in the real world, and begins by advocating for Language Integrated Query.
Peter Vogel introduces a new column on application development in the real world, and begins by advocating for Language Integrated Query.
Nick Randolph continues his introduction to Windows Phone 7 development with a look at some of the tools and resources available to developers.
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/29/2011
WebMatrix is an exciting new tool for creating ASP.NET Web applications. Unfortunately, Visual Basic developers face an additional challenge because Microsoft only surfaces C# templates. Here's how to get access to the VB templates.
VSM Web columnist Eric Vogel kicks off his first C# Corner installment with a walk through creating an application using asynchronous programming.
Mickey goes through an example of shelvesets and why they are a nice feature in Team Foundation Server.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 03/23/2011
Peter Vogel takes a look at Razor and the productivity gains in generating views that ASP.NET MVC 3 provides to developers.
VSM columnist Nick Randolph kicks off his new Mobile Corner column with an introduction to Windows Phone 7 development and a look back at the origins of Microsoft's new mobile platform.
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/16/2011
On VB columnist Joe Kunk says coding errors can lead to trouble, but the vast majority of big mistakes are due to poor or misguided project management.
Mickey Gousset introduces us to a new, free tool for visualizing work item information in Team Foundation Server 2010, providing state visualization, work item analysis and dependency analysis.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 03/11/2011
VSM columnist Peter Vogel builds an ASP.NET application that is too clever by half, and finds himself at odds with the very environment he is supposed to be leveraging.
This month's Ask Kathleen column answers your questions about the new Razor view engine in Microsoft's Model-View-Controller framework. Part 1 of 2.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 03/01/2011
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
Tips on Windows Phone 7 development and app design with sample code for a Windows Phone Pivot application.
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
How to associate unit tests with requirements in Visual Studio 2010.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 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