Daily coding is a lot easier when you know how to use Visual Studio effectively. To optimize your experience with the latest Microsoft IDE, try these practical tips and shortcuts. (Part 3 of 3)
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 08/01/2010
Windows 7 contains a number of UI improvements to the classic taskbar. One very useful feature for quickly launching an application with its associated files is Jump Lists. In this issue, we'll look at how you can utilize Jump Lists in your own Windows 7 applications.
- By Patrick Steele
- 07/29/2010
Sometimes, when the user clicks on a menu choice, you want to pass some data based on the page's content. Here's how to dynamically alter a menu control based on the data on the page.
Joe Kunk looks at how to manage a numeric system that extends to the entire alphabet.
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
How to use SQL Server to build a business intelligence (BI) platform without getting your organization's top brass involved.
- By Andrew Peterson
- 07/01/2010
We explore the WCF service boundary after upgrading sample applications to Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 07/01/2010
On VB author Joe Kunk talks about his impression of C#.
Patrick Steele looks into C# Code Contracts under .NET 4 and how they can streamline code validation.
- By Patrick Steele
- 06/22/2010
Patrick Steele shows how you can realize major performance gains when working with large images by using memory-mapped files.
- By Patrick Steele
- 06/22/2010
Performance testing and debugging is a major focus of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- By Benjamin Day
- 06/17/2010
A reader sets up a Web service for tracing, but can't find the trace logs, despite the lack of any error message.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 06/16/2010
On VB author Joe Kunk provides a look into the code behind his automated source code backup solution.
On VB author Joe Kunk looks into how an automated source code backup utility can provide a vital, extra level of protection in team-based projects.
Kathleen Dollard explains the choices developers face when building applications in MEF.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 06/14/2010
Kathleen Dollard tackles a pair of questions relating to cryptic errors produced by Silverlight.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 06/10/2010
C# Corner's Patrick Steele dives into mocking frameworks and how they can help you write more efficient and testable code.
- By Patrick Steele
- 06/01/2010
New APIs and native support for resources like the Ribbon UI, the Windows 7 Taskbar and parallelism boost native development.
- By Marian Luparu
- 06/01/2010
With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual Basic 2010.
Continuing his investigation of what works and doesn't work with the AJAX library and .NET 4, Peter Vogel continues to explore how to retrieve data from the client... and discovers that it can be very easily done.
On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to use the power of Silverlight 4 COM automation and local file system access to turn Microsoft Word into a report writer for Silverlight.
Value converters are extremely powerful and are valuable in minimizing the code required directly in the UI and in providing reuse of conversion logic.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2010
Learn how you can store history information for the user on the local client PC in a sandboxed Silverlight 3 application.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2010
How to work around some of Silverlight's subtle gotchas.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2010
Patrick Steele illustrates useful techniques for modifying existing code while maintaining backward compatibility.
- By Patrick Steele
- 05/01/2010