See how a simple interceptor can help reduce the amount of coding needed to initialize your Windows Presentation Foundation ICommand properties.
- By Patrick Steele
- 04/03/2012
Validation should begin as close to your database as possible: in your Entity Framework entities. Here's how you can integrate validation code into both the entities the Entity Framework generates and the ones you write.
Our cover story this month on Agile development comes at a good time, coinciding with the recent release of the Visual Studio 11 beta.
If you want to customize the SharePoint 2010 and Office 365 Ribbon, the Add-in Express Ribbon Designer eases UI development in the cloud.
The MVP Summit, from which I've just returned, is a very important event.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 04/01/2012
Everything at Henry's company revolved around contracts with vendors. The IT department had relied on the aptly named Contract Manager -- the sole remaining Visual Basic 6 client-server application -- to support that business for the past 12 years.
Bing Maps moves beyond Silverlight and AJAX with the new native WPF Control, which enables you to build interactive tools for visualizing geographical data on the desktop.
- By James McCaffrey
- 04/01/2012
Our March 2012 cover story, "More Power," offered a tour of the productivity tools in Visual Studio 11 (still a code name) just in time for the release of the beta previews. Readers share their initial reactions to the updated beta tooling.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2012
Nick Randolph shows how to create and work with the Application Bar in your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/30/2012
It may not happen tomorrow, but sooner or later you're going to find yourself writing multitouch, gesture- and audio-input-based applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/29/2012
Scott Hanselman, senior program manager in Microsoft's Developer Division, said that the decision wasn't really about open source: "This is about open development."
- By John K. Waters
- 03/28/2012
Microsoft today unveiled a new cloud-based build service for its upcoming hosted Team Foundation Service.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/27/2012
Agile Advisor columnist Aaron Bjork talks about why it’s both necessary and dangerous to listen to your customers.
Eric Vogel walks through how to send and receive push notifications in a Windows 8 Metro application.
While you can create classes that contain their own validation code, there are scenarios where it makes sense to separate validation code from the properties it validates using DataAnnotations.
10 questions and answers to help understand the Roslyn complier-as-a-service project for Visual Basic and C# developers.
If you've got a strong version-control system, implementing an automated build process is the next logical step.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 03/15/2012
Learn how to extend Visual Studio 2010 by creating code issue providers with the Roslyn CTP.
WPF provides the richest environment for developers to incorporate standalone validation classes into their user interfaces—and for business object developers to support an application's user interface.
Code First frees you up from the chore of creating databases for your project. Here's a primer on how to do it.