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.
Sonatype Nexus Professional 2.0 allows development teams to store and access .NET components packaged with NuGet, the Visual Studio 2010 extension.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/03/2012
Visual Studio 11 is packed with new features to help you be a more efficient, productive developer. Here's your guided tour.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 03/01/2012
Many developers are worried about the compatibility of Silverlight with Metro-style applications. This project shows that those fears are overblown.
- By Michael Crump
- 03/01/2012
A certain Darwinian evolution is taking place at Microsoft. Some product species are more fit, with better chances for survival. You can understand and work with Microsoft's changes, rather than being passively impacted by them.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/01/2012
Implementing one of three interfaces can turn your business classes into self-validating components that seamlessly integrate into WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC applications -- and can be easily extended to other environments.
Readers react to a column discussing the future of Silverlight.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 03/01/2012
Along with Visual Studio 11, betas of the .NET Framework 4.5 and two versions of Team Foundation Server were released.
Storyboarding in Team Foundation Server 11 is a quick and easy way to build UIs with a tool everyone knows -- PowerPoint.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/24/2012
Also being released is the beta of the .NET Framework 4.5.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/23/2012
Eric Vogel shows you how to use a common software design pattern that allows an app to dynamically pick an appropriate method at runtime.
Was there confusion at Microsoft's Web-focused show? Sure. But from Papa's Perspective, that wasn't a bad thing.
WPF makes it very easy to load non-executable resources at run time -- including a complete UI in XAML. Here's how to leverage that functionality to create applications that you can customize without recompiling.