Patrick Steele responds to questions about Lambda properties, interface-based code, and unsubscribing from events, among others.
- By Patrick Steele
- 08/02/2011
If you're documenting your .NET code for other developers, you should follow the standards that Microsoft has developed. Document! X 2011 for Visual Studio will make that job considerably faster and easier.
Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management provides a centralized way to create, manage and share environments in your domain-joined Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 development shop.
- By Brian Randell
- 08/01/2011
Starting with Microsoft Office, users have been able to double-click or drag a toolbar and have it become a floating window that can be moved or docked to the side of the application window. Here's how to implement a basic version of this behavior in C# Windows Forms applications.
- By Brian C. Hart
- 08/01/2011
For years, nobody cared that the legacy image-syncing application consumed as much bandwidth and processing time as it did.
Robby Ingebretsen's July VSInsider column on HTML5 produced plenty of opinions.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2011
Microsoft faces new threats today, like smartphones and tablets, but are they more severe than past ones?
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2011
Open Source .NET columnist Ian Davis explores creating domain specific languages to run coded builds.
The July release of Windows Phone 7 'Mango' enables device makers to start testing and working with the new operating system. Current smartphone customers can expect Mango updates to be made available in the fall.
After nearly a full year in beta, Microsoft yesterday released Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011. Andrew Brust explains why LightSwitch defies categorization and is a lot more than just another framework-based tool for generating code.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/27/2011
Microsoft today announced the release of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, a self-service development tool for power users and developers that enables data-driven .NET applications that can be deployed to the desktop, Web or Azure cloud.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/26/2011
Mickey explains the basics of workspaces in Team Foundation Version Control and how they can help you manage code changes.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 07/26/2011
The WebGrid will certainly make the developers who use it more productive. But is it missing the point of the ASP.NET MVC model?
Nick Randolph walks through how to use visual states to dynamically change the layout of pages in your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 07/22/2011
Use XML comments to generate IntelliSense and custom documentation for your applications. Part 1 of this two-part series explores using standard XML comments to document your code within Visual Studio.
Since the best tool for creating a list is SharePoint itself, why not take advantage of it when deploying a new list to your SharePoint solution? Visual Studio 2010 lets you do that.
Faced with reviewing large swaths of other people's code, Peter Vogel is left to ask: what does it really take to be good at debugging?
Microsoft this week released updates for both the current and upcoming versions of SQL Server.
In the final installment of this three-part series on Reactive Extensions for .NET, Eric Vogel shows how to put together all the pieces to create a working, reactive application.
Before you dismiss HTML5 as not ready for prime time or too lightweight for real developers, consider these five reasons that you should get excited about it.
- By Robby Ingebretsen
- 07/03/2011