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
Learn how to extend support for Microsoft C#-only BlankExtension/BizType projects to Visual Basic.
Learn about the often-overlooked XAML extensibility resource, and how you can make custom markup extensions of your own.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 07/02/2011
Your team won't achieve automated build nirvana overnight. Here's how to break down the process and adopt the changes in the Microsoft build system.
- By Benjamin Day
- 07/01/2011
When all you have is a DLL or an EXE, .NET Reflector will let you recreate C# or Visual Basic code from the assembly. But the real story here is the .NET Reflector integration with Visual Studio.
A look at how developers can use the integrated application analytics capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 to improve software quality.
- By Sebastian Holst
- 07/01/2011
C# Corner columnist Patrick Steele recently explored the idea of using lambda methods as a way to plug in specific functionality with more control than subclassing and readers respond.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2011
Peter Vogel answers reader questions, including extending custom sections in the config file, using CreateQuery and ESQL in the Entity Framework, and reading lambda expressions.
Lots more cores are coming -- but don't panic. Look for abstract programming methods pioneered by the MIT Cilk project to span to the future to address task parallelism, data parallelism and safety for multicore and manycore development.
- By James Reinders
- 07/01/2011
Andrew Brust on Microsoft's whistle-stop demo tour.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/01/2011
Power user Alice strikes; can the code save our programming hero?