Why tempt fate by making your application dependent upon an easily replaced component? Karl Peterson shows how you can begin reducing external dependencies in your VB apps.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 12/14/2010
If you're trying to decide whether to use Crystal Reports or SQL Server Reporting Services with ASP.NET, you can rest assured that there is no bad choice.
Mickey Gousset finishes out his series on coded UI testing with some useful tips and tricks.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 12/08/2010
Peter moves beyond the basics of setting up a ListView to add databound controls, control headers and footers and turn on updating.
Silverlight 5 offers improvements targeted at premium media experiences and enterprise apps, according to Microsoft. The public beta is slated for the first half of 2011.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/02/2010
Suite of 30 ASP.NET MVC extensions available for DevExpress DXperience subscribers, as part of the DXperience v2010 Volume 2 release cycle.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/01/2010
BizTalk Server is a blockbuster product, but it's also a sleeper. Andrew Brust explains why BizTalk could be headed for big things in the cloud.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 12/01/2010
A reader responds to "Protect What's Yours" (November 2010), in which Andrew Brust expressed concerns about Microsoft's ability to defend its ground.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 12/01/2010
This complete package takes care of modeling data and managing the resulting designs -- provided you're using entity-relationship modeling to design your databases.
Terry had spent the better part of the past decade digging through the trenches of QuidCorp's flagship application QuidFlow -- a program used to flowchart business processes.
Anyone doing ASP.NET development probably admits, openly or not, to introducing or stumbling upon a security issue at some point during their career.
Red Gate SQL Source Control is a useful tool for SQL Server developers using TFS or Subversion, but falls short in managing database design changes.
Mickey Gousset shows how to make Coded UI Tests data-driven in Visual Studio 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 11/30/2010
The ListView is the most powerful of the DataView controls and the hardest to work with. Here's how to minimize the pain while getting all the benefits.
Peter completes his series on integrating AJAX and a client-side control by implementing it in ASP.NET MVC. And he draws some conclusions on client-side development in ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, and in the world at large.
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 to allow data centers to tap Windows Azure server resources in the cloud.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/19/2010
Telerik releases Q3 2010 version of its Agile project management suite, with support for bi-directional sync with Microsoft Team Foundation Server.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/18/2010
The .NET Framework has full support for running multiple threads at once. In this article, Patrick Steele looks at how threads accomplish their task and why you need to be careful how you manage a WinForms application with multiple threads.
- By Patrick Steele
- 11/18/2010
Mickey Gousset delves into and explains the generated code of the coded UI Test, and shows us how to run the test.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 11/17/2010
Visual Basic .NET possesses naturally expressive syntax that is almost always clear in its intent. Even so, there are still surprises in Visual Basic that can trip up even experienced VB developers.