Peter Vogel abandons ASP.NET (mostly) to discuss how to better debug programs.
Mickey Gousset discusses the theory behind the Branch by Quality branching/merging pattern in Team Foundation Server 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 10/21/2010
Microsoft and the jQuery team's announcements about the new data-driven plugins for jQuery have Peter all excited. He describes the plugins and what he's going to be doing with them in upcoming columns.
Windows 7 hides a number of locale-inappropriate fonts by default, and allows users to toggle this property as well. Here's how to honor that setting.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 10/14/2010
Sit back, relax and revel in the joy that you weren't involved in these 10 projects.
- By Alex Papadimoulis, Mark Bowytz
- 10/13/2010
Peter returns to last week's topic to go beyond the basics of how to add controls to a page to fully integrate it into your Page's lifecycle.
There are, at least, six ways to have controls magically appear on a page at runtime. Just don't add it directly to the Page.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Baltimore-based AVIcode Inc., a provider of .NET application performance monitoring software.
WebMatrix Beta 2 is integrated with NuPack, a new open-source package manager Microsoft announced today. The company also released the ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta, which supports the Razor view-engine.
In a Redmond Review column last year ("What's Old Is New Again," April 2009), I discussed a move by Microsoft to reform its then-named SQL Data Services (SDS).
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 10/01/2010
LiveLINQ speeds up LINQ queries against in-memory collections by an order of magnitude -- but before you buy it, make sure you have the problems it solves.
A lot of people regard Apple and Microsoft as two sides of the same, cynical coin.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2010
Dundas Dashboard is a turnkey solution for creating customizable dashboards in Silverlight. For developers, the API is most interesting.
ASP.NET MVC and test-driven development show the future of delivering reliable applications. While Visual Studio 2010 enables you to integrate server-side testing into ASP.NET development, client-side testing presents a challenge.
It's almost 2011. The Microsoft .NET Framework and C# have been publicly available for almost 10 years -- longer if you count the early betas.
- By Patrick Steele
- 10/01/2010
Have you ever wondered why the Microsoft Base Class Library (BCL) lacks an IEnumerable<T>.ForEach(...) method?
- By Mark Michaelis
- 10/01/2010
Working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template.
Brandon hired a software development contractor to create a Web portal using ASP.NET to complete a custom software solution for one of his company's Software as a Service customers.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/01/2010
Lennie Lobel, CTO of Sleek Technologies and a consultant at twentysix New York, is an expert on Entity Framework and Microsoft .NET Framework data-access technologies.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2010
Microsoft has another solution for managing your Web.config file as you move your site to production. And, no matter what the name of this feature suggests, you don't have to learn XSLT to use it.