.NET Framework


Miguel de Icaza on MonoTouch

Mono lead and Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza talks about MonoTouch development for the iPhone and how Mono is working to extend support to more mobile platforms.

Q&A: iPhone Development on MonoTouch

MonoTouch developer and book author Wallace McClure discusses the evolving arena of Mono-based application development for the iPhone.

Branch By Release in TFS 2010 - Part 3

Mickey concludes his look at the Branch By Release pattern.

Microsoft Kills Key Components of the 'Oslo' Modeling Platform

It's no surprise that 'Oslo', also known as SQL Server Modeling, has not survived the on-going battle of competing data platform strategies at Microsoft.

Extending Enum

The Enum or enumeration is one of the fundamental constructs in the .NET Framework, serving as an easy-to-remember set of names for a series of fixed values that are logically related. It turns out that there is a surprising amount to know about the Enum construct.

Test Driven Development in ASP.NET MVC

Peter Vogel raises some interesting questions that address one of the major benefits of ASP.NET MVC: Test Driven Development.

Three Free Tools for WCF Development

CodePlex offers a variety of free tools to improve development around Windows Communication Foundation.

Dev Collaboration: Not All Talk is Cheap

Bola Rotibi examines challenges and opportunities as social media concepts transition into the dev space.

UPDATED: Security Hack Exposes Forms Authentication in ASP.NET

Flaw in AES encryption allows tool to crack Machine Key values used to encrypt cookies in 30 to 50 minutes. Microsoft offers guidance on limiting exposure.

Branch By Release in TFS 2010 - Part 2

Mickey Gousset shows us how to implement Branch By Release merges using TFS 2010, and some new visualization features.

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools Released

The final versions of the free Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools for building Silverlight and XNA applications are available for download—just weeks before the first devices are expected at retail.

ASP.NET Processing in ASP.NET MVC

Peter Vogel wraps up his series on ASP.NET MVC, for now, by mapping some typical ASP.NET tasks to ASP.NET MVC.

Branch By Release in TFS 2010

Mickey Gousset begins a series of columns looking at branching/merging patterns and how to implement them using Team Foundation Server 2010.

5 C# Traps to Avoid

C# Corner columnist Patrick Steele offers a heads up on five gotchas that can trip up even veteran C# programmers.

Silverlight Surprise

PreEmptive Solutions became a Visual Studio insider (literally) when Microsoft began shipping our Dotfuscator CE code obfuscation module with Visual Studio back in 2003.

Cover Story: Get Ready for the Entity Framework

The industrial-strength Microsoft ORM is finally ready for prime time. Are you?

Lab Management in Visual Studio2010

Visual Studio Lab Management promises to streamline thorny debug and test challenges by enabling an efficient, virtualized test environment.

Build Office Apps with Add-in Express

Add-in Express simplifies the process of extending Microsoft Office to let you concentrate on adding functionality.

How to Validate Forms with ASP.NET MVC 2 Data Annotations

Simplify the task of validating Web form input by using attributes. If standard validators don't meet your needs, you can create custom data annotations for richer validations.

Andrew Brust: Lauding LightSwitch

I've said it before: the Microsoft .NET Framework is too complex.

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