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.
- By Joe Kunk, Vijay Jagdale
- 09/01/2010
I've said it before: the Microsoft .NET Framework is too complex.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 09/01/2010
Microsoft extends its enterprise-capable database platform with powerful new management and scalability features -- and there's plenty in the latest rev for developers.
When it's time to create a document, PDF is often the format that your users prefer. Aspose.Pdf provides the coding support that lets you build PDF documents on the fly.
Peter Vogel looks at the least important component of the ASP.NET MVC, the Model, and goes on to discuss a strategy for integrating the model, the controller and the view.
Kathleen Dollard closes up her guidance on debugging code in Visual Studio with some troubleshooting of a disabled DataForm.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 08/31/2010
Improvements in the latest Microsoft IDE and underused features in Visual Studio 2008 support common debugging strategies to help you write better code. (Part 1 of 3)
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 08/31/2010
In the second installment of her series of tips and strategies for debugging code in Visual Studio, Kathleen Dollard looks into valuable resources like the TraceSource class.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 08/31/2010
Console applications are alive and well in Administrator Land. Here’s how your console application can leave instructions for the command processor upon your exit.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 08/26/2010
Peter continues his look ASP.NET MVC for ASP.NET developers (using the brand new version of ASP.NET MVC) by linking a view to a controller.
The dog days of August are a good time to take stock of some of the major themes and trends likely to shape the development space toward the end of 2010 and into 2011.
- By Bola Rotibi
- 08/23/2010
OutSystems this week released version 5.1 of its Agile Platform, featuring "1 Click" provisioning designed to help developers quickly get projects up and running on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service.
Peter Vogel begins his series on introducing ASP.NET developers to ASP.NET MVC by looking at the C in MVC: Controllers
Mickey continues his exploration of the new Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Process Template, with a look at the included features.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 08/11/2010
Peter begins a series on educating traditional ASP.NET developers in the latest version of ASP.NET MVC. But first he looks at why he is not an ASP.NET MVC developer.
Microsoft used the occasion of an open source conference last month to advance its vision of an open cloud by breaking it down into four basic principles.
New versions add caching, support for LightSwitch development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/05/2010
Developers at VSLive! respond to Microsoft's LightSwitch visual development tool.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/04/2010
Microsoft's Dave Mendlen announces release date for Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 during keynote address.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/04/2010
In the second of two Windows 7-themed columns, Patrick Steele looks at how to get the most out of thumbnails with the Windows API CodePack.
- By Patrick Steele
- 08/04/2010