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.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/16/2010
Peter Vogel wraps up his series on ASP.NET MVC, for now, by mapping some typical ASP.NET tasks to ASP.NET MVC.
Mickey Gousset begins a series of columns looking at branching/merging patterns and how to implement them using Team Foundation Server 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 09/14/2010
C# Corner columnist Patrick Steele offers a heads up on five gotchas that can trip up even veteran C# programmers.
- By Patrick Steele
- 09/02/2010
PreEmptive Solutions became a Visual Studio insider (literally) when Microsoft began shipping our Dotfuscator CE code obfuscation module with Visual Studio back in 2003.
- By Sebastian Holst
- 09/01/2010
The industrial-strength Microsoft ORM is finally ready for prime time. Are you?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/01/2010
Visual Studio Lab Management promises to streamline thorny debug and test challenges by enabling an efficient, virtualized test environment.
- By Vijay Machiraju
- 09/01/2010
Add-in Express simplifies the process of extending Microsoft Office to let you concentrate on adding functionality.
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.