Daily coding is a lot easier when you know how to use Visual Studio effectively. To optimize your experience with the latest Microsoft IDE, try these practical tips and shortcuts. (Part 3 of 3)
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 08/01/2010
If you've been reading Andrew Brust's Redmond Review columns and Redmond Diary blog, you know that he's expressed concern about the complexity of the Microsoft development stack.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2010
Visual Studio add-in extends support to Mac OS X and features improved debugging and deployment.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/29/2010
Jeff Levinson says the first step toward being more efficient is getting on top of project time tracking.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 07/29/2010
Windows 7 contains a number of UI improvements to the classic taskbar. One very useful feature for quickly launching an application with its associated files is Jump Lists. In this issue, we'll look at how you can utilize Jump Lists in your own Windows 7 applications.
- By Patrick Steele
- 07/29/2010
Microsoft's community program manager for the Visual Studio Managed Languages Team talks about the new capabilities in C# 4 and what we can expect going forward.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/29/2010
CodeFluent Entities model-driven software factory promises to streamline creation of application components.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/27/2010
Visual Studio-based development tool and ASP.NET-based app server enables rich phone applications.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/27/2010
Administrators get no respect, either, in this world of Least Privileged Users. Here's how you can set aside those precautions, and still get at the information your users need.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 07/27/2010
Mickey Gousset introduces the new Microsoft Scrum 1.0 Process Template for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and steps through the installation process.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 07/27/2010
If you're willing to make the mental shift to storing objects instead of data, db4Objects may be the right solution for a distributable local database.
Sometimes, when the user clicks on a menu choice, you want to pass some data based on the page's content. Here's how to dynamically alter a menu control based on the data on the page.
Joe Kunk looks at how to manage a numeric system that extends to the entire alphabet.
As Microsoft shuts down its newsgroup server, the community resource lives on. You just need to know where to look for it.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 07/16/2010
If you'd rather keep your menu structure in a table in your database instead of a file in your Web site, here's all the code you need to implement a database-driven menuing system.
In part 2 of his series on Web performance testing and load testing in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Ben Day explains how to set up a load test rig to determine how well your application performs with multiple users.
- By Benjamin Day
- 07/12/2010
I remember a time, not that many years ago, when I doubted Microsoft's bet-the-company strategy around .NET. For all its breadth, the impetus for the Microsoft .NET Framework wasn't breathtaking innovation.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/01/2010
Creating your own module for managing menus is not only ridiculously easy, but opens the door for adding any other enhancements that you can think of.
VistaDB is a database engine written entirely in .NET managed code. It's a great solution for distributed applications that need to store data locally.
When searching for a "forms over data" applications contender, SharePoint just might be your best bet.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/01/2010