We all tend to obsess on optimizations at times, often needlessly. Here's how to figure out if all your extra work is paying off.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 05/18/2010
Peter uses the new dataView and dataContext objects from the AJAX Toolkit to create a data-driven page without server-side code.
After a thick April patch, this month's security update, released today, is light with only two "critical" fixes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/11/2010
DotNetNuke got 5.4 out a week after ASP.NET 4 was released to the Web, but some developers ran into significant issues when they tested the technology.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/06/2010
If you want to integrate server-side Web service processing with AJAX objects in your browser, you should be considering WCF Data Services -- especially if you're working with the Entity Framework. Here's a quick introduction to the technology.
Windows provides numerous ways to tell an application how to size and position itself on startup. Here's how you can honor those requests.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 05/04/2010
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 makes it easier than ever to work with rich, data-bound elements.
- By Mark Boulter
- 05/01/2010
Will familiar tools and a low barrier to entry entice you to build innovative apps for Windows Phone 7?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/01/2010
Early access and intensive assistance helped bolster tooling support for Visual Studio 2010.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2010
Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite shows a thoughtful approach that builds on ASP.NET AJAX to create a set of controls that play well in ASP.NET.
By the time you read this, the final version of Visual Studio 2010 will have been in developers' hands for about three weeks.
Patrick Steele illustrates useful techniques for modifying existing code while maintaining backward compatibility.
- By Patrick Steele
- 05/01/2010
The next version of the Hypertext Markup Language, HTML 5, will bring true semantic capabilities to Web documents, augmenting their human-readable content with machine-readable data and metadata. Because of this, HTML 5 will affect the day-to-day work of Web developers everywhere.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/01/2010
A reader responds to "iPad's Platform Impact," Andrew Brust's March, 2010, Redmond Review column on the Apple iPad.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2010
Peter Vogel returns to creating an AJAX-enabled ASP.NET application using the latest tools out of the AJAX library and .NET 4. However, it turns out that you can't there from here... at least, not right away.
Evans Data conducted a global survey of 425 developers earlier this month to find out their overall satisfaction with software frameworks and Web platforms.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/27/2010
Mickey Gousset shows you the different static code analysis configuration options in Visual Studio 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 04/27/2010
Upcoming federated ID management technology promises to improve authentication across both server and cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/23/2010
Move beyond buttons and text boxes to create visual interfaces based on interactive graphics with Nevron's Diagram for .NET
Peter Vogel wraps up coverage of object-oriented programming for the single-tier developer by handling the difference between the data required by users and the object used by the business layer.