More than 8,000 developers have downloaded the first test build since its release at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in November.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/01/2010
Use LINQ outside of databases to make your code easier to read and maintain.
- By Patrick Steele
- 03/01/2010
By many accounts, the Apple iPad has been a disappointment -- even Apple "fanboy" bloggers and tweeters have proclaimed themselves underwhelmed.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/01/2010
Readers respond to Andrew Brust's thoughts on what the next version of Windows ought to look like.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 03/01/2010
Taking place March 15-17, MIX offers an exclusive developer focus on Web, rich media, and dev/design issues and technologies.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/01/2010
Mergers and acquisitions, Windows 7 and the Web are driving a legacy migration to .NET. Developers tell how they unlocked their old technology and made the sometimes-painful journey to the modern platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/01/2010
A bundle containing DataGrid, Chart and Maps Web Parts that work with a variety of data sources.
The new Dotfuscator Software Services in Visual Studio 2010 moves beyond obfuscation with the community edition of PreEmptive's Runtime Intelligence Service for .NET.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/26/2010
You may have noticed that more and more sites have URLs that mean something rather than describing the path to the page. ASP.NET 4 makes this much easier to implement for your site and may save you from ever having to redirect users again.
Mickey provides an introduction to the new architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/23/2010
The popular tool's first commercial extension is a Visual Studio add-in for debugging third-party assemblies.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/19/2010
One of the major new features in VS 2010 is IntelliTrace, formerly known as the Historical Debugger. Does it lives up to the hype?
- By Jeff Levinson
- 02/18/2010
If you're using the ASP.NET Cache object, then somebody is suffering when you first load the Cache. Here's how to avoid that and, potentially, save a bit of money while you're at it.
Microsoft patched a flaw related to IntelliSense and addressed other concerns as the dev community tests the final pre-release version of VS 2010.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/17/2010
Maturing frameworks and rich Internet application platforms like Silverlight and Adobe Flash/AIR may change the way developers target client platforms.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/16/2010
There's another one coming, and this one's still flying pretty far below the radar. Classic VB apps are only vulnerable to the extent they interact with others.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 02/16/2010
Peter starts looking at the new features in ASP.NET 4, starting with support for compressing Session data and setting up permanent redirects.
Early reports by developers indicate vast speed and performance improvements.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/09/2010
Mickey wraps up his series on Web Testing with a look at validating Web tests.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/09/2010
Peter looks at a strategic issue: When to do validation? The answer isn't "Everywhere" but it could have been.