It's not enough to build a great custom control to help your end users -- you must also help other developers use your control.
Using Team Foundation Server and the methodologies it supports can greatly improve the software development experience and lead to successful projects with repeatable processes.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 07/01/2006
A reader explains that job market forces often force developers to opt for the latest and greatest, rather than tried and tested; another reader explains why he voted for no products in the most recent Readers Choice Awards survey.
Visual Studio Team System's many tools provide a wealth of information on the health and progress of a project.
- By Peter Varhol
- 07/01/2006
Take advantage of Loops in Visual Basic .NET to save coding effort, as well as to create more readable and maintainable code.
- By James Foxall
- 07/01/2006
Build a component to accommodate changing requirements without having to recompile your code.
Graphical imaging tools and components are the theme in July's look at recent releases for VB and .NET developers.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2006
Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) offers more granular security, better centralization, robust auditing and reporting, and more.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 07/01/2006
Create a class that addresses common threading problems and overcome cross-thread calling and resource protection issues.
- By Brian Rogers
- 07/01/2006
Compuware's DevPartner SecurityChecker analyzes for most known Web site attacks, is easy and intuitive to use, and is highly customizable.
Visual Studio Team System provides a wealth of tools in one place. Explore all aspects of this integrated suite of tools.
- By David Nelson and Jeff Levinson
- 06/28/2006
Check out these publications, tools, and community sites for additional information about Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/28/2006
WPF is going to change the way you write graphics applications, but it''s going to take a while before you see it adopted broadly.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/08/2006
Microsoft's new Forefront products and Vista security enhancements were highlighted at this week's TechEd keynote.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/08/2006
Developers who work on the UI side of advanced apps must learn new technology for forms-based dev to improve the user experience.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/08/2006
WPF is going to change the way you write graphics applications, but it's going to take a while before you see it adopted broadly.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/08/2006
VSM presented its annual Readers Choice Awards to the Visual Studio vendor community.
The .NET Framework 3.0 represents a major set of functionality in .NET, and yet doesn't change any existing .NET Framework 2.0 libraries, compilers, or features.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 06/08/2006
Effective policymaking with WS-Policy improves your architecture's adaptability with minimal development when external service interfaces evolve and business needs change.
- By Derek Harmon
- 06/01/2006
Here's how to look for warning signs that might indicate future problems, and how to balance your design decisions accordingly.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 06/01/2006