Peter Vogel signs off on his last Practical ASP.NET column, as he shifts focus to a new column called Practical .NET, which addresses the broader arena of .NET development.
VSM Web columnist Eric Vogel kicks off his first C# Corner installment with a walk through creating an application using asynchronous programming.
Mickey goes through an example of shelvesets and why they are a nice feature in Team Foundation Server.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 03/23/2011
Latest version adds improved charting and report and dashboard creation features.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/22/2011
Peter Vogel takes a look at Razor and the productivity gains in generating views that ASP.NET MVC 3 provides to developers.
On VB columnist Joe Kunk says coding errors can lead to trouble, but the vast majority of big mistakes are due to poor or misguided project management.
Microsoft's HTML5-savvy Web browser features performance improvements, refined interface and new developer hooks.
Developers discuss installation and compatibility workarounds with VS2010 SP1. New LightSwitch Beta 2 resolves one compatibility issue.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/15/2011
The second pre-release version of Microsoft's wizard-based, rapid business application development tool adds cloud and extensibility features.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/15/2011
Mickey Gousset introduces us to a new, free tool for visualizing work item information in Team Foundation Server 2010, providing state visualization, work item analysis and dependency analysis.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 03/11/2011
Awaited Visual Studio service pack release is joined by two new VS Feature Packs and a soon-to-ship fresh beta of LightSwitch.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/08/2011
VSM columnist Peter Vogel builds an ASP.NET application that is too clever by half, and finds himself at odds with the very environment he is supposed to be leveraging.
This month's Ask Kathleen column answers your questions about the new Razor view engine in Microsoft's Model-View-Controller framework. Part 1 of 2.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 03/01/2011
As with any big shift in technology, a lot is at stake for developers. No one wants to make significant investments of money, attention and free time on something that will be a mere flash in the pan -- or even a stable, yet niche, technology.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/01/2011
On occasion I've been surprised that Microsoft has put significant effort into developing features and functionality already available within the developer ecosystem.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 03/01/2011
Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology Previews.
- By Roger Jennings
- 03/01/2011
TeamPulse provides economical support for teams implementing the Agile methodology, but it doesn't integrate with Visual Studio.
Everybody in the IT department was quite happy -- even a little surprised -- with how well the outsourced project to replace the legacy billing system was progressing.
In January, On VB columnist Joe Kunk wrote a column entitled "To Comment or Not to Comment." This article evoked some spirited debate about the costs and benefits of commenting code.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 03/01/2011
Tips on Windows Phone 7 development and app design with sample code for a Windows Phone Pivot application.