Visual Studio Magazine readers pick the best developer tools and resources.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2010
Flexera Software InstallShield and Symantec Wise Package Studio target different audiences, providing the services that developers and administrators need to reliably deploy complex applications across an enterprise.
Is Microsoft helping HTML5 and the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) stack harm its own products and market position? Historically, Microsoft has struck a delicate balance in melding homegrown and external technologies into a cohesive stack and a winning strategy.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2010
Enabling developers to build what they dream and easily get their creations to phone users is central to how Windows Phone 7 provides amazing experiences. Windows Phone 7 makes this easier with a new application development platform.
- By Orville McDonald
- 11/01/2010
Mike worked as a SQL developer for a non-profit, debt management company that handled student loans.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/01/2010
Readers respond to C# Corner columnist Patrick Steele's look into the best and worst of the C# programming language.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 11/01/2010
Dive a little deeper into how the jQuery script works and learn how to use the DatePicker control with ASP.NET MVC templates.
- By Doug Gregory
- 11/01/2010
This year marks the 18th annual Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Awards.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2010
Mickey Gousset finishes his series on branching patterns with a look at how to implement Branch by Quality in TFS 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 10/28/2010
Peter Vogel abandons ASP.NET (mostly) to discuss how to better debug programs.
Mickey Gousset discusses the theory behind the Branch by Quality branching/merging pattern in Team Foundation Server 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 10/21/2010
Microsoft and the jQuery team's announcements about the new data-driven plugins for jQuery have Peter all excited. He describes the plugins and what he's going to be doing with them in upcoming columns.
Windows 7 hides a number of locale-inappropriate fonts by default, and allows users to toggle this property as well. Here's how to honor that setting.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 10/14/2010
Sit back, relax and revel in the joy that you weren't involved in these 10 projects.
- By Alex Papadimoulis, Mark Bowytz
- 10/13/2010
Peter returns to last week's topic to go beyond the basics of how to add controls to a page to fully integrate it into your Page's lifecycle.
There are, at least, six ways to have controls magically appear on a page at runtime. Just don't add it directly to the Page.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Baltimore-based AVIcode Inc., a provider of .NET application performance monitoring software.
WebMatrix Beta 2 is integrated with NuPack, a new open-source package manager Microsoft announced today. The company also released the ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta, which supports the Razor view-engine.
In a Redmond Review column last year ("What's Old Is New Again," April 2009), I discussed a move by Microsoft to reform its then-named SQL Data Services (SDS).
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 10/01/2010
LiveLINQ speeds up LINQ queries against in-memory collections by an order of magnitude -- but before you buy it, make sure you have the problems it solves.