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.
A lot of people regard Apple and Microsoft as two sides of the same, cynical coin.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2010
Dundas Dashboard is a turnkey solution for creating customizable dashboards in Silverlight. For developers, the API is most interesting.
ASP.NET MVC and test-driven development show the future of delivering reliable applications. While Visual Studio 2010 enables you to integrate server-side testing into ASP.NET development, client-side testing presents a challenge.
It's almost 2011. The Microsoft .NET Framework and C# have been publicly available for almost 10 years -- longer if you count the early betas.
- By Patrick Steele
- 10/01/2010
Have you ever wondered why the Microsoft Base Class Library (BCL) lacks an IEnumerable<T>.ForEach(...) method?
- By Mark Michaelis
- 10/01/2010
Working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template.
Brandon hired a software development contractor to create a Web portal using ASP.NET to complete a custom software solution for one of his company's Software as a Service customers.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/01/2010
Lennie Lobel, CTO of Sleek Technologies and a consultant at twentysix New York, is an expert on Entity Framework and Microsoft .NET Framework data-access technologies.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2010
Microsoft has another solution for managing your Web.config file as you move your site to production. And, no matter what the name of this feature suggests, you don't have to learn XSLT to use it.
Mono lead and Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza talks about MonoTouch development for the iPhone and how Mono is working to extend support to more mobile platforms.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/29/2010
MonoTouch developer and book author Wallace McClure discusses the evolving arena of Mono-based application development for the iPhone.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/29/2010
Mickey concludes his look at the Branch By Release pattern.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 09/28/2010
It's no surprise that 'Oslo', also known as SQL Server Modeling, has not survived the on-going battle of competing data platform strategies at Microsoft.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/22/2010
The Enum or enumeration is one of the fundamental constructs in the .NET Framework, serving as an easy-to-remember set of names for a series of fixed values that are logically related. It turns out that there is a surprising amount to know about the Enum construct.
Peter Vogel raises some interesting questions that address one of the major benefits of ASP.NET MVC: Test Driven Development.
CodePlex offers a variety of free tools to improve development around Windows Communication Foundation.
Bola Rotibi examines challenges and opportunities as social media concepts transition into the dev space.
- By Bola Rotibi
- 09/20/2010
Flaw in AES encryption allows tool to crack Machine Key values used to encrypt cookies in 30 to 50 minutes. Microsoft offers guidance on limiting exposure.