The dog days of August are a good time to take stock of some of the major themes and trends likely to shape the development space toward the end of 2010 and into 2011.
- By Bola Rotibi
- 08/23/2010
OutSystems this week released version 5.1 of its Agile Platform, featuring "1 Click" provisioning designed to help developers quickly get projects up and running on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service.
Peter Vogel begins his series on introducing ASP.NET developers to ASP.NET MVC by looking at the C in MVC: Controllers
Mickey continues his exploration of the new Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Process Template, with a look at the included features.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 08/11/2010
Peter begins a series on educating traditional ASP.NET developers in the latest version of ASP.NET MVC. But first he looks at why he is not an ASP.NET MVC developer.
Microsoft used the occasion of an open source conference last month to advance its vision of an open cloud by breaking it down into four basic principles.
New versions add caching, support for LightSwitch development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/05/2010
Developers at VSLive! respond to Microsoft's LightSwitch visual development tool.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/04/2010
Microsoft's Dave Mendlen announces release date for Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 during keynote address.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/04/2010
In the second of two Windows 7-themed columns, Patrick Steele looks at how to get the most out of thumbnails with the Windows API CodePack.
- By Patrick Steele
- 08/04/2010
SoftFluent announces visual modeler for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 at VSLive! Conference.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/03/2010
Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jason Zander introduces new, business-friendly application development solution at VSLive! keynote in Redmond. Beta coming August 23.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/03/2010
On VB author Joe Kunk shows how you can quickly discover the orientation of an unknown database using dynamic queries.
Explore new ways to manage dependencies in your applications with Inversion of Control containers and Dependency Injection.
- By Patrick Steele
- 08/01/2010
If you want to take advantage of the power of multi-core machines, you need to start creating applications with parallel processing using PLINQ, the Task Parallel Library and the new features of Visual Studio 2010.
The new IntelliTrace feature in Visual Studio 2010 promises to eliminate the pernicious scourge of "no repro" bugs by giving developers a detailed view of what happened during execution when a bug was filed. Here's how you can get started with IntelliTrace.
Daily coding is a lot easier when you know how to use Visual Studio effectively. To optimize your experience with the latest Microsoft IDE, try these practical tips and shortcuts. (Part 1 of 3)
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 08/01/2010
People demand the best user experience with the technology they use every day -- from PCs and TVs to mobile devices.
- By Dave Mendlen
- 08/01/2010
Peter Vogel's June column, "Upgrading to Visual Studio 2010," got readers talking about plugs-ins and pricing.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2010
The rumor of the beeping server started out as a hushed whisper between network administrators.