Visual Studio


Telerik Expands Portfolio with Team Development Tools

The company is offering several tools that enable developers to work with Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

Silverlight 4 Officially Launched

Microsoft releases shipping version of Silverlight 4 with a focus on ease and speed of development

Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4 Released

Developers can start building apps with the powerful tooling in Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4.

Customizing the Ride Part 2

Karl Peterson returns with another batch of tricks designed to improve the IDE.

Object-Oriented Programming for the ASP.NET Developer

Peter Vogel continues to look at the basics of O-O development to support the ASP.NET ObjectDataSource.

Customizing the Ride (Part 1)

There are countless tricks folks have learned to use within the classic Visual Basic IDE over the years. Here are a few of mine.

NetAdvantage for .NET Supports Windows 7 UI Styles and Visual Studio 2010

Windows Forms development is still dominant in the enterprise. Will more developers build Silverlight apps as the tooling becomes available in VS2010?

VS Insider: Get Ready for Visual Studio 2010

Dave Mendlen writes that the Visual Studio team at Microsoft is working overtime to give developers the information they need to assess and use Visual Studio 2010.

Big Changes

By almost any metric, Visual Studio 2010 is a big release.

Plugged in to Visual Studio 2010

What does the new .NET extensibility model mean for your existing add-ins?

LINQed In

In the March C# Corner column, Patrick Steele explained how to use LINQ outside of databases to make code easier to read and maintain.

The Evolution of Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2010

C++ developers will see major improvements -- beyond support for Windows 7 APIs -- in Visual C++ 2010.

Cloud Development in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 provides familiar tooling and resources for developers who want to put their applications up in the cloud. Here's how to do it.

The Making of Visual Studio 2010

With the ambitious nature of the Visual Studio 2010 upgrade, it's hardly surprising Microsoft faced challenges on its way to RTM. We take a look behind the development of Microsoft's game-changing IDE.

Open Data, Open Microsoft

I've always been a data guy. I think data maintenance, sharing and analysis is the inspiration for almost all line-of-business software, and technology that makes any or all of it easier is key to platform success.

Managing Projects with Axosoft OnTime

OnTime is a tremendously capable project management system that's good-but not perfect-when supporting Visual Studio developers.

Supporting the ObjectDataSource

You're considering the ObjectDataSource but you're not an object developer. Peter Vogel shows you what you need to do to move into multi-tier development.

Agile Project Management for Everybody

For teams using an agile software development methodology, Team Foundation Server 2010 offers new tools to help you easily visualize the backlog, the workload per iteration and the workload per developer. Jeff Levinson shows how TFS 2010 can help guide agile development.

Static Code Analysis in VS2010

Just because your code compiles when you press F5 in VS2010 doesn't mean it's error free. Use the static code analysis features of VS2010 to analyze managed assemblies.

In Defense of Single-Tier Applications

You put all of your code in the code file of your ASP.NET pages -- but other developers keep kicking sand in your face because you're not doing n-tier development. Peter's here to say that you're not (necessarily) being dumb.

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