Survey shows increased use over past year of JavaScript and PHP and a decline in static languages such as C, C++ and Java.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/12/2009
Sorting in the GridView is simple to implement, as long as you want simple sorting. For more complex sorts you have to take control of the Sorting event.
The move to the Internet cloud will pick up steam in the next year for developers, according to a new survey from Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans Data Corp.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/05/2009
Use the DesignProperties class to prevent code errors in the Blend designer.
VSM readers honor the best commercial development tools.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2009
Readers chime in on XAML.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2009
Peter returns to .NET RIA Services to look at the client side of creating an application.
The ASP.NET-related portions of .NET RIA Services aren't ready for primetime yet, but now's a good time to start kicking the tires.
Microsoft is connecting its Live@edu online collaboration suite with Moodle, an open source learning management system.
Your users may want to get their data in a specific order -- and not get it all at once. You can control both with the ObjectDataSource (and a little code).
Upgrade offers added integration and new Eclipse-based tool for advanced developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/15/2009
Microsoft took the wraps off version 3 of its Silverlight framework for developing rich interactive applications (RIAs)and its Expression Studio Web and graphics design suite.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/10/2009
Not content with providing a solution for displaying information from the Content page on its MasterPage, Peter returns to the topic to solve the problem from another direction.
Offshore application development has its merits, but sometimes, as one dev team found, it's just not worth it.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 07/01/2009
Is the open source IDE for cross-platform .NET development a viable alternative to Visual Studio 2008?
- By Krystyna Rosicka-Blonska
- 07/01/2009