Hard-coded messages don't scale well, and .NET's inherent error messages are user-unfriendly. Learn how to create a more scalable and user-friendly data-driven messaging system.
- By Paul D. Sheriff
- 10/01/2008
Sometimes it makes more sense to separate functionality you use repeatedly into its own component. Learn how to create a special command-line processing component.
Peter shows you how to make a Master-Detail page that will work right and save your users a lot of grief.
Jabber introduces JabberWerx Client Libraries, a set of libraries for .NET and AJAX programmers working with XMPP.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2008
VSLive! New York keynote speaker highlights New York City’s .NET and open source development efforts.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2008
Visual Studio Team System's Code Metrics feature isn't perfect, but if you understand what it's measuring and how, you can use it to gain insight into your apps' overall complexity and to spot potential problem areas.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 10/01/2008
Microsoft prepares to release BizTalk Server 2009 and will release BizTalk Server 7, its next-generation SOA solution, next year.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2008
Component maker Intersoft Solutions releases WebUI Studio.NET 2008 R2, an ASP.NET- and Silverlight-based Web development suite
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2008
Zend Technologies and Microsoft collaboration discussed at the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2008
Computer Zen's Scott Hanselman enlightens developers.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/01/2008
Google advances its JavaScript-centric Web dev strategy.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2008
In a tip of its hand toward open source software development, Microsoft announced on Sunday that it will incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET.
Developers can get prepared for the next version of Microsoft's rich Internet application platform by grabbing Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 developer runtime edition, which became publicly available on Thursday of last week.
Microsoft is revealing more about its plans for the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (code-named Rosario), part of the now officially named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 rollout.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/29/2008
Dan walks through building a "sports score scroller" to show clipping paths in action.