Microsoft System Center 2012 is out, and Microsoft .NET Framework developers everywhere are cheering.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/01/2012
PowerPoint Storyboarding, a new feature of Visual Studio 11, brings new dimensions to UI design.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 05/01/2012
Time is causing Windows to evolve, but those changes offer new opportunities for app developers.
Visual Studio Magazine Tools Editor Peter Vogel wanted to avoid the raw, uninitialized HTML/HTML5 that users sometimes see in their browsers before JavaScript properly arranges things.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2012
Peter looks at Knockout, one of the MVC environments for writing client-side JavaScript, and wonders if we're on the wrong path.
Team Foundation Server has a variety of ways to queue and execute your builds. Here's what you need to know.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 04/26/2012
The latest Android SDK provides an emulator with improved debugging capabilities. Mono for Android developers will appreciate the upgrades.
- By Wallace McClure
- 04/26/2012
A new column on developing Android apps with the .NET Framework debuts. Here's the reason it exists, and a bit about the authors.
- By Wallace McClure
- 04/25/2012
Nick Randolph continues to look at building applications across both Windows Phone and Windows 8, this time focusing on the navigation model.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/24/2012
How to implement an undo/redo system using the Command pattern in the .NET Framework.
Visual Basic 11 contains many enhancements you may not have noticed.
Agile processes should encourage your developers to work better -- not be looking over their shoulders.
Migrating a photo-sharing Windows Phone application to run under Windows 8.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/16/2012
A build definition describes the details of what your build is supposed to do, and when it's supposed to do it.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 04/11/2012
Code First Migrations allow for database changes to be implemented all through code. Through the use of Package Manager Console (PMC), commands can be used to scaffold database changes.
In Part 1 of this series, Eric Vogel walks you through a software design pattern that is commonly used to handle UI interactions.
By having your Data Annotations implement the IClientValidatable interface, you can make it easy for developers to integrate your client-side validation into your Views.
VIM is a text editor with a Visual Studio extension. Its time-saving power is well worth the learning curve.
See how a simple interceptor can help reduce the amount of coding needed to initialize your Windows Presentation Foundation ICommand properties.
- By Patrick Steele
- 04/03/2012
Validation should begin as close to your database as possible: in your Entity Framework entities. Here's how you can integrate validation code into both the entities the Entity Framework generates and the ones you write.