Instead of building a generic, do-everything product, find a niche that fits your personal and business goals.
- By Patrick Foley
- 03/01/2012
A certain Darwinian evolution is taking place at Microsoft. Some product species are more fit, with better chances for survival. You can understand and work with Microsoft's changes, rather than being passively impacted by them.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/01/2012
Implementing one of three interfaces can turn your business classes into self-validating components that seamlessly integrate into WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC applications -- and can be easily extended to other environments.
The office where Peter L. works was abuzz with excitement one morning a few months ago when the familiar, bland corporate art was missing from the wall opposite the elevators.
Readers react to a column discussing the future of Silverlight.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 03/01/2012
The problem isn't Windows Phone: Rather, it's the people selling Windows Phone, who are mostly clueless about what it can do.
Storyboarding in Team Foundation Server 11 is a quick and easy way to build UIs with a tool everyone knows -- PowerPoint.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/24/2012
Eric Vogel shows you how to use a common software design pattern that allows an app to dynamically pick an appropriate method at runtime.
Was there confusion at Microsoft's Web-focused show? Sure. But from Papa's Perspective, that wasn't a bad thing.
WPF makes it very easy to load non-executable resources at run time -- including a complete UI in XAML. Here's how to leverage that functionality to create applications that you can customize without recompiling.
Learn how to publish data in the Windows Azure Marketplace for a monthly income with just a few hours effort.
Eric Vogel covers how to use the Windows 8 local data storage APIs to cache application data.
IntelliTrace can only be used in development environments in Visual Studio 2010 but that changes in the upcoming IDE. Learn how to use the new IntelliTrace in Production features in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/07/2012
You can use your Master Pages just to structure your pages. Or you can integrate them into your application with custom code that your content pages can access.
By creating a UI that works well with both dark and light themes, your Windows Phone applications will stand out.
- By Nick Randolph
- 02/06/2012
Chewie is a domain-specific language that uses PowerShell to tame NuGet installations.
You may have become a developer so you don't have to talk to people. If you're creating a business, however, you'll need to start.
- By Patrick Foley
- 02/02/2012
Tired of mapping your classes from one format to another? A convention-based, open source library can help alleviate some of those coding headaches.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/02/2012
Web Parts and User Controls let you easily build customizable UIs with the same tools you use to create inflexible user interfaces -- and implement an MVC-like pattern in ASP.NET.
Our first-ever salary survey indicated that .NET developers on average were still getting salary increases despite a tough economy.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 02/01/2012