Peter Vogel abandons ASP.NET (mostly) to discuss how to better debug programs.
Mickey Gousset discusses the theory behind the Branch by Quality branching/merging pattern in Team Foundation Server 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 10/21/2010
Microsoft and the jQuery team's announcements about the new data-driven plugins for jQuery have Peter all excited. He describes the plugins and what he's going to be doing with them in upcoming columns.
Windows 7 hides a number of locale-inappropriate fonts by default, and allows users to toggle this property as well. Here's how to honor that setting.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 10/14/2010
Peter returns to last week's topic to go beyond the basics of how to add controls to a page to fully integrate it into your Page's lifecycle.
There are, at least, six ways to have controls magically appear on a page at runtime. Just don't add it directly to the Page.
In a Redmond Review column last year ("What's Old Is New Again," April 2009), I discussed a move by Microsoft to reform its then-named SQL Data Services (SDS).
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 10/01/2010
A lot of people regard Apple and Microsoft as two sides of the same, cynical coin.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2010
It's almost 2011. The Microsoft .NET Framework and C# have been publicly available for almost 10 years -- longer if you count the early betas.
- By Patrick Steele
- 10/01/2010
Have you ever wondered why the Microsoft Base Class Library (BCL) lacks an IEnumerable<T>.ForEach(...) method?
- By Mark Michaelis
- 10/01/2010
Brandon hired a software development contractor to create a Web portal using ASP.NET to complete a custom software solution for one of his company's Software as a Service customers.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/01/2010
Lennie Lobel, CTO of Sleek Technologies and a consultant at twentysix New York, is an expert on Entity Framework and Microsoft .NET Framework data-access technologies.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2010
Microsoft has another solution for managing your Web.config file as you move your site to production. And, no matter what the name of this feature suggests, you don't have to learn XSLT to use it.
Mickey concludes his look at the Branch By Release pattern.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 09/28/2010
The Enum or enumeration is one of the fundamental constructs in the .NET Framework, serving as an easy-to-remember set of names for a series of fixed values that are logically related. It turns out that there is a surprising amount to know about the Enum construct.
Peter Vogel raises some interesting questions that address one of the major benefits of ASP.NET MVC: Test Driven Development.
Bola Rotibi examines challenges and opportunities as social media concepts transition into the dev space.
- By Bola Rotibi
- 09/20/2010
Mickey Gousset shows us how to implement Branch By Release merges using TFS 2010, and some new visualization features.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 09/18/2010
Peter Vogel wraps up his series on ASP.NET MVC, for now, by mapping some typical ASP.NET tasks to ASP.NET MVC.
Mickey Gousset begins a series of columns looking at branching/merging patterns and how to implement them using Team Foundation Server 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 09/14/2010