Deciding how work items should relate to each other can be tricky, depending on which version of TFS -- 2008 or 2010 -- you're working with. Jeff guides you through the potential pitfalls.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 06/09/2009
Need to recreate that olde-timey Terminal look? There's a stock object built into every version of Windows that'll serve that need.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 06/02/2009
If you want to use Entity Framework in ASP.NET, you're going to need to handle concurrency problems. Here are some suggestions from a Microsoft "architect evangelist."
Peter revisits the problem of dealing with multiple updates to the same data, but this time he looks at a solution that involves the ObjectDataSource.
Silverlight is capable of consuming data from a variety of sources including REST APIs, ASMX services, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services and other standards-compliant services.
In the last installment of this three-part series, Peter overcomes the final obstacle before achieving JavaScript nirvana: attaching a constructor to a JavaScript "item."
Mickey shows you how the work item templates functionality helps you keep team members in the loop, set default templates quickly and make bulk changes without the need for Excel.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 05/11/2009
Peter continues to explore the differences between the .NET object-oriented, server-side languages he's used to and the world of JavaScript.
Here's the least complicated method for determining how long a given process has been running or how much CPU time it's actually consumed. This technique is used here to establish how long Windows has been running.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 05/05/2009
Covariance and contravariance are precise terms that describe which conversions are safe on parameters and return types. Learn practical definitions for those terms, what new constructs will be supported in C# 4.0 and how to live with the current limitations until Visual Studio 2010 is adopted by your organization.
Learn how to create and debug templates using Microsoft's T4 templating language.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2009
Products to Lower cost application performance maintenace and drive ODBC harder.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2009
How is your organization weathering the downturn?
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2009
Readers share their thoughts on Microsoft's SDS change of heart, and VSM's redesign.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2009
PHP and MySQL have beaten Microsoft at the game it practically invented.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/01/2009
Software development gone wrong: ASP plus Access not equal to secure Web portal.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 05/01/2009
Peter has been experiencing culture shock as he adapts to working with JavaScript, starting with the discovery that JavaScript isn't an object-oriented language.
Work Item Templates allow you to work faster and more effectively with your TFS Work Item Tracking system.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 04/27/2009
Having looked at how to prepare an e-mail object, Peter turns his attention to getting the message mailed to someone.
Need to extract binary data from the registry? Here's a quick primer on reading and interpreting structures stored there.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 04/20/2009