If programmers are leaving VB and aren't going to C#, where are they going?
- By Daniel Appleman
- 02/01/2009
- By Patrick Meader
- 02/01/2009
MadCap Flare 4.1 offers must-have features for technical writers.
Putting updateable controls in the ItemTemplate in a GridView gives developers what they want: the ability for users to change more than one row at a time. The cost is writing some extra code.
Mickey covers the basics of project-level and server-level security in TFS.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 01/26/2009
Peter provides an alternative to the default mechanism for accessing connection string -- and plugs his next book.
In these days of increasingly common least-privileged users, where should you store your application data?
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 01/19/2009
A release manifest should be more than a list of all the files in a release; it should also give users a better idea of what features are available.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 01/13/2009
Expression Blend 2 lets you add different effects to your Silverlight apps and enhance users' experience -- and with less code than you might think. All you need is Visual State Manager.
Want to make life easier for your users? NET 3.5 SP1's routing technology has some extra features to let you do just that.
Readers weigh in with the editors on Visual Studio Magazine. Read this month's letters.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 01/01/2009
Learn how Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0 changes everything you thought you knew about workflow. Also, learn why using string primary keys is a bad idea; find out where to get a data grid for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF); overcome the annoying issue of files not loading at runtime; and copy files into the executable directory.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 01/01/2009
Peter takes a look at Compuware's DevPartner Studio.
Microsoft needs to move toward a more robust Web presence and enable a compelling -- and increasingly necessary -- Web-Windows integration offering.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 01/01/2009
Billy Hollis ponders agile's long-term fate.
- By Billy Hollis
- 01/01/2009
New products for .NET developers.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 01/01/2009
- By Patrick Meader
- 01/01/2009
Where should Microsoft draw the line between adopting outside standards and technology, and building its own technologies?
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 12/15/2008
Can you name one thing Microsoft designed right the first time?
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 12/08/2008
You can use ASP.NET Routing to decode meaningful URLs into real physical path names.