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	49 Articles found and displayed in this view. Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback, 3rd Edition - Chapter 2 - Scrum, Agile Practices, and Visual Studio Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, January 21, 2013 Quick ID: 1211083 A Windows 8 Look and Feel for WPF, Part 1 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Nov/Dec Release Date: Thursday, October 04, 2012 Quick ID: 1211021 Many people will not be able to upgrade to Windows 8 right away for various reasons. However, there is nothing to stop you from designing your WPF applications to have a similar look and feel. Designing Silverlight Business Applications: Chapter 7 of Best Practices for Using Silverlight Effectively in the Enterprise Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, September 17, 2012 Quick ID: 1209023 By Jeremy Likness , Published Mar 29, 2012 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of theMicrosoft Windows Development Series series. Copyright 2012, ISBN-10: 0-321-81041-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-321-81041-0 Chapter 7: Designing Silverlight Business Applications: the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Chapter 4 - LINQ to Objects Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, August 27, 2012 Quick ID: 1207033 This excerpt is from the book >NET 4.0 Generics Beginner's Guide authored by Sudipta Mukherjee.ISBN 1849690782, Copyright 2012, Release Date January 2012. For more info, please visit the publisher site http://www.packtpub.com/net-generics-4-0-beginners-guide/book . Debugging Hard to Reproduce Issues Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Jul/Aug Release Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 Quick ID: 1208091 Software developers live and breathe debugging. It’s an essential and integral part of our day-to-day job. Whenever we are confronted with any bug in code, our typical first question is, “How can I reproduce this issue?” Any problems that cannot be reproduced are generally considered tricky to resolve. In order to really understand the challenges with debugging hard to reproduce issues, let’s walk through a few scenarios here. C# 4.0 Unleashed - Chapter 2 -Introducing the C# Programming Language Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Thursday, December 01, 2011 Quick ID: 1110133 This excerpt is from the book, C# 4.0 Unleashed, authored by Bart De Smet, Published Jan 4, 201 by Sams. Part of the Unleashed series. ISBN 0672335522, Copyright 2011. For more info, please visit the publisher site http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn= 0672330792. Using the Visual Studio New Project Dialog Box Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 Quick ID: 1112071 Continuing on our odyssey exploring the features of Visual Studio 2010, we turn our attention to the New Project dialog box. You noticed a difference no doubt, but may not be aware of just how much it has changed. Sit back, relax, open up Visual Studio 2010 and follow along as we dive into the details. Visual Studio Unleashed - Chapter 2 - The Visual Studio IDE Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Quick ID: 1109103 This excerpt is from the new book, ‘Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Unleashed’, authored by Mike Snell and Lars Powers, published in the Sams Unleashed Series, August 2010, ISBN 0672330814, Copyright 2010. For more info, please visit the publisher site http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0672330814 Chapter 1 - Three Years of Silverlight Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, September 05, 2011 Quick ID: 1107093 This excerpt is from the book, ‘Silverlight 4 Unleashed’ By Laurent Bugnion, Published Oct 21, 2010 by Sams. Part of the Unleashed series. ISBN 13: 978-0-672-33336-1, Copyright 2011. For more info please visit the publisher site: http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0672333368 2 - Introduction to SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Quick ID: 1107083 This excerpt is from the book, ‘SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010’ By Eric Carter, Boris Scholl, Peter Jausovec, Published Aug 26, 2010 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Microsoft .NET Development Series series. . ISBN 13: 978-0-321-71831-0, Copyright 2011. For more info please visit the publisher site: http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321718313 Using Visual Studio 2010 New IntelliSense Features Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Jul/Aug Release Date: Sunday, July 03, 2011 Quick ID: 1108111 Chapter 10: It’s Your Turn! Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, April 25, 2011 Quick ID: 1104033 A key aspect of building a great Windows Phone 7 game experience is leveraging the platform’s features. Push notifications can be used to send updates and alerts in a variety of ways: in-game (also known as “raw”) updates, pop-up toasts, and tile updates. Chapter 17 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Quick ID: 1103023 This chapter covers the steps necessary to dynamically populate a repeating table. Displaying data from a data source in a repeating table is fairly straightforward using rules and filters. However, in this overall scenario, you need to populate a repeating group in your form with data from a data source. The data is dependent on another selection in your form. Chapter 3 - Planning Your Testing Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Sunday, March 20, 2011 Quick ID: 1103013 Inside Visual Studio LightSwitch Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 11, 2011 Quick ID: 1103051 Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch uses a model-centric architecture for defining, building, and executing a 3-tier LightSwitch application. From Zero to Business Application in 15 Minutes Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 11, 2011 Quick ID: 1103061 Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new product in the Visual Studio family aimed at developers who want to quickly create data-centric business applications for the desktop and the cloud.LightSwitch is an extensible development environment and application framework that simplifies the development process because it lets you concentrate on the business logic and does a lot of the remaining work for you. LightSwitch is perfect for small business or departmental productivity applications that need to get done fast. In this article I will walk you through creating a business application from beginning to end using Visual Studio LightSwitch.Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new product in the Visual Studio family aimed at developers who want to quickly create data-centric business applications for the desktop and the cloud.LightSwitch is an extensible development environment and application framework that simplifies the development process because it lets you concentrate on the business logic and does a lot of the remaining work for you. LightSwitch is perfect for small business or departmental productivity applications that need to get done fast. In this article I will walk you through creating a business application from beginning to end using Visual Studio LightSwitch. Microsoft and jQuery Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 Quick ID: 100233 Beyond the Boundaries of Visual Studio 2010 with WebUI Test Studio Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 22, 2010 Quick ID: 1011081 Advertorial Hour 1 - Jumping in with Both Feet: A Visual Basic 2010 Programming Tour Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Friday, September 24, 2010 Quick ID: 100213 Chapter 3 - The Anatomy of a Visual Basic Project Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Sunday, September 19, 2010 Quick ID: 100203 Although you can create lots of kinds of projects both for Windows and the Web with Visual Basic 2010, there is a common set of files for each project. In this chapter you learn which files give the structure to each project and how the files influence the building of an application. You also get an overview of references, namespaces, classes, modules, and Visual Basic keywords. Hour 3 - Understanding Classes and Objects the C# Way Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Sunday, September 12, 2010 Quick ID: 100193 This chapter teaches the basics of both object-oriented and component-oriented programming, moving on to creating a class in C# and examining how it fulfills the goals of object-oriented and component-oriented programming. Chapter 9 - Case Study: Generating a Connection String Manager Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, August 30, 2010 Quick ID: 100183 Peter Vogel walks you through an end-to-end solution for code generation that concentrates on integrating with Visual Studio and working with the CodeElement objects. Add Some Spark to Your OData: Creating and Consuming Data Services with Visual Studio and Excel 2010 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 20, 2010 Quick ID: 1009091 The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web. Also known as Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services, now officially called WCF Data Services in the .NET Framework. There are also SDKs available for other platforms like JavaScript and PHP. Visit the OData site at www.odata.org. Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jul/Aug Release Date: Thursday, June 24, 2010 Quick ID: 1008081 What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0, Part Two: WebForms and Visual Studio Enhancements Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Monday, June 21, 2010 Quick ID: 100143 What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0, Part One: Core Engine Features Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Monday, May 17, 2010 Quick ID: 100133 Microsoft released the .NET Runtime 4.0 and with it comes a brand spanking new version of ASP.NET - version 4.0 - which provides an incremental set of improvements to an already powerful platform. .NET 4.0 is a full release of the .NET Framework, unlike version 3.5, which was merely a set of library updates on top of the .NET Framework version 2.0. Because of this full framework revision, there has been a welcome bit of consolidation of assemblies and configuration settings. The full runtime version change to 4.0 also means that you have to explicitly pick version 4.0 of the runtime when you create a new Application Pool in IIS, unlike .NET 3.5, which actually requires version 2.0 of the runtime. Reflections on a Decade of Visual Studio Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 Quick ID: 1006081 Reviewing where we’ve been over the last decade in the world of .NET and Visual StudioAt the brink of a new release of .NET and Visual Studio, you may wonder where all of this new technology is taking us. Not only do we now have a number of new flavors of Visual Studio targeted to release on April 12, 2010, we also get to enjoy a plethora of new technologies such as Silverlight 4 and RIA Services, as well as new hardware platforms to consider, such as Windows Phone 7 Series. Understanding the future usually begins with a reflection upon the past so let’s take a look at how Visual Studio has changed in the last decade. SharePoint Applied: BCS with Visual Studio 2010 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 Quick ID: 1006041 Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is a set of out-of-the-box features, services and tools that enhance SharePoint by streamlining the creation of solutions with deep integration of external data and services into SharePoint!SharePoint 2007 had a similar technology called BDC. But BDC was much more primitive compared to BCS. New Features in WCF 4 that Will Instantly Make You More Productive Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 Quick ID: 1006061 WCF 4 is all about productivity. Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 Quick ID: 1006111 Chapter 12: Delegates and Lambda Expressions Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Quick ID: 100123 PREVIOUS CHAPTERS DISCUSSED extensively how to create classes using many of the built-in C# language facilities for object-oriented development. The objects instantiated from classes encapsulate data and operations on data. As you create more and more classes, you see common patterns in the relationships between these classes. Chapter 8 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, April 05, 2010 Quick ID: 100093 C# is an evolving language. This chapter looks at the new features added into C# 4.0 that combine to improve code readability and extend your ability to leverage LINQ to Object queries over dynamic data sources. The examples in this chapter show how to improve the coding model for developers around reading data from various sources, including text files and how to combine data from a COM-Interop source into a LINQ to Objects query. Chapter 2: Creating Versatile Types Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010 Quick ID: 100083 Whenever you create your own classes, you need to consider the circumstances under which they could be used. For example, will two instances of your Item struct ever be compared for equality? Will your Person class need to be serializable, or sortable? Creating Self-Scaling Applications with Azure Services Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 12, 2010 Quick ID: 1003061 Microsoft’s Azure platform has finally been released into production. This new entry into the cloud computing market provides .NET developers with a scalable, robust platform for developing applications.After over a year in CTP, Azure is finally ready for prime time. At PDC 2009, Microsoft announced the release of new components, such as the management API, that make Azure worth considering for use in production environments. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to use the different components of Azure Services to build a self-scaling application. Ensuring Quality Code Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 12, 2010 Quick ID: 1003021 Every developer needs to test their code, or have it tested by someone.I don’t know about you, but I am horrible at testing my own code. Does this mean that I do not need to test my code? Heck, no! It is always best if you do not rely on your end user to test your code. This can end up with a very frustrated user, and your user can lose faith in your ability to get their project done. Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 12, 2010 Quick ID: 1003111 Hot on the heels of the groundbreaking release of ASP.NET MVC CTP 1 in December of 2007, an open source project called MvcContrib came to life.MvcContrib has enjoyed tens of thousands of downloads since it started in December of 2007. In this article, I will explain MvcContrib; it’s major components, how to use it, and how to get involved in its continued development. My Top Three Favorite Things About SharePoint 2010 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009 Quick ID: 1001031 Aside from the obvious summary here, Sahil goes into details about why you should also be happy about these three SharePoint 2010 features. In his words, these features give a SharePoint architect so much more flexibility in implementing and delivering SharePoint projects that they will invariably prove to be extremely valuable.SharePoint 2007 has been a very successful product for many reasons. Perhaps it is the good applicability of .NET to SharePoint. Maybe it is the fact that SharePoint gives you so much beyond plain vanilla ASP.NET, that it gets both techies and business users excited.Having been available for about three years now, there has been time for developers to discover a few rough edges to the product as well. Practical Uses of Lambdas Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009 Quick ID: 1001051 Deborah covers many of the different ways you can use lambda expressions to work with your lists and make your code easier to read and write.Lambdas provide shortcuts for sorting, filtering, finding and working with information in lists, making your code easier to read and write. Generating Code Using Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009 Quick ID: 1001071 Visual Studio 2010 makes T4 easier to find and supplies a powerful new feature called preprocessed templates. Kathleen shows you how to use T4 in Studio 2005 and beyond.Microsoft included its T4 generation language in the box in Visual Studio 2008 and added important new features in Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio 2010 makes generation easier to find and supplies a powerful new feature called preprocessed templates.Code generation lets you automatically create significant portions of your application. It has the potential to decrease bugs and increase your ability to alter code across your application as needs change. Microsoft’s generation language is T4 and it is included in the box starting with Visual Studio 2008. Visual Studio 2010 makes T4 easier to find and supplies a powerful new feature called preprocessed templates. I’ll show you how to use T4 in Studio 2005 and beyond. Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009 Quick ID: 1001111 Get Ready for Visual Basic 10 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 23, 2009 Quick ID: 0911061 Check out the new features in Visual Basic 10, the latest version of VB coming out with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. What’s New in Visual C# 4.0? Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 23, 2009 Quick ID: 0911071 Visual C# version 4.0 offers new features that make it easier for you to work in dynamic programming scenarios.Besides dynamic programming, you have support for optional and named parameters, better COM interop support, and contra-variance and covariance. This article will show you how each of these features work and provide suggestions of how they can be applied to help you be more productive. Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 19, 2008 Quick ID: 0902101 Heard on .NET Rocks! Future of Web Development Panel Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 19, 2008 Quick ID: 0902091 A Pragmatic Approach to WPF Accessibility Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 4 - Windows Accessibility Focus Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0810102 As is often the case, applications are not typically designed with accessibility in mind.Usually, applications are designed to satisfy business requirements. If those business requirements do not include accessibility, more likely than not, the application as a whole will be inaccessible to important segments of users. There are, however, steps you can take to mitigate this common lack of foresight in requirements analysis. Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 24, 2008 Quick ID: 0811111 Nov/Dec 08 Doc Detective column Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 06, 2008 Quick ID: 0807101 July/August 08 Doc Detective Column. Heard on .NET Rocks! Andy Leonard on Unit Testing Your Database Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, April 18, 2008 Quick ID: 0805111 May/June 2008 .NET Rocks! column The Provider Model Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 26, 2007 Quick ID: 0711081 In this article you will learn how to isolate yourself from change by taking advantage of the Provider Model.Designing your applications using the Provider Model will allow you to swap components out at runtime, thus allowing you to upgrade them easily.