Rapid Application Development or RAD tools enhance the productivity of developers by allowing them to focus on the business part of their application. This article is a review of Iron Speed Designer, one of the best know RAD tools for development of .NET framework web applications.
FxCop is a great tool for checking coding rule violations in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft has divided almost 200 + FxCop predefined static tcode analysis rules in different groups and categories. Learn to use these and write customized FxCop rules.
Now you can write dynamic programs using C# programming's newest version, 4.0. You can also replace complicated .NET framework reflection code with easier dynamic programs. Using dynamics in C# programming, developers can now make interop and COM object's method calls.
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010. This article, by Scott Mitchell, looks at several new and exciting features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
This article compares the performance of using a Web Service proxy class created by Visual Studio vs. a custom created class.
Learn about new opportunities that Cloud Computing and the Genetic algorithm make available to every person.
After delaying rollout plans for March, Microsoft reschedules.
Cloud Computing opens new opportunities for any person solving a particular task. Discover all of the steps to get Amazon EC2 for hosting an ASP.NET web site.
This article introduces code contracts that specify statements in .NET programs that must prove valid.
For large and complex applications, dealing with the amount of data collected can be difficult. See how the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Developer Edition Profiler can do an excellent job of finding performance problems by simply pointing it at an application and allowing it to collect data.
C++ programmers aren't the only ones who can write code so obtuse that it's nearly indecipherable. Now, VB9 programmers can compete with obscure code by using Lambda Expressions and Currying. But, is this a good thing? Explore Lambda Expressions and Currying, but the jury is still out whether or not currying is a good thing. It's definitely cool.
See what Visual Studio 2008 Shell has to offer and how it can help you.
Learn how to create setup programs without having the knowledge of setup scripts.
Learn how Visual Studio Team Suite (VSTS) seamlessly integrates the development environment with a suite of robust testing products that make developers more efficient when testing their applications.
Discover the fundamentals of the Visual Studio package and create your first Visual Studio 2005 Add-in.
Investigate some basic logging scenarios, explain and define some of the required terminology, and take the first steps to more efficient logging.
Microsoft introduced new pricing schemes and changed its MSDN subscription programs with the launch of Visual Studio 2005. Find out which option is best for you.
Think .NET code snippets are just about dragging and dropping some reusable code into the toolbox? Guess again. Code snippets in Visual Studio 2005 are far more useful. Find out why overlooking them would be a mistake.
Today, it is common to have software patch releases due to various reasons. Discover the steps needed to create a patch using MSI 3.0.
Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005 is now available for download for MSDN subscribers. Learn how you can get it too.
Visual Studio 2005 builds on the flexibility of XML to condense the process of creating templates. Paul Kimmel demonstrates how you can take advantage of this function.
Find out about the documentation capabilities of the Visual Studio .NET IDE. Learn how to improve the productivity within your development team and automate the generation of help files.
Take a look at some of the C++ language changes awaiting you in the next Visual Studio version.
Learn about two Longhorn technologies, recognizers in speech applications and the tile element in Windows GUI applications, that Microsoft provides to improve user experience.
