(Ben Nadel) The other day on Twitter, Simon Hume and I were talking about parsing CSV (comma separated values) data files located on a remote server. I mentioned to him that in addition to being able to pull down remote data, ColdFusion’s CFHTTP also has the ability to parse CSV data into a query ob

(Justin James) Throughout the last few weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of reading and talking to people to find out what they like about Visual Studio 2010 and what incentive there is to upgrade to it. I spent a small amount of time with the pre-release versions (but only for basic work), and I did not

(Zeeshan Amjad) We have seen lots of good examples of how to create a Debugger Visualizer for Visual Studio. But a common thing among all of them is that all of them are written for Windows Forms. I saw a question on a Microsoft forum asking if it is possible to make a debugger visualizer in WPF, an

(Joe Cartano) Prior to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2010, the only way to upgrade an ASP.Net MVC 1 application to ASP.Net MVC 2 was to use Eilon Lipton’s tool. With the release of Visual Studio 2010 you will now be able to open your MVC 1 projects in Visual Studio 2010 and upgrade them to ASP.Ne

(Peter Vogel) In previous columns (Supporting the ObjectDataSource and Object Oriented Development for the ASP.NET Developer) I walked through a simple model for developers wanting to move from single-tier development to multi-tier development. In an earlier column (In Defense of Single-Tier Applica

(Scott Mitchell) On Tuesday, April 13th, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 (which includes ASP.NET 4.0). To get started with Visual Studio 2010 you can either download a trial version of one of the commercial editions or you can go grab the free Visual Web Developer 20

(Deepankar Sinha) Whenever you write classes and functions in Visual Studio, it is a good practice to write XML comments for documentation. For example, before a function starts, you can document which parameters the function expects, briefly describe them, and explain what the function does exactly

(Sam Hobbs) This article was written based upon Visual Studio 2008. Some of the features are new for Visual Studio 2008 and might be different in Visual Studio 2010.

(Jeffrey Juday) Microsoft Visual Studio has been a bit slow to embrace the database developer. Until Visual Studio 2005 for Database Professionals there was no serious Visual Studio database development environment. If you’re like most TSQL database developers you probably use features of Visual Stu

(Scott Guthrie) The final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 is now available.