(Kevin Hoffman) The other day I ran into a blog entry from the Astoria team discussing the projections feature of the 1.5 CTP2 version of the product. If you’re not familiar with ADO.NET Data Services (formerly codenamed Astoria), it’s basically a layer that you can put on top of an Entity Data Mode

(Morgan Skinner) The very first talk I gave on .NET was on custom attributes – some time way back in late 2000 or early 2001. At the time I was espousing the benefits of using custom attributes to add on details of unit tests and bug fixes.

(Scott Rippey) Have you seen this kind of text before? “There are 1 items remaining…”

(Scott Guthrie) This is the ninth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. In today’s blog post I’m going to cover some of the new code searching and navigation features that are now built-into VS 2010.

(Marc Plotz) Welcome to the third part of our voyage into the world of MVC. Our mission: To build an MVC framework that is: –Simple –Extensible –Lightweight –Versatile –Fast-loading –Self Templating

(Scott Mitchell) Over the years I’ve worked on a number of projects that have shared a common requirement – the ability for users to quickly import large amounts of data into a back end SQL Server database. One such project was a web application used by teachers and other staff members. The software

(Jason Zander) Earlier this month we announced the new Basic configuration for TFS. This configuration gives you an easy to set up version of TFS that supports source control, work items, and builds. It is a great place to migrate your Visual Source Safe assets and pick up new features in the proc

(Mahesh Chand) There are often times when you need to show multiple Windows when a WPF application starts.

(Chris Dern and Roy Patrick Tan) We are at another crossroads in the industry, as more and more transistor-laden processors demand multi-threaded code to realize their full potential. While machines from desktops to netbooks sport no less than dual-core processors under the hood, throngs of hungry t

(Scott Guthrie) I’m happy to announce that today we shipped the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. MSDN subscribers can download Beta 2 immediately. We will be opening up Beta 2 for everyone to download starting this Wednesday.