(Mickey Gousset) One of the features in Visual Studio Team System 2008 that helps developers write better quality code is unit testing. With unit testing, developers can verify that the classes they are creating, and the methods in those classes, are working as expected. Unit testing was available i

(Lee Dumond) Mail sent from your application didn’t go through? Don’t give up so easily! The majority of mail server interruptions are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few seconds. Instead of failing right away, why not give your SMTP client another shot?

(Ben Moore) VSDB provides a number of configuration properties that can be used during deployment. These options are found in the Database.sqldeployment file that is included in your database project:

(Ged Mead) In the first WPF ListView blog of this set, I used XML data binding and added some basic formatting to the Column Headers of the ListView. In the previous blog, a collection of objects was used as the data source. The formatting in that second example was a bit plain. So, in this blog I w

(Yakov Werde) As the Microsoft .NET platform has matured, desktop application technologies have reached a new plateau. Decades-old client/server applications built for Win32 using the PowerBuilder platform are reaching the end of their useful life cycle, consequently IT managers and application deve

(Scott Guthrie) Today’s post covers one of the general IDE improvements that I know a lot of people are already eagerly looking forward to with VS 2010 – multiple-monitor support.

(morebits) This walkthrough shows how to filter rows in tables with a parent-child relationship.

(GenMcGee) While a lot of free LINQ providers exist, they typically provide only basic functionality and fail at even mildly complex queries. The reason for this is that .NET does not provide a LINQ provider with the LINQ query in the syntax most people use in their C# source code (from-where-select

(Dennis Wallentin) In 2007 Microsoft aquired Dundas Data Visualization but Dundas still remains as a standalone company. What matters is that by acquiring Dundas Microsoft got access to all the Dundas .NET controls. Last year Microsoft made the Chart control available for free. Originally the Chart

(Xianzhong Zhu) In the first part of this series, we first examined the general design of the RIA image management system, then discussed the database design, and finally started up the application development from the homepage module. In this second installment, we will continue to develop another