(Scott Guthrie) Over the last few years we’ve been working to make .NET and the CLR a great environment for dynamic languages. About 14 months ago we formed a dedicated group within my team that has been focused on adding richer CLR runtime support for dynamic languages, as well as delivering first

(Michael Ceranski) Have you ever wanted to move data from a production system to a development box without the overhead of using DTS or SSIS? This generic function will allow you to copy data between any two ADO.NET providers with one simple method call. I have already used this function in place of

(Tim Rayburn) So if you are like most people I talked to who are professional developers, you might have heard of System.Diagnostics.Debug, but you certainly do not make a habit of using it every day. While this powerful object has many excellent methods, this article with focus on seven key method

In Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, you rename a control by using the Properties window in the designer. When you do this, the operation takes a long time to finish.

(Ged Mead) In the previous parts we looked at ways of hiding and showing a single Tab Page in a TabControl. In some situations you may need to hide and show multiple pages.

In this article we’ll talk about exceptions. As implied by the name, exceptions are unexpected events that make a program unable to perform its duties in a logical manner. Exception handling empowers you to handle these little surprises rationally.

(Yuriy Kyyan) By integration of application it’s often possible to archive more functionality with less cost than implementing all of it in single application. There are a lot of existing applications, which are created for COM platform. They are still in heavy use, but current tendency on Microsoft

(Juval Lowy) Security is by far the most intricate area of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). In every WCF operation call on the service side, security is governed by the service contract, the operation contract, the fault contract (if present), the service behavior, the operation behavior,

(Juval Lowy) Security is by far the most intricate area of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). In every WCF operation call on the service side, security is governed by the service contract, the operation contract, the fault contract (if present), the service behavior, the operation behavior,

(Scott Guthrie) A few weeks ago I blogged about the new JavaScript Intellisense support in VS 2008. One of the other JavaScript features that I’m sure will be popular in VS 2008 is the much-improved support for JavaScript debugging. This is enabled in both the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Exp