- Automate Tedious Debugging Tasks Using Debug Analyzer.NET
- Apr 20, 2011
- Today there are mechanisms to automate debugging tasks via custom native debugger scripts or even VB script. Unfortunately, these approaches force us to learn new technologies instead of leveraging what we already know. Mario Hewardt, author of Advanced .NET Debugging, shows you how Debug Analyzer.NET is the solution to that problem by providing a comprehensive set of Debugger .NET APIs as well as a harness with powerful debugger automation features.
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- Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010: Planning Your Testing
- Feb 28, 2011
- In this chapter from Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010, Jeff Levinson covers how to create a Test Plan with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and the various options that the Test Plan provides to you. More important, this chapter covers what to test and how to get involved as a tester early in the development process.
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- Getting Started with .NET Development Using C#
- Feb 10, 2011
- Bart De Smet shows you how to to install the .NET Framework and the necessary tools, namely Visual Studio 2010. Bart then explains how to write a simple C# application, highlights some of the important language elements, goes through the process of building it using various tools, and looks at how you can debug code.
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- Introduction to C# Applications
- Dec 23, 2010
- In this chapter you'll learn some C# basics, including how to write simple C# applications using code rather than visual programming, write input/output statements, declare and use data of various types, use arithmetic operators, use message dialogs to display messages, and more.
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- ASP.NET 4 Unleashed: An Interview with Kevin Hoffman and Nate Dudek
- Dec 15, 2010
- Eric Vogel interviews Kevin Hoffman and Nate Dudek, two of the co-authors of ASP.NET 4 Unleashed. Kevin and Nate talk about why you should upgrade to ASP.NET 4, their opinion on the Update Panel, and what HTML5 will bring to the table.
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- The C# Programming Language: Types
- Nov 10, 2010
- The authors of The C# Programming Language discuss value types, reference types, and pointers.
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- Code Contracts in .NET 4.0
- Oct 25, 2010
- Code contracts in .NET 4 provide a language-agnostic way to describe the contract of a method or class using pre-conditions, post-conditions, and invariants. .NET expert Scott Dorman shows how code contracts, when used in combination with the code contracts tools, can be used to improve testing through runtime checking, perform static contract verification, and produce documentation based on expanded XML documentation comments.
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- Inversion of Control with the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
- Oct 13, 2010
- Building modular and extensible applications in .NET is much easier now with the inclusion of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in .NET 4.0. Jeremy Likness explains why MEF is also the perfect solution for inversion of control, showing how to use it in .NET applications.
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- Overview of the ASP.NET Framework
- Oct 12, 2010
- Get to know the ASP.NET 4 Framework, including how to build a simple ASP.NET page, how to work with ASP.NET controls and pages, and how to install ASP.NET.
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- Domain-Specific Languages: An Introductory Example
- Sep 27, 2010
- In this excerpt from his book, Domain-Specific Languages, Martin Fowler offers a concrete example to demonstrate the different forms a DSL can take.
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- Formatting Fields in an ASP.NET Gridview with Microsoft Expression Web 4
- Sep 10, 2010
- Kathleen Anderson shows you how to format number fields and telephone numbers, and make URLs and email addresses clickable in an ASP.NET Gridview using Expression Web 4.
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- Introduction to SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010
- Sep 3, 2010
- This chapter helps you create your first SharePoint solution by introducing you to some of the projects, project item templates, and tools that are in Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint development.
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- Interview with Andrei Alexandrescu (Part 3 of 3)
- Aug 25, 2010
- Eric Niebler and Andrei Alexandrescu conclude their conversation about the D programming language by discussing concurrency, the complications of sharing data, dynamic loading, specification and licensing, and the future of D.
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- Interview with Andrei Alexandrescu (Part 2 of 3)
- Aug 18, 2010
- Part 2 of this interview about the D programming language finds Eric Niebler and Andrei Alexandrescu deep in discussion about structs versus classes, the difficulties of copy semantics, rvalue references, the intricacies of garbage collection, and Andrei's occasional failure in serving as the standard-bearer for policy-based design.
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- All Systems Are Go: An Interview with Rob Pike, the Co-developer of Google's Go Programming Language
- Aug 17, 2010
- Danny Kalev talks with Rob Pike, the co-developer of Google's new Go programming language. In this interview, Pike speaks about the limitations of C++ in large-scale projects, the design philosophy of Go and its unusual type-system, and Go's future.
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- Interview with Andrei Alexandrescu (Part 1 of 3)
- Aug 11, 2010
- In part 1 of this three-part series, Eric Niebler talks with his pal and fellow InformIT contributor Andrei Alexandrescu about the D programming language and Andrei's new book about it: what makes D different from other languages, whether D's class libraries rival those of Java and .NET, and why Andrei claims not to be a guru.
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- The Visual Studio IDE
- Aug 10, 2010
- Mike Snell and Lars Powers cover the basics of Visual Studio installation; configuration; booting up the IDE; and getting to know the layout of the tool in terms of projects, menus, tools, editors, and designers.
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- Building Dynamic Systems with Expressions in .NET
- Jul 29, 2010
- The Expression API and the capabilities of the DLR lower the barriers to entry for creating systems where code and algorithms are created at runtime. Bill Wagner, author of Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition, shows how to use the Expression API and dynamic runtime support to build dynamic systems based on the data in your application.
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- Why WPF, and What About Silverlight?
- Jul 8, 2010
- Adam Nathan explains how WPF 4 and Windows 7 are bringing multi-touch to the masses.
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- Understanding Classes and Objects the C# Way
- Jul 7, 2010
- This chapter teaches the basics of both object-oriented and component-oriented programming, moving on to creating a class in C# and examining how it fulfills the goals of object-oriented and component-oriented programming.
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