It's always a challenge to manage the entire project life cycle by balancing requirements and iterations or milestones based on priority and relevant quality gates. It takes great effort to put in necessary quality initiatives to attain high quality deliverables...

The areas that I've focused in the past for achieving the desired levels for the key architecture quality attribute for software solutions, performance, include fine tuning of database queries and introduction of caching at various layers. While there...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta 1 available for download now ... http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx

Using multiple programming languages or paradigms, while implementing software solutions, are not uncommon anymore. For example, many of us definitely have been using C#, SQL and Scripting languages to implement applications. Composing multiple programming...

Business Modeling and translating the model into analysis and design models have been a practice in the industry for while. Identifying the basic business entities as part of business analysis provides a way to create a candidate model structure for the...

ASP.NET MVC RC1 Refresh release is available for download now which provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime. Related URLs: Download ASP.NET MVC RC1 Refresh ASP.NET MVC

We've been experimenting with Pex (Program EXploration) which produces a traditional unit test suite with high code coverage. These generated unit test cases takes parameters, calls the code under test, and states assertions. Essentially, Pex does a white...

I h ave been playing around VSTS 2010 / TFS 2010 / .NET 4.0 CTP features for a while. It's available for download at the MSDN site in a VPC format with Windows 2008 server as the host. This VPC provides a few sample TFS projects and a few VSTS 2010 solutions...

One of the challenges, I always faced was the availability of approaches for quantification of the aspects such as right coupling among classes for better design; less # of lines of code within a class/methods and the complexity measure of the code to...

The latest Microsoft Architecture Journal (#17) talks about distributed computing and the associated architectural patterns. A few of our colleagues, at Managed Solution team, have put together an excellent article based on patterns harvested from our...

I just debugged through the .NET Framework assembly source code like the way I used to do MFC source debugging earlier, except that the symbols and source are downloaded while debugging ...It’s much easier with VS 2008, especially the symbol download...

A good video on Understanding Models, Views, and Controllers. http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc-videos/video-396.aspx http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc/tutorial-02-cs.aspx

The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release. See Scott Guthrie's Blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/tags/MVC/default.aspx . ASP.NET MVC makes it very easy to implement a model-view-controller (MVC...

"A Cookie Manager Class for Web Applications" It has been a while since I had written an article, "A Cookie Manager Class for Web Applications" ( http://www.ddj.com/cpp/184401425?pgno=4 ), on handling Internet Cookies. I used primarily C++/STL, WinInet...