Tools and Enviroment Enviroment Visual Studio 2008 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Visual Studio 2010 Expression Studio 3 Expression Blend 4 RC Tools Silverlight Toolkit Silverlight3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Silverlight4...

Prerequisites Prerequisites for Learning MFC http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e4y1ezf5.aspx Among the important assumptions made by the MFC documentation are that: · You already know a little about programming for Windows...

System Requirement .NET Framework .NET Framework System Requirements http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8z6watww.aspx Visual Studio .NET Visual Studio .NET System Requirements http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4c26cc39...

According to the different format of you stored procedures, generally, there are three ways to debug a stored procedure. Here is an example of how to implement that. Before debugging a stored procedure, you need to establish a connection to database in...

Introduction While you can write applications entirely in either managed or native code, it is possible to mix managed and native projects in the same solution. So this article lists the methods about interop with native C++. Invoke .NET Assembly...

MSDN Magazine articles: The Entity Framework In Layered Architectures http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc700340.aspx Anti-Patterns To Avoid In N-Tier Applications http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd882522.aspx Entity Framework...

Like the debate for FK Association, many customers persist that Lazy Loading should be a necessity for an ORM like EF, while others believe it is evil. Also in EFv1, Lazy Loading is not available. Fortunately, thanks to EF team’s effort again, Lazy...

The Common Language Runtime (CLR) allows a level of integration between itself and a host. This article is about a C++ code sample that demonstrates using the Hosting Interfaces of .NET Framework 4.0 to host a specific version of CLR in the process, load...

In proactive programming, you need to configure your TraceListeners in your App.Config file or Web.Config file. By default, Microsoft .NET provides several listeners containing DefaultTraceListener, TextWriterTraceListener, EventLogTraceListener, XmlTraceListener...

We share useful links in Twitter. Vivian Chen Focus in Visual Studio Setup , 5 Star Contributor at forum • Video: Sara Ford's 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 minutes! http://bit.ly/aNNeOa #VS #IDE #Tip #SaraFord ^YC • KB: List...

Introduction to WPF Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides developers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents. Tutorials WPF Tutorial.net by Christian Mosers...

Introduction This section helps you explore the features in C++/CLI. You will find useful learning links, videos, walkthroughs, guided tours, books and tutorials. Overview Stanley B. Lippman. Pure C++ Hello, C++/CLI http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine...

Product Document Team Edition for Testers (VS2005) Visual Studio Team System Test Edition (VS2008) Testing the Application (VS2010) FAQs and Articles Web and Load Test FAQs VSTS Content Index for Web Tests and Load Tests Visual Studio Performance Testing...

Word Programming Word Online Documentation: Object Model Reference http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb244515.aspx Object Model Map http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb288731.aspx Programming Tasks http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb258054...

Introduction: Introduction of Visual C++ 2010 in MSDN Library: What's New in Visual C++ 2010 [Video] How Do I: What's New for C++ in Visual Studio 2010? In this video, Jonathan Wood provides a high-level look at the new C++ features found...

SUMMARY C++/CLI is a self-contained, component-based dynamic programming language that, like C# or Java, is derived from C++; it is a binding of C++ to Microsoft’s .NET programming environment. This article is to give you a brief introduction of the language...

Last week, we walked through the FK Association in EF4. Today, we introduce another fantastic feature – Model First. It’s not difficult to guess what the feature will bring us from its name. Alex James (PM of EF team) concluded it as “creating a conceptual...

From June 2008, the whole EF4 design process is transparent to us in the EF Design blog . During the process, many great features are newly added including the Foreign Key (FK) Association. Whether FKs are important in the conceptual model has been talked...

We share useful links in Twitter. Honge Sun Focusing on Visual Studio , 3 Star Contributor at forum • MSDN Blog : Content Index for Coded UI Test http://bit.ly/9eo7rG ^HY • Windows Azure Guidance – New Code & Doc drop on CodePlex http://bit...

We share useful links in Twitter. Jialiang Ge focusing on CLR , 3 Star Contributor at forum • #Sample KB: How to upload and to display images in an ASP.NET FormView control http://bit.ly/955GAj #ASP.NET ^JLG • #Sample KB: How to work with text...

Hello, I am Jing Fang from MSDN forum support team. In this post, I am going to give a brief instruction of some new features in Load Test and Coded UI Test in VS2010. If you want more information shared by our team, please follow us @ Twitter ...

Collected by Vivian ^YC , Visual Studio Setup expert, 5 Star Contributor at forum If you want more information shared by our team, please follow us @ Twitter System Requirement .NET Framework System Requirements http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library...

Collected by Michael ^MIC , Entity Framework & LINQ expert, 5 Star Contributor at forum If you want more information shared by our team, please follow us @ Twitter Tutorials & Articles ADO.NET Entity Framework At-a-Glance (Level 100)...

Collection of useful links from community about code coverage with VSTS...

Introduction User Account Control (UAC) is a new security component in Windows Vista and newer operating systems. With UAC fully enabled, interactive administrators normally run with least user privileges. This article and the attached code samples...