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Interview with Alessandro Del Sole, Author of LightSwitch Unleashed

Visual Studio LightSwitch is Microsoft’s attempt to offer a tool that people with little or no programming experience to create simple and effective line-of-business applications. We spoke with Alessandro Del Sole, author of Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed, to get some more insights into the product.

Jonathan Allen
on Jun 15, 2012
Interview with Mathew MacDonald, Author of Pro Silverlight 5 in C#

We spoke with Matthew MacDonald about Silverlight’s role in the developer’s toolbox and how that role is shifting from cross-platform development to line of business applications. Also covered are some of the highlights from Silverlight 5 and a sample chapter on Silverlight animation from his book.

Jonathan Allen
on May 29, 2012
Writing a Comprehensive Unit Test

A common theme amongst people professing “best practices” for unit tests is that you should only write a single assertion for each test. People who make these proclamations rarely show any unit test and those that do only show one. Yet this pattern may require a dozen other unit tests to ensure quality for even a trivial operation. This article uses examples to question that recommendation.

Jonathan Allen
on May 24, 2012
Rob Eisenberg on Caliburn.Micro and MVVM

We spoke with Rob Eisenberg, creator of Caliburn and Caliburn Micro, about his experiences creating the popular framework and his thoughts on the MVVM in general.

Jonathan Allen
on May 07, 2012
HTML5 offline web applications using ASP.NET MVC

One of the major constraints of web applications has always been connectivity, especially with mobile applications. In this article, Jef Claes shows you how to use HTML’s offline capabilities to ensure the application keeps working even when the network connection isn’t.

Jef Claes
on May 02, 2012
From C# to Objective-C with Somya Jain

A shift has been occurring in the business world. Many consulting companies that traditionally write line-of-business applications in .NET are now being asked to build applications for iOS. And while .NET and Java will still be viable for years to come, there are a lot of opportunities for teams that are willing to cross-train. Somya Jain explains what that entails for C# developers.

Somya Jain
on Apr 24, 2012
Interview with Simon Cropp of Fody and Notify Property Weaver

Last month we introduced Simon Cropp’s Notify Property Weaver. Since then we’ve had a chance to talk with Simon about IL weaving in general and his other project, the extensible AOP tool Fody.

Jonathan Allen
on Mar 23, 2012
Optimizing ORM Performance

Some developers dislike using object-relational mappers (ORMs) as they’ve had bad experiences with performance. This article covers some basic techniques to optimize the performance when working with an ORM and still getting all the benefits of Object-Relational mapping.

John-Daniel Trask
on Mar 07, 2012
New Book: Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio

“Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio – from Concept to Continuous Feedback” is a new book that provides a deep-dive into the Visual Studio-TFS features, that can help Agile teams manage their application lifecycle better. It is written by Sam Guckenheimer (Product Owner, Visual Studio Strategy at Microsoft) and Neno Loje (Independent ALM Consultant and TFS specialist).

Roopesh Shenoy
on Jan 26, 2012
Design for Testability – The True Story

Testing is a major activity in any development lifecycle - a large part of a project budget is spent on it. If we want to effectively use it, the ease of testing should be addressed from the early stages of building the system.

Gil Zilberfeld
on Jan 12, 2012
The Rise of Application Analytics: A New Game Demands New Rules

When developers know how their applications are really being used “in the wild,” they will build better software, more efficiently, and with greater confidence. Sebastian Holst shows you how using application analytics.

Sebastian Holst
on Dec 27, 2011
Succeeding with Dependency Injection

While the principal pattern is easy to understand it can be difficult to succeed with Dependency Injection without considering the larger context. DI is an application of the principle of Inversion of Control and to succeed with IoC you’ll also need to invert your thinking. This article provides a sketch of the mental model you need to adopt to succeed with DI.

Mark Seemann
on Dec 19, 2011