Tips

Tips

• Unit Testing: Ch. 14 of Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System

  This chapter looks at the ins and outs of unit testing in .NET, from writing tests to analyzing the results and making sure a unit test covers an application's entire code base.  Continue Reading

• Get to know the Windows Vista Developer Story

  If you want to get to know Vista, then the Windows Vista Developer Story, with articles on .NET 3.0, IIS and many other features of the new OS, makes a good starting point.  Continue Reading

• Here comes .NET Framework 3.0

  With Windows Vista now officially in sight, Ed Tittel takes a look at the major components of .NET 3.0.  Continue Reading

• Managed Code Analysis: Ch. 8 of Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System

  This chapter discuss Team System's Static Code Analysis tool, which checks both VB.NET and C# code for adherence to design guidelines and best practices.  Continue Reading

• Migrating add-ins from VBA to VSTO

  Many enterprises have stuck with VBA solutions because of legacy applications. A recent MSDN tip shows what developers can gain by migrating to Visual Studio Tools for Office.  Continue Reading

• Beginning Windows Presentation Foundation development, Part 1

  If you plan to develop UI for Windows Vista applications, then you should get acquainted with WPF. This tip highlights how WPF works and explains what developers can do with it.  Continue Reading

• Introducing .NET: Ch. 1 of Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005

  This chapter download offers VB developers an introduction to .NET development, the characteristics of the framework and the features introduced in .NET 2.0.  Continue Reading

• Sophisticated math add-in for Visual Studio 2005

  Here Ed Tittel reviews the IMSL C# Numerics Library, which brings numeric computing concepts from the days of FORTRAN into the .NET Framework.  Continue Reading

• How to prepare yourself for Vista development

  A new operating system means new features and new APIs. Kenny Kerr has posted on his blog a five-part series for developers who want to get in touch with Windows Vista.  Continue Reading

• After migration comes refactoring

  Refactoring means improving code that's already been written by changing its internal structure without changing its external behavior. Here Ed Tittel points to several refactoring resources.  Continue Reading

• Using data sources with databases: Ch. 14 of Murach's VB 2005

  This book excerpt offers tips for binding data to Windows Forms, using data sources with DatGridView and TextBox controls and performing data queries.  Continue Reading

• Implementing RSS and XML serialization in .NET

  Two bloggers have demonstrated how to set up an RSS feed for an ASP.NET application using XML serialization. One uses VB.NET and the other uses C#.  Continue Reading

• Hashing strings with any algorithm

  Cryptographic hash functions ensure than a message was not altered when it was sent over an insecure channel. This C# function generates the hash of a string based on your favorite algorithm.  Continue Reading

• Best Practice: Enforcing password complexity

  Rather than embed code in an app to address password complexity, Ed Tittel suggests that developers create a component that's used whenever and wherever passwords are needed. This also keeps all password logic in one place.  Continue Reading

• Hints for working with GridView in VB 2005

  Blogger Hannes Preishuber has posted 14 different Visual Basic 2005 GridView samples. They range from a CSS style adapter to creating a drop-down while in edit mode.  Continue Reading