Visual Studio Tutorials & Articles from Developer Fusion

An Introduction To F# Type Providers

Keith Battocchi — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:43:00 GMT

Type Providers are a new core feature in F# 3.0, the latest version of F# released with Visual Studio 2012. Keith Battocchi investigates.

An Introduction to testing with the Model-View-Presenter pattern for Web Forms Development

S. Ravi Kiran — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:27:00 GMT

In this article, Ravi introduces the Model-View-Presenter pattern for Web Forms development, and how it compares to MVC. Then he demonstrates how to get started with it, by creating a page in a test-driven fashion

Continuous Integration Using NuGet And TeamCity

Xavier Decoster — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:26:00 GMT

Xavier Decoster demonstrates how to incorporate the creation and reuse of NuGet Packages into your Continuous Integration build setup using TeamCity

The HTML5 History API and ASP.NET MVC

Dan Maharry — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:15:00 GMT

The HTML 5 History API is one of the newer kids on the HTML 5 block. This article based on chapter 4 of HTML5 for .NET Developers shows you one way of getting history integrated with your .NET server-side web applications.

An Introduction To Practical AOP Using PostSharp

Brady Gaster — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:00:00 GMT

In this article, Brady Gaster introduces the concept of Aspect Oriented Programming and how it can reduce code smells in your work. He uses PostSharp to refactor out logging, timing, transaction and GUI update code into separate and automatically executing Aspects

Using NuGet Packages

Dan Maharry — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:38:00 GMT

NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to pull in libraries, components, and most importantly their configuration into your visual studio project. In this article, based on chapter 5 of ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action, the authors discuss NuGet and show you how to use it to add functionality to a project.

Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 2: Controlling Localhost and IIS Express

Yann Trevin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:40:00 GMT

One important aspect of web testing which is not so often discussed in blogs or articles is how to run tests against a web project running in debug mode on the local host. Microsoft provides two options to let you debug web projects locally: the Visual Studio development server and IIS Express. In this second part of our series on writing web integration tests, we’re going to demonstrate how to use the WebTestServer class to start either server from within a running test suite.

Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 1: Keeping Your Tests Legible

Yann Trevin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:37:00 GMT

Gallio, MbUnit and WatiN are a good choice of tools for writing web integration tests. Not only are they powerful tools but they allow us to write much cleaner and more concise tests than you might think. In this article we'll see exactly how clean and concise you can get.

Building an HTML5 application with WebSharper Sitelets, Part 1

Adam Granicz — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:03:00 GMT

In this article, we're going to look at using WebSharper, a web development framework for .NET, to build a small web application from scratch that features an HTML5-based clock.

Learn F# Programming

Ted Neward and Jessica Kerr — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:18:00 GMT

Providing both leading-edge functional programming and familiar object-oriented capabilities, F# gives the developer more power to solve problems -- all in fewer lines of code, thanks to succinct syntax.

Integrating Active Directory Into Azure

Steve Plank — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:29:00 GMT

The most common giveaway a user experiences when an enterprise application has been moved to the cloud is the sudden appearance of a username/password dialogue box.

Advanced scenarios with Windows Azure Queues

Maarten Balliauw — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:22:00 GMT

Queues can be an incredibly scalable component in any application architecture - we take a look at state machines and back-off polling

Using the Queuing Service in Windows Azure

Brian Prince — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:56:00 GMT

We introduce one of the simplest services in Azure to get to grips with - the message queue service

How to migrate your ASP.NET site to the Azure cloud

Richard Parker — Tue, 31 May 2011 08:34:00 GMT

Many developers might not realise just how straightfoward it is to migrate an ASP.NET website from a hosted server into the Azure cloud. We show you how.

SharePoint 2010 for Developers - What’s New?

Sahil Malik — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:31:00 GMT

ASP.NET 2.0 came to SharePoint in 2007 but the development story left us wanting more. Sahil reports on the improvements in SharePoint 2010.

Isolated Storage

Ian Stevenson — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:24:00 GMT

Isolated Storage is a solution to a very common problem, but if you don't understand it then it becomes a problem in its own right.

Documentation made easy with C# and XML

Mike James — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:47:00 GMT

Of course you want to document your code, but how many of us do? Mike James thinks that coding and documenting can go hand-in-hand.

Architecting systems using Windows Workflow Foundation

Richard Blewett — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:11:00 GMT

Puzzled by WF? Wonder what it's all for? Richard Blewett takes the mystery out of Windows Workflow.

Introducing Python for .NET - IronPython

Mike James — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:52:00 GMT

Is it a dead parrot or does it fly? Mike James looks at IronPython and asks if it really is something completely different.

Top 5 Visual Studio 2010 Features

Scott Mitchell — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 offers a variety of new features and functionality. Discover are five new Visual Studio 2010 features that will help make you a more productive developer.