https://www.developerfusion.com/t/visual-studio/tutorials/sort/popularity/ Visual Studio Tutorials & Articles from Developer Fusion 2011-01-14T12:31:00.00Z http://www.developerfusion.com/article/2459/creating-a-database-connection/ Creating a database connection 2002-10-28T12:17:00.00Z Creating connections and all your data objects are really easy Design-Time, but what if you need it for runtime? Here's how. Tony Ho http://www.developerfusion.com/article/9789/c-40-goes-dynamic-a-step-too-far/ C# 4.0 goes dynamic - a step too far? 2009-02-12T13:54:00.00Z Is C# in danger of too much change? Mike James ponders the implications of dynamic types in C Mike James http://www.developerfusion.com/article/7633/introducing-visual-studio-net-2008-top-10-features/ Introducing Visual Studio .NET 2008 - Top 10 Features 2008-03-26T20:59:00.00Z After a long beta period, Visual Studio .NET 2008 is finally on general release. There are a ton of new features and enhancements in this release that make it almost a no-brainer to upgrade - I thought I’d take a moment and list my top ten favorites in no particular order. Mark Smith http://www.developerfusion.com/article/84436/documentation-made-easy-with-c-and-xml/ Documentation made easy with C# and XML 2010-10-04T08:47:00.00Z 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. Mike James http://www.developerfusion.com/article/9396/creating-extensible-applications-with-maf/ Creating Extensible Applications with MAF 2008-12-03T11:27:00.00Z Learn how using MAF allows you to easily create extensible applications that allow new features to be added without jeopardizing the stability of the existing code base. MAF provides a higher-level service that allow you to dynamically discover, load, secure and interact with external assemblies used to provide features for your application. Mark Smith http://www.developerfusion.com/article/84618/new-visual-studio-2010-features/ Top 5 Visual Studio 2010 Features 2010-06-28T00:00:00.00Z 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. Scott Mitchell http://www.developerfusion.com/article/92338/sharepoint-2010-for-developers-whats-new/ SharePoint 2010 for Developers - What’s New? 2011-01-14T12:31:00.00Z 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. Sahil Malik http://www.developerfusion.com/article/7556/new-c-30-language-features/ New C# 3.0 Language Features 2008-02-28T21:26:00.00Z Learn about some of the new features in C# 3.0 including automatic properties, collection initializers, extension methods, lambda expressions and anonymous types. Scott Guthrie http://www.developerfusion.com/article/10824/creating-particle-effects-in-silverlight/ Creating Particle Effects in Silverlight 2009-03-23T15:17:00.00Z Learn how to use a classic animation technique to create realistic special effects in Silverlight - offering visual effects including fire, water, smoke and fog. John Mannix http://www.developerfusion.com/article/30/visual-basic-tutorial/ VB 6 Tutorial 2001-07-14T23:00:00.00Z Completely new to Visual Basic? Overwhelmed with the confusing instructions? Read this tutorial and get a head start - learn what VB is, what you can do with it, how much it costs, and how to get star James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/article/84438/isolated-storage/ Isolated Storage 2010-11-22T12:24:00.00Z 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. Ian Stevenson http://www.developerfusion.com/article/84942/architecting-systems-using-windows-workflow-foundation/ Architecting systems using Windows Workflow Foundation 2010-07-23T09:11:00.00Z Puzzled by WF? Wonder what it's all for? Richard Blewett takes the mystery out of Windows Workflow. Richard Blewett http://www.developerfusion.com/article/84449/ironpython/ Introducing Python for .NET - IronPython 2010-06-28T20:52:00.00Z Is it a dead parrot or does it fly? Mike James looks at IronPython and asks if it really is something completely different. Mike James http://www.developerfusion.com/article/4704/implementing-ajax-in-aspnet/ Implementing AJAX in ASP.NET 2005-06-27T10:29:00.00Z Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) has recently become the craze thanks, in no small part, to Google’s usage of it in Google Suggest as well as Google Maps. Karl looks at how it works, and how we can implement it in ASP.NET using a free AJAX.NET wrapper. Karl Seguin http://www.developerfusion.com/article/4667/how-to-access-outlook-and-post-to-a-blog-using-c/ How to access Outlook and post to a blog using C# 2005-02-11T13:52:00.00Z An article for all those like Robert Scoble who would like to be able to drag and drop an item to a folder in their Outlook and post it instantly to their Blog. We also briefly cover web services and talking to Outlook. Simon Soanes http://www.developerfusion.com/article/3823/opengl-in-c/ OpenGL in C# 2003-07-06T06:55:00.00Z A simple demonstration of how to use OpenGL in C#, with the help of the C# Graphics Library. Bill Burris http://www.developerfusion.com/article/4636/isolated-storage-in-net/ Isolated Storage in .NET 2004-12-06T15:08:00.00Z Knowing how and where to store things is bread and butter stuff for an Application Developer. This article examines an area of storage known as ‘Isolated Storage’ that was introduced to the Windows environment alongside the introduction of the .NET Framework. We’ll discover, what it is and how and why to use it. Graham Parker http://www.developerfusion.com/article/5507/gps-deriving-british-ordnance-survey-grid-reference-from-nmea-data/ GPS- Deriving British Ordnance Survey Grid Reference from NMEA data 2006-03-21T08:28:00.00Z The NMEA data exported by GPS units gives latitude and longitude and geometric distance above the WGS84 (GRS80) reference ellipsoid. The Ordnance Survey maps for Great Britain use grid references based on the Airy Spheroid (OSGB36) reference ellipsoid. The following article discusses a C# class to convert GPS derived NMEA data to the British Ordnance Survey Grid. Alex Etchells http://www.developerfusion.com/article/4635/using-mysql-with-net/ Using MySQL with .NET 2004-09-09T08:34:00.00Z Ever wanted to combine the power and ease of the .NET platform with a free database like MySQL? Well thanks to ODBC database functions in ADO.NET it's really easy. This article shows how. cardinals33 http://www.developerfusion.com/article/7087/have-you-seen-the-silverlight/ Have you seen the Silverlight? 2007-09-17T20:49:00.00Z So you want fancy, sexy streaming media in the UI? And you want cool animations, fancy glow-in-the-dark buttons and decent, scalable vector graphics? And you want to run your application in a browser on both Windows and Mac OSX? If you’re already reaching for your copy of How to Wow with Flash, stop. There’s a new kid muscling onto the somewhat crowded Rich Interactive Application (RIA) block, and it’s coming from Microsoft. Dave Wheeler