Visual Studio Tutorials & Articles
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Using NuGet Packages
by Dan MaharryNuGet 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.
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Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 2: Controlling Localhost and IIS Express
by Yann TrevinOne 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<T> class to start either server from within a running test suite.
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Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 1: Keeping Your Tests Legible
by Yann TrevinGallio, 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.
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Building an HTML5 application with WebSharper Sitelets, Part 1
by Adam GraniczIn 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.
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Learn F# Programming
by Ted Neward and Jessica KerrProviding 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.
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Integrating Active Directory Into Azure
by Steve PlankThe 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.
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Advanced scenarios with Windows Azure Queues
by Maarten BalliauwQueues can be an incredibly scalable component in any application architecture - we take a look at state machines and back-off polling
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Using the Queuing Service in Windows Azure
by Brian PrinceWe introduce one of the simplest services in Azure to get to grips with - the message queue service
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How to migrate your ASP.NET site to the Azure cloud
by Richard ParkerMany 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.
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Customising your build process with MSBuild
by Simon HorrellIf you need a fine control over the build process in .NET, MSBuild might be what you are looking for. Simon Horrell explains what this well-hidden tool does.
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E-XD++ MFC Library Professional Edition V9.20
by jack zhangHongKong,Feb 18, 2006--UCanCode Software, Inc. announced the release of E-XD++ Professional Edition V9.20, its world-leading line of Flow/Diagram components for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET developers. Version 9.20 introduces new features across E-XD++'s full range of products and includes enhancements to the suite's Visual Studio 2005 support. http://www.ucancode.net
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Interview with Thearon Willis
by James CrowleyAn Interview with Thearon Willis, author of Beginning SQL Server 2000 for VB Developers.