Wicked Code: 3 Important Tips For Silverlight Development

Silverlight provides support for dynamic languages such as IronRuby and IronPython. We'll walk you through the creation of a custom Silverlight control using Bing Maps and IronRuby.Ashish GhodaMSDN Magazine February 2010

Now that you've identified technical debt in your code base, let's turn our attention to some specific tactics that will help you pay back that debt.David LaribeeMSDN Magazine January 2010

Scott Mitchell reviews a user interface mockup tool, a blog for user experience tips, a JavaScript code checker and a book that expertly explains the ins and outs SQL Server Reporting Services.Scott MitchellMSDN Magazine January 2010

Creating and maintaining a unit test suite for legacy code can be a challenge. Pex automatically produces a small test suite with high code and assertion coverage.Nikhil SachdevaMSDN Magazine December 2009

Every codebase contains some measure of technical debt - code that is maddeningly hard to test and maintain. We outline some ideas for identifying and dealing with the high-interest debt in your code.David LaribeeMSDN Magazine December 2009

This article provides a first look at tools in Visual Studio 2010 designed to support development and deployment of SharePoint 2010 solutions. The article provides an example of designing and deploying a visual Web part.Steve FoxMSDN Magazine October 2009

Schema- first contract-first modeling of Web Services gives you the ability to model your contracts with an XML-centric mindset. This process keeps you focused on universally acceptable types and the hierarchical data structures that can be represented in XML.Christian Weyer, Buddhike de SilvaMSDN Magazine October 2009

In this article, the author reviews the pillars of real-world AJAX development as supported in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0. It focuses on client-side templates and data binding but won't ignore other goodies, such as ADO.NET Data Services proxy classes and programming facilities.John PapaMSDN Magazine October 2009

As more and more multi-threaded software applications get developed, software development professionals need to adopt new tools, techniques and metrics that can deal with multi-threaded software. Synchronization coverage is a simple, practical way to do this and this article covers a prototype synchronization coverage tool for .NET, called Sync Cover.Chris Dern, Roy TanMSDN Magazine September 2009

If you want to save, organize, and annotate snapshots of your database data, find an easy way to install and configure Subversion, and automate the organization of your source code, then you'll want to read more about these latest tools.Scott MitchellMSDN Magazine August 2009