Basic Instincts: XML Programming in Visual Basic 9.0

There's no magic behind how the TFS Power Tools were integrated with Team Explorer, and we'll show you how to expose your own custom features inside the Team Explorer window.Brian A. Randell, Marcel de VriesMSDN Magazine December 2009

This month we look at tools for enhancing the LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework designers, Oren Eini's .NET development blog, Visual Studio tab customization, and more.Scott MitchellMSDN 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

Collection Initializers are a great addition to the language and allows concise syntax in order to initialize both framework and user defined collection types.Spotty BowlesMSDN Magazine October 2009

This article examines how the new support for functional programming techniques in .NET 3.5 can developers make code more declarative, reduce errors in code, and write fewer lines of code for many common tasks.Jeremy MillerMSDN Magazine October 2009

In Visual C++ 10 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft is introducing new libraries and runtimes to significantly ease the process of expressing parallelism in your code base, together with new tool support for performance analysis and debugging of parallel applications. In this article, you will learn about debugging support in Visual Studio 2010, much of which is focused on task-based programming models.Stephen Toub, Daniel MothMSDN Magazine September 2009

In this article, the author takes a look at SEO practices that the reader can apply when using the latest Microsoft Web technologies.Scott AllenMSDN Magazine September 2009

Error corrections are an essential part of the Visual Basic coding experience. This article explores the many error correction features offered by Visual Basic and provides a glimpse at the future release of Visual Studio 2010.Dustin CampbellMSDN Magazine July 2009

Now that you're even managing projects in the cloud, you'll need some tools to help. This month we illustrate one, discuss UX design patterns, a book by Anders Hejlsberg, and more.Scott MitchellMSDN Magazine June 2009

If the responsibility for creating, managing, and executing routine backups is yours, these tools will make it easier. Also see how you can browse folders and files from inside Visual Studio.Scott MitchellMSDN Magazine May 2009