June 2010

Ted Neward continues his dissection of the alternative MongoDB database system, using exploration testing to investigate the underlying technology.

June 2010

Charles Petzold performs more UI magic by implementing a variation of the drag-and-drop that presents users with a natural, fluid look and feel.

June 2010

It’s time to standardize the UI for Windows Presentation Foundation.

We are extremely happy to announce Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 Beta 1! (MonoTools)

Mono Tools for Visual Studio is a commercial add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 that enables developers to build, debug, and deploy .NET applications targeting Mono without leaving Visual Studio.

MonoTools 2.0 is a major upgrade from MonoTools 1.1, bringing many new features:

• The Mono soft debugger, for more reliable debugging
• Server profiles, for easier deployment options
• Compressed deployment for faster copying to server
• Full Run/Debug support for Linux, Mac, and Windows

Full details of these features can be found in the Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 Release Notes.

You can Download the 2.0 Beta of Mono Tools for Visual Studio, as well as fully preconfigured Linux VMware or Virtual PC images, from the Mono Tools for Visual Studio download page.

To purchase Mono Tools for Visual Studio, visit our store

Use two separate configuration files to represent settings for development and production environments.

Get the .NET code for programmatically converting PowerPoint presentation files into images or HTML files.

Get the .NET code for programmatically converting PowerPoint presentation files into images or HTML files.

Use C# and the System.Management namespace to retrieve information about logical drives in a given system.

Joe Stagner starts a new "ASP.NET MVC For the Rest of Us" video series with 3 videos showing how to write an MVC application, and Jon Galloway delivers quick hits on ASP.NET MVC 2 Areas and Render Action.

DotNetNuke 5.4 is fully compatible with ASP.NET 4.0. The leading open source Web Content Management Platform for ASP.NET powers over 500,000 production sites worldwide. Download DotNetNuke for free now!

The Silverlight 4 final release, including Visual Studio 2010 tooling, is now available! Visit the Silverlight Get Started page to learn more about this release and to install the bits using the Web Platform Installer.

Visual Studio 2010 Professional simplifies building standards-based web applications with improved AJAX frameworks, core IntelliSense support for JavaScript, and the integration of the popular jQuery framework, an open-source JavaScript library.

Learn about the new features and improvements that enable you to easily build, deploy, and manage great Web sites and applications with ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010.

Learn how easy it is to create visually appealing statistical or financial analysis tools in a browser using the Chart control.

Interested in learning how new innovations in Microsoft's Web Platform and developer tools like ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 can make you a more productive web developer? If you're currently working with PHP, Ruby, ASP or older versions of ASP.NET and want to hear how you can create amazing websites more easily, then register for a Web Camp near you today!

Mono Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 has officially been released, containing several of the most requested features, as well as many bugfixes.

Mono Tools for Visual Studio is a commercial add-in for Microsoft™ Visual Studio™ that enables developers to build, debug, and deploy .NET applications targeting Mono from within their preferred IDE.

Along with many bugfixes and small enhancements, the Mono Tools 1.1 update features the following improvements:

• Smarter Remote File Copying
• Automatically Detect Future Updates
• Preview of Visual Studio 2010 Support
• Easier Packaging of Precompiled Web Applications

More details regarding this release can be found in the Mono Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Release Notes.

You can Download a free, fully-functional 30-day trial of Mono Tools for Visual Studio, as well as fully preconfigured VMware or Virtual PC images, from the Mono Tools for Visual Studio download page.

To purchase Mono Tools for Visual Studio, visit our store

Add a gallery, MVC pager, dynamic image buttons, and much more to your web applications with the newest components in the ASP.NET Control Gallery.

Listen to Phil Haack as he talks to Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell from DotNetRocks on ASP.NET MVC 2 in this podcast.

Scott Guthrie will launch Silverlight 4 at the DevConnections/ASP.NET and Silverlight Conference in Vegas on April 12-14. Get three days’ of deep sessions on both Silverlight 4, ASP.NET 4.0, AJAX and MVC2 – and the global Launch of Visual Studio 2010! All at the same conference!

Microsoft’s Jon Galloway has recorded 4 new “quick hit” videos to help you get up to speed on new features in ASP.NET MVC 2. Learn about HTML Encoding, Strongly Typed Helpers, Model Validation, and Template Customization in these newest videos.