By Michael K. Campbell, 09/01/2010
Microsoft is still aggressively touting the benefits of its Windows Azure platform. And while the big benefit of Azure today is that developers can push their applications into the cloud, I’ve long suspected that more good would come from Azure that just the immediate, and obvious, benefits that are currently available....
By Michele L. Bustamante, 08/30/2010
Michele Leroux Bustamante concludes her discussion of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens by showing you how to produce tokens from Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Identity Foundation (WIF)-enabled clients and handle issues that can occur when interoperating with other platforms using SAML tokens....
By Ward Bell, 08/30/2010
So you're a developer and not a graphic artist. Ward Bell shows how to produce screens more quickly and better than you've ever done before by using data when you design....
By Rawane Madi, 08/27/2010
Rawane Madi reviews the latest version of Telerik's automated testing tool, which offers many new features to make software testing easier for developers....
By Sheila Molnar, 08/27/2010
Developers quite often find they are alone in an organization and tasked with both design and development for an app or website. Designers are increasingly development savvy and have access tools in places like Visual Studio where only developers had gone before. ...
By Dino Esposito, 08/25/2010
In this article, Dino Esposito focuses on ASP.NET MVC model binding. Model binding is a built-in feature of ASP.NET MVC that helps you map posted data to handy classes for easier processing. When it comes to defining the set of classes to use in model binding, though, you might be tempted to use a single collection of classes—those you use in the back end for actual persistence. This may or may not be a good choice. However, understanding the types of models in an ASP.NET MVC application is key....