In a Bring Your Own Device (BOYD) world, .NET Framework support for Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) provides a base for writing code that will run on any platform -- provided you understand the ...

You can get Visual Studio to create classes for managing (or, at least, observing) computer resources for you. In Server Explorer, under the Management Classes node, you'll find a list of "things you ...

Your business's software developers can work with Microsoft's .NET framework to create powerful Excel macros for your spreadsheets. The .NET framework contains a vast library of classes that perform a ...

I was recently called onto a project to add features to existing applications. To me, this is one of the most challenging aspects of being a developer because the existing application strips away much ...

Unit testing is how we ensure that the blocks of code we write do what we intended them to do. There are some open-source frameworks available to unit test .NET applications, namely, NUnit and ...

Microsoft’s FxCop is a free static code analysis tool that checks your assemblies for compliance against some built-in rules. You can also develop custom rules and run FxCop to check for compliance of ...