James Avery does it again with his popular list of developer tools. This time he covers the best Visual Studio add-ins available today that you can download for free.

James Avery

MSDN Magazine December 2005

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カスタム SharePoint アプリケーションの展開を自動化する方法、SharePoint API の使用方法、および面倒なカスタム サイト定義を簡単に行う方法について説明します。

E. Wilansky, P. Olszewski, and R. Sneddon

MSDN Magazine May 2008

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When incorporating the ASP.NET DataGrid control into your Web apps, common operations such as paging, sorting, editing, and deleting data require more effort than you might like to expend. But all that is about to change. The GridView control--the successor to the DataGrid-- extends the DataGrid's functionality it in a number of ways. First, it fully supports data source components and can automatically handle data operations, such as paging, sorting, and editing, as long as its bound data source object supports these capabilities. In addition, ...

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C# allows developers to embed XML comments into their source files-a useful facility, especially when more than one programmer is working on the same code. The C# parser can expand these XML tags to provide additional information and export them to an external document for further processing. This article shows how to use XML comments and explains the relevant tags. The author demonstrates how to set up your project to export your XML comments into convenient documentation for the benefit of other developers. He also shows how to use comments ...

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Chris Tavares は、ASP.NET MVC Framework の Model View Controller パターンが、柔軟性に富み簡単にテストできる Web アプリケーションの作成にどのように役立つかを説明しています。

Chris Tavares

MSDN Magazine March 2008

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Whether Web services are supplied by third parties or custom services hosted on the same server as your Silverlight app, Silverlight can request data, consume the data, and pass data back and forth between the client application and Web services.

In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, John Papa explains how to call and use data ...

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Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build (better known as Team Build) is a core feature of Team Foundation Server 2008. Microsoft designed Team Build to be an industrial-strength build automation tool.

In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Brian A. Randell introduces you to Team Build 2008 and walks you through the process ...

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The concept of Agile security does not have to be a contradiction in terms. The Microsoft SDL team has defined a set of process improvements that increase security focus while respecting the need to release new code on an ultra-short timeline.

In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Bryan Sullivan explains how Microsoft has adapted ...

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Wouldn't it be nice to generate all your maintenance screens in your data-driven applications automatically?

In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Beth Massi shows you how to create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) user interfaces at run time using Visual Basic XML Literals and XML namespace imports.

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One stumbling block that developers encounter with asynchronous programming is that they become so concerned with getting concurrency right that they forget the core simplicity of the program.

F# lets you separate simple programs from the concurrent control flow and reveal the simplicity and readability of your core program.

In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Chance Coble demonstrates ...

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