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 ...

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 ...

Portable Class Libraries create a single DLL that can be used across platforms, making code sharing easier. Learn how to use them by building a weather app with a portable core. In the past, sharing ...

A set of ready-made software routines (class definitions) that programmers use for writing object-oriented programs. For example, a class library is commonly available to provide graphical user ...