You can't always make all of your data retrieval decisions at design time -- sometimes you have to wait for the user to tell you what data to get. Peter shows you how to work with a DataSource to retrieve data dynamically at runtime.
NTFS offers an almost unknown way to obscure streams of data behind the most innocent looking files. Find out how to do this with VB6.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 11/03/2009
Discover what your application is really doing-method by method, line by line-with Red Gate ANTS Performance Profiler.
Learn how to work through debugging challenges posed by stable composition in MEF Preview 7, and get insight into using MEF with Silverlight.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 11/01/2009
Microsoft's flagship IDE is taking an incremental step forward with the second beta release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2009
A few months back, VSM columnist Andrew Brust wrote about Microsoft moving away from building the type of products that fueled its early success.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2009
How factoring out common patterns in your Azure worker roles can improve development.
A year after the first technical previews of Azure, Microsoft is launching a less-ambitious platform with forklift revisions based on developer feedback.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/01/2009
After the much-delayed release of SQL Server 2005 finally came to pass at the end of its namesake year, Microsoft made a promise to release a new version of SQL Server every two to three years, from that point on.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2009
The FileUpload control and the ASP.NET Response object let you move files between the browser and the server. And moving in each direction just requires a few lines of code.
Microsoft will let developers who use Eclipse-based IDEs integrate their Java and PHP applications with the latest versions of Windows, Silverlight and the forthcoming Azure cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/28/2009
After years neglecting the VB6 community, Microsoft seems to be missing something. Us!
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 10/27/2009
The MultiView control allows you to swap sets of controls on and off the page. But the MultiView control also makes it easier for you to generate new page content and add it at run time.
Microsoft previewed the next generation of its popular SharePoint Server family, which will sport a new user interface, tighter integration capabilities, a cloud-based version and much-needed support for the company's Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE).
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/19/2009
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 are available to MSDN subscribers today and general availability is expected on Wednesday, October 21.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/19/2009
By converting composite controls into their templates, you gain full control over the makeup of the control and individual controls within it.
After using a given API for a decade or more, you tend to just take it for granted that it works. Karl Peterson shows how he worked around a challenge when it didn't.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 10/13/2009
Microsoft and Capgemini announced a partnership deal on Friday that aims to better integrate Microsoft's software with SAP's enterprise resource planning solutions.
Peter wraps up his solutions for getting junk off the page when the user wants to print out a copy. This time by working with Themes and JavaScript.
New suite of .NET controls offers Excel-like pivot tables and rich presentation.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/08/2009