String handling is one of the most basic -- and important -- capabilities that all developers must deal with. Learn how to take maximum advantage of the way VB .NET handles strings.
- By Billy Hollis
- 04/01/2007
VB's My.Settings class makes it easy for you to remember user-preferred settings; also, what a quirky result in VB's debug window reveals about how its compiler and the .NET runtime work together.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 04/01/2007
Check out Microsoft''s early versions of new tools for ASP.NET and the Silverlight cross-platform browser plug-in.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 04/01/2007
Generics can solve many more problems than collections. Use generics to write code once and reuse it more easily.
Red Gate Software Ltd.'s ANTS Profiler version 3 enables speedier performance by exposing slow .NET code.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/01/2007
Planix, from ALTERthought, gives the best- and worst-case time scenarios for agile-development projects.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 04/01/2007
Learn about the latest and greatest products available from vendors that provide tools and services for Visual Studio .NET.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2007
The belated support for Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista indicates that the coupling of Microsoft's developer tools and operating systems isn't as tight as it has been?or should be.
- By Patrick Meader
- 04/01/2007
Add pizzazz to your users' desktops with Windows Gadgets, lightweight desktop applications that provide useful bits of functionality while also bringing fun back to the development process.
A comprehensive suite of user interface and data components for ASP.NET 2.0 using Visual Studio 2005
Paul Vick dishes on Microsoft''s reboot of Visual Basic.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 04/01/2007
Don''t be deterred by Microsoft''s recent changes to the mobile development space.
Microsoft Corp.'s far from silent spring continues.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/01/2007
Use the Test-Driven Development methodology in Visual Studio Team System to write tests and improve the quality of your code.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 04/01/2007
The new Visual Studio preview offers functionality with LINQ, AJAX and .NET Framework 3.5.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/01/2007
A versatile reporting package for Windows and Web applications
WPF is an interesting technology with a great deal of future potential, but you face some serious obstacles if you want to use it today.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 04/01/2007
Readers chime in on Dan Fergus' article on generics, including the whereabouts of a missing file.
SapphireSteel Software, Microsoft among others, show growing interest in Ruby's relationship to Visual Studio, .NET
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/01/2007
CodeGear, spun out of Borland, releases its first dev products: Delphi 2007 for Win32 and Delphi for PHP.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/01/2007