From libraries to encryption, from refactoring to imaging, debugging, and lifecycle management—don't let anyone tell you there's not a rich selection of third-party tools awaiting.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2006
Late binding can bring great flexibility to Visual Basic programmers, but it has a serious downside in eliminating static-type checking and IntelliSense support. Use a static wrapper for dynamic code to enjoy the best of both worlds.
- By Danijel Arsenovski
- 06/01/2006
VB differs from other .NET-languages in that it doesn't provide short-circuited conditional statements, but you can still achieve the same effect, and be backward compatible with pre-.NET versions of VB.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/01/2006
Application development is messy and unpredictable. Here are three key things a technical leader should do to deliver software in spite of the chaos and change that can accompany a project.
Use Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals to extend your team''s functionality and improve collaboration.
- By Cameron Skinner
- 06/01/2006
Take advantage of .NET attributes to provide robust validation for your business objects, while generating user-interface validation automatically.
- By Steve Michelotti
- 06/01/2006
A reader explains that he likes VB6, and that is enough; another reader comments on the disconnect between Bill Gates' charitable work and Microsoft's (and other companies') assistance to the Chinese government in helping it stifle dissent.
Move beyond the techno-speak, and learn how you can leverage new features in C# 3.0.
- By Richard Hale Shaw
- 06/01/2006
It'd be ideal to have versioning support in the core language specs for .NET and Java. But in the absence of such features, you can still do things today to build applications that show resilience in the face of change.
Determining the priorities of one software feature over another can be difficult. Here's how to tackle that challenge.
Take advantage of /n software's IP*Works to simplify a variety of Internet-related tasks, from working with SOAP, to handling tasks related to HTTP, DNS, and FTP seamlessly.
One of the keys to a successful software development project is participation from the business representatives. Here are a few tactics to help developers work with them.
Zimbra is looking to build on its reputation of taking Ajax to the limit.
- By Terrence O'Donnell
- 05/10/2006
ComponentOne is a big player in a niche it helped create, the third-party development space for Microsoft development tools.
- By Patrick Meader
- 05/10/2006
Get an overview of Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers and its Unit Testing Framework, Test Case Management, and Advanced Load Testing tools.
- By Sonal Pardeshi
- 05/01/2006
Take advantage of .NET 2.0's addition of generics to provide better collections functionality in your applications.
- By Jean-Paul Boodhoo
- 05/01/2006
Learn how to scope your variables correctly, as well as the rules governing definite assignment in C#.
- By Eric Gunnerson and Nick Wienholt
- 05/01/2006
This keynote from VSLive! Orlando focuses on best-of-breed solutions and reveals the direction of Visual Studio''s next release.
- By Sam Guckenheimer
- 05/01/2006
Check out these publications, tools, SDKs, and community sites for additional information about SQL Server.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2006
Everything from barcode components to testing, from Help-authoring enhancements to e-mail capabilities and software localization?it's all here in the May product listings.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2006