IP*Works! V6 .NET Edition from /n software provides a suite of components that implement well-known and emerging Internet protocols without degrading application performance.
Improve code reusability, reliability, flexibility, and performance with generics, one of Visual Studio .NET 2005's key enhancements.
View the slides and listen to the audio from Prashant Sridharan's opening keynote at VSLive! New York described how the much-anticipated Visual Studio 2005 that will simplify Web development.
Use Microsoft Speech Server 2004 and its new Speech Applications SDK to improve the user experience in your speech apps.
Provide printing capabilities in your ASP.NET apps using server-side controls and JavaScript automation, or by using VS.NET add-in tools such as Crystal Reports.
Check out the latest add-ins for Visual Studio .NET, including one that lets you add mapping functionality to your apps.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2004
Rational XDE Developer Plus provides comprehensive support for Unified Modeling Language (UML) design and implementation on a variety of development platforms.
Set up applications to configure at run time using the VS.NET Dynamic Properties functionality-and even add some tricks the .NET Framework doesn't support yet.
- By Sushil Srivastava
- 10/01/2004
Learn how to create your own application settings class by leveraging the FileInfo, HashTable, XMLReader, and XMLWriter classes.
ASP.NET's Repeater, DataList, and DataGrid controls display data in a tabular format with various features. Learn which control is the best fit for your app.
Use the OwnerDraw capabilities of the Microsoft Windows GDI+ to add gradient colors to controls and ListBox items, add rounded edges to controls, and manage the size and color of ListBox items.
One reader sees fatal flaws in the logic presented in June's Guest Opinion, and fears less discerning readers will run out and start implementing SOA using the untrustworthy plan.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 09/01/2004
Learn how to customize TabControl components. The author shows you how to fix shortcut keys on TabControl and hide and show TabControl pages.
Nothing can replace a live classroom setting, but this complete CD-ROM course on ASP.NET and Web services re-creates training sessions faithfully. Well-known experts teach using motion video, manuals, and tests.
Brad Abrams' .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference should be on every .NET developer's bookshelf, regardless of the type of .NET development you're doing.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 09/01/2004
Use the SQL Server Report Designer's wizards for a streamlined solution to setting up, designing, polishing, and publishing reports.
- By Stacia Misner
- 09/01/2004
Use the .NET Compact Framework to write an application for sending SMS messages on Bluetooth-enabled Pocket PCs.
- By Wei-Meng Lee
- 09/01/2004
InstallShield X is a comprehensive and robust installation-authoring tool that supports multiple OSs, development environments, and deployment scenarios.
An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET shows you how to develop object-oriented solutions in VB.NET by showing you everything from capturing requirements to how to implement your object-oriented designs.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 09/01/2004
Use Microsoft's TerraService and MapPoint Web Services to start your own VS.NET-based mapping projects.
- By Roger Jennings
- 08/01/2004