Check out a number of .NET add-ins, including one that helps accelerate the deliver of .NET Framework solutions.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 03/01/2004
Enhance your UIs' flexibility with dynamic coding that uses runtime conditions to determine menu behavior.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 03/01/2004
Use Word's spell check from within your .NET application.
- By Fabio Ferracchiati
- 02/01/2004
Display data programmatically with only a few lines of code, using the databinding features built into the .NET Framework's WinForms controls.
Longhorn and DRM offer a lot to digital rights holders and businesses, but what's in it for consumers, the ostensible target for the next version of the operating system?
The XmlSerializer class provides a great way to convert objects to XML and back. However, it can be difficult to serialize collections such as Arrays and ArrayLists properly unless you know a few tricks.
Take advantage of a number of VS.NET add-ins, including one that lets you implement and manage temporary links, which are URLs that are active for a limited amount of time and are typically used in software distribution and e-mail campaigns.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 02/01/2004
Avalon is a core part of Microsoft's presentation layer for its next major version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. Drill down on what it contains in this architecture model.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2004
Chris Sells shows you how to develop user interfaces in .NET in his book, Windows Forms Programming in C#.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 02/01/2004
WinFS offers new ways to interact with data that redefine how the operations system offers up data. Check out what's new with a snapshot of its current architecture model.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2004
Take advantage of the GDI+ graphics library to change the orientation of the label controls in an application; also, use Word's spell check from within your .NET application.
- By Fabio Ferracchiati
- 02/01/2004
Indigo is the core for communication in the next generation of Windows, code-named Longhorn. This model of its architecture gives you a good sense of what to expect from it.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2004
First look at Desaware's Licensing System.
The upcoming Windows version's refactored API and new graphics-presentation model, storage subsystem, and messaging services will bring development opportunities -- and challenges.
- By Roger Jennings
- 02/01/2004
Use the Lists Web service and CAML to update Windows SharePoint Services' MSDE database.
- By Roger Jennings
- 02/01/2004
Learn new features to jazz up your WinForms apps with this month's handy FileWatch utility. FileWatch monitors files and directories for changes, and runs as a task tray icon.
- By Stan Schultes
- 02/01/2004
.NET Patterns by Christian Thilmany shows you how the .NET Framework impacts existing patterns, which are recurring solutions to software design problems. The author covers patterns in detail, focusing on exception handling and logging the most.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 02/01/2004
<i>VSM</i> takes an in-depth look at the next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, but rest assured the magazine's focus remain on the practical, hands-on code and samples.
- By Patrick Meader
- 02/01/2004
The complex model for Longhorn's base operating system illustrates how Microsoft has organized it, as well as where any piece you're interested in fits into the larger view.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2004
Longhorn includes significant changes that will affect developers, from how it handles graphics to how it stores data. Learn how to create a simple Longhorn app.
- By Brent Rector
- 02/01/2004