New controls, enhanced data binding, and improvements to existing controls make WinForms programming with VS.NET's upcoming version easier and more versatile.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 01/01/2004
Chris Dias, group program manager for Visual Basic .NET at Microsoft, talks about the present and future of the language, including the target audience of this tool.
Version 2 of the .NET Framework introduces XML-to-relational data mapping, support for XQuery, and typed APIs. Find out why these changes are great news for B2B app development.
Microsoft has pulled out all the stops in announcing where its development tools are heading, but it's important to keep a sense of perspective.
- By Patrick Meader
- 01/01/2004
Chris Dias, group program manager for Visual Basic .NET at Microsoft, talks about the present and future of the language, including the target audience of this tool.
- By Patrick Meader
- 01/01/2004
You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.
- By Bob Beauchemin
- 01/01/2004
Integrate Altova's new release of xmlspy 2004 into your existing Visual Studio .NET projects.
Web development is about to take another great leap forward. Powerful features in the new version of ASP.NET will save you time and reduce your code-writing requirements.
The next version of VS.NET includes a plethora of enterprise and RAD features, but the tool remains geared more toward higher-end than occupational or hobbyist programmers.
Take a look at these various add-ins to your Visual Studio .NET environment.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 01/01/2004
Gunther Lenz and Thomas Moeller give entry-level programmers an overview of the development model with a .NET influence in their book, .NET - A Complete Development Cycle.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 11/23/2003
Check out these publications, tools, and community sites for additional information about application lifecycle management (ALM).
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 09/17/2003
Ecora Patch Manager 2.0 enables you to keep critical patches for Microsoft products up to date, now and into the future.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 08/01/2003
DataDirect''s Connect for .NET allows you to programmatically access the database entirely within the .NET Framework, to simplify database access and boost performance.
Most of today's tools don't address ALM well. Eclipse and Visual Studio change that equation.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2003
Robust Web apps must provide fast response times. Learn how to use the Cache object to place commonly requested resources into an area in memory where they can be accessed quickly.
- By Jonathan Lurie
- 05/01/2003
Get the scoop on Windows Server 2003 enhanced data storage features that enable enterprises to transcend traditional Windows storage limitations in storage area networks (SAN).
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 05/01/2003
Unless you test your application fully, you can't be sure changes you make won't affect another part of the system. Use unit tests to improve programming and application-release quality.
Optimization rules have changed under VB.NET -- here's half a dozen new ways to build wicked-fast code.
- By Francesco Balena
- 09/01/2002
Optimization rules have changed under VB.NET-here are eight great new ways to build wicked-fast code.
- By Francesco Balena
- 08/01/2002