A .NET revolution is underway, but you can act now to make sure that you avoid becoming a casualty of this process and minimize its impact on your own coding.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 06/01/2007
You already know what those new features in C# 3.0 are doing because you do these same things in C# 2.0. Learn how C# 3.0 can reduce coding lines and improve readability by walking through a reverse migration.
Determine whether an existing variable is a generic type and whether you have to use reflection in particular cases; create irregularly shaped forms; and enable remoting with single-instance applications.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 06/01/2007
Best practices for ensuring a productive outsourcing experience.
- By Leonard Lobel
- 06/01/2007
Thrown exceptions break the normal flow of execution in a program to report error conditions. A few simple techniques can help you preserve execution flow and give users and administrators the information they need to understand what went wrong.
Learn how to write custom data-bound generator.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 05/29/2007
Simplify your work with JavaScript files and add cross-browser, AJAX-capable scripts into Web pages.
Explore ASP.NET AJAX configuration sections in web.config, and learn how handlers and modules fit into the overall picture.
Integrating data queries into VB and C#
The software development life cycle is enhanced by virtualization. An overview of what you should consider.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/15/2007
Discover the concepts behind AJAX and why using it in your ASP.NET development is advantageous.
Express yourself with Microsoft Expression
- By Bill McCarthy
- 05/01/2007
The new object/relational mapping technology in 'Orcas.'
- By Elisa Johnson
- 05/01/2007
The pace of change is on the verge of putting one-man shops out of business; no one is capable of remaining truly competent as a general .NET programmer.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2007
Extension methods bring together old and new ways of working with data, and open the doors to new language opportunities.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 05/01/2007
A reader asserts that new isn't necessarily better, merely different; and a reader explains how the editor in chief used the term jump the shark incorrectly in a recent editorial.
Learn about the latest and greatest products available from vendors that provide tools and services for Visual Studio .NET.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2007
Call a combo box across assembly boundaries with generics and enums; add contact information with Assembly Information; and drill down on FxCop spelling rules.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2007
Editor in chief Patrick Meader explains why the magazine (generally) forbids discussion of third-party products, while allowing authors to discuss non-Visual Studio-specific tools from Microsoft.
- By Patrick Meader
- 05/01/2007
The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases.
- By Nancy Vodicka
- 04/15/2007