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Making a Build

A review of Vincent Maraia's book on the best practices for Microsoft's software configuration.

Lay Down the Law on Code Rules

It can be intimidating at first, but it helps you in the long run to run your code against a static code analyzer like FxCop; also learn how to use dynamic analysis to test your forms during runtime.

April's New Apps & Upgrades for Your Toolkit

This month we look at the latest from SlickEdit, Developer Express, Catalyst Development, Artifiact Software, Perpetuum Software and Guruck Software.

Remember User Settings

VB's My.Settings class makes it easy for you to remember user-preferred settings; also, what a quirky result in VB's debug window reveals about how its compiler and the .NET runtime work together.

Generics: Move Beyond Collections

Generics can solve many more problems than collections. Use generics to write code once and reuse it more easily.

Product Listings: Doc-To-Help 2007, More

Learn about the latest and greatest products available from vendors that provide tools and services for Visual Studio .NET.

Developer Support Arrives, But Late

The belated support for Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista indicates that the coupling of Microsoft's developer tools and operating systems isn't as tight as it has been?or should be.

Does WPF Matter?

WPF is an interesting technology with a great deal of future potential, but you face some serious obstacles if you want to use it today.

Generics Baseball Sample Scores a Hit

Readers chime in on Dan Fergus' article on generics, including the whereabouts of a missing file.

Running on All Cores

The 1-2-3s of threading your apps for Windows.

Product Listings: Cizer.Net Reporting 4.0 Developer Edition, More

Learn about the latest and greatest products available from vendors that provide tools and services for Visual Studio .NET.

More Hassle Than Help

A reader details the changes he would like to see in the magazine now that VSM is under new ownership.

Add Custom Colors to Your Forms

Make your Windows Forms apps shine with custom color palettes; pros and cons for creating apps with an Office 2007 look-and-feel; and drill down on anonymous methods in C# and VB .NET.

Blazing the Open Source Trail

DotNetNuke's CEO Shaun Walker hooked up with VSM's editor in chief Patrick Meader to discuss the formation of DotNetNuke, the project's core features, and what's next for the open source ASP.NET-based Web application framework.

Are You a Visual Studio All Star?

VSM wants to find the rock star developers in our community and write about them. Do you have what it takes to be a Visual Studio All Star?

Get Yer Hot New Downloads

There's too much going on in the Visual Studio space for any one developer to keep track of it all?so we're going to do it for you. New downloads available include Visual Studio SP1 and the latest Orcas CTP.

Give Applications a Voice

Speech synthesis and recognition in .NET

Clean Up Your AJAX Security

How secure is your AJAX? This book can help you avoid the security pitfalls.

Chart FX Gauges, More

Learn about the latest and greatest products available from vendors that provide tools and services for Visual Studio .NET.

Delivering on Enterprise Mobility

Mobility is infiltrating the enterprise in a big way; if you aren't creating mobile-based applications today, you soon will be.

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