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
Developers often avoid code generation because they think their apps are too complicated. But executed properly, code generation can help you implement sophisticated architectures quickly.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 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
Check out the latest VS.NET add-ins, including a RAD WinForms data navigation control for .NET developers.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 09/01/2004
Use PropertyGrid to edit complex data structures by adding custom user interface editors.
Does VS.NET need a novice version to ease the transition for VB6 developers? Some say it would help; others assert it would hurt the respectability of a language finally coming into its own.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2004
Check out the latest VS.NET add-ins, including a product that lets you define your data validation only once.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2004
These two companies are finally working together, to the benefit of everyone.
- By Patrick Meader
- 08/01/2004
ASP.NET 2.0 master pages enable you to set the common content for a group of Web pages quickly and easily, while also providing for each page's unique content.
- By Dino Esposito
- 08/01/2004
C# now provides many of the features VB developers have enjoyed for years. Learn how to plug the rest of VB's power into your C# apps.
- By Daniel Appleman
- 08/01/2004
It is possible to survive and even excel in today's tough developer job environment-but it will take a change in how you think about and approach your job.
Modeling has enormous potential, but software modeling tools are too complicated and little used. Microsoft aims to change that with Whitehorse.
- By Patrick Meader
- 07/01/2004
Adding images to and removing them from a SQL Server database is straightforward using simple drag-and-drop procedures.
Learn 10 useful tips and tricks that help boost SQL Server application performance.
Disparate systems make business process automation inefficient. Semantic integration of structured, unstructured and process data simplifies implementation of a robust SOA model.
- By Boris Lublinsky
- 07/01/2004
Learn how to create and customize data-intensive tables in ASP.NET Web applications.
Some developers mourn the day that offshoring will force them out of a job, while others assert you need to make yourself more marketable. Only the strong survive.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2004
Software methodologies have their place and can be useful in the development process, but they need to be flexible to provide their maximum benefit.
Take a look at the latest VS.NET add-ins, including a component that quickly captures images from scanners and cameras.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2004
Learn how to implement a print preview dialog that uses the PrintPreviewControl to add features that aren't in the default PrintPreviewDialog component.