A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the basis for creating applications that trust each other to perform their tasks.
- By A. Nicklas Malik
- 06/01/2004
Output your trace information to new targets, including SQL Server and XML—and do it without parsing.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 06/01/2004
Kathleen Dollard's recent Guest Opinion inspires reaction. Some hobbyists want Microsoft to continue support for VB6, while full-timers advise amateurs to step up to the .NET plate.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2004
Here's a design for creating data-driven validation rules for distributed apps. It lets you distribute the rules from to clients without modifying client-side application code.
- By Tony Surma and Bill Wagner
- 06/01/2004
VS.NET is a flexible and powerful programming tool, but a special novice version would expand its audience (and Microsoft's) not only with hobbyists, but in the enterprise as well.
- By Patrick Meader
- 06/01/2004
Companies like Desaware are enticing consumers by bundling their best sellers for a fraction of the cost of the products combined. And they're giving away the source code to boot.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2004
Check out the latest VS.NET add-ins, including a product that lets you create, read, and modify PDF documents from any application supporting COM, including ASP and ASP.NET.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2004
Employ the manual and automatic transaction models supported by the .NET Framework to maintain consistent data in your applications.
- By Paul Delcogliano
- 05/01/2004
A reader calls for less beta coverage and more focus on current technologies, such as GDI, namespaces, and exception handling.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2004
Readers respond en masse to a recent Editor's Note on offshoring with a mixture of acceptance at its inevitability and outrage at the companies sending jobs overseas.
- By Patrick Meader
- 05/01/2004
DLL Hell is largely a thing of the past with VS.NET and the .NET Framework. But having multiple versions of the same components can be trying in its own right.
- By Jonathan Goodyear
- 05/01/2004
Find out how Active Directory Application Mode and Windows Authorization Manager can simplify security, personalization, and configuration for your directory-enabled applications.
- By Enrico Sabbadin
- 05/01/2004
Build a .NET Framework based class library that makes tracing a true asset to your development experience.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2004
The hobbyist/part-time programmer is becoming an endangered species. However, we as an industry need the skills this person provides.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 04/01/2004
Check out the latest Visual Studio third-party add-ons, including one that helps you edit your database's data and properties during a debug session.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2004
Offshoring is changing the nature of what it is to be a developer today, much as HMOs have changed what it is to be a doctor. What does this mean to you?
- By Patrick Meader
- 04/01/2004
Roger Jennings and a reader acknowledge that using the SQLXML interface to provide HTTP access to SQL Server is not appropriate for high-performance enterprise solutions.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2004
Display data programmatically with only a few lines of code, using the databinding features built into the .NET Framework's WinForms controls.
ASP.NET 2.0's new features let you create and maintain data-driven Web apps with 70 percent less code than you needed with ASP.NET 1.0
- By Thiru Thangarathinam
- 04/01/2004
Learn how to create an RSS feed for publishing data to subscriber apps. You can use the handy RssGen sample component as a starting point for your own data feed generator.
- By Stan Schultes
- 04/01/2004