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Take advantage of visualizers in Visual Studio 2005 to make yourself more productive; also learn how to create your own custom visualizers.
- By Vikram Srivatsa
- 08/01/2005
Take advantage of the Windows Management Interface to correctly gauge your application's performance requirements.
- By Derek Harmon
- 08/01/2005
Readers who have made the leap to .NET aren't looking back. They say they're developing and deploying reliable, mission-critical apps that pay for themselves quickly.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2005
Check out the latest VS.NET add-ins, including a tool for enabling users to search your site more easily; and updated tools for reporting, charting, installation, and more.
Learn everything you need to start using .NET Web services to access Google Web APIs in your application.
You can make yourself more productive and simplify your application logic by creating Web Parts that pass data between themselves.
In-process integration beats out other, out-of-process integration approaches in many ways. You get higher performance, more reliable integration, and better security.
Mainsoft''s Grasshopper plug-in enables Visual Studio developers to develop Web applications for Linux.
Vendors at TechEd showcase new development tools, including products that help you build database apps, enhance your app''s presentation layer, design Web apps more easily, and more.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 06/08/2005
TechEd''s Connected Systems track presentations propose the forthcoming Indigo messaging bus as the service-oriented successor to ASMX Web services, Web Services Enhancements (WSE), .NET Remoting, MSMQ, COM+, and, lest we forget, Global XML Architecture.
- By Roger Jennings
- 06/08/2005
Compuware's DevPartner Fault Simulator helps you make sure your code is as reliable as possible. Plus first looks at InstallShield 10.5 and other new products this month.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 06/01/2005
Conversion between VB.NET and C# involves much more than adding or removing semi-colons and curly braces. Learn about differences between the two languages and how to simulate unique features of one language in the other.
- By Dave Doknjas
- 06/01/2005
Check out these latest VS.NET add-ins, including a Windows.Forms Tree/Grid control that manages data and helps you display, manage, and manipulate tabular and hierarchical data.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2005
The recent petition from a group of Microsoft MVPs notwithstanding, it would be a mistake to incorporate a version of Classic VB in a future version of Visual Studio.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 06/01/2005
Microsoft provided an update on Visual Studio 2005''s progress and features at VSLive! Las Vegas last week.
- By Richard Hundhausen
- 05/16/2005
Mix inheritance and Windows Forms to solve recurring UI-related problems.
- By Francesco Balena
- 05/01/2005
Microsoft's support for VB6 expires at the end of this March. Karl Peterson explains why he is behind a petition to extend support for the product.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 05/01/2005
Learn how to localize your applications easily with this robust localization and resource-management tool.
- By Liewen Huang
- 05/01/2005
Save time by creating an extensible framework for a .NET agent. The framework offers a dynamically configurable job scheduler and notification service.
- By Luther Miller
- 05/01/2005