Set up applications to configure at run time using the VS.NET Dynamic Properties functionality-and even add some tricks the .NET Framework doesn't support yet.
- By Sushil Srivastava
- 10/01/2004
Use the OwnerDraw capabilities of the Microsoft Windows GDI+ to add gradient colors to controls and ListBox items, add rounded edges to controls, and manage the size and color of ListBox items.
InstallShield X is a comprehensive and robust installation-authoring tool that supports multiple OSs, development environments, and deployment scenarios.
Track changes in files using XML datasets with the DiffGram format. This format lets you track what has changed, and what hasn't.
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
Database Programming with C# explains the essentials of database programming to those familiar already with C#. Learn to exploit the VS.NET IDE to access data, and more.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 08/01/2004
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
Develop image-management apps that exploit the .NET Framework and ASP.NET with recursion, the TreeView control, the System.Drawing.Images namespace, the System.IO namespace, and more.
Dundas Chart for .NET is an easy-to-use tool for adding chart presentations to ASP.NET and WinForms applications.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 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.
Writing Add-Ins for Visual Studio .NET helps you write an add-in customized to your needs. Les Smith walks you through the wizard and shows you how to develop your UI, trap IDE events, manipulate controls, and migrate your VB6 add-ins to the new platform.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 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
Learn how to turn ADO.NET classes into tools for constructing software using C# in Mahesh Chand's book, A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C#.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 06/01/2004
Infragistics' NetAdvantage 2004 is a suite of high-performing and feature-laden UI components for developing Windows, Tablet PC, and ASP.NET applications.
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
You can automate exception logging with one line of client code, control it through an App.config file without recompiling, and use custom publishers to craft cool logging tools.
InfoPath SP1 and the new .NET 2003 Toolkit let you implement business logic behind InfoPath forms with managed VB.NET or C# code instead of JScript or VBScript event handlers.
- By Roger Jennings
- 05/01/2004
You can boost performance in server-side apps by using COM+ pooled objects to cache resources. Be sure to enlist the connection manually each time the object pool picks up the object.
- By Enrico Sabbadin
- 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