New controls, enhanced data binding, and improvements to existing controls make WinForms programming with VS.NET's upcoming version easier and more versatile.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 01/01/2004
Version 2 of the .NET Framework introduces XML-to-relational data mapping, support for XQuery, and typed APIs. Find out why these changes are great news for B2B app development.
Chris Dias, group program manager for Visual Basic .NET at Microsoft, talks about the present and future of the language, including the target audience of this tool.
- By Patrick Meader
- 01/01/2004
You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.
- By Bob Beauchemin
- 01/01/2004
Integrate Altova's new release of xmlspy 2004 into your existing Visual Studio .NET projects.
Web development is about to take another great leap forward. Powerful features in the new version of ASP.NET will save you time and reduce your code-writing requirements.
The next version of VS.NET includes a plethora of enterprise and RAD features, but the tool remains geared more toward higher-end than occupational or hobbyist programmers.
Learn tips for administering SQL Server securely.
Learn tips for handling patch management and hiding objects.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 12/01/2003
Gunther Lenz and Thomas Moeller give entry-level programmers an overview of the development model with a .NET influence in their book, .NET - A Complete Development Cycle.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 11/23/2003
Use Windows Server 2003 features to prevent denial of service occurrences in Active Directory. Also discover the best way to implement a time management service.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 11/01/2003
If you want to simplify your applications portfolio to achieve your enterprise architect vision, think ahead to the next stepping-stone toward your goal.
- By Chris Barlow and Janaki Akella
- 10/01/2003
Check out these publications, tools, and community sites for additional information about application lifecycle management (ALM).
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 09/17/2003
Ecora Patch Manager 2.0 enables you to keep critical patches for Microsoft products up to date, now and into the future.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 08/01/2003
Ponder the security challenges posed by Web services, how to address them with security architecture, and what security architecture can offer going forward when XML traverses firewalls.
- By Mark O'Neill
- 08/01/2003
For many reasons, enterprise application security is an inefficient and expensive model. Obviously there''s no such thing as a completely secure application, but enterprises must target an acceptable level of risk.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2003
DataDirect''s Connect for .NET allows you to programmatically access the database entirely within the .NET Framework, to simplify database access and boost performance.
Most of today's tools don't address ALM well. Eclipse and Visual Studio change that equation.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2003
Crafting a map of your database servers can help you build better systems, from increased security to solid disaster-recovery plans. Take these steps to get your server network in order.
- By Steven Berringer
- 05/01/2003
Robust Web apps must provide fast response times. Learn how to use the Cache object to place commonly requested resources into an area in memory where they can be accessed quickly.
- By Jonathan Lurie
- 05/01/2003