Here's the list of the best software products as chosen by Visual Studio Magazine readers. These highly coveted awards were issued in Las Vegas at FTP's VSLive! conference.
SQL Live! speaker Bill Vaughn guides you through the maze of issues you''ll face as you connect to, manage, and monitor SQL Server instances.
Visual Studio Team System's Class Designer allows you to reverse-engineer and visualize existing code in order to better understand it. It ensures that your object model and documentation remain accurate and helpful throughout your app's cycle.
- By David Nelson and Jeff Levinson
- 10/01/2005
.NET 2.0 is chock full of new features that advanced developers can exploit. Richard Hale Shaw''s session explores custom iterators, trace listeners, debugger visualizers, and more.
- By Richard Hale Shaw
- 10/01/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System provides a wealth of new capabilities. Learn how to create a server-based document solution, and discover VSTO''s security and deployment options.
- By BJ Holtgrewe
- 10/01/2005
Windows Communication Foundation can coexist with, communicate with, or even replace existing Windows communications APIs and technologies, said Microsoft''s Richard Turner in his VSLive! Orlando keynote on Wednesday.
- By Jeff Hadfield
- 10/01/2005
Visual Studio 2005 will increase developer productivity with a 50 to 75 percent code reduction, said BJ Holtgrewe in the opening keynote at VSLive! Orlando this week.
- By Roger Jennings
- 10/01/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System provides a wealth of new capabilities. Learn how to create a server-based document solution, and discover VSTO''s security and deployment options.
- By BJ Holtgrewe
- 10/01/2005
This session reveals the essential pieces of the .NET graphics libraries that allow you to create charts from your data dynamically.
- By Walt Ritscher
- 10/01/2005
Visual Studio Team System provides a wealth of tools in one place. Explore all aspects of this integrated suite of tools.
- By David Nelson and Jeff Levinson
- 10/01/2005
In this session, you''ll learn how the WCF architecture was designed, how it works, and most importantly--how you can leverage it to build service-oriented systems.
- By Payam Shodjai
- 10/01/2005
VSM's 2005 Editors Choice awards, Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, are innovative products that are likely to have a significant impact on the everyday lives of developers.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2005
Microsoft has improved security for its overall platform in several key areas, but holes remain, most notably in its developer tools.
- By Peter Varhol
- 10/01/2005
Bill Vaughn''s session focuses on some best practices to help you optimize performance when working with stored procedures.
Walt Ritscher takes you on a tour of the new drag-and-drop data-binding features in Visual Studio, the new and enhanced data controls, and the changes in SQLClient.
- By Walt Ritscher
- 10/01/2005
Ken Getz''s Smart Client Live! session demonstrates several techniques you can use when building Windows applications.
ASP.NET 2.0 has more extensive support for diagnostics and health monitoring than any Web development environment to date.
Effective policymaking with WS-Policy improves your architecture's adaptability with minimal development when external service interfaces evolve and business needs change.
- By Derek Harmon
- 10/01/2005
Discover the new extensions that Microsoft has added to ADO.NET 2.0. You''ll benefit from better performance, a provider-independent programming model, and other new features.
- By Jennifer Perret
- 10/01/2005
T-SQL isn't dead yet. See how the new enhancements in T-SQL can make you more efficient.
- By Stephen Forte
- 10/01/2005