The difference between a successful program and a complete flop may come down to how you treat your users. Here's one simple way to avoid needlessly annoying your users.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 08/25/2009
Peter adds the code to support doing updates and deletes with an unbound GridView.
Microsoft is merging its Data Programmability and Connected Systems Group.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/20/2009
Creating and persisting new environment variables can be surprisingly tricky in Classic VB. Here's how to avoid a common trap.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 08/18/2009
On Friday, Microsoft made the new R2 version of its Windows Server 2008 server operating system available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
If you want to let your users edit repeated rows of data, you can use the GridView -- even if your data isn't in a table. You need to do pick the right design for your data but you can enable all of the functionality of the GridView for data held in memory.
Microsoft's Brad Anderson on Tuesday talked about the company's management product strategies, while downplaying those of VMware, at investment banker-sponsored event.
ClassicVB was created in a pre-Mousewheel era, hard as that may be to conceive. Here’s how you can watch for, and react to, the user spinning that now-ubiquitous device.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 08/11/2009
The leading supplier of virtualization technology looks to extend its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) effort by adding the chief sponsor of the open source Spring Framework.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/10/2009
Windows Vista users trying to upgrade to Windows 7 can face some unintended consequences if they also use .NET Framework 4 beta 1 and Visual Studio 2010 beta 1.
Expect nine patches in Microsoft's August security update, five "critical" and four "important," according to an advanced notification from Redmond.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/07/2009
Sorting in the GridView is simple to implement, as long as you want simple sorting. For more complex sorts you have to take control of the Sorting event.
The move to the Internet cloud will pick up steam in the next year for developers, according to a new survey from Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans Data Corp.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/05/2009
Use the DesignProperties class to prevent code errors in the Blend designer.
New code obfuscation tool secures and manages your applications.
How .NET developers can help Microsoft face growing threats to its .NET franchise.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/01/2009
VSM readers honor the best commercial development tools.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2009
A Junior Developer Learns that Seniority Doesn't Mean Smarter.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 08/01/2009
Exceptions are a way of life in the .NET world. You must follow the rules to make your classes easy to use for other developers. Conforming to the standards will make everyone's life easier.
When Adobe announced that it would periodically have Patch Tuesday releases of its own to coincide with Microsoft's, it became clear that Windows plays a vital role in the third-party software firm's security repertoire.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/31/2009