Windows Presentation Foundation has been greatly underserved by Microsoft’s emphasis on glitz and glamour; learn how to take advantage of WPF in your everyday Windows business apps.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 09/01/2007
It requires a lot of plumbing to create, manage, and communicate with background threads. The System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker class already contains the functionality you need to follow best practices.
Tools for those who need to fetch, store or transform XML, including in Word 2007 and Excel 2007.
Use the declarative programming model to enable type-safe data access in ADO.NET.
Notice that ScriptManager can't generate a client-side proxy object that can be used to call the remote service? Dan shows you the workaround.
Learn how to copy all the custom data formats in objects to the clipboard and determine which ones are appropriate when you paste.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 09/01/2007
The Open XML-encoded file format that competes with Microsoft's Office Open XML.
- By Erwin Tenhumberg
- 09/01/2007
Dan walks you through configuring this method as well as walks you through all the parameters.
Symantec Corp. boosts .NET features in Application Performance Management platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/01/2007
Developer Express Inc.’s CodeRush 2.5 comes bundled with refactoring toolset.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2007
Get the latest downloads related to Visual Studio 2008 (formerly Orcas).
- By Bill McCarthy
- 09/01/2007
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it intends to buy Parlano, a Chicago-based company it has already worked closely with on enterprise communications software.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 08/30/2007
Using Page Methods when adding the ScriptService attribute is overkill for a single page -- find out how to add the functionality directly using AJAX.
Leverage .NET Web services using the ScriptServiceAttribute through the ScriptManager control.
The Utah federal court judge's ruling on August 10 -- that SuSE Linux distributor Novell does, in fact, own the copyrights to the UNIX operating system -- signals a major legal blow for The SCO Group. It ends a nearly-five-year-old legal campaign that sowed fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) among Linux users and developers.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/20/2007
ComponentOne LLC issues update to enterprise toolset.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/15/2007
The new default file format in the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
Ozzie dishes more details on Microsoft’s platform in the cloud.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 08/15/2007
Study gives Microsoft’s application server technology high marks.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 08/15/2007
Microsoft's flagship IDE should ship by December.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/15/2007