Visual Studio Magazine Readers' Choice Awards: The best tools in the industry across 22 categories, as chosen by VSM readers and editors.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/01/2007
Building applications for multiple platforms requires more consideration from developers than ever before. Find out how to make your apps 'smarter.'
Get best practices for using TFS and Team System to improve process and methodology.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 06/01/2007
Microsoft claims that Windows Vista has proven exceptionally secure so far.
Mainsoft has enhanced its solution, which creates Java bite code via a .NET-based platform.
You already know what those new features in C# 3.0 are doing because you do these same things in C# 2.0. Learn how C# 3.0 can reduce coding lines and improve readability by walking through a reverse migration.
Determine whether an existing variable is a generic type and whether you have to use reflection in particular cases; create irregularly shaped forms; and enable remoting with single-instance applications.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 06/01/2007
AMD Inc. upgrades testing center, providing developers—including the Microsoft Visual Studio team—with access to multi-core processors
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2007
Teamprise makes Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server accessible to Java developers with new software development kit
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2007
Best practices for ensuring a productive outsourcing experience.
- By Leonard Lobel
- 06/01/2007
.NET 3.0 introduces several new features that simplify utilizing speech in your applications.
- By Jeff Certain
- 06/01/2007
Thrown exceptions break the normal flow of execution in a program to report error conditions. A few simple techniques can help you preserve execution flow and give users and administrators the information they need to understand what went wrong.
Radio frequency identification technology (RFID) achieves business integration in the beta of Microsoft’s BizTalk Server 2006.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2007
Learn how to write custom data-bound generator.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 05/29/2007
Simplify your work with JavaScript files and add cross-browser, AJAX-capable scripts into Web pages.
Explore ASP.NET AJAX configuration sections in web.config, and learn how handlers and modules fit into the overall picture.
Integrating data queries into VB and C#
Mashups need to get serious and take a lesson from SOBAs if they're to
succeed in the world of enterprises.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/15/2007
Scripting in the .NET-based PowerShell saves developers time and leverages their Microsoft platform expertise.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 05/15/2007
The software development life cycle is enhanced by virtualization. An overview of what you should consider.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/15/2007