Create a class that addresses common threading problems and overcome cross-thread calling and resource protection issues.
- By Brian Rogers
- 07/01/2006
Compuware's DevPartner SecurityChecker analyzes for most known Web site attacks, is easy and intuitive to use, and is highly customizable.
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
- 06/28/2006
Check out these publications, tools, and community sites for additional information about Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/28/2006
WPF is going to change the way you write graphics applications, but it''s going to take a while before you see it adopted broadly.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/08/2006
Microsoft's new Forefront products and Vista security enhancements were highlighted at this week's TechEd keynote.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/08/2006
Developers who work on the UI side of advanced apps must learn new technology for forms-based dev to improve the user experience.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/08/2006
WPF is going to change the way you write graphics applications, but it's going to take a while before you see it adopted broadly.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/08/2006
VSM presented its annual Readers Choice Awards to the Visual Studio vendor community.
The .NET Framework 3.0 represents a major set of functionality in .NET, and yet doesn't change any existing .NET Framework 2.0 libraries, compilers, or features.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 06/08/2006
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
- 06/01/2006
Here's how to look for warning signs that might indicate future problems, and how to balance your design decisions accordingly.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 06/01/2006
Learn how to integrate ASP.NET's built-in security tools with the features of your existing site.
From libraries to encryption, from refactoring to imaging, debugging, and lifecycle management—don't let anyone tell you there's not a rich selection of third-party tools awaiting.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2006
Late binding can bring great flexibility to Visual Basic programmers, but it has a serious downside in eliminating static-type checking and IntelliSense support. Use a static wrapper for dynamic code to enjoy the best of both worlds.
- By Danijel Arsenovski
- 06/01/2006
VB differs from other .NET-languages in that it doesn't provide short-circuited conditional statements, but you can still achieve the same effect, and be backward compatible with pre-.NET versions of VB.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/01/2006
Application development is messy and unpredictable. Here are three key things a technical leader should do to deliver software in spite of the chaos and change that can accompany a project.
Use Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals to extend your team''s functionality and improve collaboration.
- By Cameron Skinner
- 06/01/2006
Take advantage of .NET attributes to provide robust validation for your business objects, while generating user-interface validation automatically.
- By Steve Michelotti
- 06/01/2006
A reader explains that he likes VB6, and that is enough; another reader comments on the disconnect between Bill Gates' charitable work and Microsoft's (and other companies') assistance to the Chinese government in helping it stifle dissent.