.NET Framework


Let Users Search Your Site Easily

Check out the latest VS.NET add-ins, including a tool for enabling users to search your site more easily; and updated tools for reporting, charting, installation, and more.

Integrate the Client and Server

Take advantage of a new tool for integrating client-side activities with server-side resources in ASP.NET 2.0 by exploiting the ability to have client-side code call server-side routines.

Use Google APIs in .NET

Learn everything you need to start using .NET Web services to access Google Web APIs in your application.

DevPartner SecurityChecker: Secure ASP.NET Sites

Compuware's DevPartner SecurityChecker scrutinizes your ASP.NET 1.1 applications. Plus a first look at C-Sharpener For VB.

Good Riddance to Browser-Based Apps

Smart clients will replace browser-based applications because they offer both a better user experience and a way to write more secure applications.

Communicate Between ASP.NET Controls

You can make yourself more productive and simplify your application logic by creating Web Parts that pass data between themselves.

Different Rules for Big Developers

Microsoft's announcement of its upcoming anti-virus and anti-spamware service has this reader questioning the wisdom of selling both the OS and after-market security services.

Improve Performance With In-Process Integration

In-process integration beats out other, out-of-process integration approaches in many ways. You get higher performance, more reliable integration, and better security.

Product Brief: VS.NET Plug-In for Linux

Mainsoft''s Grasshopper plug-in enables Visual Studio developers to develop Web applications for Linux.

Put the 'Smart' in Smart Client

Building applications for multiple platforms requires more consideration from developers than ever before. Find out how to make your apps ''smarter.''

Faster .NET 2.0, New Service Pack for Exchange

Steve Ballmer touts performance gains in .NET 2.0 and a new service pack for Exchange Server in his TechEd keynote.

New Dev Tools Integrate With VS 2005

Vendors at TechEd showcase new development tools, including products that help you build database apps, enhance your app''s presentation layer, design Web apps more easily, and more.

Connect Systems With Indigo

TechEd''s Connected Systems track presentations propose the forthcoming Indigo messaging bus as the service-oriented successor to ASMX Web services, Web Services Enhancements (WSE), .NET Remoting, MSMQ, COM+, and, lest we forget, Global XML Architecture.

Longhorn Redux

The next version of Windows will differ dramatically from its PDC 2003 preview version. Gauge the impact, if any, that Longhorn and its back-ported Avalon and Indigo components will have on VS developers.

DevPartner Fault Simulator: Simulate Faults in Your Code

Compuware's DevPartner Fault Simulator helps you make sure your code is as reliable as possible. Plus first looks at InstallShield 10.5 and other new products this month.

What's in a Name?

Readers debate whether Visual Basic .NET needs to drop Basic from its name.

Convert Between VB.NET and C#

Conversion between VB.NET and C# involves much more than adding or removing semi-colons and curly braces. Learn about differences between the two languages and how to simulate unique features of one language in the other.

Display and Manage Tabular Data

Check out these latest VS.NET add-ins, including a Windows.Forms Tree/Grid control that manages data and helps you display, manage, and manipulate tabular and hierarchical data.

Customize Sites With Web Parts

Users know their needs and preferences better than anyone. Give them the power to create the site they want to use with ASP.NET's Web Parts.

Create Extensible .NET Apps

Take advantage of plug-ins to create highly extensible and highly customizable Windows Forms applications that serve your users' needs better.

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