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.
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.
Learn everything you need to start using .NET Web services to access Google Web APIs in your application.
Compuware's DevPartner SecurityChecker scrutinizes your ASP.NET 1.1 applications. Plus a first look at C-Sharpener For VB.
Smart clients will replace browser-based applications because they offer both a better user experience and a way to write more secure applications.
- By Billy Hollis
- 07/01/2005
You can make yourself more productive and simplify your application logic by creating Web Parts that pass data between themselves.
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.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2005
In-process integration beats out other, out-of-process integration approaches in many ways. You get higher performance, more reliable integration, and better security.
Mainsoft''s Grasshopper plug-in enables Visual Studio developers to develop Web applications for Linux.
Building applications for multiple platforms requires more consideration from developers than ever before. Find out how to make your apps ''smarter.''
Steve Ballmer touts performance gains in .NET 2.0 and a new service pack for Exchange Server in his TechEd keynote.
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.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 06/08/2005
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.
- By Roger Jennings
- 06/08/2005
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.
- By Roger Jennings
- 06/08/2005
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.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 06/01/2005
Readers debate whether Visual Basic .NET needs to drop Basic from its name.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2005
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.
- By Dave Doknjas
- 06/01/2005
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.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2005
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.
Take advantage of plug-ins to create highly extensible and highly customizable Windows Forms applications that serve your users' needs better.
- By Francesco Balena
- 06/01/2005