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
The recent petition from a group of Microsoft MVPs notwithstanding, it would be a mistake to incorporate a version of Classic VB in a future version of Visual Studio.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 06/01/2005
Microsoft VP Ya-Qin Zhang discusses improvements in Windows Mobile 5.0 that will interest Visual Studio developers, as well as broader issues in the mobile market.
- By Jim Fawcette
- 05/17/2005
Microsoft provided an update on Visual Studio 2005''s progress and features at VSLive! Las Vegas last week.
- By Richard Hundhausen
- 05/16/2005
XMLSpy 2005 Enterprise Edition features debugging support for XSLT, XPath, and WSDL. Plus a first look at Nantpad Professional 1.1.
Mix inheritance and Windows Forms to solve recurring UI-related problems.
- By Francesco Balena
- 05/01/2005
Five years into Visual Basic 3, the language was soaring on its way to becoming a classic. A reader asserts .NET is not following the same trajectory.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2005
eXtreme .NET combines the benefits of extreme programming with those of .NET. The author delves into pair programming, spiking, problem breakdown, testing, refactoring, and more.
Microsoft's support for VB6 expires at the end of this March. Karl Peterson explains why he is behind a petition to extend support for the product.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 05/01/2005