Learn 10 useful tips and tricks that help boost SQL Server application performance.
Disparate systems make business process automation inefficient. Semantic integration of structured, unstructured and process data simplifies implementation of a robust SOA model.
- By Boris Lublinsky
- 07/01/2004
Increase your application's flexibility and make the installation simpler by connecting to the database without generating a DSN in the ODBC Data Source Administrator. Instead, use VB code to configure the connection.
- By Irina Segalevich
- 07/01/2004
Learn how to implement user profile management, a hot new feature in ASP.NET 2.0.
- By Dino Esposito
- 07/01/2004
Dundas Chart for .NET is an easy-to-use tool for adding chart presentations to ASP.NET and WinForms applications.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 07/01/2004
Learn how to create and customize data-intensive tables in ASP.NET Web applications.
Some developers mourn the day that offshoring will force them out of a job, while others assert you need to make yourself more marketable. Only the strong survive.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2004
Software methodologies have their place and can be useful in the development process, but they need to be flexible to provide their maximum benefit.
The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals helps SQL Server power users manage their complex enterprise systems. This valuable reference manual goes far beyond the product's base documentation.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 07/01/2004
Learn how to implement a print preview dialog that uses the PrintPreviewControl to add features that aren't in the default PrintPreviewDialog component.
Testing is a crucial component of the software development lifecycle. Combine testing tools with methodologies such as XP and TDD to boost quality assurance.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/28/2004
Your J2EE and .NET apps must interact. This overview presents the standards and available technologies that can help you shape interoperable solutions.
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the basis for creating applications that trust each other to perform their tasks.
- By A. Nicklas Malik
- 06/01/2004
Output your trace information to new targets, including SQL Server and XML—and do it without parsing.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 06/01/2004
Writing Add-Ins for Visual Studio .NET helps you write an add-in customized to your needs. Les Smith walks you through the wizard and shows you how to develop your UI, trap IDE events, manipulate controls, and migrate your VB6 add-ins to the new platform.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 06/01/2004
Kathleen Dollard's recent Guest Opinion inspires reaction. Some hobbyists want Microsoft to continue support for VB6, while full-timers advise amateurs to step up to the .NET plate.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2004
Here's a design for creating data-driven validation rules for distributed apps. It lets you distribute the rules from to clients without modifying client-side application code.
- By Tony Surma and Bill Wagner
- 06/01/2004
Learn how to turn ADO.NET classes into tools for constructing software using C# in Mahesh Chand's book, A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C#.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 06/01/2004
You can improve your UI in several ways, using the .NET Framework's built-in multithreading and asynchronous execution mechanisms.
Infragistics' NetAdvantage 2004 is a suite of high-performing and feature-laden UI components for developing Windows, Tablet PC, and ASP.NET applications.