Learn about the latest and greatest products available from vendors that provide tools and services for Visual Studio .NET.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2006
Application lifecycle management tools are giving management better tools to peer into the development process. Your job might depend on adapting to this circumstance.
- By Peter Varhol
- 10/01/2006
ImagXpress Photo includes tons of features for managing digital images, and it's easy-to-use. It's also expensive.
Readers sound off about the recent experiments that delivered VSM in an eBook format.
A reader offers suggestions for how to broaden the selection of winners in VSM's annual Buyers Guide Survey.
Take advantage of the top ten refactorings for VB6-.NET migration to create easier-to-read and far more robust .NET applications. These refactorings pick up where the Migration Wizard leaves off.
- By Danijel Arsenovski
- 09/01/2006
Create a virtual page handler that lets you deliver data directly from your database to your Web users. The handler also lets you move your app into the world of REST Web Services.
The latest products for VSM readers.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 09/01/2006
A site's VirtualPathManager acts as a dispatcher for requests. In addition to invoking your VirtualFile objects, the path manager can also pass requests to the default ASP.NET path manager.
- By Jimmy Nilsson
- 09/01/2006
A reader agrees with Rockford Lhotka's assertion that software is too darn hard to use, and recommends that Microsoft think about this from the perspective of Visual Basic .NET.
Creating your own HTTP handler in ASP.NET 1.1 or 2.0 gives you a flexible and fast way to move data to clients, browsers, and other Web pages.
Data models provide important insights into your company's business. Learn how to read one, as well as some tips for creating strong data models of your own.
- By Steven Berringer
- 08/01/2006
Using business objects effectively requires understanding the nuances of their life cycles.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 08/01/2006
Third-party tools can rock your world; check out a range of offerings here, from report writers, to editors and imaging toolkits. There's something here for everyone.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2006
Compiling your applications frequently can help you save time, effort, and sleepless nights down the road. Learn how to implement this system using the open source tool, Draco.NET.
It's not enough to build a great custom control to help your end users -- you must also help other developers use your control.
A reader explains that job market forces often force developers to opt for the latest and greatest, rather than tried and tested; another reader explains why he voted for no products in the most recent Readers Choice Awards survey.
Take advantage of Loops in Visual Basic .NET to save coding effort, as well as to create more readable and maintainable code.
- By James Foxall
- 07/01/2006
Build a component to accommodate changing requirements without having to recompile your code.
Graphical imaging tools and components are the theme in July's look at recent releases for VB and .NET developers.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2006