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.
You can make yourself more productive and simplify your application logic by creating Web Parts that pass data between themselves.
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
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
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
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
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
Learn how to localize your applications easily with this robust localization and resource-management tool.
- By Liewen Huang
- 05/01/2005
Save time by creating an extensible framework for a .NET agent. The framework offers a dynamically configurable job scheduler and notification service.
- By Luther Miller
- 05/01/2005
Form Maximizer for .NET helps you add professional touches to your forms right now by configuring a few properties rather than by delving into .NET intricacies.
Does the term Basic give Visual Basic an uncalled-for negative connotation, or does it provide continuity with the language's past?
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2005
Check out these latest VS.NET add-ins, including a product that helps you test and debug error-handling code in both native and .NET managed code.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2005
Take advantage of the fact that the Windows Forms databinding mechanism can use any .NET object that implements the IList interface as the data source.
- By Francesco Balena
- 04/01/2005