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.
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
XMLSpy 2005 Enterprise Edition features debugging support for XSLT, XPath, and WSDL. Plus a first look at Nantpad Professional 1.1.
What security hurdles can you overcome when using XML to develop against a services layer? A whiteboard diagram of security requirements mappings in an SOA shows you the way.
- By Mark O'Neill
- 03/01/2005
ASP.NET 2.0's master pages can help you develop consistent Web apps without the additional overhead of include files, user controls, or third-party add-ins.
Take advantage of ASP.NET 2.0's new Wizard control to build wizard-based UIs with less code and a better experience for your users.
- By Thiru Thangarathinam
- 03/01/2005
Ari Bixhorn discusses Microsoft's plan to create a unified programming model (code-named Indigo) for building distributed, interconnected apps in an interview with VSM Editor in Chief Patrick Meader.
- By Patrick Meader
- 03/01/2005
Export the content of your ASP.NET pages to standard Office document types to avoid having to create separate reports.
- By Brian Eshelman
- 02/01/2005
Wise for Windows Installer 6.0 is a development solution for creating setup kits that use MSI technology.
Increase your users' perceived performance of your .NET application by using multithreading.
OfficeWriter 2.0 Enterprise Edition, which bundles SoftArtisans' ExcelWriter and WordWriter products, delivers custom documents over Internet Information Services (IIS).
Learn how to debug applications running on the Internet, embed resources in the assembly manifest, and use regular expressions to filter out duplicates.
- By Francesco Balena and Enrico Sabbadin
- 12/01/2004
Learn to parse fixed-length files and delimited text files, detect when a key combination is pressed, and change the style of the Web control that has the input focus.
- By Francesco Balena and Marco Bellinaso
- 11/01/2004