Simplify your work with JavaScript files and add cross-browser, AJAX-capable scripts into Web pages.
Explore ASP.NET AJAX configuration sections in web.config, and learn how handlers and modules fit into the overall picture.
Integrating data queries into VB and C#
The software development life cycle is enhanced by virtualization. An overview of what you should consider.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/15/2007
Discover the concepts behind AJAX and why using it in your ASP.NET development is advantageous.
Express yourself with Microsoft Expression
- By Bill McCarthy
- 05/01/2007
The new object/relational mapping technology in 'Orcas.'
- By Elisa Johnson
- 05/01/2007
The pace of change is on the verge of putting one-man shops out of business; no one is capable of remaining truly competent as a general .NET programmer.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2007
Extension methods bring together old and new ways of working with data, and open the doors to new language opportunities.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 05/01/2007
A reader asserts that new isn't necessarily better, merely different; and a reader explains how the editor in chief used the term jump the shark incorrectly in a recent editorial.
Learn about the latest and greatest products available from vendors that provide tools and services for Visual Studio .NET.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2007
Call a combo box across assembly boundaries with generics and enums; add contact information with Assembly Information; and drill down on FxCop spelling rules.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2007
Editor in chief Patrick Meader explains why the magazine (generally) forbids discussion of third-party products, while allowing authors to discuss non-Visual Studio-specific tools from Microsoft.
- By Patrick Meader
- 05/01/2007
The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases.
- By Nancy Vodicka
- 04/15/2007
A review of Vincent Maraia's book on the best practices for Microsoft's software configuration.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 04/15/2007
It can be intimidating at first, but it helps you in the long run to run your code against a static code analyzer like FxCop; also learn how to use dynamic analysis to test your forms during runtime.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 04/01/2007
VB's My.Settings class makes it easy for you to remember user-preferred settings; also, what a quirky result in VB's debug window reveals about how its compiler and the .NET runtime work together.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 04/01/2007
Generics can solve many more problems than collections. Use generics to write code once and reuse it more easily.
This month we look at the latest from SlickEdit, Developer Express, Catalyst Development, Artifiact Software, Perpetuum Software and Guruck Software.
- By Staff of Redmond Developer News
- 04/01/2007
Learn about the latest and greatest products available from vendors that provide tools and services for Visual Studio .NET.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2007