Geographical mash-ups are made easy with the Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping API.
- By Peter Varhol
- 09/01/2006
A reader offers suggestions for how to broaden the selection of winners in VSM's annual Buyers Guide Survey.
FAQ on the VSM e-book test.
- By Patrick Meader
- 09/01/2006
Web 2.0 is a fabulous new methodology, but it's important to understand and plan ahead for the interoperability challenges that you face when building Web 2.0 apps.
- By Laurence Moroney and Marina Fisher
- 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
Your guide to the best tools this year
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.
Readers questions on VSM from VSLive! Orlando.
- By Patrick Meader
- 08/01/2006
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
Check out our comprehensive list of available products and resources for the Visual Studio .NET developer.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 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
It can be complicated to move configuration files in a post-build event with Visual Studio Team System. You can make things easier with one of two options.
- By Benjamin Day and Richard Hale Shaw
- 07/24/2006
Team Foundation Build provides an integrated solution for performing automated builds, testing, and reporting build results.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 07/24/2006
Learn how to customize the work item template for a bug to specify that only Testers can change the status to Closed.
- By Benjamin Day and Richard Hale Shaw
- 07/24/2006
Use a Windows User Group to manage permissions across the Team Project, the project's SharePoint Portal, and its SQL Server Reporting Services site.
- By Benjamin Day and Richard Hale Shaw
- 07/24/2006
It's not enough to build a great custom control to help your end users -- you must also help other developers use your control.