SQL Server 2005's engine-based data encryption functions protect confidential information from unauthorized access and disclosure, and offer native key management as a bonus.
- By Roger Jennings
- 08/01/2005
Even recently, programming was considered a hot profession with almost limitless opportunities for making it big. How quickly things change. Today, programmers typically need to beef up their skill sets just to remain viable in the workplace.
Take advantage of visualizers in Visual Studio 2005 to make yourself more productive; also learn how to create your own custom visualizers.
- By Vikram Srivatsa
- 08/01/2005
Take advantage of the Windows Management Interface to correctly gauge your application's performance requirements.
- By Derek Harmon
- 08/01/2005
Readers who have made the leap to .NET aren't looking back. They say they're developing and deploying reliable, mission-critical apps that pay for themselves quickly.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2005
Check out the latest upgrades to your favorite VS.NET add-ins, including a product that helps you isolate and eliminate performance issues and memory leaks.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2005
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft's announcement of its upcoming anti-virus and anti-spamware service has this reader questioning the wisdom of selling both the OS and after-market security services.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2005
Get in on programming's current sweet spot.
- By Patrick Meader
- 07/01/2005
Readers debate whether Visual Basic .NET needs to drop Basic from its name.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 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
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
Users know their needs and preferences better than anyone. Give them the power to create the site they want to use with ASP.NET's Web Parts.
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
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
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