Learn about the advantages of IONA's highly extensible Artix product and how it helps companies use ESBs to integrate new technology without scrapping valuable existing systems.
- By Nick Fuentes
- 10/29/2004
Modify your applications so they run smoothly with Windows XP SP2, and better understand the issues that are motivating these changes in the OS.
Read these related articles from the FTPOnline archives to get some additional background on SOA.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2004
Clients might insist on a Web interface, but a smart client's benefits can often outweigh those of an ASP.NET-based app.
- By Francesco Balena
- 10/01/2004
Patrick on the new XP patch.
- By Patrick Meader
- 10/01/2004
A reader claims .NET is one of Microsoft's biggest wastes, as made evident by the fact that a new version is released often in an attempt to make it more palatable to VB6 developers.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2004
Provide printing capabilities in your ASP.NET apps using server-side controls and JavaScript automation, or by using VS.NET add-in tools such as Crystal Reports.
Check out the latest add-ins for Visual Studio .NET, including one that lets you add mapping functionality to your apps.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2004
The stereotype that hobbyists perform mediocre work is damaging. Value comes in delivering solutions in a timely manner, regardless of the tools, steps, or people used to achieve it.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2004
Set up applications to configure at run time using the VS.NET Dynamic Properties functionality-and even add some tricks the .NET Framework doesn't support yet.
- By Sushil Srivastava
- 10/01/2004
Learn how to create your own application settings class by leveraging the FileInfo, HashTable, XMLReader, and XMLWriter classes.
Use the OwnerDraw capabilities of the Microsoft Windows GDI+ to add gradient colors to controls and ListBox items, add rounded edges to controls, and manage the size and color of ListBox items.
Profiling those who show the power of .NET.
- By Patrick Meader
- 09/01/2004
One reader sees fatal flaws in the logic presented in June's Guest Opinion, and fears less discerning readers will run out and start implementing SOA using the untrustworthy plan.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 09/01/2004
Use the SQL Server Report Designer's wizards for a streamlined solution to setting up, designing, polishing, and publishing reports.
- By Stacia Misner
- 09/01/2004
Developers often avoid code generation because they think their apps are too complicated. But executed properly, code generation can help you implement sophisticated architectures quickly.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 09/01/2004
Use the .NET Compact Framework to write an application for sending SMS messages on Bluetooth-enabled Pocket PCs.
- By Wei-Meng Lee
- 09/01/2004
Check out the latest VS.NET add-ins, including a RAD WinForms data navigation control for .NET developers.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 09/01/2004
Use PropertyGrid to edit complex data structures by adding custom user interface editors.
Does VS.NET need a novice version to ease the transition for VB6 developers? Some say it would help; others assert it would hurt the respectability of a language finally coming into its own.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2004