Peter returns to .NET RIA Services to look at the client side of creating an application.
Subclass multiple controls with a single class module to add the missing MouseEnter and MouseLeave events.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 07/28/2009
The ASP.NET-related portions of .NET RIA Services aren't ready for primetime yet, but now's a good time to start kicking the tires.
Windows XP offers a much-improved method to subclass windows. Is it the right call for you to make?
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 07/16/2009
Your users may want to get their data in a specific order -- and not get it all at once. You can control both with the ObjectDataSource (and a little code).
The newest version of Microsoft's answer to Flash is now out. Dan gives a quick rundown of what's different, from the improved graphics and networking support to new controls and styles.
Not content with providing a solution for displaying information from the Content page on its MasterPage, Peter returns to the topic to solve the problem from another direction.
Offshore application development has its merits, but sometimes, as one dev team found, it's just not worth it.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 07/01/2009
Readers sound off on the next generation of these key development technologies.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2009
64-bit-capable machines are everywhere. It's time you start thinking about 64-bit support as you develop your Visual Basic applications.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 07/01/2009
Microsoft isn't exiting the business intelligence market; it's redefining it.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/01/2009
The language behind WPF is starting to gain momentum, thanks in large part to Silverlight.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/01/2009
Working together as a team can be challenging. Here are three ways to use Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 to deliver the best possible software, with as little friction as possible.
With a few tweaks, you can turn Visual Studio's basic unit-testing capabilities into a powerful and extensible tool for improving code quality.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 07/01/2009
As Jeff shows, it's all about process, process, process.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 06/30/2009
Validator controls make handling errors and reporting them in the UI easy, but what you may not know is how easy it is to create your own Validator.
If you've consumed an ASP.NET ASMX Web service before, then you'll feel right at home consuming a WCF service.
In his ongoing campaign to convince ASP.NET developers that User Controls are a simple way to start implementing customizable pages, Peter shows how to improve the integration between User Controls and ASP.NET's WebPart framework.
There's only one add-in that I have auto-loaded every time I fire up the Classic VB IDE. After disappearing from the market, it's back now, and it's free!
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 06/15/2009
If you're concerned about keeping critical information in your Web.config file, then you should encrypt it -- or at least the parts that you're concerned about.