11/01/2007
November 2007 - Optimize LINQ to SQL Performance
Learn how to steamline access, avoid costly bottlenecks and maximize flexiblity. Plus designing apps for future flexibility, designers and developers working together, banishing UAC issues, the incredible exploding mindshare of C# and much more.
User Account Control (UAC) issues usually result from improperly allowing administrator-level access in your applications. Learn how UAC works and make such problems a thing of the past.
You can't predict change, but you can prepare for it. Learn how to avoid cases where you need to remove work and rework too much of what you've already done.
Take advantage of the new PipeStream classes and XML features in .NET 3.5 and VB9 to resolve the age-old problem of creating a single-instance application.
Plus FishGrid.NET Light 1.0 and Sentinel Visualizer.
Why is C# taking the lead over VB.NET?
A reader writes in to ask if uppercase is OK, why isn't using ToLower?
Rockford shares his take on what worked (and what didn't) when collaborating with a designer on a new project using VS 2008, Express Blend and Team Foundation Server
Get the Code Protector SDK, plus new VS 2005 SDK v4 samples, Microsoft Windows Search 3.x SDK and more.
Versitile, .NET-based licensing-management software.