Whether you get what you pay for in dirt-cheap servers. Plus, who's eagerly awaiting the next Windows servers? Not these readers.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 07/01/2004
Applying registration keys en masse via scripting.
- By Chris Brooke
- 07/01/2004
Some developers mourn the day that offshoring will force them out of a job, while others assert you need to make yourself more marketable. Only the strong survive.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2004
Disparate systems make business process automation inefficient. Semantic integration of structured, unstructured and process data simplifies implementation of a robust SOA model.
- By Boris Lublinsky
- 07/01/2004
Migrating applications is far from easy—that’s why choosing the right tool is imperative.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 07/01/2004
Learn how to implement a print preview dialog that uses the PrintPreviewControl to add features that aren't in the default PrintPreviewDialog component.
Despite a resistant corporate culture, Greg and his colleagues developed a formalized change management process, which can even be adapted to smaller groups.
- By Greg Shields
- 07/01/2004
How new policies and procedures can help you gain control over processes, ranging from patch management to topology changes.
- By Greg Shields
- 07/01/2004
The creative, inner IT person in me can think of other ways to use that extra petabyte of storage we'll soon have at our disposal.
Software methodologies have their place and can be useful in the development process, but they need to be flexible to provide their maximum benefit.
When mobile users need to look up and edit data without direct network connections, persist DataSets of lookup information as local XML files to preserve offline updates.
- By Roger Jennings
- 07/01/2004
The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals helps SQL Server power users manage their complex enterprise systems. This valuable reference manual goes far beyond the product's base documentation.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 07/01/2004
O, printer, where art thou?
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 07/01/2004
Learn how to create and customize data-intensive tables in ASP.NET Web applications.
Get the scoop on Microsoft's series of releases and updates that will tighten security on both the latest Windows operating systems as well as most other Microsoft products.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 07/01/2004
We can learn lessons from trading hubs and apply the data to IT integration. See how the ESB removes the distinction among internal and external networks for supply-chain apps.
- By Dave Chappell
- 07/01/2004
Before you tread the path to Exchange migration, here's a look at where that well-worn path leads.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/01/2004
Learn 10 useful tips and tricks that help boost SQL Server application performance.
Modeling has enormous potential, but software modeling tools are too complicated and little used. Microsoft aims to change that with Whitehorse.
- By Patrick Meader
- 07/01/2004
Microsoft's claims notwithstanding, consolidation may be in your immediate future.