Output your trace information to new targets, including SQL Server and XML—and do it without parsing.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 06/01/2004
You can buy a lot for $1,000 these days. We test four bargain-basement boxes and tell you what to expect.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 06/01/2004
This script can be altered to read/write any kind of Registry entry.
- By Chris Brooke
- 06/01/2004
How Microsoft is like the fairy tale.
You can automate exception logging with one line of client code, control it through an App.config file without recompiling, and use custom publishers to craft cool logging tools.
Renamed publication adds veteran IT journalists to staff.
Learn how to turn ADO.NET classes into tools for constructing software using C# in Mahesh Chand's book, A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C#.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 06/01/2004
User believe mind readers are hired at the help desk.
Microsoft’s next Service Pack for Windows XP is almost totally about improved security. And it shows.
- By Bill Boswell
- 06/01/2004
As the capabilities of handheld devices have grown, so have the threats.
- By Jonathan Gossels and Dick Mackey
- 06/01/2004
Learn whether a given date is greater than or equal to a predefined date and how to add to the Expression Editor dialog box's list of Standard Expressions.
This tool allows you to do various things using different rights/credentials.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 06/01/2004
Admin wants to maintain snappy performance with user profiles and home folders with a Windows 2003 network upgrade.
- By Bill Boswell
- 06/01/2004
Virtual LANs are a good way to speed up your network by grouping users and
computers into logical, rather than physical, units. Here’s how they work.
- By Laura E. Hunter
- 06/01/2004
Kathleen Dollard's recent Guest Opinion inspires reaction. Some hobbyists want Microsoft to continue support for VB6, while full-timers advise amateurs to step up to the .NET plate.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2004
As part of the June cover feature, "4 Dirt-Cheap Workgroup Servers," Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 might interest those small and medium businesses.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 06/01/2004
Find out how to import Contacts and User Objects into Active Directory, as well as modify batched objects.
It’s worthwhile to spend time with new tools, but only if it gets you ahead in the development game.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 06/01/2004
VS.NET is a flexible and powerful programming tool, but a special novice version would expand its audience (and Microsoft's) not only with hobbyists, but in the enterprise as well.
- By Patrick Meader
- 06/01/2004
Boot-up is a dangerous time for your systems, a time before security policies to protect them may be active. Avoid danger with persistent policies.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 06/01/2004