Chris Dias, group program manager for Visual Basic .NET at Microsoft, talks about the present and future of the language, including the target audience of this tool.
Generics support in version 2 of the .NET Framework will help you write simpler, more powerful code, whether you consume generic classes built into the Framework or roll your own.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 01/01/2004
Stub zones can beef up your DNS infrastructure. Here’s a practical guide to when and how to use them.
- By Bill Boswell
- 01/01/2004
Taking control of your environment in 2004
Separation of duties is a good idea in the business world. It’s also a good one in the IT world.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 01/01/2004
Clearing the air on Windows Server 2003 offline file servers and offline file clients.
- By Bill Boswell
- 01/01/2004
Integrate Altova's new release of xmlspy 2004 into your existing Visual Studio .NET projects.
2003 saw lots of huge releases from Microsoft. While the coming year will be more subdued, you can be sure there’s still a lot on the way from Redmond.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/01/2004
This requires managing expectations, data and the computing experience.
- By Mark Wingard
- 01/01/2004
What you need to know to set up your network.
See what's been added to the mix.
You don't want to lock needless assemblies into the VS.NET process. Avoid this problem by loading the assembly into a separate application domain that you can unload later.
- By Enrico Sabbadin
- 01/01/2004
Readers react to Alan Cooper's Software Architect column, "The Last Gasp, " even asserting that Alan "must be living on another planet."
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 01/01/2004
Learn tips for administering SQL Server securely.
Web development is about to take another great leap forward. Powerful features in the new version of ASP.NET will save you time and reduce your code-writing requirements.
Version 2 of the .NET Framework introduces XML-to-relational data mapping, support for XQuery, and typed APIs. Find out why these changes are great news for B2B app development.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 01/01/2004
It’s time to try some new tricks that will help you stand out from the crowd.
You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.
- By Bob Beauchemin
- 01/01/2004
Identify when to use which tool to provision the servers in your network.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 01/01/2004