New frontiers for certification
You’ve seen it all when it comes to vendor shenanigans. Here’s how to fight back.
A pair of books from a pair of pragmatic programmers tackle source code control and testing programmatically.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 01/01/2004
New controls, enhanced data binding, and improvements to existing controls make WinForms programming with VS.NET's upcoming version easier and more versatile.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 01/01/2004
Here are five things you can do right now— this minute—that will increase security on your networks.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 01/01/2004
The next version of VS.NET includes a plethora of enterprise and RAD features, but the tool remains geared more toward higher-end than occupational or hobbyist programmers.
Here's a minor Windows annoyance that Microsoft should send back to development.
- By Bill Boswell
- 01/01/2004
Take a look at these various add-ins to your Visual Studio .NET environment.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 01/01/2004
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.
- By Patrick Meader
- 01/01/2004
Windows Server 2003's account redirection features are nifty, but remembering that you used them can produce some mysterious problems.
- By Bill Boswell
- 12/23/2003
Eliot Spitzer, the New York State Attorney General whose office spearheaded investigations of Wall Street abuses, is working with Microsoft to punish spammers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/18/2003
The name WinINSTALL makes one think of packaging up applications, testing for conflicts, and automating the deployment of new software. The newly announced WinINSTALL 8 does all that, but has enough extras that its developer is looking to rebrand the tool next year.
Microsoft's exam for project management experts faces scrutiny of beta testers December 19 to January 9.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/18/2003
Microsoft plans to release a toolset for compliance with the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act in March, the company announced this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/18/2003
Part three of this four-part series describes a Canadian firm's
on-going, cautious efforts to evaluate the new platform for its
truly mission-critical 24x7 environment.
- By Linda Briggs
- 12/18/2003
Part Two of this four-part series profiles an organization with
30 television stations across the country and 2,000-plus employees.
- By Linda Briggs
- 12/17/2003
Microsoft on Tuesday released an open beta of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2004, the company's second-generation application management tool which is scheduled for release next summer.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/17/2003
Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed plans to hold pricing relatively steady for the next release of its integration-focused BizTalk Server 2004, which is scheduled to ship early next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/17/2003
Microsoft laid out a roadmap on Wednesday for retiring Windows 2000 Server editions over the next few years. The process starts in April for Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/17/2003
The earliest that Windows XP Service Pack 2 will ship is at the end of the first half of 2004, according to Mike Nash, corporate vice president for Microsoft's security business unit.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/16/2003