WinFS offers new ways to interact with data that redefine how the operations system offers up data. Check out what's new with a snapshot of its current architecture model.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2004
Take advantage of the GDI+ graphics library to change the orientation of the label controls in an application; also, use Word's spell check from within your .NET application.
- By Fabio Ferracchiati
- 02/01/2004
In one domain where the servers seem to be missing, setting up WINS correctly may be the quick fix.
- By Bill Boswell
- 02/01/2004
.NET Patterns by Christian Thilmany shows you how the .NET Framework impacts existing patterns, which are recurring solutions to software design problems. The author covers patterns in detail, focusing on exception handling and logging the most.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 02/01/2004
Longhorn is the next major version of Microsoft's Windows operating system for consumers. These architectural models show how everything fits together.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2004
<i>VSM</i> takes an in-depth look at the next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, but rest assured the magazine's focus remain on the practical, hands-on code and samples.
- By Patrick Meader
- 02/01/2004
This tool creates scripts for tweaking remote systems.
- By Chris Brooke
- 02/01/2004
Many security-related tasks can be tedious—and, therefore, overlooked. Using these 10 scripts can make your life easier, while simultaneously locking down your network.
Take advantage of a number of VS.NET add-ins, including one that lets you implement and manage temporary links, which are URLs that are active for a limited amount of time and are typically used in software distribution and e-mail campaigns.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 02/01/2004
Getting user buy-in for security is critical. Using certificate autoenrollment is a way to make it pain-free.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 02/01/2004
If you think today’s PC hardware is astounding, stick around for a decade.
BusinessWeek Magazine, in its Feb. 2 editions, is declaring that SCO Group with its Linux lawsuits has replaced Microsoft as the most hated company in IT.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/29/2004
Following in the footsteps of the SCO Group Inc., Microsoft on Thursday put up a $250,000 bounty for the perpetrators of MyDoom.B.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/29/2004
Quest Software Inc. will buy privately-held Aelita Software for $115 million in a deal announced by the companies late Wednesday. The deal, a combination of two of the companies with the deepest sets of Active Directory and Windows-specific migration and management technologies, is expected to close this quarter.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/29/2004
Perhaps no company in the industry is working harder than Microsoft at making sure the public knows what steps to take to secure its products.
Microsoft's Zane Adams recently discussed the growing potential for Windows Storage Server with Senior Editor Keith Ward.
The already fast-spreading MyDoom or Novarg mass-mailing virus got a boost from an effective variant that hit about two days after the original virus was discovered.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/29/2004
Microsoft is now releasing more details on how to build Longhorn desktop applications—and pushing developers to crack open the early SDK.
More of Microsoft's $6.8 billion research budget will be directed toward making its software more secure and reliable, chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates said at a European technology conference.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/28/2004
Microsoft posted a public beta of Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004, the second-generation version of Microsoft's enterprise firewall and Web caching product.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/28/2004