Steve Joubert Smart client architecture Smart client is more than a fancy moniker for Win Forms, or a marketing ploy to sell Visual Studio 2005.... 05 November 2005 7 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna ADO.NET 2.0 Factory Classes This article explains how to use .NET 2.0's data provider factory classes to develop a pluggable data layer that is... 25 October 2005 6 min read
Steve Joubert Does your app need an independent data layer? This article looks at the benefits and drawbacks of building an independent data layer into your application. … 03 October 2005 6 min read
Steve Joubert Data Synchronization Making your smart client application work in a disconnected environment - considering data loading and return synchronization.… 01 October 2005 9 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Custom Events in VB.NET 2005 Visual Basic .NET is well known for its event-driven programming capabilities. VB.NET 2005 adds new functionality for custom events that... 26 September 2005 7 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Debugger visualizers Debugging is an important process for any level of programming to ensure programs function as expected. Most productive developer environments... 05 September 2005 5 min read
Paul Glavich Asynchronous client script callbacks This article provides an example of asynchronous client script callbacks in ASP.NET V2.0.… 10 August 2005 12 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Schema and metadata retrieval using ADO.NET How to obtain different types of information from your SQL Server 2000 database using ADO.NET 2.0, part of VS.NET 2005... 02 August 2005 7 min read
Phil Wilson Updates to setup projects This article explains how to install a new version of your setup project using the Windows Installer update mechanism.… 18 July 2005 10 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Using partial classes to make intelligent datasets This article looks at how partial classes can be used to implement business logic into datasets so that they are... 13 July 2005 6 min read
Douglas Reilly Should you use ADO.NET DataReader or DataSet? In the beginning, there was the recordset, a central feature of classic ADO. In ADO.NET it was gone.… 10 June 2005 10 min read
Phil Wilson Visual Studio Setup – projects and custom actions This article describes the kinds of custom actions that can be used in your Visual Studio setup project.… 07 June 2005 17 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Visual Basic.NET 2005 Discover some of the new features in Visual Basic.NET 2005 such as partial classes, generics, operator overloading and using block… 06 May 2005 7 min read
Phil Wilson Getting Started With Setup Projects This article describes the basics of Visual Studio setup and deployment projects. Subsequent articles will cover more on custom actions,... 25 April 2005 18 min read
Paul Glavich .Net application profiling Performance is a concern for all but the simplest of applications. Making your applications perform well seems a simple enough... 13 April 2005 10 min read
Neil Davidson Extending the save file dialog class in .NET The jigsaw with the missing piece - using the GetSaveFileName function to extend the Save File dialog class.… 25 August 2004 1 min read
Helen Joyce Understanding XML web services for testers This White Paper investigates how XML web services are implemented, considers the customizable features of web services and looks at... 13 April 2003 15 min read
Neil Davidson Web Services Testing This article aims to give an introduction to the challenges in testing web services, for those who do not have... 13 March 2003 13 min read
