(Al Moreno and Greg Mancuso) The word integration gets thrown around quite a bit in an IT shop. In today’s world, that term has begun to be used heavily by the business community as well. As everyone knows, when the business and IT groups start using the same word, they rarely tend to mean the same

(Matt Nicholson) Software factories integrate modelling and code generation with patterns, frameworks and guidance to provide developers with a development environment tailored to the job in hand. Matt Nicholson talks to Steve Cook, an Architect for Visual Studio Team System, about software fact

(Mark Belles) This article will focus on Visual Studio for Applications, or VSA, and explain how it can be integrated with .NET programs. It will also explain a few key areas you must understand in order to successfully integrate VSA into your programs.

(Roger Wolfe) Suppose you want to store password values in a table, but you don’t want that password data to be displayed. While there are other ways to accomplish this, masking the password fields makes the logic to maintain the data easier.

(Peter Hecke) Learn how to develop a custom report that displays aggregate (summary) business data within the Microsoft Customer Relationship Management Web application and then export the report data to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for analysis. You can also set up a live data feed between the cus

(Hal Hayes) “My kingdom for a … good book that covers UML modeling with Visual Studio .NET!” Was this the anguished cry of Shakespeare’s Richard III? More likely it is the frustrated diatribe of project managers, team leaders, and even new developers who face the sometimes daunting task of creating

Learn some of the differences when moving from VBScript-based ASP pages to Visual Basic.NET-based pages running inside of ASP.NET. Stefan Schackow demonstrates dealing with changes in variable declaration syntax, subroutine usage and inline code, data access with ADO, and VB-style error handling.

(Alex Homer) In the previous part of this article, we looked in detail at the major changes to the DataSet class in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. In this part, we pick up the story to look at another two features that provide new opportunities for developers to work with data in a more structur

(Clemens Vasters) In this 2nd part I am extending the simple messaging example of Part 1 by adding some explicit WS-Addressing trickery. Addressing is so fundamental that its properties are baked right into the Headers collection of the Indigo Message. Even though there are (and I will eventuall

(Mark Strawmyer) This .NET Nuts & Bolts installment is the second part of an exploration of code access security and what it means in the Microsoft .NET Framework. It builds on the examination of evidence-based security in Part 1 and looks at imperative and declarative security checks, as well as ho