Migrate a Word VBA Solution to Visual Basic Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office   16 Aug 2005 20:08 GMT
Explore the opportunities and challenges of migrating traditional Office VBA solutions to managed code.
Source: MSDN

ASP.NET 2.0 Security Practices at a Glance   16 Aug 2005 17:09 GMT
This module presents a set of consolidated practices designed to address ASP.NET version 2.0 security issues. The practices are organized by various categories that represent those areas where mistakes are most often made.
Source: MSDN

Structs with Care: Boxing   16 Aug 2005 04:20 GMT
This tip helps guide you in deciding whether an object should be a class or a stuct.
Source: DevX

Is it time for a .NET track at OSCON?   15 Aug 2005 18:31 GMT
The number of Mono, .NET, and C# open source projects is vast and growing. With over 2,600 projects in Sourceforge, it is clear that there is a significant community behind these projects. I recommend that the O'Reilly Open Source Convention organizers move .NET open source out of the emerging topics track and into its own track.
Source: O'Reilly

Test Driven Development for a Business Intelligence Project (Crystal Reports): Part 2   15 Aug 2005 00:00 GMT
In the second part of a three-part series on Test Driven Development (TDD) in .NET, Eric Landes shows how to set up a further test for a Business Intelligence project. He uses Crystal Reports 10 with nUnit to compare the output of a report to the raw SQL data from which the report is generated.
Source: AspAlliance

Build a Framework for Managing Distributed Transactions in Three-tier Applications   13 Aug 2005 01:21 GMT
For many transactional applications in .NET, you can avoid the overhead of using Enterprise Services and simply mimic the simple transactional style of COM+ applications by using a DistributedTransaction object that wraps an ADO.NET Transaction object.
Source: DevX

Paint.NET: The .NET Framework in Action   12 Aug 2005 19:02 GMT
Chris Sells interviews Rick Brewster, Tom Jackson, and Craig Taylor about their project, Paint.NET v2.1. Paint.NET is a full-featured, professional-grade graphics application built on the .NET Framework as a senior design project at Washington State Univ.
Source: MSDN

Visual Studio Connections: November 7-10, 2005 at the Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas   11 Aug 2005 18:06 GMT
Microsoft, MSDN Magazine, and Tech Conferences join forces to bring you Visual Studio Connections. This event features over 110 in-depth sessions, 50 top speakers, and exciting keynotes.
Source: MSDN

August 2005 DirectX SDK Now Available   11 Aug 2005 17:56 GMT
We are pleased to announce the availability of the August 2005 DirectX SDK. It includes run-times, headers and libraries, samples, documentation, utilities, and support for C++, and Managed Code development.
Source: MSDN

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