Converting a Data-Oriented Application from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic 2005, Part 3   24 Jan 2006 18:24 GMT
Ken Getz and Paul Sheriff show you how to migrate your data-oriented application from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic 2005 in Part 3 of this series.
Source: MSDN

Teach Your Old Web Cam New Tricks: Use Video Captures in Your .NET Applications   24 Jan 2006 04:11 GMT
Just when you thought there wasn't anything new that you could do with a webcam, along comes this article, which shows you how to exploit the AVICap Windows class so you can integrate on-demand screen captures into your applications.
Source: DevX

Channel 9: MIX with Bill Gates in Vegas   23 Jan 2006 23:11 GMT
Watch the MIX content team in action as they talk about their plans for this new conference happening at the Venetian hotel in Vegas.
Source: MSDN

CodeSnip: GnuPG Encryption for Email, XML, and Others in a VB.NET Wrapper   23 Jan 2006 00:00 GMT
For email there is only one security standard that is highly used--PGP or the public domain version GnuPG. I recently had to apply GnuPG to a commercial email program and found that nowhere on the Internet was this asymmetric encryption available for .NET usage. It was quite a challenge coding one, so I thought it worthy of an article to save people from what I had to go through to get there. Full source code is available and discussed with links to more.
Source: AspAlliance

ASP.NET "Atlas" First Look   20 Jan 2006 01:16 GMT
Nikhil Kothari provides a brief overview of ASP.NET "Atlas", a framework to build rich Web applications on top of ASP.NET 2.0. Both demos provide a description of the range of scenarios enabled by "Atlas".
Source: MSDN

New Book: Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2005: The Language   19 Jan 2006 00:26 GMT
Get the in-depth reference and pragmatic, real-world insights you need to exploit the enhanced language features and core capabilities in Visual C# 2005 in this book from Microsoft Press.
Source: MSDN

On Language Bigotry   19 Jan 2006 00:00 GMT
In this piece, Ambrose shares thoughts about language choice and, in particular, that between C# and VB (.NET).
Source: AspAlliance

Press Release: Introducing HelpStudio Lite Help Authoring Tool   18 Jan 2006 19:08 GMT
The Visual Studio 2005 SDK ships with a free tool for authoring Help content and integrating it with Visual Studio 2005. HelpStudio Lite, built by Innovasys, Ltd., is a lightweight version of HelpStudio, optimized for Visual Studio Industry Partners.
Source: MSDN

Improved Debugging with Visual Studio 2005's Debugger Visualizers   18 Jan 2006 00:00 GMT

When debugging a project in Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003, you can view the current values of a variable by simply entering the value into the Watch window, or by hovering your mouse over the variable in the code window. While this approach worked wonderfully for simple types with short and concise values, the user interface was less than ideal for more complex types or lengthy values. For example, if you were working on an application that manipulated the contents of an XML file you might want to examine the XML string at various points in the application. This would be a challenging task if you had XML content that was more than a few dozen characters long, as Visual Studio .NET would format the XML content in one loooooooong line of text. Kind of made it hard to quickly examine the contents of the XML!

Thankfully the debugger experience in Visual Studio 2005 is much better. In DataTips, Visualizers and Viewers Make Debugging .NET Code a Breeze author Morgan Skinner examines DataTips and Visualizers, two of the nice new debugging features. To summarize, DataTips provide a tooltip-like view of the important properties when in break mode, which you can view and modify. Visualizers present an alternate view of an object or variable in a manner that is more specific to the data type.

Visual Studio 2005 ships with four visualizers, a DataSet visualizer, which shows the contents of a DataSet in a grid, and three text-based visualizers: one for text, one for XML, and one for HTML. What's particularly cool about Visual Studio 2005's debugger visualizers is that the visualizer framework is pluggable. That is, we can create our own custom visualizers and plug them into Visual Studio! In this article we'll look at the basics of debugger visualizers, examine some of the built-in visualizers, look at a few free visualizers developed by various folks in the community, and see how to create our own visualizer! Read on to learn more!
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Review: Crystal Xcelsius   18 Jan 2006 00:00 GMT
In this article, Eric reviews the Crystals BI dashboard presentation product geared toward end-users. He looks at the product from a developers perspective.
Source: AspAlliance