Try SQL Server 2005 first-hand: Order the trial DVD today   27 Mar 2006 04:47 GMT
Test SQL Server 2005 in your environment to see how it boosts security, scalability, and availability. The trial DVD gives you the full features and functionality of Microsoft’s next-generation data management and analysis solution for 180 days.
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ClickOnce: Bringing Ease and Reliability to Smart Client Deployment   24 Mar 2006 22:29 GMT
Who said client deployment has to be difficult? The ClickOnce technologies baked into Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 make distributing your application either online or offline much easier.
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Programming Serial Ports Using Visual Basic 2005   23 Mar 2006 22:03 GMT
While serial port programming was absent in .NET version 1.1, Visual Basic developers who grew accustomed to the MSCOMM control in VB6 will be glad to know that this functionality is supported again in .NET 2.0. Learn to use the SerialPort class to make two computers talk to one another or even to manipulate a mobile device from your computer using Bluetooth.
Source: DevX

Coding4Fun at Maker Faire   23 Mar 2006 18:21 GMT
Coding4Fun and Visual Studio Express are proud to help sponsor the first ever Maker Faire - an event celebrating science, technology and the Do-It-Yourself mindset. Come and see for yourself how fun technology can be!
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Made In Express Contest!   23 Mar 2006 18:19 GMT
Got a great idea for a really cool project you could build with Visual Studio Express and/or SQL Server Express? If your idea is chosen, you'll have the opportunity to build it and win $10,000! Submit your idea today!
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.NET Rocks! - Test Driven Development with Jean Paul Boodhoo   23 Mar 2006 03:08 GMT
Get some deep insight into the tools and techniques that make Test Driven Development an important new tool for developers.
Source: MSDN

Visual Studio Information for Borland Delphi Developers   22 Mar 2006 01:02 GMT
We’ve fielded many questions from Delphi users asking about our current product set and roadmap in relation to similar Delphi products. Here you’ll find answers to some of those questions to help you learn about and evaluate the Visual Studio product rang
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Sorting Custom Paged Results   22 Mar 2006 00:00 GMT

Last week I wrote an article on implementing custom paging in ASP.NET 2.0 aptly named Custom Paging in ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2005. In that article I covered how to efficiently page through large amounts of data using Typed DataSets, an ObjectDataSource control, and SQL Server 2005's new ROW_NUMBER() keyword. Custom paging intelligently grabs just the subset of records needed to display per page, whereas default paging, while easier to implement, suffers when paging through sufficiently large data because all records are retrieved with each page of data. As my unscientific tests showed in Custom Paging in ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2005, paging through a 50,000 record database took over two seconds to display each page of data with default paging, while custom paging was able to chew through each page in under 0.03 seconds!

Nothing is free in life, and such is the case with custom paging. While custom paging offers astoundingly better performance when paging through large results, it is more difficult to implement. Furthermore, once custom paging has been added, even more work must be done to allow the user to sort the results. In this article we'll see how to augment custom paging to include support for bi-directional sorting of the results. Read on to learn more!

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A Business-Oriented Foundation for Service Orientation   21 Mar 2006 23:23 GMT
Automate business activities effectively and efficiently by using service-orientation with Web services.
Source: MSDN

Using Ink on the Web   21 Mar 2006 22:46 GMT
One of the more interesting and challenging places to use Ink is in Web applications. But how can this technology, which is dependent on the physical relationship between the stylus, the digitizer, and the operating system, work over the Internet?
Source: DevX