The new service allows developers to see what happens when compilers take source code and turn it into machine code.

Your new Silverlight applications are as liable to "blow up" as your old legacy VB6 applications, argues this founder of a .NET tools company.

This IDE is a replica of the original .NET editor and also contains Windows support.

Learn the ins and outs of REALbasic, an application development environment for creating native applications and utilities. Its cross-platform capability makes it easy to compile the applications and utilities you create on one platform and run them on another.

Follow this case study to unlock the data your company has in isolated spreadsheets by publishing it in SharePoint lists.

Application Settings is a new feature in Windows Forms 2.0 that allows you to maintain both user- and application-specific data (known as settings). Find out how to use it to improve your application's usability with personalization--this time in Visual Basic.

Finding what you need in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 documentation, which has over 200,000 topics, can be a daunting task. The Doc Detective is here to help, utilizing his investigative skills to probe the depths of the documentation.

Learn different ways to tease information out of your Scrum processes by unleashing the power of Excel.

Carl Franklin interviews Jon Rauschenberger to explore the process of moving VB6 applications to .NET.

Years of frustration with managing multiple versions of COM components is finally being addressed, thanks to a new component deployment mechanism from Microsoft called Reg-free COM.

Development for Tablet PCs requires a skill set similar to development for regular PCs, plus an understanding of digital Ink collection, management, and analysis. Developing for Tablet PCs is surprisingly easy and powerful at the same time.

VSTO is a new platform for building .NET applications, letting you use the power of the Office libraries and interfaces in your own applications. Read Chapter 13, "The VSTO Programming Model," to get a feel for VSTO.

Finding what you need in the Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET documentation, which has over 45,000 topics, can be a daunting task. The Doc Detective is here to help, utilizing his investigative skills to probe the depths of the documentation.

If you're tired of trying to decipher long Excel IF formulas displayed in a single line of code, try this convenient Formula Formatter add-in that displays such formulas neatly indented in a popup window.

Microsoft may no longer support VB6, but VB6 developers still have options.

Like an old horse, Visual Basic for Applications has served Office developers well for many years. But there's a stronger, faster pony on the way and it's called Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. Justin Whitney provides nine solid reasons for giving VSTO a close look, plus a special sneak peek at four new programming features that you'll find in VSTO.

This installment of .NET Rocks! is an interview with Visual Basic Product Manager, Jay Roxe.

Incremental software upgrades can be a nightmare if they're not managed in an orderly and logical fashion. Learn how to simplify the registration of multiple DLLs from any location.

The Command Behavior pattern lets you encapsulate behaviors within a presentation layer, making it much easier to organize, track, undo, and invoke those behaviors however you like. It's a freeze-frame remote control for your GUIs.

VB6 can be prone to disorganization and the State behavior pattern is a consummate organizer. Use it proactively to prevent spaghetti code or reactively to manage code complexity.