March 20, 2003

y the time you are reading this Microsoft will be very close to shipping Visual Studio .NET 2003 and its associated language products?including Visual C++. February 2003 marks an exciting

ince the earliest versions of the Windows operating system, all Windows have been rectangular. However, the number of applications that break out of this boring mold is rising. Even Microsoft,

dding indexes to tables is the most effective way to optimize your SQL Server query performance. Tables that you query often may require several indexes in order to handle the

odern applications are no longer isolated, stand-alone applications, limited to a single process or machine. Distributed applications allow you to put components in close proximity to the resources they use,

asting, or converting the value of a token from one type of data to another is common to most (if not all) programming languages. Visual Basic has long had a