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n case you haven’t noticed, programmers are sort of funny people to work with. I was talking with a friend the other day and he said that some of the

he .NET platform has a new and fresh feel to it. Prior to .NET we had reached a point of technology and tools mish-mash that has been almost prohibitive to

efore we can dive in and begin building Web pages with ASP.NET, I want to introduce a few topics and new terminology. .NET FrameworkMicrosoft designed classes in the .NET Framework

his article assumes you are familiar with Visual Studio .NET 1.0 and it presents only the new features of the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) of Visual Studio .NET 1.1, for

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