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New GUIs: XML Is the Heir Apparent

here’s no brawl like the brawl over a GUI technology. XML is the new entrant into this particular pit-fight, and it looks like the ultimate winner to me. XML is

Emerging from the Technological Winter

atching the effects of economic deterioration on IT departments over the last two years has been incredibly depressing. But such observance has provided moments of clarity, among them this sad

Is DHTML Dead?

few years ago, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 4, which changed the course of Web client-side development. Not only was it ubiquitous, delivered with every version of Windows, but it also

Licensed to Code?

Certifiable NonsenseYou don’t need a certification to know that you’re good at what you do and neither does the rest of &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspthe world. I once had the misfortune to make

Seven Techniques for Better, Faster Development

hen AT&T assessed the performance of their engineering teams, they discovered that their top-ranking software developers were as much as 10 times more productive than their colleagues. There are several

Add Multithreading to Your VB.NET Applications

evelopers have been requesting that Microsoft add more threading functionality to VB for some time?it will finally happen with VB.NET. VB6 does have support for building multithreaded EXEs, DLLs, and

Resizing Forms and Controls

ne of the more common questions here at Ask the VB Pro has always been how to automatically handle the resizing of forms and controls. Unfortunately, the short answer is