early every .NET application needs to handle data that may reside in a wide range of data sources, from relational databases, to XML, to in-memory or disk-persisted objects. Although .NET
isual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is an add-on to Visual Studio 2005 that gives developers much more direct IDE support and easier access to the rich programming model provided
ith the release of Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition last year and Team Foundation Server in March of this year, Microsoft delivered arguably one of the largest functional upgrades to
f you’ve been working to customize SharePoint, you’ve probably at least heard the term “CAML,” which stands for Collaborative Application Markup Language. CAML is the XML-based language that Microsoft uses
ne of the new namespaces in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework is System.IO.Compression. This new namespace contains two classes for data compression: DeflateStream and GZipStream. Both compression classes support
Boston?At Microsoft’s Tech?Ed 2006 conference in Boston this week the pre-conference keynote on Sunday night discussed little of importance to developers?which was a good thing, as many attendees didn’t arrive
n the previous articles in this series you took a look at how to use the Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer to separate the design from the underlying implementation of your
arching ants are a colloquial term for the animated dotted-line that indicates a selected item or area by image-editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop and the GIMP. Traditionally, marching ants
he .NET platform supports a number of seemingly esoteric programming techniques, such as reflection, dynamic loading, late binding, and custom attributes. At first glance these topics may appear to be