icrosoft .NET developers can use several tools to perform operations asynchronously; that is, beginning a process without waiting for the operation to complete. MSMQ has provided this facility to developers
ne unfortunate by-product of the rapid move away from standalone and client/server applications to the Web-based environment is the disconnected nature of the HTTP protocol. Web servers and clients briefly
he Common Dialog API has been a solid staple in Windows development for more than a decade. In fact, not only is it a useful source of reusable code, it
number of technologies of interest to developers are incubating in Redmond right now. It’s been a long time since we first caught wind of “Whidbey” and we’ve got a good
ulti threading is one of the most powerful concepts in programming. Using multithreading, you can break a complex task into multiple threads that execute independently of one another. One particularly
he data access features in .NET changed the way developers write code by segregating the data providers into separate classes and namespaces, depending on the type of database that was
he semi-annual Windows developer trade show VSLive! took its turn in San Francisco this week, giving the 2,000 attendees a look at how the promise inherent in some major architectural
n Part 1 of this series, you learned that, by default, the Report Server uses Windows-based security to authenticate and authorize incoming requests based on the Windows identity of the
isplaying two-dimensional table data in a grid is one of the most common programming tasks. When the number of rows is small, a single page with a scrollbar is sufficient,