Rapid Application Development or RAD tools enhance the productivity of developers by allowing them to focus on the business part of their application. This article is a review of Iron Speed Designer, one of the best know RAD tools for development of .NET framework web applications.
Windows installer has its own way to display installer user interface which is far different from other technologies. MSI supports few controls compared to .Net or other platform. Though it is not very difficult, still it is hard job to develop sophisticated installation package with good user interface, even after using well known installer software. NvnInstaller.MsiDotNet api makes this job easier.
The company's developer tool for non-programmers makes its public beta appearance nearly a week ahead of schedule, but only for MSDN subscribers.
Microsoft rolls out an update to its Productivity Power Tools, a set of extensions to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 designed to make developers' lives easier.
Discover how to use Google Charts in SharePoint 2007.
Is it time to give your next application a major user interface face lift? Try the WPF Ribbon as used in Microsoft Office 2007.
In today's environment prototyping your UI can be paramount. This article will show users how to use the Microsoft Expression Blend 3 prototyping tool and discuss the differences between static, interactive and convertible prototypes.
Developer feedback extends beta for quality reasons.
This article was written mainly for developers who use Firebird Embedded SQL Server in .Net framework applications and want to speed up or optimize DB queries. We will describe how to create your own native Firebird extension and show some approaches how to use it in managed code applications.
Discuss approaches to determine if an HTTP request is coming from a mobile phone and then redirecting the request to a page optimized for a mobile browser. Also it shows how to retrieve mobile device capabilities information.
A short interview with Microsoft on RFID technology.
Learn how to build a custom Windows image running a windows application like Vista installation.
XML Data Binding allows you to manipulate an XML document via a set of simple objects. Learn about the generation of these objects, and see a summary of the existing products on the market.
Tool for creating MS Visual Studio XML documentation files. These files can be used in Visual Studio, and to get the modern help using such tools as NDoc and SandCastle.
Learn how to use datasets to power Crystal Reports, without the need for a server-based database.
Using RFID hardware and incorporating RFID tag information into your applications can really be quite simple. See what can be done with less than $100 and no more than a few dozen lines of code.
Learn about a tool that helps generate customized Visual Studio 2003/2005 solutions.
Read a short introduction to multithreaded programming with CSP.NET, which is a simple and intuitive alternative to standard thread programming.
Take a look at a high-level comparison of two popular technologies available to web application developers - JavaServer Faces (JSF) and ASP.NET.
Editorial: In the ever rampant word of technology and changes, it is easy to get confused. Consider C# and what is being discussed in the market...
Get a jump on the growing need to create and edit Office documents (mostly Word and Excel documents) programmatically from .NET applications. Dino Esposito demonstrates two approaches.
Today, it is common to have software patch releases due to various reasons. Discover the steps needed to create a patch using MSI 3.0.
Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005 is now available for download for MSDN subscribers. Learn how you can get it too.
Learn how to integrate C# and Java services into a single logical message bus using MSMQ and JMS.
