Visual Basic Developer: The Lesser Known Format Function
VB's Format function doesn't tend to elicit images of speed, but it is a capable workhorse?and a surprisingly flexible one at that. In this article, Rick Rothstein explores some of the Format function's nooks and crannies.
Visual Basic Developer: The Lesser Known Format Function
Visual Basic Developer: The Lesser Known Format Function
Smart Access columnist Mike Watson looks at how you can ensure that your data-driven crosstab reports can work reliably. Along the way, he also shows how Access helps you out by ignoring unwanted data.
Smart Access: How to Tame the Crosstab Missing Column Beast (and Get a Free Lunch)
Smart Access: How to Tame the Crosstab Missing Column Beast (and Get a Free Lunch)
Rick Dobson gives you a first look at Express Manager, the new lightweight database management tool that works with SQL Server 2005, 2005 Express Edition, SQL Server 2000, and MSDE.
SQL Server Professional: A First Look at Express Manager
SQL Server Professional: A First Look at Express Manager
Windows services pose unique debugging and deployment challenges that can infuriate you. Fortunately, David Talbot can help by shining the light on a few simple under-documented tricks.
Visual Studio .NET Developer: Debugging and Deploying Windows Services
Visual Studio .NET Developer: Debugging and Deploying Windows Services
Describes the technology behind the Bungie.net site, the online companion to the Halo 2 video game for Xbox, released in November 2004 by Microsoft. Built with the Microsoft .NET Framework, Bungie.net serves up more than 4 million pages per day.
Bungie.net Technical Case Study
Bungie.net Technical Case Study
Convert solutions from Visual Basic for Applications to Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office and Visual Basic 2005.
Migrating Excel VBA Solutions to Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
Migrating Excel VBA Solutions to Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
In this great episode of .NET Rocks!, Michele returns once again to discuss WSE, Indigo, and security.
.NET Rocks! - Michele Leroux Bustamante Talks WSE, Indigo, and Security
.NET Rocks! - Michele Leroux Bustamante Talks WSE, Indigo, and Security
Microsoft recently announced the availability of 64-bit Windows. In this episode we talk with Larry Sullivan, Volker Will, and Kevin Frei to learn more about the move to 64-bit, and what it might mean to your development efforts.
Win64
Win64
PUBLISHED August 2003. Discussion of how the Microsoft Business Framework team created a Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server solution to organize new Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services team sites.
Portal Solution Makes Microsoft Virtual Team Viable
Portal Solution Makes Microsoft Virtual Team Viable
PUBLISHED August 2002. Details of Microsoft's internal deployment of wireless LAN technology.
Mobility: Empowering People through Wireless Networks
Mobility: Empowering People through Wireless Networks
PUBLISHED August 2003. Detailed discussion of how Microsoft IT partnered with the Office, Exchange, Windows and SharePoint product development teams to develop a testing and deployment strategy that delivered Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 to nearly 70,000 computers within the corporation
Planning and Deploying Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
Planning and Deploying Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
PUBLISHED September 2003. Detailed discussion on how the IT group maintains the live communications platform at Microsoft.
Operating Live Communications
Operating Live Communications
One of the important aspects of migrating from one server to another is preserving mailbox information and other data. This technical article discusses Migration Wizard, which is a component of both Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Service Pack 2 (SP2).
Migrating Mailboxes from Exchange Server Version 5.5 to Exchange 2000 Server
Migrating Mailboxes from Exchange Server Version 5.5 to Exchange 2000 Server
Code-named 'Acrylic,' the new app is aimed at print, Web, video and interactive media designers.
Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Professional Graphics Program
Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Professional Graphics Program
Microsoft plans to release a total of 10 security fixes, including "critical" Windows updates, during its Monthly Security Bulletin release, scheduled for next Tuesday. The company also plans to release an updated version of its Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, Microsoft said Thursday.
Microsoft security updates to cover Windows, Exchange
Microsoft security updates to cover Windows, Exchange
The pixel-based painting and vector graphics features in "Acrylic" put it squarely in market dominated by Photoshop and Illustrator.
Microsoft offers beta of Adobe rival
Microsoft offers beta of Adobe rival
SPSS, a provider of software for predictive analytics, unveiled the results of its behind-the-scenes work with the Microsoft database development team this week. SPSS announced a version of its statistical analysis toolset that can be embedded into the next version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
Microsoft works with BI vendor to embed analytics in SQL 2005
Microsoft works with BI vendor to embed analytics in SQL 2005
In this episode we talk with Larry Sullivan, Volker Will, and Kevin Frei to learn more about the move to 64-bit, and what it might mean to your development efforts.
The .NET Show: Win64 - 300k
The .NET Show: Win64 - 300k
In this episode we talk with Larry Sullivan, Volker Will, and Kevin Frei to learn more about the move to 64-bit, and what it might mean to your development efforts.
The .NET Show: Win64 - Mobile
The .NET Show: Win64 - Mobile