Don t miss this important chapter from Real World Microsoft Access Database Protection and Security where you ll learn to use VBA code to enable the options for development and disable them for end users....

Nebojsa Jojic and David Heckerman Microsoft researchers explain how text search techniques can be applied to the study of DNA proteins and disease...

This month Paul DiLascia tells readers how to call a Visual C class from C and how to use copy constructors...

This month Stephen Toub explains how to use the Decorator design pattern to implement your own Stream-derived decorator class that lets you intercept and monitor every call to the stream and how you can make your application a single-instance applicatio...

In this month s installment of Security Briefs Keith Brown explains why Microsoft Internet Explorer sometimes prompts for credentials when you re already logged onto your computer how an internal Web site can use the client s single sign-on credentials...

As application size and complexity increase so do dependencies. One way to mitigate the proliferation of dependencies is by using the Dependency Injection pattern which Griffin Caprio outlines this month...

How do you automate the testing of a UI application that would ordinarily require human intervention to click message boxes and the like Well James McCaffrey has the answer as he explains in this month s Test Run column....

This month Ken Getz rewrites a color picker application he wrote some columns ago to illustrate a really good use of operator overloading. He warns that overloading should not be used cavalierly but there are times when it makes a big difference...

This month Dino Esposito compares the forms programming models of ASP.NET 1.x and ASP.NET 2.0. He covers cross-page posting multiple forms in a page redirection and form rendering...

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With the .NET Framework and GDI you can easily add elements of style to your applications. You can use transparency irregularly shaped windows notification icons toast pop-ups different color schemes and lots more. Designed well these techniques c...

SQL Server 2005 offers a completely redesigned SQL Server Integration Services engine formerly known as Data Transformation Services. It includes many new features such as built-in support for Fuzzy Lookups and Fuzzy Groupings which help you build power...

The current version of Windows Management Instrumentation WMI satisfies many current and future manageability requirements. In this article Michael Jurek Demonstrates how WMI provides important system management capabilities and develops a WMI-aware...