- Techniques for Retaining State Information in ASP Applications
- Aug 6, 2001
- Planning to build a Web application using ASP? If so, I bet you are planning on using the built-in ASP Session object to retain information between pages. But before you do, make sure you have considered the alternatives.
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- Three Big VB.NET Changes
- Aug 6, 2001
- Craig Utley presents the basic VB.NET changes that will affect day-to-day programming for VB developers.
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- Web Developers Need To Prepare for .NET
- Aug 6, 2001
- Craig Utley prepares Web developers for Microsoft's ASP.NET technology.
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- Your First VB.NET Application
- May 18, 2001
- If you're looking to get your feet wet with VB.NET, you've come to the right place. Here, Craig Utley walks you through your first VB.NET application, pointing out the vistas and valleys along the way.
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- Why Should You Move to Visual Basic.NET?
- May 18, 2001
- Visual Basic.NET offers plenty of benefits, including automatic access to garbage collection, debugging, security services, inheritance, and more. Here, Craig Utley previews the features of VB.NET and shows how the .NET model can expand your current ...
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- Major VB.NET Changes
- May 18, 2001
- With VB.NET comes a set of major changes to the VB language. Here, Craig Utley uncovers these changes and points out both the new features and the features that have received major modifications.
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- Taking More Control of Access
- May 11, 2001
- Using macros and creating Visual Basic for Applications code, you can take more control of Access capabilities. This chapter shows how VBA code can overcome limitations of macros and illustrates some other useful things you can do with VBA code.
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- Getting Started Globally
- May 11, 2001
- To make a product useful worldwide, it must support multiple languages and follow cultural conventions. Microsoft offers multilingual processing in Office 2000 and Windows 2000, and enables you to provide a "local" version of your software.
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- Software Issues 1: Programming Is Really a Language Art
- May 4, 2001
- Do you think of programmers as scientists in white lab coats? Maybe you should think in terms of painters in smocks and berets instead, suggests software development expert Tyson Gill.
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- Software Issues 2: The Future of Programming
- May 4, 2001
- Software development expert Tyson Gill posits that even if we could build Star Trek's Commander Data today, we wouldn't be able to program him to be intelligent. He'd basically just be a tall calculator.
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- Software Issues 3: The Ethics of Programming
- May 4, 2001
- Is it possible to program unethically? Software development expert Tyson Gill definitely thinks so, and explores that dangerous possibility in this article.
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- Software Issues 4: The Demise of Reuse
- May 4, 2001
- Reusable code might steal a famous line from Mark Twain: "The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated." If it really is dead, software development expert Tyson Gill presents a compelling argument for its resurrection.
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- Software Issues 5: Creativity Through Standardization
- May 4, 2001
- Software development expert Tyson Gill presents a strategy for building effective, maintainable "reuse-quality" code.
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- Software Issues 6: Application Architectures: Past, Present, and Future
- May 4, 2001
- What is a tier, anyway? What can we learn from games? In this article, software development expert Tyson Gill discusses various strategies for architecting applications.
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- AppForge Brings Visual Basic to the PalmOS
- Apr 6, 2001
- Intimidated by the prospect of PalmOS C programming? Looking for a rapid application development tool for PDA development? This article explores the exciting new AppForge development toolkit.
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- Introduction to Active Server Pages
- Mar 30, 2001
- In this chapter from Special Edition Using Visual Basic 6 (Que, 1998), authors Brian Siler and Jeff Spotts teach you about Active Server Pages, a Web-server component that allows you to use your Visual Basic knowledge to create powerful Web server scripts.
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- Master's Toolbox
- Mar 30, 2001
- Learn how to build a number of interesting products using Visual Basic in this chapter from Brian Siler and Jeff Spotts' book, Special Edition Using Visual Basic 6 (Que, 1998).
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- Reasons to Prototype in Visual Basic
- Mar 30, 2001
- In this chapter from his book Prototyping with VB, Rod Stephens walks you through the essential steps of developing a prototype, from defining its functionality to assembling the development team.
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- Using VBScript
- Mar 30, 2001
- In this selection from Special Edition Using Visual Basic 6 (Que, 1998), authors Brian Siler and Jeff Spotts provide an overview of VBScript, a subset of Visual Basic that can be used to program the Internet.
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- Working with Files in Visual Basic
- Mar 30, 2001
- Learn how to accomplish file operations easily by using Visual Basic code in this selection from Brian Siler and Jeff Spotts' book, Special Edition Using Visual Basic 6 (Que, 1998).
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