Here's a design for creating data-driven validation rules for distributed apps. It lets you distribute the rules from to clients without modifying client-side application code.
- By Tony Surma and Bill Wagner
- 06/01/2004
Output your trace information to new targets, including SQL Server and XML—and do it without parsing.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 06/01/2004
How Microsoft is like the fairy tale.
Companies like Desaware are enticing consumers by bundling their best sellers for a fraction of the cost of the products combined. And they're giving away the source code to boot.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2004
Boot-up is a dangerous time for your systems, a time before security policies to protect them may be active. Avoid danger with persistent policies.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 06/01/2004
KerbTray helped this reader figure out what was making his Exchange server sick.
- By Bill Boswell
- 05/25/2004
It's hip, it's cool, it's virtual computing. Well, it's cool for geeks, anyways.
Reader has Exchange upgrade problems; plus, update on Exchange memory optimization problem.
- By Bill Boswell
- 05/18/2004
Test networks on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 beta.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 05/10/2004
Prevent Internet Information Server from being installed automatically.
Microsoft's password complexity filter: what's wrong with it and why you might need something better.
- By Bill Boswell
- 05/04/2004
Build effective security moats with a defense-in-depth strategy.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 05/03/2004
Having this information at your finger tips will let you switch from one OS's help to any other.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 05/01/2004
In March 2004, Microsoft refined its new management vision with the announcement of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and the first version of its unified operations environment, System Center 2005. Both products are due for release later this summer.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 05/01/2004
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 05/01/2004
A reader calls for less beta coverage and more focus on current technologies, such as GDI, namespaces, and exception handling.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2004
Find out how Active Directory Application Mode and Windows Authorization Manager can simplify security, personalization, and configuration for your directory-enabled applications.
- By Enrico Sabbadin
- 05/01/2004
Maturity in management comes at different stages.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/01/2004
Check out the latest VS.NET add-ins, including a product that lets you create, read, and modify PDF documents from any application supporting COM, including ASP and ASP.NET.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2004