Issue: 2008 - March/April

  • Rod Paddocks Mar/Apr 08 editorial article.
  • Mar/April 08 MVP Article by Julia Lerman
  • I am a self confessed command line junkie. Sure I see value in GUIs, and GUIs are great to get accustomed to a tool, but once I start crawling, I like to walk, run, and then fly. And when I fly, a GUI’s sluggishness in getting tasks done becomes seriously annoying.
  • One of the important features of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) is drag and drop.Using a mouse you can drag and drop a file from one location to another or you may drag a file and drop it onto an application to launch it.
  • Scorecards, test results, report cards, summaries-nearly everyone wants to skip past the details and see the bottom line. Whether it is “pass or fail”, “go or no go”, managers evaluate professional efforts based on performance. Microsoft’s Business Intelligence tools provide developers and power users with the tools and methodologies to produce scorecards and other summaries that graphically represent performance. This article will create a Web-based Dashboard using seve...See More
  • The iPhone is one of the most compelling and exciting user interfaces to appear on any consumer electronic device, with many innovations that make it a pleasure to use. How can you deliver a similar experience with your .NET applications?This article demonstrates how you can implement these features in your .NET applications in a step-by-step format as you recreate the iPhone interface using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology with both Visual Studio 2008 an...See More
  • Windows are moveable and resizable; graphics and controls inside applications are not. This article explains the design of moveable/resizable graphics and using this technique in your Windows Forms applications.
  • Mar/April 2008 .NET Rocks by Carl Franklin
  • March/April 08 Doc Detective
  • March/April 08 Finalize() article by Ken Getz