Issue: 2004 - November/December

• Best Practices
  Rod Paddock Editorial Article November December 04 Issue
• CoDe Talks: Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft
  Markus Egger interviews Steve Ballmer
• Unit Testing Overview
  Utilize unit testing in your Visual Studio .NET development. Automated unit testing enables a team to exercise its entire code base against a battery of tests. This facilitate...
• Free ASP.NET Goodies!
  Free. Marketing professionals have known for years the positive results that this word produces. They use the word free to lure you in so that they can sell you something else...
• Unit Testing in .NET
  You have been given the task of creating some business objects for a new .NET project.The UI has not been created (or designed) yet, so you start coding right away. After crea...
• Data Access with Microsoft Application Blocks
  ADO.NET SQL Data access made simple and efficient.Microsoft has created a set of libraries known as Application Blocks. These libraries will help developers reduce the amount ...
• Drag Once DataBinding with Custom Controls
  Visual Studio 2005 will ship some great new controls, but suppose you want your own control to play in the Data Sources Window?In this article, I'll explain how the Data Sourc...
• The Baker's Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for the Windows Forms DataGrid
  New developers often struggle with the .NET DataGrid when trying to replicate grid functionality from other platforms.More experienced developers lament the deficiencies of th...
• Maximize Your Productivity with Project Item Templates
  You can create your own Windows Forms, Web Forms, or class templates to reuse code and maximize your productivity in Visual Studio 2003.
• Heard on .NET Rocks!
  I am the host of a weekly Internet audio talk show for .NET developers called .NET Rocks!Each week my co-host, Rory Blyth, and I interview the movers and shakers in the .NET c...
• Ask the Doc Detective
  Tips and Tricks from the Doc Detective
• .Finalize() - Making Sausages
  Ken Getz' .Finalize() column.