The Smart Guide to Building World-Class Applications
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Visual Studio is Microsoft's high-value toolkit for developers. Since its release as Visual Studio 97, the product has incorporated most of the Microsoft developer tools. Since you often use several Microsoft development products to address different application development requirements, you'll apreciate Visual Studio 6.0. The latest release of Visual Studio 6.0 includes Visual Basic (VB), Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Visual InterDev, Visual J++, Visual SourceSafe, and MSDN Library.
By Ken Spencer
A boon for development teams, Visual Component Manager lets you easily store and reuse components.
By Brian Lawton
Data Transformation Services (DTS) is a SQL Server 7.0 utility service that provides import, export, and data manipulation capabilities between OLE DB, ODBC, and ASCII data stores.
By Ken Miller
In less than five minutes, you can use the Grid DTC in Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 to display data from a SQL Server table or view on a Web page in an attractive HTML table.
Most users want to know how System, User, and File Data Source Names (DSNs) differ from one another. File DSNs keep their connection information in a file you can store anywhere.
By Michael Otey
Microsoft and Oracle have long been at odds in the database world, and a first glance, their positions on universal data appear to be no exception.
With Data Report Designer, you can create reports for many situations.
By Richard Waymire
Answers from Microsoft
By Hugh Willoughby-Davis
Previously associated only with manufacturing firms, ERP has become an all-encompassing term that describes the integrated flow and control of goods, services and processes down the supply chain.
By Russ Whitney
SQL Server 7.0 's SP1 will reportedly support Windows Terminal Server (WTS). In the meantime, IBM reminds us that DB2 Universal Database (UDB) client will work with Microsoft WTS.
By Deedre Martz
New applications for your enterprise
By Michael D. Reilly
Here's how to handle character data within queries in SQL Server 6.5.
The February-March issue of GartnerGroup's ExecutivEdge (www.ee-online.com) newsletter predicts that "By 2000, 80 percent of Type A enterprises will implement an intranet portal (0.8 probability)."
A look at SQL Server 7.0's seven system-supplied databases.
Sample MDX queries introduce techniques for slicing answer sets.
The Data Environment can expose ADO events and many ADO features.
By Michelle A. Poolet
How to accommodate all categories of people.
By Kalen Delaney
The new transaction log ensures atomicity and durability.
By Morris Lewis
Understanding the difference between relational and object approaches to data type support helps you design and implement databases.
By Karen Watterson
Use some balanced scorecard concepts on a SQL Server shoestring.
Create a Web application with help from a new OLE DB provider and a new ADO wrapper.
Microsoft's Visual Studio 6.0 development tool suite lets developers build standard standalone Windows applications, Web-based applications, three-tiered enterprise-level applications, and more.
By Michael Yocca
A better syntax for obtaining record counts.
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