Visual Studio .Net 2003 Walkthrough

High on the list of new features in Visual Studio .Net 2003 is the unification of development models for both PC and portable devices. Within minutes of installing the environment, eWEEK Labs was able to construct a Pocket PC application using familiar dr

Like last years 1.0 release, the 2003 environment offers complete integration of Web and local resources. Included tutorials and examples emphasize Web-interactive coding, but also offer a reasonable set of foundation applications to establish basic plat

Network-oriented code requires the ability to handle a variety of sometimes unpredictable situations, and the .Net Common Language Runtime model provides the constructs to do that. However, Visual Studio itself can still be a little picky about details, s

One of the promises of .Net development is cross-language, as well as cross-device, development: Visual Studio .Net 2003 takes that mission seriously with included cross-language programming samples and tutorials.

And, yes, those were in fact references to Java Derived functions in that cross-language project: Visual Studio .Net 2003 includes the Visual J# tools for integration of Java-based assets and developer skills into the .Net environment, altho