Visual Studio Magazine

Run ASP.NET Web API Inside Your Application

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...
Ars Technica

ASP.NET vs. VB.NET (web vs windows based database front ends)

Ok I've decided to ditch MS Access for my front end and start learning a replacement vehicle for database access.<BR><BR>I'm torn between web based front ends (using I assume ASP.NET) and a Windows ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hooking ASP.NET Apps into SQL Server 2012

Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database. In my recent article, I showed how to connect .NET 4.0 C# and Visual Basic applications ...
Houston Chronicle

Visual Basic Requirements

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...