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 In our premier issue, back in October 2002, we ran a full-length interview with Anders Hejlsberg, the Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft responsible for the creation of the C# programming language. Then, in March 2005, we presented a follow-up interview conducted by .NETDJ's editor-in...Feb. 20, 2008 02:15 PM EST Reads: 72,628 Replies: 9 |
'The suggestion is that we are working with governments to create a back door so that they can always access BitLocker-encrypted data,' wrote Niels Ferguson, a developer and cryptographer at Microsoft, on his corporate blog last week. 'Over my dead body,' he stated bluntly. Mar. 6, 2006 06:45 AM EST Reads: 11,481 |
In the software equivalent of 'different strokes for different folks,' Microsoft has announced that the lineup of its long-awaited new version of Windows, Windows Vista, will comprise six different versions: 3 are for consumers, 2 for the enterprise, and the sixth is a stripped-down ve... Feb. 27, 2006 07:15 AM EST Reads: 11,760 Replies: 3 |
This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, more than 16,000 votes have already been recorded, as more than 20,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards. Oct. 27, 2005 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 94,293 Replies: 2 |
 Like it or not, .NET is proving a powerful force in the software industry. As a ColdFusion developer, you'll probably need to interact with it at some point in time. One of the promises of .NET is that it can provide this interoperability through Web services.Aug. 4, 2005 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 37,227 Replies: 6 |
 My favorite construct in the C# programming language has to be the foreach loop. I get a little jolt of pleasure every time I use it. I can enumerate rows in SQL Queries, nodes in XML documents, ArrayLists, and Hashtables. You name it, I can enumerate it all without mucking around with...Jun. 19, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 44,627 Replies: 6 |
This year's Tech·Ed, Microsoft's largest annual conference for IT professionals and developers, held pre-conference sessions and labs on Sunday. The 13th annual conference opened Monday, June 6, at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando, Florida. The opening keynote was ... Jun. 6, 2005 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 11,617 Replies: 2 |
Speaking at the Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2005 (MEDC) in Las Vegas, Bill Gates today unveiled details of Windows Mobile 5.0 reports .NET Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Derek Ferguson. Gates also talked about Visual Studio 2005, which he said will Release to Manufacturing ... May. 10, 2005 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 19,703 |
Microsoft's bundling of Crystal Reports dates to Visual Basic 3 and since then many developers have come to rely on it to build reporting solutions. Early on some developers found the programming API too complicated and there were the typical deployment problems that happen with any pr... Apr. 16, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 131,233 Replies: 4 |
'Why do people think that C# is the 'official language' for .NET?' asks Michael Stiefel, who thinks himself that such an attitude is wrong. While he prefers C# to VB.NET because he likes the compact syntax among other things, that is a personal judgement. In Stiefel's view, 'People who... Apr. 15, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,520 Replies: 7 |
In preparation for Visual Studio 2005, expected in the second half of calendar year 2005, Microsoft yesterday detailed pricing and licensing terms for Visual Studio 2005 as well as the simplification of its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscriptions. Mar. 22, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,703 |
Although some folks were predicting a 'bloodbath,' the App Server Shoot-Out at Web Services Edge 2005 in Boston did not result in any serious injuries. Instead, Anne Thomas Manes, VP and Research Director at Burton Group, brought together representatives from a wide assortment of appli... Mar. 6, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 40,110 Replies: 10 |
Queen Elizabeth II yesterday conferred an honorary knighthood on Bill Gates in a private ceremony held at Buckingham Palace. Gates was accompanied by his wife, Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mar. 3, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 16,885 Replies: 3 |
Microsoft is teaming up with Alcatel - the company that developed Amigo TV, a community TV application, and the world's leading DSL equipment provider - to try and carve itself a slice of the fast-emerging TV and video-over-broadband market. Feb. 23, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 39,441 Replies: 32 |
This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, as more than 4,000 votes have already been recorded in just the first seven days of voting, as more than 50,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards. Highlig... Feb. 12, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 103,778 Replies: 1 |
Web Services Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference & Expo attendees will receive free software from Microsoft, worth in excess of half million dollars. Feb. 10, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,830 Replies: 1 |
The following is an unedited transcript of an internal email exchange yesterday afternoon at SYS-CON Media offices. Disclaimer: We did not have any conversation with any of the hardware vendors regarding the selection of the hardware to install and use for the new 'SYS-CON.TV' and 'blo... Feb. 9, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 19,104 Replies: 4 |
 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server provide a lot of functionality out of the box. After installation you can begin creating portal and team sites. These newly minted sites can be customized; content can be created and managed, color them...Feb. 9, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 54,486 Replies: 3 |
Tim Kinslow, practice manager for Web-based solutions at Trigent, will present 'Migrating ASP to ASP.NET' on Thursday, February 17 at 9 a.m. In this presentation, Kinslow will address how to choose a migration strategy that matches your business objectives and how to effectively plan f... Feb. 9, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 15,803 Replies: 1 |
The next generation of Visual Studio contains the new version of the .NET Framework 2.0 that enables an easier and more robust programming model. In these sessions we will cover these new programming models and how they can be used to develop a variety of applications. Feb. 4, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 26,069 Replies: 1 |
SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology media company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls opened today, February 1, 2005, and will remain open for six months, until July 31, 2005. More than 50,000 readers are expected to cast their votes to select the best so... Feb. 1, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 95,547 |
Microsoft has been in the business of creating sophisticated software for a long time. Large teams crank out and maintain complex code bases over multiple releases continuously. To be successful at producing software, we've had to develop effective approaches for version control, defec... Jan. 28, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 22,696 |
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that SYS-CON.TV (www.sys-con.tv), the first streaming live i-technology television is scheduled to debut on February 15, 2005 to coincide with the first day of the upcoming Web Services Edg... Jan. 27, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 42,017 |
Yesterday at CES 2005 in Las Vegas Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect at Microsoft, and Judy McGrath, CEO and chairman of MTV Networks, addressed conference attendees. Gates was talking at CES for the seventh successive year. Jan. 6, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 31,612 Replies: 10 |
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - whose watchword is 'We believe that the world's toughest problems can be solved - if we work together' - is giving $3M to help those struck by the natural disaster that's wreaked such havoc in South Asia. Amazon.com has helped channel even more, $3... Dec. 30, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 35,857 Replies: 4 |
Microsoft is offering Visual Studio .NET customers a free DVD containing a number of products from Visual Studio Industry Partner Program members. The effort is designed to further integrate the VS.NET IDE. Dec. 29, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 14,313 Replies: 3 |
SYS-CON Media today announced further details of the upcoming cross-platform technology event, Web Services Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference & Expo (www.sys-con.com/edge), to be held in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center, February 15-17, 2005. More than 3,000 i... Dec. 20, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 45,994 Replies: 3 |
Do you want to improve the quality of your software? Does your budget require you to shorten your development life cycle? Still searching for an effective way to provide requirements to development teams, internal and outsourced? Dec. 7, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 17,505 Replies: 2 |
According to the user community, Microsoft is showing a willingness to work with its customers, in order to provide them with applications containing the features they want. The company made changes to ASP .NET 2.0 in response to customer feedback. And, the first Avalon CTP which was m... Nov. 22, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,119 |
.NET Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Derek Ferguson and Don Box, a leading authority on COM and architect in the Microsoft .NET Developer and Platform Evangelism Group, recently sat down to talk with Brad Abrams, Lead Program Manager for the .NET Framework, about that framework. Nov. 10, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 22,158 |
The introduction of ASP.NET in 2002 signified a big change in Microsoft server-side technologies for building Web sites. It represented a shift from the interpreted Active Server pages (ASP) to compiled ASP.NET pages. The compiled ASP.NET Web applications were much faster than the inte... Nov. 8, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 32,315 Replies: 7 |
Novell has agreed not to sue Microsoft on antitrust grounds in exchange for $536 million in cash. Novell has also agreed to drop out of the European Commission's case against Microsoft where it has been one of the five primary complainants, but says it will sue Microsoft in federal... Nov. 8, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 17,322 Replies: 2 |
I develop mobile software for a living. I also train developers to create their own mobile applications using the Compact Framework. This issue is focused on mobile development. However, because this issue was largely put together by our Mobility Editor, Jon Box, I will leave it to his... Nov. 6, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 16,596 Replies: 12 |
'There are those that persist in trying to draw the industry as filled with binary extremes,' writes Jonathan Schwartz, currently the industry's highest-profile blogger. But it isn't an either/or choice these days, Schwartz argues, in his latest effusion. It isn't open-source or propri... Oct. 25, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 43,903 Replies: 15 |
'I didn't come back here to sell to Oracle,' PeopleSoft co-founder Dave Duffield, who replaced Craig Conway as CEO, wrote in a company-wide memo this week. 'Rather, I'm here to beat Oracle in the marketplace, increase our revenues, re-energize our employees, and deliver greater long-te... Oct. 23, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,688 Replies: 2 |
Tablet takeup so far has been mostly limited to vertical markets where the advantages can be seen to have immediate business benefit. The new capabilities of the Tablet PC Edition 2005 and the tools provided in the Platform SDK 1.7, however, provide us with another small nudge closer t... Oct. 21, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,340 Replies: 2 |
The following commentary is from the flurry of feedback that was posted here regarding the article entitled 'Decompiler Roundup' (.NETDJ, Vol. 2, issue 8). Oct. 13, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,623 Replies: 16 |
Tim Huckaby surveys the five most significant technologies used to build smart client applications and observes: 'The only thing holding back the .NET smart client revolution from exploding is the dependency of the .NET framework at the client machine.' It's a 'green field right now, h... Oct. 13, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,027 Replies: 4 |
In his book Building Solutions with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, Dan Fox begins with a brief discussion of the etymology of 'mobility.' Coming from the Latin word mobilitatem, Dan explains that mobility is the capacity for motion. When I'm talking to user groups, I like to men... Oct. 4, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,738 Replies: 1 |
The effort between Microsoft and Sun to create interoperability between some of their products has been delayed once more. Sep. 16, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,846 Replies: 1 |
