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.NET Archives: Getting Reacquainted with the Father of C#

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:15:00 EST

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-chief, Derek Ferguson, at Microsoft's Tech Ed 2004 conference in San Diego, California.

Microsoft Vista Back Door Denied: "Over My Dead Body," Says Microsoft Developer

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:45:00 EST

'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.

Six New Flavors of Windows: Microsoft Announces Windows Vista Product Lineup

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:15:00 EST

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 version aimed at fighting off pirate editions in emerging markets.

SYS-CON Media Readers' Choice Awards Polls Will Close on December 31, 2005

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:45:00 EDT

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.

Crossing the .NET Divide: CFMX, Web Services, and .NET

Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:00:00 EDT

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.

Iterators in C#: Nothing Beats the Foreach Loop

Sun, 19 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT

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 a single loop conditional.

Ballmer Opens Tech·Ed 2005 With Keynote Address

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:30:00 EDT

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 given by Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, at 9:00AM EDT in Hall A1 of the OCCC.

Windows Mobile 5.0 Unveiled by Bill Gates: Live Keynote Report

Tue, 10 May 2005 23:00:00 EDT

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 this summer, and indicated that there should not be any need to change any code created on Beta 2 once Visual Studio 2005 is RTM'd.

Crystal Reports XI & How It Has Changed

Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:00:00 EDT

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 product that has many versions and upgrades.

Opinion: Why C# Is Not a "Better" Language Than VB.NET

Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:00:00 EDT

'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 feel that VB.NET is an inferior language to C#, or that somehow C# is a 'better language,' or the 'official language' for accessing the .NET Framework Class Library are just plain wrong.'

Microsoft Reengineers Visual Studio Pricing, Tweaks MSDN Subscription Levels

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST

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.

Enterprise Computing Vendors Duke It Out In App Server Shoot-Out 2005 (Live on SYS-CON.TV)

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST

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 application server vendors for a lively panel conversation.

Bill Gates, Now KBE, "Humbled and Delighted" By Honorary Knighthood From British Queen

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST

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.

Alcatel + Microsoft = Internet TV Over IP, a.k.a. "IPTV," Coming Soon To a PC or TV Near You

Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

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.

SYS-CON Media Readers Cast More Than 4,000 Votes In First Week Of Voting

Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

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. Highlights after just one week's voting are as follows.

Microsoft Will Give Away 1/2 Million Dollar Worth Of Software At Web Services Edge Conference

Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

Web Services Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference & Expo attendees will receive free software from Microsoft, worth in excess of half million dollars.

They Say "Dell" On The Side Instead Of "Sun"

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

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 'blog-n-play' Web sites. SYS-CON paid full price for the Dell hardware through Dell.com. Strukhoff did not know the online editor would publish his comment on the Web site.

Creating Custom Site Definitions in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

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 themes can be modified, and pages for the site can be edited. All of this is great, however many attempts to create a portal within an organization fail because little or no consideration is given to user acceptance.

Trigent to Present at Web Services Edge Conference in Boston on February 17

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

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 for a successful migration. In addition, attendees will learn about the technical options and considerations faced during implementation and lessons learned from real-world ASP.NET migrations.

Microsoft To Present The Next Generation of Visual Studio at Web Services Edge Conference in Boston

Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

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.

SYS-CON Media Opens Its Eighth Annual "Readers' Choice Awards" Polls

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

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 software products and services of the year for Java, Linux, Web Services, XML, Microsoft .NET, ColdFusion and Macromedia MX.

Team Foundation Fundamentals: A Look at the Capabilities and Architecture

Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

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, defect and work item tracking, and build management.

SYS-CON Media to Introduce SYS-CON.TV

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

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 Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference Expo.

Gates In Las Vegas: On IPTV, MTV, And All Things Digital

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

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.

Tech World Gives Millions To Help South Asia

Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

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, $3.5M - as the wider Internet community joins the fund-raising effort.

Microsoft Offers Free DVD Packed With VS.NET Tools

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

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.

eBay, Microsoft, and Eclipse Featured at 8th International Web Services Edge 2005 East in Boston

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

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-technology professionals are expected to participate this year including the show expo floor, making it the largest Web Services event of the year. The following is the official announcement of the keynotes, sponsors, conference tracks and sessions, tutorials, and the Web Services case studies to be presented during this year's three-day event.

Unit Testing with Whidbey

Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

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?

Microsoft Learns Active Listening Skills

Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

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 made available Friday, contains changes based on consumer feedback.

Exclusive .NETDJ Interview with Brad Abrams: Talking Frameworks, Namespaces, and Programming

Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

.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.

ASP.NET 1.X and ASP.NET 2.0 Compilation Models

Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

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 interpreted ASP applications and presented the developer with a variety of advantages, one of them being dynamic compilation.

Microsoft Buys Off Novell, CCIA Antitrust Complaints; Novell To Sue over WordPerfect

Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

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 court in Utah by the end of the week - charging it with monopoly maintenance and anti-competitive behavior against WordPerfect and the Quattro Pro spreadsheet.

Where Do You Want to Go for the Next Four Years?

Sat, 06 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

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 guest editorial to give you more of the mobility vision for this magazine.

i-Technology Viewpoint: We Must Get Beyond "Binary Extremes," Says Sun's COO

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

'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 proprietary. It all depends 'upon the constituency you're serving,' Schwartz says.

PeopleSoft Founder: "I Didn't Come Back...to Sell to Oracle"

Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

'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-term value to our shareholders.'

From .NETDJ's Next Issue: "Shiny New Tablets"

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

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 to 'digital paper.'

Feedback Special: Decompiler Debate

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

The following commentary is from the flurry of feedback that was posted here regarding the article entitled 'Decompiler Roundup' (.NETDJ, Vol. 2, issue 8).

The Smart Client Revolution

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

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, he adds, 'and the Microsoft .NET smart client application is poised for dominance.'

Mobility Focus Issue: What Is Mobility?

Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

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 mention these facts so that I can sound intelligent. But, when I talk to customers and specifically decision makers, the talk is about the value of mobility.

Microsoft and Sun's Interoperability Efforts Delayed Once More

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:00:00 EDT

The effort between Microsoft and Sun to create interoperability between some of their products has been delayed once more.