BEA, Booz Allen Hamilton, Computer Associates, Entrust, Gluecode Software, IBM, Sun, and others advance open standard for secure information access control.

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.

If the task at hand is to connect a Pocket PC running the .NET Compact Framework to a Java back end, and if Web services are ruled out as an interoperability solution, there are not many viable options available. The one presented in this article may well be the only one.

In a memorable discussion, Microsoft SOAP guru Don Box and Anders Hejlsberg - the 'Father of C#' - both paid tribute to Java last week at a conference in Canada.

'We looked at the request,' reports Sun's EVP of Software Jonathan Schwartz, referring to last week's Open Letter from IBM about collaborating on the open-sourcing of Java, 'and our first question was, 'That seems a little bonky. Could you explain what it means?'' He was speaking in S...

In recent times, and with good reason - as attacks by worms such as Code Red, Nimbda, and Slammer have shown - security has been pushed to the forefront of the minds of architects and developers. And just as Microsoft has rededicated itself to security through its Trustworthy Compu...

One of the great benefits of building applications that utilize the .NET Compact Framework is, of course, that the application is installed on the device so it can work in both disconnected and occasionally connected modes. But as with most things in IT, there is a trade-off lurkin...

In order to host quality mobile applications, smart devices require characteristics that include being small and portable, having a decent battery life, displaying information with richness and quality, having memory to hold plenty of information and applications, and the ability to ac...

As many developers are already aware, the impending release of Visual Studio .NET 2003 will serve to bring the benefits of XML Web Services and the Microsoft Windows .NET Framework to smart devices via the inclusion of the .NET Compact Framework and Smart Device Projects. However, for ...

There are so many cool things that can be done with .NET applications today, including extending their reach. In Part 1 of this series we looked at the technology and tools used to add mobile accessibility to Web applications using as an example Quilogy's system, which utilizes ASP.NET...

It's very typical for developers to focus on enterprise applications (with databases, application servers, etc.) without paying much attention to PDAs. In the past, PDA developers were a separate community. And there is a reason for that ­ they usually face a lot of unique challenges:...

Life is pretty exciting for a .NET developer these days. There are so many cool things that can be done with applications today, including extending their reach. In this two-part series we'll look at the technology and tools used to add mobile accessibility to Web applications. One of ...

Recently there has been a lot of discussion about mobile technology, but one of the often overlooked cornerstones of mobile development is the fact that application mobility means more than just being wireless. Truly mobile applications need to reach everywhere - including remote areas...

Microsoft's Mobile Internet Toolkit represents one of the best ways available today to create Web-based applications that target multiple kinds of mobile devices, including:

If you want to extend your existing systems, as well as your knowledge of .NET development, while building solutions for smart devices, the forthcoming .NET CF (Compact Framework) and SDE (Smart Device Extensions) are definitely the way to go. In this article we provide an example of ...