Vol: 1 Iss: 7 Read back Issues

On .NET and Java A recent query on http:// developer.sys-con.com seeking advice on whether to use .NET or Java technology to implement a Web-based accounting system elicited a great deal of comment. Jul. 7, 2003  Reads: 9,539

Pen-and-Ink Computing The introduction of the Tablet PC has given developers and end users an entirely new way to interact with their computers: pen and ink. The concept of pen-and-ink input is not new ­ pen-based computing has been around for some tim... Jul. 7, 2003  Reads: 6,637

Add a Spider to the Web Spiders are used for many purposes on the Internet. Search engines use spiders to locate Web pages for their databases. Companies use spiders to monitor their competitors' Web sites and track changes. Individual users use spiders ... Jul. 7, 2003  Reads: 16,990

Building High-Performance and Scalable .NET Internet Applications There are significant benefits to using third-party components, and many programmers have come to depend on components to handle common tasks that would require either too much time or specialization for them to implement themselv... Jul. 7, 2003  Reads: 7,585

Mainframe Integration Within .NET In a recent Gartner survey, 48 percent of enterprises worldwide reported plans to adopt Microsoft .NET technology. Considering that .NET entered the marketplace as recently as February 2001, this survey sends a resounding message ... Jul. 7, 2003  Reads: 6,417

Building Blocks The data access layer is a very important building block of data-centric applications. Any of today's well-designed architectures mandates having an abstraction layer over the data access library. In this article I will develop a ... Jul. 7, 2003  Reads: 9,039

Optimizing Management Queries The story of Microsoft's management APIs is a fractured tale at best. Baseline Win32 APIs have been wrapped, reorganized, and wrapped again to form a suite of oddly packaged technologies, to say the least. This leads to a situatio... Jul. 21, 2003  Reads: 8,916  Replies: 1

Developing Web Parts Web Parts are building blocks for creating modular Web sites. Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services utilize Web Parts as the key component to add modular functionality and provide configurable use... Jul. 21, 2003  Reads: 14,854

Get the Most Out of .NET Here are some tips on how to improve the performance of your .NET applications. In the old Visual Basic 6 world, string manipulation was a performance issue that many developers spent time dealing with. Jul. 21, 2003  Reads: 12,039

Feeling the Need for Speed? Ah, the need for speed. It drives many of us insane as we spend late nights in a dark and dingy development shop tricking out our code to gain just another microsecond of performance. Programming legends live and die by the perfor... Jul. 21, 2003  Reads: 7,328

Security Options for .NET Web Services As the popularity of Web services increases, the security of Web service transactions is becoming a major concern. With a plethora of standards bodies and organizations working on different security standards and technologies for fa... Jul. 21, 2003  Reads: 9,776

.NET Becomes an ISO Standard It has been another good month for open-source .NET: .NET has become an ISO standard, and both DotGNU and Mono achieved milestones I mentioned last month. Jul. 21, 2003  Reads: 7,025

Developer Against 'The Machine' Last night, I solved a problem over the phone in three minutes that had been plaguing a fellow developer for three days. Moments like that are what I live for as a developer. Boatloads of money are all fine and good, but the ego boo... Jul. 7, 2003  Reads: 7,446

Book Reviews The .NET Framework can be a pleasure to use, but there's so much to master that all too often we set out to do something basic only to realize we've forgotten exactly how it's done. For this very reason the concept of cookbooks exis... Jul. 21, 2003  Reads: 7,107