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Components and Architecture Juval Löwy is a Microsoft 'Software Legend' and RD, and architect for IDesign, a consulting and architectural services company. In an exclusive interview with .NET Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Derek Ferguson, Löwy discusse... Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 14,384

Securing .NET Compact Framework Solutions 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 rededic... Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 13,403

Creating Custom Ink-Enabled Components Microsoft has a rich history of development environments and platforms built around the creation of reusable objects and components to maximize developer productivity. These environments are designed to mask some of the underly... Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 11,463

Creating Modeling Applications with Windows Forms I like to hang out in the microsoft.public.dotnet. framework.drawing newsgroup. Call me a geek, an attention seeker, or just plain helpful - I get a kick from helping others out with their drawing-related problems, and often fr... Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 8,903

Securing Enterprise Data Transfer with SQL Server CE In the first article in this series, 'Accessing Enterprise Data from SQL Server CE' [.NETDJ, Vol. 1, issue 6], we constructed a solution that allowed us to provide enterprise data access to mobile devices while in a disconnected ... Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 14,978

Web Services Security In recent years, few technological concepts have generated as much excitement as XML and Web services. After the initial excitement and onslaught of developers creating 'Hello World' applications and (unfortunately) posting the... Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 10,856

Top Three Security Mistakes .NET Developers Make Industry analysts have estimated that over 70% of today's security breaches occur at the application level. Many are due to the exploitation of security defects within the code. Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 11,588

Testing Code Access Security One of the most serious flaws of COM and API-based software development is that once you allow a component to run on your system, it has unrestricted permission to do anything. That's why viruses are such a problem - once they ... Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 13,571  Replies: 1

Database Modeling with ORM - Part 1: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words It is no secret that proper modeling when developing complex, multitiered applications is vital to the success of a project. Countless studies investigating the poor success rate of enterprise-level application projects point t... Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 21,493

Whidbey: The Next Evolution of .NET For many people change is a scary concept - and in the world of technology it can cause a roller coaster ride of emotions. As developers, you would think that we would be used to change, as we are typically the instruments of change. Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 9,911

Finalizing Objects At Will Unmanaged resources are expensive. Therefore, you can't afford to have managed objects that encapsulate unmanaged resources lying dormant in memory waiting for the garbage collector to finalize them. Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 9,681

Chart FX for .NET In today's enterprise applications nobody is going to comment on the quality of your middle-tier components or the databases to which you persist your application's data. Enterprise applications, like all others, are judged usi... Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 11,072

Book Reviews I began reading Shared Source CLI Essentials with a rather high set of expectations. I knew that one of the authors, David Stutz, was an ex-Microsoft employee who had recently gone on record criticizing Redmond's attitude toward open source. Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 11,407

PDC 2003 Isn't .NET Wonderful? The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (http://msdn. microsoft.com/events/pdc) is a 'must-attend' for anyone interested in the future of software development! It showcases the future of the greatest development platform on Earth - .NET! Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 9,827

Novell Buys Ximian, Mono Drafts Road Map August was Mono's biggest news month ever: the Mono Project's sponsor, Ximian, was bought by Novell, a draft road map to the version 1.0 release was drawn, and Mono version 0.26 was released. In other news of open source, DotGNU ... Oct. 7, 2003  Reads: 15,580