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IBM's WebSphere Application Server vs. Microsoft's .NET Framework The data evolution has completely changed how businesses conduct transactions on the Web. The business environment has evolved rapidly from presenting static data to consumers and businesses alike, to a new world, something we can o... May. 26, 2004  Reads: 9,183  Replies: 1

Browser-Based Training System Provides Long-Term Learning The term 'lifelong learner' has never been more applicable to any one particular group of people than it is to software developers today. The technologies and tools that developers rely on evolve more in one year than most fields ... May. 18, 2004  Reads: 6,055

XAML - The Next Step in Building Windows User Interfaces XAML, pronounced 'zammel,' stands for Extensible Application Markup Language, which made its first appearance during PDC 2003, when Microsoft unveiled its next version of Windows, known as Longhorn. XAML is a part of the new Windo... May. 18, 2004  Reads: 21,773  Replies: 2

The Thumbnail View Control Nothing is more frustrating than seeing the functionality you need embedded in one of Microsoft's applications, but not having a reusable component to give you access to the code they already wrote. This happened in the past with ... May. 18, 2004  Reads: 15,652  Replies: 14

Speed Tests: A Comparison Between .NET XML Web Services and .NET Remoting Prior to .NET, DCOM existed as Microsoft's solution to remote object access. This technology leveraged the successful COM architecture to provide an infrastructure for remote communication. However, DCOM suffered from a variety of ... May. 18, 2004  Reads: 15,139

When the Mission Truly Is Critical .NET Developer's Journal Editor-in-Chief Derek Ferguson recently chatted with John Gomez, CTO of Eclipsys. In this exclusive interview, Gomez talks about the role of .NET in mission-critical software for the health-care industry, ... May. 18, 2004  Reads: 12,111

Rules Come to BizTalk 2004 Imagine that you have built a large enterprise application after carrying out extensive requirement studies. Just before the delivery, the client informs you that some of the business rules need to be changed. What do you do? Modify... May. 18, 2004  Reads: 19,592  Replies: 1

C# and the .NET Framework: Tying It All Together This is the second in a series of articles that build an application using C# and the .NET Framework. Our model application is the Windows Notepad. In the first article (.NETDJ, Vol. 2, issue 1), we built the framework of our application... May. 18, 2004  Reads: 19,310

Mono's SWF Now Uses Standard Wine Distribution This month I'll discuss MonoDevelop, a Gtk#- based, cross-platform version of SharpDevelop; Mono version 0.31 and Portable.NET 0.64; LDAP; and a Mono developer meeting in Boston. Additionally, Mono's System.Windows.Forms (SWF) ach... May. 18, 2004  Reads: 9,640

.NET DJ Exclusive: Betting on Managed Code - Q&A with S. Somasegar, VP, Developer Division, Microsoft .NET Editor-in-Chief Derek Ferguson sat down to talk with Microsoft's S. 'Soma' Somasegar in Chicago recently. In this exclusive interview, Somasegar talks about Microsoft's new Partner program; the future of the .NET platform, in ... May. 18, 2004  Reads: 16,515

On Points and Partners Recently, it was my privilege to have lunch with S. Somasegar, the new corporate vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division. I found him to be bright and enthusiastic, as well as extremely personable - clearly one of the best ... May. 18, 2004  Reads: 8,971