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New Versions of Portable.NET and Mono Released - Mono passes the Vault Web server acceptance test DotGNU is getting ready to make a big splash with the release of v0.1, including Portable.NET v0.6. Mono has released v0.28 with many new features, and Ximian has completed its contract with SourceGear. Dec. 10, 2003  Reads: 11,891

Avalon: Still a Big Deal Scott Hanselman's coverage of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2003, 'Avalon: Yes, the Picture's Changing,' generated a debate over whether Avalon is 'revolutionary' or 'evolutionary.' Dec. 10, 2003  Reads: 11,720

From "Windows" to ASP.NET - After six years of writing books, new technology still excites authors At PDC 2003 Alex Homer and David Sussman, Microsoft Software Legends and authors, talked about how they came to be writers, the rate of adoption of .NET technology, and, of course, Whidbey, Yukon, and Longhorn. -Interviewed by Der... Dec. 10, 2003  Reads: 10,332

.NET Makes Window Subclassing Easy - Tap into Windows OS messages Imagine you are coding a .NET application that must perform some logic when a CD is inserted into the drive. Unfortunately, there is no standard event visible to your application that gets fired when a CD is inserted. Windows knows ... Dec. 10, 2003  Reads: 26,365  Replies: 6

SqlClient Connection Pooling Exposed - Reflection allows .NET developers to peer into the internals of SqlClient ADO.NET's SqlClient data provider for SQL Server supports connection pooling, which is enabled by default. It works well: when a connection is closed it is returned to the pool and reused later when another connection using the same... Dec. 10, 2003  Reads: 19,288  Replies: 2

Troubleshooting .NET Applications - Part 2: Sample scenarios illustrating the use of XSLT tracing Instrumenting and tracing XSLT transformations by treating XSLT as a regular programming language can provide very useful diagnostic data to help analyze and troubleshoot problems. Dec. 10, 2003  Reads: 9,236

Reports from Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference .NET Developer's Journal Editor-in-Chief Derek Ferguson and members of the .NETDJ Editorial Board teamed up to offer a variety of perspectives on Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. Dec. 10, 2003  Reads: 7,450

Automated Unit Testing with NUnit - If testing is so important, why do so many developers do without formalized tests? Ask any group of developers if testing matters and they will tell you 'Of course!' But ask to see the tests for their current project and you will likely get a series of excuses ranging from, 'Well I just, you know, use the applicat... Dec. 10, 2003  Reads: 11,423

Random Salt - Preparing for real-world eventualities It's a constant battle! Just when you think you understand security, someone or something reminds you of a whole aspect that you have been ignoring, usually at your peril. No matter how much you planned, prepared, worked, and worrie... Dec. 10, 2003  Reads: 15,190

Database Modeling with ORM - Part 2 Object Role Modeling (ORM) is an excellent modeling methodology that you can use to construct a conceptual database model. This article is the second in a series of articles that introduce ORM. Dec. 10, 2003  Reads: 17,739

The Science of Threading - Part 1: An overview of a little-understood area If I had to bet on what is the least-understood - yet most often viewed as a cure-all - area of software engineering, I would have to place my money on threads. The topic of threading, in my opinion, causes a tremendous amount of ... Dec. 10, 2003  Reads: 10,012

Whidn't-It-Bey Nice To Have Them Today? Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends... I felt the need to start my editorial off with a little Progressive Rock reference after learning at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) last week that Don B... Dec. 10, 2003  Reads: 12,700  Replies: 30