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What I Did on My Holiday Vacation For the second year in a row, I had a lot of vacation left at the end of the year. Combined with two major holidays, this allowed me to take off the second half of December. Not wanting to let my brain get flabby, though, I engaged in a number of mental pursuits to keep my cerebellum i... Feb. 13, 2004  Reads: 10,612  Replies: 1

Book Reviews I wanted to read this book before it was ever announced. At the time, I was just beginning work on a project here at Expand Beyond to connect our Java-based application server, the XBAnywhere Server, with our .NET-based Web service, the Windows Gateway. Feb. 13, 2004  Reads: 8,834  Replies: 1

The Science of Threading In Part 1 of this series (.NETDJ, Vol. 1, issue 12) we explored some basic background in regard to .NET threading. We explored concepts related to threads in general, their appropriate usage, and how to work with the thread pool in .NET as an alternative to managing our own threads. Th... Feb. 13, 2004  Reads: 11,312

Serving Multiple Platforms With the release of Microsoft's .NET Framework and associated development tools in the fall of 2001, LogicLibrary saw a unique opportunity to expand market share by producing a fully .NET-compliant version of our Logidex solution designed to install seamlessly in Microsoft IT shops. Feb. 13, 2004  Reads: 8,900

Migrating Database Applications from JDBC to ADO.NET Today, more than ever, enterprises are faced with the necessity of migrating applications from one platform to another. Here, we try to take some of the pain out of migrating a database application written in Java to ADO.NET. Feb. 13, 2004  Reads: 17,887  Replies: 3

Integrating Java into the .NET Environment If you have never had to integrate Java with code written in other languages, you are a very lucky person. Java is a wonderful language when you are looking for platform portability, but unless you are a big CORBA fan, code written in Java is hard to use from all other programming lang... Feb. 13, 2004  Reads: 12,327

C# and Java: The Resemblance Is More Than Skin Deep At first glance, you cannot help but notice the similarities between Java and C#. Looking even closer, you will notice that the similarities do not stop at the surface. The question is how can you use these language similarities to your advantage? Suppose you had an application that wa... Feb. 13, 2004  Reads: 11,383

Whidbey, Longhorn, Indigo: A View from the Inside .NETDJ Editor-in-Chief Derek Ferguson chatted with Microsoft Software Legend Jeffrey Richter at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2003. In this exclusive interview, Richter talks about sharing his working life between Wintellect and Microsoft, and what it's like to help sh... Feb. 13, 2004  Reads: 15,043

On Connection Pooling Guy Smith-Ferrier's article, 'SqlClient Connection Pooling Exposed', Vol. 1, issue 12, generated a question from reader Angel Saenz-Badillos. Feb. 13, 2004  Reads: 10,947

Mainsoft, Novell Give Mono a Push Novell and Mainsoft have committed programming resources to Mono; Mono has released version 0.29, adding Unicode support from IBM. Portable.NET has made progress on WinForms, including multidocument interface (MDI) applications using the XWindows library. Feb. 13, 2004  Reads: 12,729