Mono Releases Beta 1,
Starts Looking at Beta 2 Mono makes its goal of
releasing v1.0 beta 1 on
May 4, adding support for
both the Global Access
Cache (GAC) and the
latest ECMA generics, as
well as improving CLS
compliance. Novell hires
another open source
developer and open
so... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 11,411 |
Delving into the Yukon After my last book,
Essential ADO.NET, was
handed in to the
publisher 10 days before
.NET 1.0 shipped, I swore
I'd never write another.
To keep up with a
technology while it was
developing and the
product features were
being refin... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 8,165 |
Creating a Data-Driven
Web Page In my previous article
(.NETDJ, Vol. 2, issue 4)
we took a look at how
ASP.NET v2.0's
SqlDataSource control
allows Web developers to
create a dynamic Web site
using data stored in a
SQL database with little
or no server code. In
... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 14,526 Replies: 1 |
SQL Server 2005 Broadens
Database Development I pondered for days
trying to decide what I
wanted to talk about.
Being a developer, I
wondered if I should
simply tout all the new
development features of
SQL Server 2005, things
such as HTTP Endpoints
(Web services), CLR-based
r... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 7,443 |
An Exploration of the
ObjectSpaces Framework With the release of the
alpha bits of ADO.NET 2.0
and Visual Studio 2005,
Microsoft is
experimenting with a
framework that provides
.NET programmers with a
new way to access and
work with relational
data. Traditionally,
passing an... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 10,529 Replies: 4 |
Multiple Active Result
Sets and Asynchronous
Connections in ADO.NET
2.0 In the early 1990s, I was
working on a project in
which we were creating an
accounts receivable
system. Because the users
of the system would be
dealing with people whose
accounts were past due,
the major concern of the
client was t... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 18,460 |
Developing Web Parts
Using the SharePoint
Object Model Since the first article
('Developing Web Parts')
in this series appeared
in July 2003 (Vol. 1,
issue 7), Microsoft
Office SharePoint Portal
Server 2003 (SPS) and
Microsoft Windows
SharePoint Services (WSS)
have been launched as
pa... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 24,402 |
The Transformation of DTS
in SQL Server 2005 Data Transformation
Services (DTS) is a set
of graphical tools that
you can use to extract,
transform, and load (ETL)
data from many different
sources to a single or
multiple destinations.
DTS was originally
released with SQL Server... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 28,168 |
Following the Tao of XML
Type This is not the article I
started out to write. The
editors asked for ideas
and I offered to write
about building Common
Language Runtime-based
User Defined Functions
(CLR UDFs.) After
attending Michael Rys's
TechEd 2004 session on ... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 7,542 |
A Summary of T-SQL
Enhancements in SQL
Server 2005 Microsoft is releasing a
new version of SQL Server
after a gap of five
years. This version (SQL
Server 2005) introduces a
horde of new
attention-grabbing
features like native XML
storage and querying
(using XQuery), CLR
integratio... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 23,772 Replies: 3 |
Accessing the Structure
with XML We were listening to a
CIO explain how two years
ago his company had
instituted a mandatory
XML policy for the IT
staff. Senior management
had decided that XML
offered too great a
competitive advantage for
them to pass up using it. ... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 12,748 |
Focusing on the
Presentation Layer .NET Developer's Journal
Editor-in-Chief Derek
Ferguson caught up with
Dean Guida, CEO of
Infragistics. In this
exclusive interview,
Guida talks about how
Infragistics adds value
to Microsoft products,
competition with offshore
IS... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 14,253 |
The Partner Program
Points Dicussion: S.
Somasegar, Corporate VP
of Microsoft's Developer
Division Responds By way of introduction,
the discussion continued
below began in our May
2004 issue with an
editorial Derek Ferguson
wrote entitled 'On
Partners and Points.' In
that editorial, Ferguson
questioned the validity
of the new points-based... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 12,422 |
Time Well Spent at Tech
Ed Welcome to the SQL Server
2005 issue of the .NET
Developer's Journal. We
have structured this
issue to be immediately
useful to those of you
working with Beta 1 of
SQL Server 2005. Inside,
you will find articles
hand-picked by two o... Jul. 6, 2004 Reads: 12,954 |
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Many requirements tools
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