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An Interview with Rob Howard .NETDJ: How did you come to work for Microsoft on the ASP.NET team? RH: I was originally on what was then known as the Developer Relations group at Microsoft. I was a technical evangelist. I was part of a team of folks that Microsof... Sep. 13, 2004  Reads: 13,821

Book Reviews .NET and COM - The Complete Interoperability Guide is divided into four major areas: using COM components in .NET, using .NET components from COM, designing great COM components for .NET, and designing great .NET components for COM.... Sep. 13, 2004  Reads: 9,264

Converting VB6 to VB.NET, Part I If you're one of the many who have VB6 code, you have three basic options: stay with VB6, convert to .NET, or rewrite from scratch. In this article, we will look at converting VB6 code to VB.NET and C#. I'll discuss when it makes ... May. 26, 2005  Reads: 79,779

C# and the .NET Framework: Tying It All Together This is the third in a series of articles that build a text editing application using C# and the .NET Framework. Our model application is the Windows Notepad. Sep. 13, 2004  Reads: 19,452

.NET Makeover As developers in the 1990s, we became accustomed to migrating applications from one version of VB to the next. We expected Microsoft to continually provide new VB releases that addressed feedback from the developer community (also... Sep. 13, 2004  Reads: 11,297

.NET and DB2 UDB With the latest release of DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, IBM provides .NET developers with a credible alternative to SQL Server. Traditionally, developers working with .NET have resorted to Microso... Sep. 13, 2004  Reads: 10,578

Automate Application Builds Using NAnt After a quarter of a million lines of code had been written, the application was ready for testing. The testers, however, came back with their results alleging poor application quality. A plan had to be developed and executed quic... Sep. 13, 2004  Reads: 17,272  Replies: 2

Using Features of Visual Basic .NET to Trace Your Application At one time or another, most applications have to determine when a certain subroutine or function is executed and inform the user when an important event or an error occurred. Over the years, clever developers created different meth... Sep. 13, 2004  Reads: 19,656

How to Write High-Performance C# Code Writing code that runs quickly is sometimes at odds with writing code quickly. C.A.R. Hoare, computer science luminary and discoverer of the QuickSort algorithm, famously proclaimed, 'Premature optimization is the root of all evil.'... Sep. 13, 2004  Reads: 68,782  Replies: 7

Feedback Special: Decompiler Debate The following commentary is from the flurry of feedback that was posted here regarding the article entitled 'Decompiler Roundup' (.NETDJ, Vol. 2, issue 8). Oct. 13, 2004  Reads: 10,203  Replies: 16

Make a Great First Impression Maintainability and extensibility are over-rated. If you work in a start-up environment, at least, you should focus primarily on bringing your products to market in the fastest, most bug-free manner possible. The market never give... Sep. 13, 2004  Reads: 11,227

Mono 1.0 Details Team Mono met their goal of a first half 1.0 release. This happened just as we were going to press last month, but I was able to change the headline and first paragraph noting the release. This month, I will discuss it in detail, ... Sep. 13, 2004  Reads: 9,991