A few months ago, you
might recall, I publicly
declared that Microsoft's
new Partner Points system
had dissuaded me from
renewing my long-since
lapsed MCSD
certification. For only
slightly more than 1% of
the total points my
compa...
Microsoft has released a
new paper comparing .NET
Web service performance
to that of J2EE. The
paper shows that .NET
outperforms Java in
hosting Web services.
Released exclusively on
TheServerSide.NET
(www.theserverside.net)
comm...
I am an architect in the
Distributed Systems
Group. I am responsible
for the protocols and the
plumbing that we do in
that group. I'm on an
architecture team, so the
responsibility is
distributed, but
basically five other
archite...
I took the 70-315 exam at
Tech Ed 2004, which was
held just two months ago
in San Diego, California.
I hadn't been planning to
take it for several more
weeks. However, I was
encouraged to take it
earlier on the basis of
two key facts:
ADO.NET is the managed
code library for the .NET
Framework. Its ancestors
include ODBC, DAO, RDO,
ADO, and OleDB. Some of
these technologies still
exist in the framework,
but most developers rely
on the resources provided
in the ADO...
In the asynchronous world
of Web applications, with
consumer-to-business and
business-to-business
applications trading
orders and information at
a furious rate, there is
a need to pass messages
in a reliable,
transactional manner.
...
In late May 2004,
Microsoft made the
announcement that it was
considering entering the
High-Performance
Computing (HPC) Market, a
market that has
traditionally been
dominated by
custom-engineered
Unix-based machines. In
recent y...
Project success depends
heavily on a team's
ability to quickly
incorporate new
requirements and deliver
solid results. Although
most organizations have
an appetite for the
benefits that can be
realized using extreme
programming, m...
Building binary
components sometimes
means utilizing late
binding and reflection to
find the code with the
particular functionality
you need. Reflection is a
powerful tool, and it
enables you to write
software that is much
more dy...
Most developers just
focus on getting the
initial code done,
ignoring the important
questions that ultimately
affect the total cost of
development such as: how
do I test, how do I
document in case I become
unavailable, and how do I ...
This will present a
typical enterprise
application integration
problem at a customer
site and the messaging
solution framework that
was designed using MSMQ,
.NET, and BizTalk Server
2004. The .NET framework
provides easy access to ...
Mono v1.0 has just been
released; it is available
for download from the
Mono home page at
www.go-mono.com. Next
month, I will have
details. This month, I
will discuss the Mono
betas a bit, and also the
latest Portable.NET
version 0.6.6 release.
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