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Mobility Focus Issue: What Is Mobility? In his book Building Solutions with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, Dan Fox begins with a brief discussion of the etymology of 'mobility.' Coming from the Latin word mobilitatem, Dan explains that mobility is the capacity fo... Oct. 4, 2004  Reads: 13,024  Replies: 1

Product Reviews Imagine that you've just been tasked with designing and implementing an enterprise-wide HR (human resources) system for your organization. The system will be implemented with an ASP.NET-based user interface, business objects bas... Oct. 4, 2004  Reads: 10,801

Product/Book Reviews The Compact Framework is not perfect. In particular, its class library represents an abbreviation from the Framework with which we are all familiar on the desktop. This means that in many cases, the classes and namespaces that one... Oct. 4, 2004  Reads: 12,955

Converting VB6 to VB.NET, Part II Last month (Vol. 2, issue 9), I gave an executive overview of the conversion process, and started looking at converting general VB6 code to VB.NET. This month I will finish general conversions, including DLLs, then start on databa... Oct. 4, 2004  Reads: 38,201

Charting the Course for .NET As a visualization project manager for ILOG for the last six years, I have developed professional Swing-based components for the ILOG JViews Component Suite that include charts, Gantt charts, diagrams, and mapping components. Duri... Oct. 4, 2004  Reads: 13,655

Developing Orientation Aware Smart Device Applications The beta release of Visual Studio 2005 includes some of the most significant enhancements to the Microsoft development environment since the release of .NET itself. Nowhere is this more true than for developers targeting smart dev... Oct. 4, 2004  Reads: 10,182

Microsoft CRM Mobile Mobile devices, such as the Microsoft Windows CE-based PocketPC, have grown significantly in popularity over the last several years. In the car, on a plane, or out in the middle of nowhere, applications on the device can operate w... Oct. 4, 2004  Reads: 12,673

Location-Based Services If you follow the mobile space, you know that one of the hot topics right now is location-based services (LBS). LBS allows you to build applications that adapt to users' locations and situations. Without requiring your users to en... Oct. 4, 2004  Reads: 12,923

Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT) Product groups at Microsoft generally develop platforms or specific applications that run on these platforms. SPOT is different. Our goal is to increase the usefulness of everyday objects that we can wear, carry, or that might be ... Oct. 4, 2004  Reads: 19,123

Mobility, LBS, and MapPoint Location-based services (LBS) solutions involve leveraging information about a user's location and/or presence in solutions, providing relevant information and services. Mobile/wireless technologies in LBS solutions can be very co... Oct. 4, 2004  Reads: 14,541  Replies: 1

Aspect.NET: Concepts and Architecture This article presents a new approach to aspect-oriented programming (AOP) - an advanced programming paradigm and technology that supports the separation, design, implementation, location, and updating of crosscutting concerns im... Oct. 4, 2004  Reads: 11,889  Replies: 2

Where Do You Want to Go for the Next Four Years? I develop mobile software for a living. I also train developers to create their own mobile applications using the Compact Framework. This issue is focused on mobile development. However, because this issue was largely put together... Nov. 6, 2004  Reads: 14,849  Replies: 12

Iron Python for .NET Released A fast open source version of Python dispels the myth that the .NET CLR cannot support dynamic languages. Portable.NET has another point release. Jim Hugunin, of Jython and AspectJ fame, made a series of surprising announcements at OSCON. Oct. 21, 2004  Reads: 12,058