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Outsourcing Viewpoint: The Future of Our Profession I am new to consulting. For the past eight years, I have worked as a full-time software developer with a couple of startups here in Chicago. Joining Magenic Technologies - a Microsoft-platform consulting company - has been a chang... Jan. 12, 2005  Reads: 21,115  Replies: 11

.NET Feedback I was a dBASE II programmer, then dBASE III, then Clipper (by Nantucket), and then I built an interface between an existing Foxpro application and an Electronic Data Interchange translator. Still, I missed dBASE II. I missed being... Jan. 12, 2005  Reads: 11,524  Replies: 1

Visual Studio 2005 Team System Overview Today's software systems are comprised of numerous distributed services, spanning platforms, protocols, and programming languages, all with significant impact on the operations environment. Moreover, teams have become increasingly... Jan. 12, 2005  Reads: 10,133

Visual Studio Team Test A common problem faced by companies looking to undertake software development is determining which tools to incorporate into their process. On the surface it sounds like an easy, perhaps even fun, task: to go shopping for cool new... Jan. 12, 2005  Reads: 15,718

Team Foundation: At Work Do you find yourself tired after sitting in meetings all day? Do you have feelings of uselessness after weeks of bug fixing? Do you often find yourself feeling lonely, as if you've lost touch with your team and the status of your ... Jan. 12, 2005  Reads: 17,727

Distributed System Design Suite Visual Studio Team Architect is a suite of graphical design tools, targeted at architects and developers, to be delivered with Visual Studio 2005. It supports the Visual design and validation of connected systems. Visual Studio Te... Jan. 12, 2005  Reads: 12,964

Visual Studio 2005 Team Developer In 1991, Microsoft released Visual Basic 1.0 and ushered in a new era of developer productivity. Building graphical user interfaces for Windows applications (which was once the domain of a select few) became instantly accessible t... Jan. 12, 2005  Reads: 15,060

Team Foundation Fundamentals: A Look at the Capabilities and Architecture Microsoft has been in the business of creating sophisticated software for a long time. Large teams crank out and maintain complex code bases over multiple releases continuously. To be successful at producing software, we've had to... Jan. 28, 2005  Reads: 19,691

Converting VB6 to VB.NET, part 3 This is the third and final installment in a three-part series. In the first installment (.NETDJ, Vol. 2, issue 9), I covered general conversion issues, in the second installment (Vol. 2, issue 10), I finished general conversion i... Jan. 12, 2005  Reads: 31,136  Replies: 1

Mono Releases 1.0.4 and 1.1.2, Portable .NET Releases 0.6.10 Portable.NET has released version 0.6.10. It has been three months since the release of 0.6.8. Support for several OSs, including Solaris, HP-UX, BeOS, and 64-bit CPUs, has improved, and a new CPU, CRIS (an embedded network CPU), is... Jan. 12, 2005  Reads: 15,322