The Smart Client
Revolution In May of 2003 Microsoft
asked me to do a
keynote-like session at
the Visual Studio.NET
launch event in Oslo, a
trip I just couldn't pass
up. The problem was that
I had no idea what a
smart client application
was. I had to quickly g... Nov. 8, 2004 Reads: 11,130 |
Exclusive .NETDJ
Interview with Brad
Abrams: Talking
Frameworks, Namespaces,
and Programming .NET Developer's Journal
editor-in-chief Derek
Ferguson and Don Box, a
leading authority on COM
and architect in the
Microsoft .NET Developer
and Platform Evangelism
Group, recently sat down
to talk with Brad Abrams,
Lead Program Ma... Nov. 10, 2004 Reads: 19,720 |
Product Review: Visual
Web Developer 2005
Express Edition Microsoft has expanded
the Visual Studio product
line with the addition of
six new Express products
designed to help the
student, hobbyist,
enthusiast, or novice
developer become
proficient with the
Microsoft .NET 2.0
platform as ... Nov. 8, 2004 Reads: 22,796 |
.NET Framework You might think that
graphically intensive
operations such as map
rendering can be done
only using languages like
C++ to make Win32 API
calls to the operating
system. In fact, the .NET
Framework and its GDI+
libraries can be used no... Nov. 8, 2004 Reads: 13,863 |
ASP.NET 1.X and ASP.NET
2.0 Compilation Models The introduction of
ASP.NET in 2002 signified
a big change in Microsoft
server-side technologies
for building Web sites.
It represented a shift
from the interpreted
Active Server pages (ASP)
to compiled ASP.NET
pages. The compiled
... Nov. 8, 2004 Reads: 27,368 Replies: 7 |
Optimizing Your SQL Code
with SQL Server 2005 A common complaint of
database administrators
(DBAs) is that
performance bottlenecks
are not among those
problems that one can fix
'by just throwing
hardware at it.' Thus,
database servers must
provide tools and
techniques to help... Nov. 8, 2004 Reads: 12,590 Replies: 1 |
Shiny New Tablets The Tablet PC is nothing
new. It is an
evolutionary step upwards
towards the dream of
electronic paper. It is a
big increment and
represents one of the
largest movements in that
direction that we have
seen for some time. Nov. 8, 2004 Reads: 8,605 |
Truly Reusable Code:
Assembly Binding
Redirection in .NET When I first read that
.NET assemblies could be
'redirected' at runtime,
I was stunned and a
little bit suspicious.
After all, in the COM
world the intricacies of
component interaction had
baffled me, but I knew
enough to know that ... Nov. 8, 2004 Reads: 16,775 Replies: 1 |
Iterators in C#: Nothing
Beats the Foreach Loop My favorite construct in
the C# programming
language has to be the
foreach loop. I get a
little jolt of pleasure
every time I use it. I
can enumerate rows in SQL
Queries, nodes in XML
documents, ArrayLists,
and Hashtables. You name ... Jun. 19, 2005 Reads: 32,948 Replies: 4 |
A Developer's
Introduction to Visual
Studio 2005 Team System Development in team
situations introduces a
significant amount of
additional challenge and
complexity. Today, most
savvy teams have
assembled a set of tools
to complement the Visual
Studio IDE when working
in a team environment to
... Nov. 8, 2004 Reads: 18,424 |
Going Live: Dealing with
Problems in the
Production Environment The time has come and you
are about to deploy your
new .NET application to
production. In the
previous months, you have
liaised with business and
product managers to
define software
requirement specs. You
have reviewed your
applic... Nov. 8, 2004 Reads: 7,228 |
Politics and Microsoft By the time you read
this, the election here
in America will
(hopefully) have been
decided. I inserted
'hopefully' in there
because, as I write this,
both candidates are tied
at exactly 48% of the
vote - indicating a very
high li... Nov. 8, 2004 Reads: 14,586 Replies: 1 |
Making Fast Progress Mono has a new Web site
(www.mono-project.com)
that replaces the old one
(www.go-mono.com). If you
go to the old address,
your browser will get
redirected to the new
site. There have been no
major changes beyond the
usual updates. Nov. 8, 2004 Reads: 10,678 |
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Many requirements tools
focus on accessibility
and convenience features
but fail to address fully
the main issue that made
use case analysis so
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main conference room you
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