I just recently had the
privilege of presenting a
brief seminar on
Microsoft Visual Studio
2005 Tools for the
Microsoft Office System
(VSTO 2005) and wanted to
take a moment to address
your recent editorial.
Although your complaints...
Derek Ferguson has
recently interviewed
Rocky Lhotka, the creator
of CSLA. In this
interview, Derek
discusses some of the
things that originally
led to the creation of
CSLA, as well as where
Rocky sees
object-oriented
developmen...
Visual Studio 2005 fully
supports creating custom
controls in .NET Compact
Framework. In addition,
custom control developers
can create a great
design-time experience
for custom control users.
Design-time support makes
it easier for...
The release of the .NET
Framework 2.0 promises to
be the first major
upgrade to Windows and
Web development tools
since the initial release
of .NET in 2001. In the
realm of general
networking, some of the
major improvements to the
...
Last week I had a lunch
meeting with the
architects of a local
company. The meeting
began with a review of
their current Web-based
customer portal. This
application had been
deployed almost two years
ago and had quickly
become an ...
This article is the third
part of the series of
articles in this journal
to describe our
Aspect.NET project an
aspect-oriented
programming (AOP)
framework for
Microsoft.NET based on a
number of new ideas (for
the first two article...
If you've spent more than
two months developing any
form of software, chances
are you've had to program
against a database.
Unfortunately, despite
the rapid gains in
software sophistication
over the past decade, few
well-recognized ...
Let's assume that we want
to create a program that
requires a pluggable
architecture. The program
should be able to
dynamically load a
plug-in assembly, create
an instance of a class
from that assembly, and
then execute a method
f...
The upcoming release of
the .NET 2.0 framework
brings many new
enhancements to the CLR
and the C# and VB.NET
languages, and with the
availability of Beta2, it
seems like an appropriate
time to dive into the
.NET 2.0 framework and
...
Web applications suck!
Well, perhaps that is a
bit of an overstatement.
Let me rephrase: Web
applications are not
appropriate for all
situations. In my case, I
have spent the last few
months working on a
series of ASP.NET
applicat...
Mainsoft has recently
made several Mono-related
announcements, centering
on the new version of
their Visual MainWin
product, codenamed
Grasshopper. Visual
MainWin is a Visual
Studio add-in that adds
project types for VB.NET
or C# ...
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tome from B
BPEL or Business Process
Execution Language is an
XML and Web
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