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The .NETDJ Community Speaks - Voices From The Community I always thought that non-initialized variable declarations were fine in .NET, but the V2 compiler is forcing me to change my mind. Programming theory suggests that initialized variable declaration is a good practice and this was ... Aug. 25, 2005  Reads: 10,363

TechEd Highlights - All Things Microsoft Under One Roof Every year at TechEd I make it a point to attend the opening keynote, which is often delivered by Steve Balmer. This year Steve came out very hopeful and predicted that we are on the upswing of the IT cycle. While he is often upbeat... Aug. 28, 2005  Reads: 12,841  Replies: 1

What Can Application Developers Learn About Mobility? In the first years following the millennium, the future appeared bright indeed for mobile technologies. As the sun started to set on e-commerce, venture capitalists and investors turned to what they saw as the wireless wave, drive... Aug. 31, 2005  Reads: 7,686

The Xamlon Story Xamlon, a small startup in LaJolla, CA, started with a Windows desktop product called Xamlon Pro. This package provides developers with a taste for XAML-based declarative markup programming. XAML is compiled with managed code to p... Sep. 3, 2005  Reads: 22,777

Introducing ASP 2.0 Master Pages While meeting with the development staff of a local company we began discussing a project that the CIO had assigned them earlier that morning. The project was actually the first in a series of about 15 planned Web sites scheduled ov... Sep. 9, 2005  Reads: 27,890  Replies: 1

Engineering + Reuse = Savings Why are contract outsourcing and offshore development failing to deliver the expected benefit of lower costs and increased end-user satisfaction to enterprise software development users? It seems that lower rates per hour and bett... Sep. 15, 2005  Reads: 12,930

.NET Development with Visual Build Pro I have used Microsoft Visual Studio at various companies over the years, starting with Visual Basic 3 to create simple, stand-alone Windows applications, then later using Visual Basic 5 and 6 for multitiered development. More rece... Sep. 18, 2005  Reads: 10,180

.NET Momentum Overall adoption of .NET surpassed Java last year and we see it continue to grow (Forrester, 5/2004). ASP and ASP.NET are used by more Fortune 1000 Web sites than any other platform (port80. 5/2005). Microsoft platform is running th... Sep. 21, 2005  Reads: 9,380

.NET Developer's Journal's Derek Ferguson Introduces ASP.NET 2.0 Focus Issue As I write this, I am simultaneously preparing to present on ASP.NET 2.0 at three local MSDN Events (www.msdnevents.com), building an advanced ASP.NET 2.0 Web site for my client at Magenic, and pulling together the last bits of th... Sep. 10, 2005  Reads: 13,770  Replies: 1

Portable.NET Release 0.7.0 Portable.NET has made their first release in six months, and it is as packed with new code as you would expect; the list prints out to about four pages, and is downloadable from http:// dotgnu.org/pipermail/deve lopers/2005-June/00005... Sep. 24, 2005  Reads: 10,609