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.NET Gotchas You might be wondering what this book is all about. As the author explains, the dictionary's definition of a gotcha is 'an unexpected usually disconcerting challenge, revelation, or catch'. Mr. Subramaniam defines the gotchas in his book as 'those things that pop up unexpectedly when y... May. 10, 2006  Reads: 13,468  Replies: 4

Interop Update: A Fast Track to Rehost Your .NET Applications You already know the sheer productivity advantages of developing applications that run on the .NET framework using the Visual Studio.NET IDE, and have likely developed and deployed one or more of these in the years since they became generally available. But did you know that you can do... May. 2, 2006  Reads: 17,544  Replies: 2

Synchronizing Multiple Exchange Calendars Managing calendars across multiple Microsoft Exchange servers has always been a problem for those of us in consulting or other professional service fields. Having to aggregate appointments across calendars maintained at multiple client sites, plus your calendar back at the home office ... Apr. 29, 2006  Reads: 19,264  Replies: 9

Monkey Business Starts Its Fourth Year This column begins its fourth year. In the past I haven't done any year-in-review articles mainly because there was always too much news. But now that the Mono project is half-way through its fifth year and nears its third major release, version 1.2, I think it's time to look back at s... Apr. 28, 2006  Reads: 10,018  Replies: 2

Cross-Platform .NET Development What is required for true cross platform development using .NET? On one hand, not much; on the other hand, a great deal. Because Rotor, Pnet, Mono and (the Microsoft implementation of) .NET, are all based on the ECMA standard, getting a basic C# program running on all four platforms is... Apr. 23, 2006  Reads: 11,158

Collaboration on Steroids with WPF, Office 2007, and SharePoint 2007 This document describes an application currently being constructed with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Office SharePoint Server 2007 (OSS) that will enable collaboration between cancer researchers called the C-ME project (Collaborative Molecular Modeling Environment). Office... Apr. 19, 2006  Reads: 16,089

Implementing Patterns with Generics It's been a few months since Visual Studio 2005 was released. In that time you've probably seen and read quite a bit about generics. Unfortunately all those articles and presentations can leave you with the impression that generics are useful only in the context of collections (List, D... Apr. 17, 2006  Reads: 15,135

PIVOT and OUTPUT SQL Server 2005 has many new and improved features. So many, in fact, that it would be very difficult to cover them all thoroughly. Therefore, I've been concentrating on those features that I feel will have the most impact on developers. Because of this, I want to present two more new ... Apr. 13, 2006  Reads: 16,737  Replies: 4

Software Factories - Part 1 There is a lot of commotion and hope around Software Factories in the community today, which was originally sparked by the Software Factories book of Jack Greenfield and Keith Short. The promise is that Software Factories will streamline and automate software development to become more... Apr. 10, 2006  Reads: 13,886  Replies: 1

.NET Editorial — A Revolution Update As I listened to Bill Gates speak at the Office Developer's Conference in Redmond last week, I couldn't help but think how far Microsoft has come in terms of developer access to the Office Suite of products and how the Smart Client Revolution was in full force. Apr. 10, 2006  Reads: 7,545  Replies: 1