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Summer of Code Projects Announced The Mono project celebrates its 5th anniversary this month. The Mono project was launched in July 2001; I started following Mono in the press almost immediately, and soon started checking the homepage. In November I downloaded the source, and in February 2002 I started contributing to ... Aug. 5, 2006  Reads: 9,259

Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005 and Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005 This is a big book weighing in at over 1,200 pages. Note the 'Pro' in the title. If you want to learn how to design Web sites, this book is not for you; it's meant for the professional Web designer needing to build serious, real-world Web sites that are scalable and secure. This is the... Aug. 4, 2006  Reads: 14,838

BizTalk Application Styles BizTalk is a broad and inherently flexible product that can be used to build a large variety of applications; however, it exists to solve very complicated problems, it has a long ramp-up time associated with it, and many people simply find it too daunting to consider. As a reaction to ... Aug. 2, 2006  Reads: 8,897

A Primer on Microsoft Atlas Ever since the advent of the Internet, Web applications have lagged behind desktop applications in terms of interactivity and responsiveness. One of the biggest drawbacks in the conventional Web model has been the cycle of inactivity between the user request and the server response. Re... Aug. 1, 2006  Reads: 43,412  Replies: 1

ASP.NET 2.0 - Is It Really This Easy? ASP.NET 2.0 contains a raft of new features that reduce the code you need to write and save you time and effort when building dynamic and interactive Web pages and applications. To illustrate this, and so that you get a better feel for the way all these features combine to provide the ... Jul. 31, 2006  Reads: 18,374  Replies: 2

Refactoring Your MSBuild Scripts Some things change how you fundamentally program. Automation is one of those things. It is what will save you from wasting your weekend stepping through tedious and error-prone processes like regression testing (unit, integration, performance, functional, etc.), builds, deployment, or ... Jul. 30, 2006  Reads: 15,139

DDL Triggers A number of years ago, I worked for a company that was developing internal applications with SQL Server 2000. We didn't have any real database administrators. I was given that responsibility, but I was really a developer, one of many in fact. The problem with this arrangement was that ... Jul. 29, 2006  Reads: 13,078