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Mono Releases Version 1.2 The long-awaited third major release of Mono, version 1.2 is now out. The main delay was getting System.Windows.Forms (SWF) to work cross platform. This has been accomplished for the most part. There are a few of the rarely used methods still being worked on, but the vast majority of W... Dec. 24, 2006  Reads: 16,524

Database Unit Testing with the MassDataHandler After years of nearly every tradeshow, magazine, and technologist saying how wonderful unit tests are, developers know that they're supposed to write unit tests. But it's not always that easy. For example, while most developers can write tests for a trivial class library, it's much har... Dec. 21, 2006  Reads: 7,244

The Microsoft Device Emulator Anyone who develops applications for devices can vouch for the importance of having a powerful emulator that can help accelerate the overall development and debugging process. This articles talks about the new Microsoft Device Emulator and how you can exploit some of its capabilities a... Dec. 20, 2006  Reads: 19,537

.NET Feature — The .NET Compact Framework Remote Performance Monitor In the February issue of .NET Developers Journal, I described how implicit operations such as the boxing of value types can dramatically increase the amount of memory your .NET Compact Framework application uses. At the time, the tools available to help you get a picture of how your a... Dec. 19, 2006  Reads: 20,175

.NET Feature — Creating Templates for Visual Studio 2005 Visual Studio project templates and item templates are reusable and customizable stubs that can simplify the development process. They provide pre-defined starting points for the project or the project items, thus removing the need to create new projects and items from scratch every ti... Dec. 18, 2006  Reads: 29,984

.NET Book Review — Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart Microsoft released VB6 at the start of 1999, which is almost 8 years ago. It's hard to imagine that there are developers who are still actively using VB6, but from the blogs and letters to the editors of many .NET magazines that I have read, it seems that this is truly the case. Dec. 17, 2006  Reads: 9,056  Replies: 1

Java Software on Vista People have been wondering lately: How does Java software work on Windows Vista? The short answer is: Java software works great on Vista. In fact, the entire Sun engineering team working on Java Platform Standard Edition has been tuned into Vista and making Java software work on it sin... Dec. 16, 2006  Reads: 18,325  Replies: 1

.NET Editorial — There Is Nothing Permanent Except Change In a cross-platform world where software giants nevertheless continue to vie with each other for developer mindshare, it is significant that only one major company has managed to synch up its release numbers with the Web 2.0 phenomenon. Microsoft is not resting on its laurels though, a... Dec. 15, 2006  Reads: 16,320