Windows Vista: The Developer Perspective
John Montgomery, Microsoft's Director of Product Management, Developer Division, talks about some of the Windows Vista features that developers will find most useful. (MP3 audio)
July 28, 2005
Managing Connection Strings
In most applications requiring database access, two common issues are how to store and protect connection strings, and how to build and manage them programmatically.
July 26, 2005
.NET Scripting Hosts, Part Six
As we move into the sixth part of this series on .NET Scripting Hosts, our basic scripting host is functional -- we've created a basic scripting host site implementation for the scripting engine to call back into, we've created a specific engine for the language we want to use, initialized it with some script and COM objects, and executed a simple script. Next, we're going to look a bit deeper into the values we return from the scripting host interfaces, particularly when errors occur.
July 22, 2005
.NET Scripting Hosts, Part Five
So up to now we've created a very basic scripting host in C# that initializes an instance of JScript and sets the host as the site callback for the engine. Next, we'll add support for one of the more complicated parts of a scripting host -- integration of objects into a script.
July 22, 2005
How To Survive A Windows 2003 Cluster Crash
The nightmare scenario: You bring down your Windows Server 2003 cluster nodes for maintenance and boom, the cluster explodes into a million pieces. Here's some advice for the day when you hear that eerie whistle of a cluster bomb about to land.
July 19, 2005
More on Rubber-Band Frames in .NET
There are two different solutions for creating a rubber-band frame in .NET. First, using the ControlPaint class is simple but limited. Second, using the Graphics class provides a wealth of methods and properties that enable low-level painting.
July 12, 2005
Group Validators in ASP.NET 2.0
A key rule for writing more secure applications is to get the data right before you use it. New features in ASP.NET 2.0 provide more flexibility for validating user input.
July 12, 2005
.NET Versus .NOT
When you're evaluating .NET components, how do you know if they support .NET's unique features, or if they're simply ported from legacy code?
July 6, 2005
WinXP SP2 Without Tears
Installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 is more than just a good idea. Here's how to successfully install this OS upgrade quickly and easily.
July 5, 2005
Thinking in Components
Architecture: It's that level above design where we get our first glimpse of what the system will ultimately resemble, how it will be built, the vision of the application and the system as a whole. When it comes to J2EE, however, components are the key element of development, deployment and reuse-and that's a new paradigm for most of us.
July 1, 2005
ASP.NET Configuration
In all applications—and certainly ASP.NET ones—you need to configure certain aspects of the program.
July 1, 2005
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