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.NET Winforms Testing Tools
Andrew Flick of Infragistics talks about Test Advantage 2005 components that allow regression testing on Windows forms in the .NET Framework. (MP3 audio, 9:43 mins.)
September 29, 2005
.NET Scripting Hosts, Part Eight
Extending a basic host in .NET to a smart host starts with mapping the ProcessDebugManager, IDebugApplication, and IDebugDocumentHelper interfaces into .NET.
September 28, 2005
ASP.NET2theMax
Because 2.0 complies with W3C Standards, ASP.NET coders will now have to avoid some commonly used tags and attributes. Not ready to upgrade? ASP.NET 2.0 will let you hit the compliance "snooze alarm" in your web.config file, but that option should be used cautiously.
September 28, 2005
.NET Upgrade Metrics and the Migration Assessment Tool
Keith Pleas explains how the new .NET Migration Assessment Tool provides stats across multiple projects to help measure upgrade costs. He also discusses cleaning up dead code before updating and the risks of memory pinning in a managed environment. (MP3 audio, 14:18 mins)
September 27, 2005
Getting Runtime Info from the CLR
Using the System.Diagnostics namespace, you can update the Trace class to dump out some useful diagnostics about where the Trace object is being used
September 22, 2005
Data Access and the VB6 Upgrade Wizard
Microsoft Product Manager Eugenio Pace and Keith Pleas of Keith Pleas & Associates discuss data access changes in .NET and success rates using the VB6 Upgrade Wizard. (MP3 Audio, 15:13 mins)
September 21, 2005
PDC 2005: Wrap Up
Jerry is secure in knowing that this year's party is over.
September 19, 2005
PDC 2005: Day Three
Dan Spisak steps in to report on R2 release of Windows Server 2003, among other topics.
September 16, 2005
Visual Basic 9.0: Looking Forward
Scott Swigart talks with Microsoft's Visual Basic team about some of the changes coming in VB 9.0.
September 15, 2005
PDC 2005: Day Two
Four hours into Day 2 of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference and Jerry is already on information overload.
September 15, 2005
PDC 2005: Opening Day
Jerry Pournelle reports on Day 1 of Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference 2005, including the major overhaul of Windows in Vista. Dan Spisak also reports on on the tech breakouts, such as the Windows Presentation Foundation talk.
September 13, 2005
Lots of Project Buzz at PDC 2005
Hot topics this week at Microsoft Professional Developers Conference will include AJAX, Acrylic, and Sparkle. Will PDC be dessert topping or floor wax? Either way Dr. Dobb's PDC Show Daily will provide the rundown.
September 12, 2005
Migrating VB6 to VB.NET
Hosts Mark Baker and Nik Hemdal explore the topic of migrating to .NET with Microsoft Product Manager Eugenio Pace of the Patterns and Practices Group, and Keith Pleas of Keith Pleas & Associates. (MP3 Audio, 16:11 mins)
September 12, 2005
ASP.NET2theMax
Each version of Windows has created new issues for using ASP.NET Impersonation. Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 provide new impersonation features that were trouble in Windows 2000 with IIS 5.0.
September 12, 2005
Mapping, GIS, & Web Services
Trina Seinfeld, Lead Product Manager in the MapPoint Business Unit at Microsoft, talks about mapping and web services--and new features of MapPoint Web Services 4.0. (MP3 Audio, 4:30 mins.)
September 9, 2005
Automated Tracing with .NET Reflection
Reflection can help us create a tracing method that automatically determines the name of the method we're entering that is less error prone.
September 6, 2005
Multithreading .NET Apps for Optimal Performance
Multithreading delivers maximum performance from parallel CPU architectures. .NET has two main threading mechanisms—the Thread class and asynchronous methods.
September 1, 2005
C++/CLI: Cloning
C++/CLI "cloning" capabilities let you make copies of heap-based objects.
September 1, 2005


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