How To Get Ready For Vista
Although Microsoft's Windows Vista is still months away from general release, your customers and users are most likely pounding you with questions about the new OS now.
September 29, 2006
Microsoft Cautions Developers About Visual Studio/Vista Conflicts
Microsoft set off a furor among developers this week when it disclosed that Visual Studio 2005 won't be fully compatible with Vista and that older versions of Visual Studio won't be supported at all on Vista. Microsoft pledged to smooth out the Visual Studio 2005 software conflicts with a patch "soon" after Vista's release.
September 28, 2006
Q&A: Intel VP Pat Gelsinger
Gelsinger, senior VP and general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel, talks about Intel's relationship and involvement with Apple, Microsoft, Bill Gates, Xen, Windows Vista, and system builders, among other topics.
September 28, 2006
Optimizing Memory in .NET Applications
Deepen your understanding of how a .NET application uses memory, and what an application developer can do to improve memory management for better performance and more reliable applications.
September 27, 2006
Building Mobile Smart Clients
Microsoft's Ed Jezierski of the Patterns & Practices group digs into the origins of the Mobile Smart Client Software Factory and how lessons learned on the desktop variety influenced its design. Ed is the architect of the Mobile SCSF. (MP3)
September 26, 2006
An Interview with James Whittaker
Michael Hunter interviews James Whittaker, noted testing guru and author, to shed some light on his testing philosophy.
September 26, 2006
$-Expressions in ASP.NET
ASP.NET $-expressions are just the ticket for good declarative programming with data source controls, as well as other ASP.NET server controls.
September 22, 2006
Smartly Present Your Views
The Model View Presenter pattern is heavily used in CAB. Microsoft's Peter Provost explores the responsibilities of the View and Presenter to enable Test Driven Development. Peter also talks about lessons the team learned in developing CAB, the Smart Client Software Factory, and the Reference Implementations that drove their understanding of the technology. (MP3)
September 15, 2006
Review: AppWorx Enables Smoother Processing Of Business Apps
Most of the processing of business applications running today are executed in an asynchronous non-realtime batch mode. To oversee those jobs, companies employ operators and depend on job schedulers and scripts to execute complex systems. However, scripting large jobs is very expensive as it requires scripting experts, developers and operators to determine the execution paths.
September 15, 2006
Review: Security Cleanup For Ajax Apps
We look at four solutions -- Cenzic's Hailstorm, the SPI Dynamics suite, Finjan's Vital Security Appliance and Apache's XAP -- that can help developers mitigate the vulnerabilities posed by Ajax-based Web applications.
September 15, 2006
Rollout: Tenable's Nessus 3.0
Fee-based capabilities enhance the Nessus vulnerability scanner. The endpoint-compliance functionality isn't always pretty, but it gets the job done well, and cheaply.
September 15, 2006
Virtual App Wars Move From OS To Desktop
Microsoft, Citrix and AppStream are among the pack of vendors rushing to gain a foothold in the application virtualization market, where the focus is moving beyond the server and operating system to desktop apps.
September 8, 2006
Application Responsiveness
A responsive UI is a happy UI. It's snappy, responds to input promptly, and doesn't leave users hanging. But that's easier said than done.
September 8, 2006
Review: Top 5 Improvements In Vista RC1
Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 addresses some key concerns about the operating system's earlier beta versions. Here are the top five improvements that the CRN Test Center found after testing Vista RC1.
September 8, 2006
The SPAMMED Architecture Framework
The SPAMMED Architecture Framework Arnon presents here helps you identify the steps and activities you need to design, model, and build successful architectures.
September 7, 2006
Parameterized Communication
Obol is a Lisp-like, domain-specific language for testing and experimenting with when constructing and using security protocols in real systems.
September 6, 2006
Cisco, Microsoft Join Forces On Security
Cisco Systems and Microsoft on Wednesday said they're delivering on a two-year-old promise to make their network-access security offerings interoperable.
September 6, 2006
Review: Use Windows For Unix Services
Want to run best-of-breed apps under both Windows and Unix? There's an option for doing this: Microsoft's Posix subsystem. It lets Unix apps think they are using regular Unix, but they are actually using Windows.
September 6, 2006
Review: Citrix's Reign Might End 2X Faster
2X Software has released TerminalServer for Linux, which runs Linux and Windows desktop applications over any bandwidth connection. In conjunction with the 2X ApplicationServer, the product gives 2X a leg up on Citrix by virtually eliminating the need for expensive engineers and long installs to implement terminal services solutions.
September 5, 2006
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