Vol. 5 Iss: 10 Read Back Issues

How To Design, Build, and Deploy Custom Web Parts As portals gain in popularity, both as consumer-focused information portals and corporate collaboration tools, developers are increasingly being told to integrate customized portal features. In this article, I'll take a look at the solutions Microsoft offers for creating Web portals an... Jan. 9, 2008  Reads: 8,540

Mono 1.2.5 and 1.2.5.1 In part because of MoMA, the Mono analyzer, there were 1,907 new methods implemented in this release, System.Data is 99% compatible with .NET 2.0, and about 150 bugs were fixed in System.Windows.Forms alone. This was the first version released after Novell hired a full-time QA person f... Dec. 28, 2007  Reads: 4,763

Extending SourceSafe for Internet and Cross-Platform Development Shipped as a part of Microsoft Visual Studio, SourceSafe sells more than $40 million (US) per year (Source: IDC) and is a very popular version control program for Windows developers. As the teams go distributed and cross-platform, the limitations of SourceSafe rise to the surface. In f... Dec. 27, 2007  Reads: 6,377

Developing Situational Applications with Web 2.0 Mashups The evolution of Web sites to dynamic rich interactive applications is a true revolution for users. But for ASP.NET developers tasked with building high-performing scalable applications, it presents major challenges. The features that characterize blogs, wikis, personalized pages, and ... Dec. 26, 2007  Reads: 13,059

New Device Development Features in Visual Studio 2008 Roughly two years ago, when I was writing an article on 'New Features for Device Developers in Visual Studio 2005' that was published in the August 2005 issues of this magazine, our program management team was already busy shaping the next release of the product, which is soon to be re... Dec. 25, 2007  Reads: 19,230

Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation & Custom Business Objects The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides the foundation for building applications and high-fidelity experiences in Windows Vista, blending together application UI, documents, and media content. WPF contains two data sources for XML and objects. To enhance productivi... Dec. 23, 2007  Reads: 5,600

How SI International Leveraged Microsoft SharePoint & CorasWorks SI International (www.si-intl.com) is a provider of information technology and network solutions, primarily to the United States government, But due to its continued success in defining, designing, building, deploying, and operating mission-critical solutions for the Department of Defe... Dec. 22, 2007  Reads: 4,616

Visual Studio 2008 Is Here Another version of Visual Studio is here and while there are many cool features, we can conclude a lot from the fact that it isn't a staggering release. The first Visual Studio that wore the .NET moniker was a paradigm shift and threw in many features such as Web services, which though... Dec. 21, 2007  Reads: 5,363