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Paul Andrews: "What happened to .NET? Microsoft's flagship strategy for 'any time, anywhere computing from any device' has sunk like a stone. By now we were supposed to be seeing initial .NET applications, but the new rallying cry seems to be for Palladium, a security initiative that has met with the same skepticism and resistance from the developer community that .NET inspired. At its worst, Palladium looks to be a sop to Hollywood and its efforts to control digital content."  [Scripting News]
I'm perplexed at your article Paul. .NET is being used by thousands of companies around the world in their applications. Its a rapid development and deployment kind of infrastructure technology not one to be "seeing initial .NET applications." In that way, its not neccessarily a "showy" technology. Its just doing its job and helping developers create their applications a lot quicker. On what merits has it "sunk like a stone?"
10:04:39 AM
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For people trying to understand programming in the new .NET Framework, I higly suggest watching this episode of the .NET Show. In this episode, the presenters talk with Brad Abrams and Chris Anderson, two of the people who structured the .NET Framework in a consistant and straightforward fashion. They provide some of the background and concepts that gave birth to the .NET Framework and explain how they worked with the various groups to provide a consistent object model.
9:48:54 AM
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As the work progressed, however, I realized that this article could be a great tutorial to show the power of VB.NET. I developed 4 goals for the project: 1. to demonstrate how to use the Windows API function mciSendString in VB.NET, 2. to build a library of CD audio functions that could be expanded to handle other media types, 3. to build a cd player that would demonstrate most of the mciSendString capabilities, and 4. to build a button array class to use within the application. I used Visual Studio.NET to build the various parts of this application.
9:45:04 AM
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The KPD-Team has released a new version of their SecureSocket class that implements the SSL, TLS and PCT security protocols. These protocols are used to encrypt sensitive data sent over a network.
9:35:44 AM
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DataGrids, DataSets, and XML Strings
.NET has provided us with many useful tools to assist us in working with XML data. We can use a combination of DataSets and DataGrids to present data found in XML files. In the example illustrated in this article, we see that we are not limited to the presentation of XML files alone, but we can also use data found in XML strings. .NET is indeed a veritable cornucopia of tools and possibilities.
9:33:35 AM
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Scott Seely: This column - Sharing Types - addresses a common problem with Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET Web service development: sharing data types across Web services. This issue arises when a developer creates a set of Web services with what appears to be well-thought-out portTypes and data types. Then, things quickly go awry when creating a client for that Web service. How? Two Web services use the exact same type
9:32:12 AM
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Performance Considerations. Here's a list of performance considerations to keep in mind when considering the move to Managed Code.... [MC++ FAQ]
I would add somthing about if you app expects certain things to happen in a determinstic way or uses resources that must be released in a determinstic way, that the app will not be a good candidate today for moving to managed code, or you must at least be quite dilligent in your finalizer code, which then leads to another performance problem itself.
9:01:51 AM
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Testing Type Equivalence. C# has both is and as operators to do type convertions (casting) and type equivalence checks (that is, see if... [MC++ FAQ]
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© Copyright 2002 Sam Gentile.
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