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Wednesday, July 24, 2002 |
Gates: Slow going for .Net. Microsoft's chief software architect acknowledges that the company's Web services push has run into some roadblocks. Also: .Net set to link to Apache. [CNET News.com]
Well, I stand corrected on my earlier push back. Gates does say what I said about the renaming of BackOffice Servers:
"Maybe the .Net Enterprise servers," launched in September 2000, were "prematurely called .Net. The first generation of .Net products was putting a layer on top of existing functionality," Gates said.
Shoot, that means Dare was right...again -))
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George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ has hundreds of frequently asked questions on Windows Forms. The FAQ has had more than eighty articles added in the last twelve weeks.
9:56:30 AM
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It should be noted that, like DataGrid, DataList does not support inbuilt paging mechanism. The essence of this article is how we make use of the object SqlDataAdapter.
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The Microsoft .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle is an add-on component to the Microsoft .NET Framework that provides access to an Oracle database using the Oracle Call Interface (OCI) as provided by Oracle Client software. Oracle 8i Release 3 (8.1.7) Client or later must be installed for this provider to function.
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I have come in on a contract basis for the last 7 months and helped Groove produce some great things. We have had a great relationship and will continue to have one in the future (with Groove work). The current contract will complete on July 30th and I am available. I am interested in continuing to do .NET and Web Services work. If you are interested, you can contact me at ManagedCode at attbi.com.
1:04:29 AM
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Patrick Logan and Sam Gentile push back on Paul Andrews' assessment of .NET. Perhaps I can shed some light. Paul is a user and a journalist, not a developer. Two years ago Microsoft started making a lot of claims about .NET including some specific ship dates and features, that they have missed. Paul isn't responsible for explaining to readers the why's and wherefore's, and it's good that he is checking up on their delivery, so perhaps next time big companies like MS make grand proclamations about their dominance, they'll be taken with a few more grains of salt, and not clear the landscape of all innovation until they ship, or fail to. It's happened over and over. Paul has been around the loop enough to have seen it a few times. And he's generally a Microsoft booster, not a detractor. [Scripting News]
A tip of the hat and thanks to Dave for sending all that traffic my way. I appreciate the explanation about Paul (BTW, I'm not sure its material to his discussion whether he's a Microsoft backer or detractor) and do fault the Microsoft marketing machine for marking everything ".NET" such that users are totally confused. Branding all the BackOffice Servers as .NET Servers was just stupid IMHO, as they don't have a line of managed code in them. However, I can't be in agreement with the dates thing. What dates were missed? Microsoft hit the end of the year 2001 date for the .NET Framework and the Feb 14, 2002 date for VS.NET. They hit dates for the Rotor CLI release. What dates am I missing? Also, agreeing with Patrick, the question still stands: In what way did ".NET sink like a stone?" It doesn't require a developer to answer this question. "What I object to in Paul's piece is his phrase "sunk like a stone". I don't think it has, and I don't think that's fair. dotNET is just getting started."
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© Copyright 2002 Sam Gentile.
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