Tuesday, August 13, 2002

Interview: Jeff Raikes outlines the future role of Office [IDG InfoWorld] Office's future seems to have a lot of Groove in it: Raikes: We have been on the other side of the fence at times, but we've always respected and admired [Groove Networks founder] Ray [Ozzie]'s vision and technical ability. He has had a great impact on us. He sat in on some of our file storage or unified storage discussions and provided us [with] good feedback for some of the things in the .Net platform. The thing that I think customers are fascinated by with Groove today is the fact that you can do peer-to-peer collaboration, you can do it offline, you can do it through the firewall. InfoWorld: So you can collaborate across an enterprise domain? Raikes: Right. SharePoint Team Services has some great capabilities but [it] is very much focused within your corporate intranet and online. So with Groove you can extend SharePoint Team Services sites to go through the firewall and to be offline. So there's some very nice synergy there. 1:27:58 PM

O'Reilly Network Review of ASP.NET Web Matrix. O'Reilly Network Review of ASP.NET Web Matrix There's an in-depth review of the ASP.NET Web Matrix environment over on The O'Reilly Network. Web Matrix is a great alternative to VisualStudio.NET if you can't afford it. The feature sets are almost identical for ASP.NET work and in some aspects Web Matrix is even superior.[Drew's Blog] I am currently not doing much with the ASP.NET side of things and haven't gotten a chance to even download Web Matrix so this is very helpful. Thanks for the pointer Drew! 1:25:44 PM

Finally finished my thoughts on Connection point based event handling between COM and .NET.  I would love feedback... [Paresh Suthar's Radio Weblog] Ahh, I finally found my story that went with this. Paresh's story is a detailed how-to of the solution to the COM Interop problem. 10:05:41 AM

Recently Microsoft released an Oracle data provider (for free, of course), which can be used to connect to Oracle databases and boasts performance benefits of up to 200% over the generic OleDb data provider. This tip discusses Microsoft's .NET Framework data provider for Oracle. 8:59:44 AM

HTTP-based security mechanisms are currently the best way to keep your Web services secure. Learn how to secure a Web service using a combination of features found in Microsoft IIS and Microsoft ASP.NET. 8:57:27 AM

One particularly clever way of maintaining state that hides all the challenging work is to simply use the Microsoft ASP.NET System.Web.SessionState.HttpSessionState class. You can use the ASP.NET HttpSessionState class from a Web method just as you can from ASPX pages, but things work a little differently for Web methods. 8:55:56 AM

The author explains how to get data out of the SqlDataReader. He explains how to get the column data including GetString(), GetDateTime(), GetValue(), etc 8:54:05 AM

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