Learn how you can find design inspiration in unusual places, and break out of conventions that were established because of technical limitations.
- By Molly E. Holzschlag
- 07/01/2006
Reduce maintenance costs from security logic that is interwoven with application logic. Apply a simple design that lets you plug in a role-based access control component.
- By Pradeep Juttu
- 06/14/2006
Distinguished Names (DNs) are one of the least-understood LDAP server components. Get an introduction to them, and see how a virtual directory can help with DN management.
Open sourcing Java was the buzz at JavaOne, and discussions among attendees influenced part of the 2006 Java Technology Roundtable. Find out the experts' views on the state of Java.
- By Simon Phipps
- 06/09/2006
WPF is going to change the way you write graphics applications, but it''s going to take a while before you see it adopted broadly.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/08/2006
Microsoft's new Forefront products and Vista security enhancements were highlighted at this week's TechEd keynote.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/08/2006
Developers who work on the UI side of advanced apps must learn new technology for forms-based dev to improve the user experience.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/08/2006
WPF is going to change the way you write graphics applications, but it's going to take a while before you see it adopted broadly.
- By Billy Hollis
- 06/08/2006
VSM presented its annual Readers Choice Awards to the Visual Studio vendor community.
The .NET Framework 3.0 represents a major set of functionality in .NET, and yet doesn't change any existing .NET Framework 2.0 libraries, compilers, or features.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 06/08/2006
Application development is messy and unpredictable. Here are three key things a technical leader should do to deliver software in spite of the chaos and change that can accompany a project.
Use Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals to extend your team''s functionality and improve collaboration.
- By Cameron Skinner
- 06/01/2006
Here's how to look for warning signs that might indicate future problems, and how to balance your design decisions accordingly.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 06/01/2006
Increase productivity and consistency by leveraging your ASP.NET 2.0 databinding capabilities.
Take advantage of .NET attributes to provide robust validation for your business objects, while generating user-interface validation automatically.
- By Steve Michelotti
- 06/01/2006
Move beyond the techno-speak, and learn how you can leverage new features in C# 3.0.
- By Richard Hale Shaw
- 06/01/2006
It'd be ideal to have versioning support in the core language specs for .NET and Java. But in the absence of such features, you can still do things today to build applications that show resilience in the face of change.
Use ObjectBuilder to access dependency-injection benefits and avoid application performance problems.
- By Daniel Cazzulino
- 06/01/2006
Discover how EA and governance give managers the necessary tools for streamlining user services and creating platforms that deliver faster and cheaper services.
Determining the priorities of one software feature over another can be difficult. Here's how to tackle that challenge.