Dare Obasanjo
looks at the available options for representing XML-based data that is shared between components within a single process/AppDomain and discusses the design tradeoffs of each approach.
This week, Microsoft
will release its first upgrade to its .NET Compact Framework, bringing mobile developers more performance, more UI support and a raft of new access technologies to make it easier for devs to integrate mobile devices with a wide array of XML, SQL and COM resources on legacy apps and databases.
Submitted by Konrad Mrożek
2004-03-22
.NET
Student's team from University of Wroclaw (Poland), developing new .NET platform hybrid language
Nemerle, get a grant from Microsoft in the amount to 25 thousand EURO. That was a reward in a competition which was in connection with the ROTOR platform. Mono was also used.
DotGNU's Portable.Net is a portable suite of tools (including a C# compiler, assembler, and runtime engine).
In this release, the C to IL bytecode compiler is now in good shape, and many bugs were fixed in System.Windows.Forms and System.Xml.
Submitted by Marc Clifton
2004-03-11
.NET
MyXaml is an open source development effort bringing XML markup parsing to the .NET Framework and third party object models. The concept is similar to Longhorn's markup (code-named XAML).
Windows Forms Markup Language (WFML) provides an extensible mechanism to add a markup model on top of an existing .NET Framework object model. WFMLs parsing rules can be summarized as "XML elements map to .NET Framework types and XML attributes map to Type properties (or events)".
This sample includes a WFML parser that dynamically generates an object instance tree from an XML file in WFML format.
Ted Neward (DevelopMentor, TheServerSide.Net) and Bruce Tate (Bitter Java)
talk about the relationship between Java and .NET, underscoring the issues with interop between the two platforms. Presentations are played using the Microsoft Windows Media Player.
Microsoft's bet-the-company initiative turns 4 this year. Are developers happier? Has the Windows experience improved? InfoWorld
reviews .Net's tools and technologies for a top-to-bottom evaluation.
Some interesting Longhorn and .NET articles for developers appeared on MSDN:
Submitted by Bernhard Spuida
2004-02-20
.NET
Release 0.99 of the Open Source IDE SharpDevelop for the .NET platform has been
released today. The most important change is a Forms Designer and Code Completion for Visual Basic .NET, another useful addition is the SharpQuery Database add-in. The Mono version of the free IDE, MonoDevelop, is scheduled for a first release
in a few days.
The first and second articles in this series about .NET security covered the basics of .NET identity-based security, and showed you how to implement custom authentication and authorization schemes.
In this last installment, you get the missing piece of the puzzle: Learn how to implement identity flow and identity impersonation across.NET-distributed multilayered applications.
Whether you are developing at the enterprise level or for the smallest venues, IT is all about automation, finding ways to allow these infernal machines to do things
better, faster, or in many cases, "at all" than the human alternatives.
Submitted by silent.c
2004-01-30
.NET
For some reason, Microsoft's brilliant and cutting-edge .NET development environment left out one crucial tool... a tool that has been common in software development environments since, oh, about 1950, and taken so much for granted that it's incredibly strange that nobody noticed that .NET doesn't really have one. Read more on what Joel has to say
here.
The .NET Framework class library is a set of namespaces, classes, interfaces, and value types, which you'll use in .NET applications, components, and controls.
In this chapter from A "
Programmer's Guide to .NET", you'll learn about several of basic classes included in the .NET Framework class library, and get an introduction to collections.
The System namespace holds classes for simple common tasks, and a large number of sub-namespaces for slightly less common (but still important) tasks, including string manipulation, IO, and threading.
Learn how .NET handles namespaces -- and how they can make your life easier.
Carl and Mark
have a chat with
Sam Gentile about sci-fi authors, COM Interop's problems, Extreme Programming, dual programming, unit testing, Sam's thoughts on the state of the .NET Framework, Groove, the cross-platform potential of the .NET Framework, the CLI, Rotor and Mono.
OK, so you want to create a windows service and you're not a .NET guru? This is exactly what got me in trouble with my wife. It started off easy enough, but before the weekend was through, my wife was getting on to me for spending so much time at the computer. She thought that I should be spending quality time with our family, imagine that. I told her that I was doing some 'personal' research, that, "no, it's not work honey" and "I'm trying to learn some new technology", "think of it as reading a book, only on the computer..." Inanities like that, she wasn't having any of it, of course. Regardless, I am glad to report, I figured it out and just in the nick of time, too.
Submitted by Ah-Pook, The Destroyer
2003-12-20
.NET
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Visual Basic .NET. Download for free or order a CD for a small fee.
This article on Microsoft .NET and J2EE presents interoperability best practices, and illustrates these approaches with a functional sample application. It shows how to link Microsoft .NET and J2EE, using Web services, runtime bridges, and asynchronous techniques.
Fundamentally, a XAML page describes the classes that the runtime should create, the property values and event handlers for the instances of the classes, and an object model hierarchy—that is, which instance is the parent of another instance. Read the
development article here.
