.NET Archive

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.

The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP3 Redistributable includes everything you need to run .NET Compact Framework applications, including the Common Language Runtime and the .NET Compact Framework class library. Elsewhere, Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software.

We all understand the need to comprehensively document our class libraries and to keep it up to date with the code base. And still, documentation is an ongoing pain for all of us. The Visual Studio .NET IDE takes a first big step in easing that pain. It allows to document your code in a way that the compiler can create an XML document describing your classes, methods, properties, etc. This article explains how to use this feature and then create a basic help file out of it.

A small startup in Microsoft's backyard is poised to begin shipping a tiny, 32-pin chip-like computer module that runs ".NET Embedded," a new Microsoft embedded software platform developed for use in watches and other "smart personal objects." The module, developed by startup .netcpu Corp., incorporates portions of Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) hardware and software.

"Show us the architecture of .NET on the whiteboard," is what Jason Zander was asked and that started out an interesting discussion of what .NET is.

Sometimes you need to develop code when you don't have access to user profiles. This chapter will help you develop security code for the .NET Windows environment, even if you don't have administrative privileges.

Get a comparison of the strengths of the two most common .NET data providers for Oracle, and be prepared to select the right one for your next development project. Elsewhere, Dino Esposito builds an ASP.NET 1.x custom control that mimics the behavior and the programming interface of the ASP.NET 2.0 DetailsView control.

Stan Lippman discusses issues that developers should be aware of when porting applications to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

This article provides an overview of how to use the new Edit and Continue debugging feature in Visual C# 2005. The feature allows you to make changes to the code while an application is being debugged and apply those code changes without having to close, rebuild, and run the application again.

This article is for C++ programmers who are (at least for now) not targeting the Microsoft .NET Framework in new or existing applications. It provides some guidelines for moving to the .NET Framework without leaving behind the investment in existing code, and explains why you should consider moving to the .NET Framework not only for new development, but for existing applications as well.

DotGNU is proud to announce support for XML Path Language, and IO communication ports, as mentioned on GetDotGNU homepage. Also on GetDotGNU there are new introductory articles to KDE DCOP and .NET integration, writing .NET applications using C language, and an overview of securing the XSP ASP.NET server.

The great adaptability of C# is one of its assets, but coding for a wide variety of platforms can be overwhelming. This chapter by Steven John Metsker will help you adapt your code to different situations with ease. Also, Jim Mischel talks about the System.IO.Path class, which makes working with path names very easy. Also, learn how to use Visual Studio's tools to throw and catch, elegantly and easily.

In this article, Brian Boyce shows how a freeware product called Codesmith can be used to kick-start your projects by demonstrating the development of a set of templates to generate Select, Insert, Update, and Delete stored procedure code together with a corresponding C# data access layer to call the stored procedures.

This download contains different projects and source files which are designed to show how how some common Visual FoxPro functionally is created in Visual Basic .NET. Many of these samples are directly or indirectly based on existing Visual FoxPro 8.0 Solution Samples for comparison reference. Each project is self-contained and can be run independently of any other.