(James Yaple) In the summer of 2003, Dr. Neil Gunther used several CMG MeasureIT articles to introduce what he called “Guerrilla Capacity Planning.” Since many of the factors involved in developing a performance model are unknown or uncertain, an accurate model can be difficult to construct. A “gue
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IBM WebSphere RFID Handbook: A Solution Guide
(James Chamberlain, Corinne Blanchard, Sam Burlingame, Sarika Chandramohan, Eric Forestier, Gary Griffith, Mary Lou Mazzara, Subu Musti, Sung-Ik Son, Glenn Stump and Christoph Weiss) This IBM Redbook explains the key products and components that are included in the WebSphere RFID solution, with a fo
Introduction to XAML
(Mahesh Chand) XAML is a new descriptive programming language developed by Microsoft to write user interfaces for next generation managed applications. This article is a basic introduction to XAML.
Visual Studio 2005 Hands-On Tutorial – Part 4
(David Catherman) This is the fourth part in a series of hands-on tutorials that will take you through all the steps to build a complete application using the new SQL Server 2005 database and Visual Studio 2005 IDE tools. The tutorial is finished by creating a Web Service to host the data and then c
Raise Printing to a Fine Art in Windows Forms
(Wei-Meng Lee) Printing is an integral functionality found in almost every decent Windows application. For example, you might be working on a POS (Point of Sale) application and need to print receipts, or you may want to print out employee records from a database. In either case, you need to be able
New in C# 3.0: Create and Initialize Collection Objects in One Step
(Vipul Patel) To recap a previous article, the new object initializer feature in C# 3.0 is a simple syntax that eases the construction and initialization of objects.
Tuning Up SQL Server 2005 Databases
(Mike Gunderloy) It’s a familiar problem for most developers. The application is just about finished, the near-final bits are rolled out to the test servers…and things aren’t quite fast enough to suit everyone. As you scramble around looking for places to squeeze out another few percentage points
Checklist: Getting ready for SQL Server 2005
(Greg Robidoux) If you haven’t done much yet with SQL Server 2005, the time has come. It has been six months now since Microsoft released the new DBMS to manufacturing (RTM), and a month since it released its first service pack — yet many people haven’t taken the time to prepare or even think about
Model-Driven Development of .NET Enterprise Applications
(Susan Entwisle and Steve Eadie) Model-Driven Development represents the next logical step forward in software development methods and practices. It aims to facilitate the automatic construction of a software solution from a high-level domain-specific specification. This approach seeks to promote pr
Ajax RSS reader
(Jack D. Herrington) The first thing I thought about doing when I read about requesting Extensible Markup Language (XML) from JavaScript code on a Web page was to get some RSS and display it. But I immediately ran into the security issue of XML Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), where a page that c