(Raja Kishore) Suppose you have been asked to migrate an existing multi-tier application to .NET, where the business layer is written in Java. Normally, you would have no option but to recode and port the entire application to the .NET language (e.g. C#). This is where IKVM.NET comes to the rescue!

(Scott Wisniewski) In the June 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine, Kit George and Ting Liang provided an introduction to some of the new features being introduced in Visual Basic 9.0 to support Language Integrated Query, or LINQ. In particular, they showed how LINQ is a universal data platform designed to

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(Saif Rehman) One of the most exciting new features on Crystal Reports XI is dynamic parameter fields. With previous versions of Crystal Reports you could browse your data source for a list of values to select from, but this was only available at design time. When you viewed the report again, the sa