(John Charles Olamendy) Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications need to have a runtime environment for the management of its object’s lifecycle. The host process models allows is a new concept in WCF referring to WCF hosting environment which can have several services, and the same servi

(Chad A. Campbell) Silverlight opens the door for exciting new ways to provide more productive, engaging, and innovative experiences across multiple platforms. Excitingly, developers are able to leverage existing development skills to create these experiences.

(Alex Homer) One technique becoming increasingly popular with developers is the adoption of an Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) model. AOP provides techniques for changing the behavior of business objects and other classes through the application of policies, making it easier to implement common cr

(Jeff Friesen) The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) can host languages other than Java. This flexibility is perfect for non-Java developers who want to work within the contexts of their own languages, while reaping JRE benefits (such as a cross-platform virtual machine with security features). And thi

(Uday Denduluri) In this article we will discuss some miscellaneous concepts of .Net technology. This article will be the continuation for my previous article. We will discuss Just in Time compilation in detail in the first part of my article and then discuss the GAC and satellite assemblies.

(Brian Mains) Iterative and Agile development provide a different approach to developing applications that traditional “waterfall” methodologies. Agile and Iterative methdologies are a more fluid, customer-driven, and evolutionary-designed approach to developing applications. Whereas waterfall devel

(Alexander Kuznetsov) Of the several ways to enforce business rules in the database, only constraints can guarantee that your business rules are always enforced for all your data. This article teaches you how to apply foreign key constraints with the ON UPDATE CASCADE clause to implement waterproof

(Irina Medvinskaya) With the complexity of today’s applications, developers often deal with classes that are very long. One way to make the classes more manageable is to split them across multiple files. Partial is a new keyword in VB.NET that allows you to split the classes to multiple physical sou

(Chad Files) When you’re designing and developing new software systems, it is often hard to see how all the pieces are suppose to fit together. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one tool that allow developers and architects to ease the process and create a big picture before committing to a particu

(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET 2.0’s data source and data Web controls make working with data much easier than in previous versions. These controls allow for a declarative approach to working with data, without needing to write any cumbersome data access code. The articles we have explored in the series t