(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

(John Mueller) You might not be familiar with messages, but they’re extremely important, especially when you need to perform tasks outside of the range of tasks that Microsoft programmed into the .NET Framework. All communication in Windows relies on messages.

(Dinesh Tawar) CAS stands for Code Access security. CAS is a process that controls the access that code has to protected resources and operations. CAS allows code to be trusted to varying degrees, depending on where the code originates and on other aspects of the code’s identity. CAS also enforces t

(Eric Smith) ASP.NET uses the ViewState to store data going back and forth to the server, eliminating the manual drudgery of reloading form controls and so forth. The ViewState can also be helpful for keeping your own state information, once you know how to read and write it. Using the ViewState can

(Bill Sempf) Visual Basic was designed as a desktop, not enterprise, development language. If you will step with me into the Great Train to Yesteryear, you’ll remember that the TSO and mainframe computers—running COBOL programs and CICS screens against DB2 databases, largely—were the norm when Visua

(Arik Kilman) Every Fortune 1,000 corporation has within its IT domain robust, mission-critical legacy applications. Deployed as far back as the 1970s and ’80s, they are often stable, reliable, fast, productive, efficient, and are the heart and soul of the enterprise. In many cases, legacy systems a

(Alejandro Gervasio) Welcome to the first of three tutorials in a series that covers network programming in PHP. In this article you will learn how to use some useful PHP networking functions that will help you perform a variety of common networking tasks. To that end, you will build a simple networ

(Tony Patton) As application development matured as a discipline, design patterns emerged as solutions for common programming problems. Design patterns provide a vehicle for experienced developers to share their time-tested approaches to solving problems faced by every developer day after day. I’ll

(Ryan Moore) ASP.NET, like other Web platforms such as PHP, JSP, and ColdFusion, is a set of Web development technologies that can be used to create Web applications and Web Services. ASP.NET is the next generation of Microsoft’s Active Server Pages, a technology that was widely used to create Web a

(Dave Pierce, Jeff Moll and Darpan Biswas) Data warehouse solutions are becoming almost ubiquitous as a supporting technology for the operational and strategic functions at most companies. Data warehouses (DWs) play an integral role in business functions as diverse as enterprise process management,