(Miko Matsumura) Have you heard about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? If not, please come out of the cave you have been hiding in.

(April Tallett) According to the Standish Group, the primary contributor for project success (projects delivered on-time and on-budget) is great customer involvement. Knowing that, it makes sense to define best practices for dealing with customers. In the coming months, you will look at best practic

(Jason Beres) Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET in 21 Days will help developers that are new to application development and experienced developers understand how to use the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET.

Enterprise Information Integration (EII) is a new technology that allows companies to combine data from disparate sources into a single application. Executives can use the information from an EII application to drive operational business decisions based on current information. (pdf)

(Paul DiLascia) In the January 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine you had an example of writing a mixed-mode application. Is it possible to dynamically load a .NET class/DLL and call those functions? Let’s say I had an application that was a native C++ app and I wanted to allow users to write a plug-in

(Dennis Pallett) Welcome to the first part of a new two-part series on the PHP:Form web component. In this part, I will give you an introduction to PHP:Form, its features, and why it is so useful. I will also discuss the inbuilt validators that PHP:Form supports. In the second part I will discuss th

(Phillip Perkins) I once read an article about AdBlock, which is an extension available to Mozilla. This add-on allows users to enter filter expressions to limit content delivered to the browser. It hit me that I could also use something like that for Internet Explorer (IE). In this article, I’ll bu

(Stephen Toub) I’m using the System.IO.Compression.GZipStream class in the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to compress data into a .gz file. When I open the archive in WinZip, it appears that the name of the file I compressed was not stored as I had expected it to be. How can I add the name to the .gz

(Rajesh Toleti) Right now the latest buzzword around town is AJAX. AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and is a method used to implement remote calling. "Remote calling" is the exchange of information between client and server without page reloading/refreshing. When you use remote

(Jeffrey Richter) In my career, I have architected and implemented many thread synchronization techniques. This has provided me with a lot of experience that has shaped the way I now think about thread synchronization problems. In this new column about concurrency, I will discuss my way of thinking