(Scott Bellware) In the space of a couple years, the architecture track has swelled from a handful of sessions and a couple of panels, to a first class citizen of the overall Tech-Ed experience. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) made its presence felt from Steve Ballmer’s keynote, to the last

(Iqbal Khan) Domain objects in an application represent the core data and business validation rules relating to it. And, domain objects are usually central to the entire application and used by most subsystems. Therefore, their good design is critical for a good application design that is robust

(Matt Nicholson) For those involved in mobile or embedded development for Windows-based devices the place to be this May was Las Vegas where Microsoft was holding its Mobile & Embedded Developer Conference (MEDC) 2005. Here over 2,000 delegates turned up to attend more than 100 sessions spanning

(Anneke Kleppe and Jos Warmer) The UML association is a concept that is often misunderstood. The most common misperception is that an association is the same as a pointer, or maybe two pointers, in a program. UML associations are much more powerful than that.

(Tony Patton) Over the past several weeks we’ve developed a Web service from start to finish and learned how to expose product information. The Web service was developed with the .NET Framework, and a proxy class was created to test the functionality.

(Peyton McCullough) While absolute positioning of controls may work in some odd cases, absolute positioning isn’t convenient or pretty. This article will explain methods that can be used to better oganize controls in your wxPython aplications.

(Christian Nagel) Transaction services are usually the main reason why Enterprise Services is used. So that you do not have to deal with transactions programmatically, Enterprise Services offers a way to use transactions by using attributes.

(David Schrodel) The bad news about compliance for IT infrastructure is – wait, you already know the bad news. The good news is there are efficient ways to deal with compliance – ways that will send multiple benefits rippling through your organization. You’ll save money, become more efficient and

This paper discusses best-practice approaches for information security in medium-size businesses and provides a framework to ensure proper investment decisions for protecting confidentiality, integrity and availability of electronic information. (R, pdf)

(Brad McCabe) Building multithreaded applications is easy with the new BackgroundWorker component in Visual Studio 2005, and it allows you to create interactive applications with minimal work.