(Juval Löwy) The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 introduces a new transactional programming model in the System.Transactions namespace. See its features and capabilities, and advanced features such as asynchronous work, events, security, concurrency management and interoperability.

(Mark Goetsch) In this article I’ll use component diagrams to link the class diagrams I discussed in earlier articles (see part 1, “Building Classes,” part 2, “Mastering Associations,” and part 3, “Aggregating”) with the “Deployment Diagrams” in Part 4.

(Peter Swithinbank, Francesca Gigante, Hedley Proctor, Mahendra Rathore and William Widjaja) IBM and Microsoft are strong supporters of the Web Services Interoperability Organization’s (WS-I) efforts to make building solutions using software from different suppliers a reality. In this IBM Redboo

(Tim Dawson) You can go a long way to make a large application customisable. You can include a comprehensive options and preferences system or even use configuration files to allow access to advanced settings, but there’s nothing like being able to write code within an application to fully control i

(Alexander Shirshov) Developers working with Microsoft SQL Server enjoyed declarative handling of transactions since Windows NT 4.0 days. With .NET Framework this usually means we need to inherit a class from ServicedComponent, apply TransactionAttribute to it and use SetAbort/SetComplete methods to

(Alejandro Gervasio) This second part of this series gets a little more technical with the basics of Aggregation. It begins working with a MySQL abstraction class and a useful paging class, and is starting to get into writing portable code and introducing the technique of aggregation.

(Deepak Dutta) An attribute is a powerful .NET language feature that is attached to a target programming element (e.g., a class, method, assembly, interface, etc.) to customize behaviors or extract organizational information of the target at design, compile, or runtime.

(Tony Patton) Every application seems to present unique challenges for displaying text. These hurdles are easily cleared by utilizing format classes. The .NET Framework includes basic format objects for standard types, and it is easy to develop custom classes to fit your needs.

(Eric Landes) Welcome to my article describing the toolkit I use when developing Crystal Reports for ASP.NET environments. This toolkit includes some of the code snippets, websites, direct links, and other bits and pieces that I turn to when creating a Crystal Reports web solution.

(Michael Miller and Bertan Tezcan) Whether it is at the core, edge or access platform, network routers have one basic function: packet forwarding. Edge routers, however, have the need to perform additional processing and deeper examination of incoming packets – in the most efficient manner. To a