(Brian Noyes) Smart client application architecture is gaining ground as a replacement for many intranet and some internet web applications. Smart client architectures have many considerations that you need to take into account to build a well robust, reliable, scalable, performant, and secure app.

(Kerry J. Cox and Christopher Gerg) In a meeting with an engineer (Jonathan Hogue) from a security company called Okena (recently acquired by Cisco), I was introduced to the concept of the five Ps. Hogue graciously gave me the presentation slide and I use it all the time. There are a lot of models o

(Michael Rowan) For IT organizations struggling to protect corporate data in the face of shrinking backup windows and increasing data volumes, hot backup appeared to offer some relief. In his technical white paper “Achieving Atomic Database Recovery” Revivio CTO Michael Rowan takes a closer look at

(Susan Kuchinskas) Software maker Xamlon is looking to let Microsoft developers write Flash applications in their native language.

(Paul DiLascia) The Managed Extensions for C++ make it possible to mix native and managed code freely, even in the same module. Wow, life is good! Compiling with /clr, however, has consequences you may not want. It forces multithreading and dispenses with some useful runtime checks. It interferes wi

(Dimitrios Markatos) In an article I wrote for another website, titled “An Introduction to ADO.NET”, I wrote an overview on data access within the .NET framework that included v1.1, and demonstrated many different techniques that one could easily retrieve data with. This article will continue wh

(Tom Archer) The result of a regular expression is a collection (MatchCollection) of Match objects (see Figure 1). Within each Match object is a collection (GroupCollection) of Group objects. Each Group object within the GroupCollection represents either the entire match or a sub-match that was defi

(Jayarajan S Kulaindevelu) There are many dropdown controls out there for the web, but I have not seen any dropdown controls which can show multiple columns like in VB or MS Access, so I thought of building my own control, which will display the columns based on the selection made in a SQL statement

(Bill Horst) This article provides an introduction to Custom Events, a new language feature in VB.NET 2005. Custom Events allow the user to specify what to do when AddHandler, RemoveHandler, and RaiseEvent are called for an event.

(Ingo Rammer and Mario Szpuszta) In Chapters 11 and 12, I told you a lot about the various places in your remoting applications that can be extended by custom sinks and providers. What I didn’t tell you is why you’d want to change the default remoting behavior. (pdf)