(Dave Templin) If you’re using Business Objects or UserControls written in Visual Basic 6.0 or Active Template Library (ATL), then you’re using COM. Prior to the Microsoft .NET Framework, COM was the principal component model that applications in Windows were built upon. But deploying applications w

(Greg Aloi and Tobias Grasl) The .NET framework has become the platform of choice for many enterprise applications. Not surprisingly, many .NET concepts parallel those in CORBA and J2EE. The benefit of hindsight gives .NET architects and developers the opportunity to imitate the success while avoidi

(Alejandro Gervasio) In part one of this two part article series, you learned how to build a simple template parser class in PHP. In this second article, you will learn how to add caching capabilities to the class.

(Mike Talon) Bandwidth is always an issue in disaster recovery, even if you’re not planning to send data between sites. If you’re using only tape devices, then your bandwidth concerns are limited. If you’re replicating data for potential failover—both locally and remotely—then your bandwidth issues

(Ian Murphy) When Visual Studio 2005 launches later this year, developers will see Microsoft change its focus on how development should be carried out. Historically, Microsoft has focused on developer tools built around their languages. While Microsoft has dallied with tools for modelling, managemen

(Paul Chin) Events over the last several years — Sept. 11; bush fires, earthquakes, and mudslides in the West coast of North America; massive floods in China; and the Boxing Day tsunami in Southeast Asia — have forced us to rethink what we consider critical infrastructure. These events brought a

(Paul Kimmel) A couple of years ago, I was writing some code generators using the CodeDOM namespace. To test the code my generator was writing—to make sure it compiled and ran as expected—I wrote a tool that generated a dynamic assembly and a startup method that invoked the generated code. It was a

(Randy Charles Morin) One of my New Year wishes for this coming year was that the standard committees would agree on threading classes for the C++ language. This limitation of the C++ language standard means that I have to rewrite my threading library each time I start a new job with a new company.

(Neil Roodyn) Spiking is about experimentation and about being prepared to throw away the code you have written while retaining the knowledge gained from it. This chapter will help you to develop this vital skill in the .NET environment.

(Kevin Forsythe) Awhile back, I wrote a TechTip on accessing packed data from flat files. Perhaps that’s not something you do every day, but it’s definitely something that is difficult for SQL to do. That TechTip outlined the basic method for extracting the packed data. But it stopped at that point.