For the first time in 2004, business intelligence and data warehousing (BI/DW) made the list of Top 10 CIO priorities, according to a Gartner survey. (R,pdf)

(Stanley B. Lippman) Visual Studio 2005 brings the type parameter model of generic programming to the Microsoft .NET Framework. Parameterized types are, of course, standard fare for C++ programmers. So, for those who are unfamiliar with them, I’ll give a brief introduction to generic programming in

(Alejandro Gervasio) It is easy to create a templating system in PHP; in fact, there are a number of templating system packages. But what if you’re putting together a relatively small website, and don’t really need one of those full-fledged systems? In this first part of a two-part article, you will

(Nari Kannan) The process warehouse provides the internal process key performance indicators (KPIs) from an integrated database and makes available valuable information for decision making.

(Tom Archer) The previous article introduced the .NET Group and GroupCollection classes, explained their uses and place in the .NET regular expression class hierarchy, and gave an example of how to define and use groups to extract or isolate sub-matches of a regular expression match. This article co

(Howard Wen) It’s perhaps the most controversial project in the open source world, but this mostly stems from misunderstanding: Mono, the open source development platform based upon Microsoft’s .NET framework. Immediate reactions from many dubious Linux developers have ranged from confusion over its

With the much-anticipated release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 coming later this year, PressPass spoke with S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, to learn more about how customers will benefit from the newest additions to Microsoft’s developer tools pr

(Saravana Kumar) One new, important feature in ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to read/edit the configuration files in local machine or remote machine. In ASP.NET 1.x, editing of the configuration files was not supported. Only option to edit a configuration file is to treat the configuration file as an x

While working on our soon-to-be-published IT Spending Predictions Roundup for 2005, we at Analyst Views noticed that many analyst firms are predicting that business intelligence (BI) will be one of the hot areas for IT investment in 2005. In this issue we’ll look at analysts’ views of what BI re

(Paulo Morgado) First of all, we need to subclass the System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem class and declare all the constructors. Then add the desired public property (Tag) and a private field to support it (tag). Finally, we just need to override the methods needed to merge and clone menu items.