(Bipin Joshi) Many days back I wrote an articled titled N-Tier Applications and .NET with an explanation of basic concepts involved in developing N-Tier application. I received feedback from many many readers that they liked the article and requested a sample application illustrating the concepts di

curl is the client URL function library. PHP supports it through libcurl. To enable support for libcurl when installing PHP add “with-curl=[location of curl libraries]" to the configure statement before compiling. The curl package must be installed prior to installing PHP. Most major functions d

(Mani Malarvannan) The Inversion of Control (IoC) pattern, also known as Dependency Injection, has recently become popular in the J2EE community. Several open source projects, including Spring, PicoContainer, and HiveMind, use the IoC pattern to develop lightweight J2EE Containers.

(Godfrey Nolan) One of the key benefits of managed code on the .NET platform is your source code gets turned into an intermediate language (IL). This gives you great insights into how your code will be compiled and executed by the CLR, and it removes many of the urban myths around what is and isn’t

(Stephen Ibaraki) John Coggeshall is a Technical Consultant for Zend Technologies where he provides professional services to clients around the world. He got started with PHP in 1997 and is the author of two published books and over 100 articles on PHP technologies. John also is an active contributo

(Thiru Thangarathinam) Microsoft has greatly enhanced the management tasks for your .NET 2.0 applications by providing a set of configuration APIs that you can use to programmatically access, modify, and save the configuration of an application using minimal code. This article explores the new a

Tune in to .NET Unwrapped, the webcast series focused on real-world developer solutions for the financial services industry. Hear from the Microsoft financial services team as well as experts who have deployed technologies and systems at some of the largest financial institutions. Learn how to:

(Tom Archer) My most recent articles introduced several basic functions that you can perform with regular expressions, such as string splitting and using metacharacters for matching. However, before you can really get into the more powerful tasks that can be performed with regular expressions, y

(Michael Jones) Microsoft .NET developers can use several tools to perform operations asynchronously; that is, beginning a process without waiting for the operation to complete. MSMQ has provided this facility to developers since its inception. It was especially useful for VB developers, because bef

(Clemens Vasters) Like with parts 1 and 2, I’ll stick with the “this isn’t RPC” theme for this 3rd part of this little series and will show how to flow free form XML from and to services. However, I will drop the “client”/”server” nomenclature from here on and will talk about endpoints. If you l