(Klaus Salchner) Every developer is relying on a development platform, the two major ones being .NET and J2EE. The development platform provides the basic plumbing like file IO, threading, XML processing and much more so we developer don’t have to worry about the low level plumbing itself. You use t

This article describes how to add safeguards to an ASP.NET application to help protect against common canonicalization issues.

If you are involved in .NET development, you have probably become familiar with the situation of having code that sort-of-works, but is quite a long way from the ideal solution. .NET applications often run very slowly or hog system resources, even when they’ve been coded “from the book,” often becau

(Alex Homer, Rob Howard and Dave Sussman) Is ASP.NET 2.0 really that much better than 1.0 and 1.1? Yes! Learn about the new features and tools available in ASP .NET 2.0, including new development tools, compilation and deployment tools, and the other new features that make it worth your time to make

This article describes how to determine whether service packs are installed for your Microsoft .NET Framework installation.

(Brad McCabe) Microsoft .NET is ringing in the next generation of application development. .NET allows developers the freedom to mix and match new and existing components while leveraging the diversity of programming languages and tools available. However, if you are a programmer, you may find that

(Jim Paterson) Many Java applications need to deal with persistent data. In most cases, this means interfacing with a relational database, possibly a legacy database or an industry standard Database Management System (DBMS). The JDBC API and drivers for most database systems provide a standard way o

The 64-bit version of the .NET Framework 2.0 enables the .NET Framework platform, tools and applications to run on 64-bit workstations and servers which provide increased performance and scalability by addressing more memory (16 TB vs. 4G), processing more data (64 vs. 32 bits) per clock cycle and p

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(Mouli Chandra) This tip is an extension of a Design Pattern called “Service Locator” for the J2EE Architechture. Generally, the “Service Locator” pattern returns a Home object by merely accepting a string, usually a mapping for a JNDI name.