(Eric Desch) NAnt is a free .NET build tool based on Ant (a build tool for Java). NAnt, like Ant, is similar to Make in that it is used to generate output from your source files. But where Ant is Java-centric, NAnt is .NET-centric. NAnt has built-in support for compiling C#, VB.NET, and J# files and

(Tom Copeland) There are a number of ways to get your database-backed Web application to run faster on the same hardware–allowing you to postpone upgrades for at least a little while, thus cutting costs. One way involves examining how your applications are interacting with the database. The author

(Matthew Gibbs and Rob Howard) One of the unique opportunities for members of the ASP.NET team is reviewing the architecture design for customers, which is beneficial not only for the customer but also for us. The customer gets validation and critical feedback about their design, and we get first-h

(Paul Kimmel) Everywhere you turn, someone is promoting software methodologies: Kent Beck with eXtreme Programming (XP), Dr. Barry Boehm with Agile methods, IBM/Rational with the Rational Unified Process (RUP), and Microsoft with services-oriented architecture (SOA). Although each offers somethi

(Mark Strawmyer) This month’s .NET Nuts & Bolts covers the different .NET Framework options for diagnosing issues within your applications. It touches on a couple of the classes available in the System.Diagnostics namespace and the functionality they provide for debugging and tracking an application

(Tony Marston) The development infrastructure I use to develop my web applications is described in A Development Infrastructure for PHP. This is based on the 3 Tier architecture.

(Amy Cowen) For most Web builders, using databases goes no further than presenting data from Access. If you’re using ASP, however, SQL statements can supply significant and sophisticated methods to get at the data. Both ASP and SQL are powerful tools for mining information, combining data from diffe

(D.G. Kishore) Here is an working example to understand the basic difference between Reference Types and value Types. On this topic, you might have read many articles and tried couple of example code as well. My idea is to present the difference, by using a Web form with options to see the value

(Tony Patton) In part one, I covered the inner workings of a Windows Service developed with the .NET Framework. This included a somewhat rudimentary Windows Service application with both VB.NET and C#. This week, we’ll install and execute the Windows Service.

(Stephen Toub) My client and I are working on a client-side application that entails making HttpWebRequests to a server application in order to submit data. We’re trying to limit the number of concurrent connections made by the client so we can limit the load placed on the server. Initially we t