(Keith Franklin) Although Visual Basic .NET is just as powerful as C# for building business applications, it did not get the initial push that C# did back at PDC 2000 when Microsoft unveiled .NET. This was not meant to slight Visual Basic and Visual Basic developers, but rather represented the s

(Andrew Novick) This is good news. The promise of the .Net, programmer productivity, can be achieved. After my most recent project there is no doubt in my mind: .Net is the most productive environment for application development that I’ve ever used. The numbers are there to support this assertio

(John Lim) This article focuses on a rather difficult topic – understanding the performance characteristics of PHP. It is difficult, not because PHP is complex, but because PHP’s performance depends on many outside factors such as software versions, available hardware, operating system settings,

(Juval Lowy) Serialization is the act of persisting the state of an object, typically to a file or a memory stream. Serialization is crucial when it comes to composing an application out of independent components. If an application contains several components from various vendors, how will it persis

(Dale Edgar) Data Sanitization is the process of making sensitive information in non-production databases safe for wider visibility. This White Paper is an overview of various techniques which can be used to sanitize sensitive production data in test and development databases. An initial discuss

(Anand Narayan and Vinay Desai) This white paper shares vision and challenges in testing .NET applications. Never before, has any technology or framework tried bringing many disparate systems and languages under one roof for the benefit of enterprise applications. But with the advent of the .NET

(Christa Carpentiere) Transactions are a key feature for maintaining data integrity when modifying data. Get an overview of transactions and their importance, then learn how to use them to protect data in your .NET applications.

CAS security is based on the identity of managed code. The need for CAS arose out of the constant execution and threat of malicious code on the Internet. A quick look at what has been done up to now in the way of security can help set perspective on the value of CAS.

(Saravana Kumar) Client Callbacks is a new feature in ASP.NET Whidbey(2.0). It allows calling server side events asynchronously, without causing postback. It is possible to do asynchronous call using XMLHttp Post in ASP.NET 1.0 itself, but now in ASP.NET 2.0 a clean framework is available to do thi

(Joe Mayo) For many small and medium sized programs, it isn’t too difficult to find and fix bugs based on reproducible information from users. As applications increase in size and complexity, the ability to figure out what is causing a bug becomes more difficult. On larger enterprise systems you nee