Articles and tutorials regarding .NET http://www.troobloo.com/tech/dotnet.shtml en-us http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2001_12/magazine/columns/rlhotka/ .NET Enterprise Servers provide crucial enterprise abilities for both broad and specific applications. But where are they on delivering the .NET vision? by Rockford Lhotka M icrosoft .NET isn t easy to understand or define, but here s a structure that can help. You can look at .NET as three things: a new programming environment or platform that replaces COM, a set of back-office servers that support the platform, and an overarching architectural vision that supersedes Windows DNA. These... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_04/magazine/columns/strategy/ .NET and Java are both here to stay. How do you choose which is right for you? by Mark Driver For this solution: .NET Framework, Visual Basic, Java A t Gartner we believe two platforms will dominate e-business-oriented application development efforts over the next five years: Microsoft and Java. Today, this certainly isn't a rocket science prediction and it doesn't take a crystal ball to see that it's already happened to a large extent. To Gartner's credit, this was a more compelling... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_01/magazine/columns/casestudy/rschwarz/ JetBlue Airways leverages .NET technology to bring its TrueBlue Flight Gratitude program online. by Ron Schwarz January 2003 Issue Executive Summary Company JetBlue Airways Corp., the third-largest U.S. airline in terms of market value. Project Create an interactive Web site for a new, in-house frequent-flier program that relies on an amalgam of internal and third-party data and Web content to give individual fliers the ability to manage their own miles and rewards. Legacy TrueBlue is... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_05/magazine/columns/strategy/ .NET applications are a sure thing for Windows, but it'll take cross platform expansion for Microsoft to compete in high-end enterprise accounts. by Mark Driver For this solution: .NET Framework, Java, C#, Linux, Mono I n last month's column, I compared .NET and Java and covered several issues related to how these platforms are becoming the de facto choices for the vast majority of new e-business-centric application development efforts. Because Java will be .NET's primary competition... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_11/magazine/features/dbrowning/ Learn how .NET's remoting infrastructure can serve your enterprise development plans better than Web services do. by Don Browning ADVERTISEMENT November 2002 Issue For this solution: .NET Framework, Visual Studio .NET, .NET remoting, Web services M icrosoft made two announcements at the 2000 Professional Developer's Conference that changed the way the IT community thinks about development in general, and enterprise development in particular. The first was .NET, a development framework... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_09/magazine/columns/architecting/ Streamline .NET application development by establishing a common application-architecture framework for your organization. by Rao Chejarla September 2002 Issue For this solution: ADO.NET , ASP.NET Rao Chejarla D eveloping enterprise applications is a complex process. You can use the wide set of tools that are part of Microsoft's .NET technology to make this process faster and easier, but given .NET's sophistication, it can be difficult to select the most direct approach. Without... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_09/magazine/columns/casestudy/ HealthGate Data Corp. ports an already impressive legacy system to a .NET content-delivery system to keep 600+ hospitals up to date. by Ron Schwarz Executive Summary Company HealthGate Data Corp., an electronic publisher of medical information for the healthcare industry. Project Convert a legacy Web content-delivery system to a modern .NET implementation, while transitioning from an aggregator/reseller role to a primary content publisher and wholesale information distributor. Legacy... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_12/magazine/features/sreimer/ New Active Directory features in Windows .NET Server could make the migration more attractive. by Stan Reimer December 2002 Issue For this solution: Windows .NET Server, Windows .NET Advanced Server, or Windows .NET Datacenter Server ADVERTISEMENT T he release of Windows 2000 Active Directory (AD) marked a radical departure from the Windows NT directory service, and it provides significant opportunities for companies to improve security and make management easier for their networks and... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_03/magazine/features/bbloom/ Don't get confused by the .NET hype base your upgrade decision on more than just new and improved server features. by Barry Bloom For this solution: Windows .NET Server B efore you read this article, I need you to be honest with yourself and admit you're confused by Microsoft's .NET initiative. I know this is true, because of the response I received from my company's IT business decision makers when I recently planned our .NET strategy. Two common yet differing and sometimes incorrect... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_05/magazine/columns/qa/ Discover how Windows .NET Server might help you jump-start development. by Dan Fox W ith the release of Windows .NET Server just around the corner, I'll address a couple of common questions regarding developing applications for Windows .NET Server. Q How will Windows .NET Server enable my team to develop .NET applications more effectively? A One of the design goals of Windows .NET Server was to make it the best platform to build and run XML Web services. To that end, Microsoft included... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_10/magazine/columns/webservices/ J2EE and .NET both offer Web services support. How do you decide which platform to use, and why it's best? by Eric Newcomer ADVERTISEMENT October 2002 Issue For this solution: Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliant application servers, Visual Studio .NET, ASP.NET, Web services, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) T he decade-old rivalry between Microsoft and Java development... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_01/magazine/columns/security/ .NET offers a new way to administer code in corporate networks. Learn how it can save your organization time and money. by Jason Bock January 2003 Issue For this solution: .NET Framework ADVERTISEMENT O ne of the .NET Framework's big selling points is its focus on security, especially when it comes to policy management. Policy management is the practice of designing security configurations that maximize the user's experience with an application, without allowing that application access... http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3617366 By Eric Smith The configuration file concept in .NET makes it much easier to change runtime settings without having to recompile. These files hearken back to the days of .INI files in previous versions of Windows, long before the dreaded Registry. Although you can keep all your settings in the appSettings section, you also can add your own custom configuration sections to make your settings a bit more orderly and easy to find within a configuration file. This tip shows you how to build... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_06/magazine/features/rericsson/ Script for .NET offers new ways to implement business rules in enterprise applications. by Rob Ericsson June 2003 Issue For This Solution: .NET Framework, Script for .NET ADVERTISEMENT A ll organizations operate according to a set of rules commonly called business rules . Business rules enable organizations to carry out day-to-day business while, at the same time, imposing limits and conditions by defining acceptable behavior in response to specific events. For example, a business rule... http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3487111 By Paul Kimmel Go to page: 1 2 Next Part 1 of the three-part .NET Remoting and Event Handling in VB .NET series introduced a Singleton remote server with published events as a text-chat server. The basic idea is that all clients connect to and register with the single server. When a client sends a message, the server broadcasts the message to all of the connected clients. Part 2 continues the tutorial with an implementation of the client. It completes the remotable, shared client code,... http://www.developer.com/net/asp/article.php/2210191 By Karl Moore Go to page: 1 2 Next Welcome to the second part of .NET Data Secrets! I'm Karl Moore and today we'll be exploring even more secrets to make your data access applications run as smoothly as possible—especially the Web variety: Nine Steps to a Quick, Editable Web Grid Little-Known Technique for Confirming Web Deletes Selecting Multiple Web Form Grid Items, Hotmail-Style Click Anywhere and Select, with a Web Grid If you missed the secrets from last time, you can find... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_07/magazine/features/rdavis/ Careful planning can mean the difference between a smooth transition to .NET and wasting training money. by Ron Davis July 2003 Issue ADVERTISEMENT S ometimes, we only learn the hard way. When Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) deployed its first campus-wide client/server application a payroll/human-resources system the university's training ambitions started out modestly and typically: A handful of developers learned to wield a client/server development tool. However, training developers... http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/2201701 By Thiru Thangarathinam Go to page: 1 2 3 4 Next With the advent of .NET and the .NET Framework, Microsoft introduced a set of new technologies in the form of Web services and .NET remoting. .NET remoting and ASP.NET Web services are powerful technologies that provide a suitable framework for developing distributed applications. It is important to understand how both technologies work and then choose the one that is right for your application. The Web services technology enables... http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3487776 By Paul Kimmel Go to page: 1 2 3 Next This final installment of the .NET Remoting and Event Handling in VB .NET series takes a closer look at some of the supporting code in the simple chat client and server application that Parts 1 and 2 demonstrated, including the use of the command, observer, singleton, and factory patterns. The previous installments also externalized the text for the client help by using an XML resource file and the resource manager, a feature that supports... http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3522466 By Mark Strawmyer Go to page: 1 2 Next .NET remoting enables application communication. It is a generic system that different applications can use to communicate with one another. .NET objects are exposed to remote processes, thus allowing interprocess communication. The applications can be located on the same computer, different computers on the same network, or even computers across separate networks. Remoting communication is not secure by default, however. The 1.0 and 1.1 versions... http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3520891 By Mark Strawmyer Go to page: 1 2 Next .NET remoting enables application communication. It is a generic system that different applications can use to communicate with one another. By exposing its objects to remote processes, .NET allows interprocess communication. The applications can be located on the same computer, different computers on the same network, or even computers across separate networks. Versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the .NET Framework provided TcpChannel and HttpChannel for... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_12/magazine/features/dking/ Take advantage of the new inheritance features in .NET to create standards that speed applications from inception to implementation. by Donald King December 2002 Issue For this solution: .NET Framework, Object-oriented analysis and design methodology ADVERTISEMENT Y our developers are at lunch and the quality-assurance analyst is saying she won't sign the code into production form unless the user interfaces start resembling the ones defined in the software-development standards. If this... http://www.developer.com/net/asp/article.php/2215431 By Karl Moore Go to page: 1 2 3 Next Welcome to the third and final part of .NET Data Secrets! I'm Karl Moore and today we'll continue last week's theme of top-notch data access through the Web DataGrid control, with even more tips and tricks to make your site look the business: Quick and Easy Data Paging, with Your Web Grid Sorting in Seconds, with Your Web Grid Amazingly Simple Method for Exporting Your Web Grid to Excel Get Microsoft to Write Your Code—Amazing Undocumented SQL... http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3504146 By Mark Strawmyer Go to page: 1 2 Next In one of my early .NET Nuts & Bolts columns, I wrote about database-independent data access . The article basically demonstrates the use of the factory design pattern to decide at runtime which specific instances of database-related objects to create. It was a necessary evil for those of us unfortunate enough to have to move between different databases such as SQL Server and Oracle and not wanting to produce a bunch of provider-specific code in... http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3452471 By Paul Kimmel Go to page: 1 2 Next You can implement very advanced solutions with .NET Remoting. XML Web Services is an example of a general .NET Remoting solution. If you are writing distributed applications you can often use XML Web Services as an easy form of Remoting. That said, let's talk about .NET Remoting. If you need to interact with objects that reside on the server, if are working with objects that may be too large to serialize, or if you need to handle server events then... http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/3380661 By Tom Archer Welcome to this week's installment of .NET Tips & Techniques ! Each week, award-winning Architect and Lead Programmer Tom Archer from the Archer Consulting Group demonstrates how to perform a practical .NET programming task using either C# or Managed C++ Extensions. One of my primary goals in the .NET Tips & Techniques series is to provide practical advice that will help fellow coders save valuable time by offering my experiences as a programmer who's been using .NET since... http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3419371 By Mark Strawmyer Go to page: 1 2 Next 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's execution path. Classic Debugging For those who have been programming long enough, you probably recall a time prior to advanced development tools such as Visual... http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/3339611 By Kate Gregory Go to page: 1 2 Next In my previous column , I introduced the basics of .NET remoting. I showed how to create a remoted class, host it in a server application, and call methods of the class from a client application. The communication in that simple example was all client-driven. When the client wanted information from the server, it called methods of the remoted object such as Greet() or Records(). These methods don't take parameters, but there's no restriction on... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_05/magazine/columns/trends/ Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server seems to have gotten lost in the .NET excitement. Discover if it's right for you and what to look forward to in the future. by Craig Roth May 2003 Issue For This Solution: SharePoint Portal Server ADVERTISEMENT I n all the noise over Microsoft's .NET initiative, portals have been conspicuously absent. Microsoft is supposed to be the "King of the Desktop" (or at least the "Prince of Collaboration") and aren't portals the "new desktop"? However, some... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_03/magazine/features/jgoodyear/ You need to weigh a wide array of issues before you move your applications to .NET use these 12 as a starting point. by Jonathan Goodyear For this solution: Visual Studio .NET W ith the release of Microsoft's .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET), you can no longer afford to sit on the sidelines with a "wait and see" attitude (see the sidebar " Weigh the Cost of Waiting "). If you're a Windows development shop, you'll need to contend with a wide variety of application... http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/3391571 By Tom Archer In a previous article , I explained and illustrated how to use .NET Delegates and Events types from C++ Managed Extensions. This week's column covers some standard problems you'll face when attempting to use events from a mixed-mode (MFC and Managed Extensions) application. Click here for a larger image. Figure 1 : Demo application illustrating the subscribing to and catching of the event that is fired when a file is deleted from disk Let's say that you have an MFC... http://www.developer.com/net/article.php/3377051 By Mike Gunderloy Any development environment spawns standards. In the case of .NET, one of these standards is the way that developers expect class library documentation to look. Ideally, your class library documentation should follow the format and conventions that the .NET Framework SDK established for .NET namespaces. Fortunately, this isn't all that hard to do, at least if you're working in C# (VB .NET will gain the same capabilities in Visual Studio 2005). A combination of the XML... http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3499301 By Mark Strawmyer Go to page: 1 2 Next Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. To fulfill some requests I've received, this article expands on the use of lists and collections in Microsoft .NET. Its focal point is generics, which is a new addition in the version 2.0 release of the Microsoft .NET Framework. The article explains why generics are valuable and what they can add to your applications, exploring the classes in the System.Collections.Generic namespace. The... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_05/magazine/columns/casestudy TRX ports its legacy in hosted travel services to a scalable .NET solution. by Michèle Leroux Bustamante Executive Summary Company TRX Inc. , a provider of reservation-processing services and corporate booking tools to the travel industry. Project A complete rewrite of legacy solution RESASSIST in VB.NET. Build a component-oriented, reusable, scalable architecture with a robust Web services layer to support the travel services engine's custom applications. Legacy RESASSIST had a dated... http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/3350931 By Tom Archer Welcome to this week's installment of .NET Tips & Techniques ! Each week, award-winning Architect and Lead Programmer Tom Archer demonstrates how to perform a practical .NET programming task using either C# or Managed C++ Extensions. Serialization is the mechanism by which objects are written to disk in binary form. It is a quick and easy means of saving and retrieving your data without using a database. Serialization is ideal in situations where an application needs to... http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/1756291 Glossary compiled with the help of James D. Murray Note that terms that the terms "Microsoft" and ".NET" were generally not included when alphabetizing terms. | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | Other | A Acceleration Server 2000 —See Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 . Access modifiers —Language keywords used to specify the visibility of the methods and member variables declared within a... http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/3304021 By Kate Gregory Go to page: 1 2 3 4 5 Next Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start Chapter 3: The .NET Base Class Libraries. In This Chapter Libraries Shared Across Languages Namespaces in C++ The System Namespace Other Useful Namespaces In Brief Libraries Shared Across Languages When you write managed C++, you have access to all of the managed code libraries that come with the .NET Framework: the Base Class Libraries, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, and so on. These libraries are modern and... http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3445561 By Mark Strawmyer Go to page: 1 2 Next Delegates became more mainstream to the Microsoft programming world when Microsoft included them in the .NET Framework, but they actually have been around in another form for a while. Many programmers will recognize them as callback functions/methods. In fact, a brief discussion regarding the purpose of callback methods before jumping into the specifics of delegates will make delegates easier to understand. Let's define callbacks through an example... http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3375291 By Tom Archer Welcome to this week's installment of .NET Tips & Techniques ! Each week, award-winning Architect and Lead Programmer Tom Archer from the Archer Consulting Group demonstrates how to perform a practical .NET programming task. Most times the easiest means of validating a user-entered date is by providing a masked edit control that forces the user to enter valid numbers into the month/day/year parts of the field. However, a system you maintain many times won't have a masked... http://www.developer.com/net/csharp/article.php/3306191 By Anand Narayanaswamy The .NET Framework class libraries are the core part of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is an object-oriented collection of reusable classes that you can use to develop applications such as traditional command line, Windows, and Web applications. It contains around 3400 classes, classified logically into so-called Namespaces. You will learn more about namespaces in FAQ 1.5. Each class contains numerous methods and properties, which you will use for your... http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3584511 By Mark Strawmyer The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 enhances the System.DirectoryServices namespace to make it simpler to programmatically interact with Active Directory (AD). In the 1.x versions of the Framework, you usually had to rely on COMInterop to get to Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) that weren't exposed through the System.DirectoryServices namespace. The .NET Framework 2.0 exposes more functionality and relies less on COMInterop. You just need to add the... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_06/magazine/columns/casestudy/rhodeisland/ A short schedule, security concerns, and tight government budgets drove the state of Rhode Island to use .NET as part of its new Web-based campaign reform system. by Edmund X. DeJesus P eople agree on one political issue almost unanimously: Elections should be fair. No one likes the idea that candidates might be getting money from questionable sources, or from contributors who expect favors in return. As a result, some states, including Rhode Island, have passed laws to enact campaign... http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/1479761 Unless you have been living in a cave, or are way behind in your reading, you have probably read something about Web services. When you read the description of .NET Remoting it may remind you a lot of what you're read about Web services. That is because Web services fall under the umbrella of .NET Remoting, but have a simplified programming model and are intended for a wide target audience. Web services involve allowing applications to exchange messages in a way that is platform, object... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_04/magazine/columns/architecting/ You can improve performance without buying more servers by using scale-in to completely utilize existing hardware and software. by Barry Bloom For this solution: ASP.NET, .NET Framework, Application Center 2000 T rue business success with Web technologies is a great accomplishment. You should be proud if you've been able to create an application that meets the needs of your customers and leverages Web technologies, because it isn't easy. Sure, it might be easy to deploy a Web page and... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_08/magazine/columns/casestudy/ Careful prep work smoothed the way for the Central Bank of Costa Rica (CBCR) to migrate its mission-critical VB6 app to .NET. by Lee Thé August 2003 Issue Executive Summary Company Central Bank of Costa Rica, which regulates the common operational framework and settlement system of Costa Rica's banks and other financial institutions. Project Migrate a business-critical electronic payments and transaction system, which provides a private network that interconnects more than 65 Costa... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_03/magazine/features/bnoyes/ Get a clear picture of the costs and timeline involved in .NET migration to create the right plan for your team. by Brian Noyes For this solution: Visual Studio .NET I f your company develops Web applications or products that run on Windows, then it's virtually certain you'll want to migrate to .NET at some point. The simple fact you're reading this magazine shows you're at least considering moving to .NET. But before you can start your migration planning you need to answer two big... http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/3380651 By Tom Archer Welcome to this week's installment of .NET Tips & Techniques ! Each week, award-winning Architect and Lead Programmer Tom Archer from the Archer Consulting Group demonstrates how to perform a practical .NET programming task using either C# or Managed C++ Extensions. Many .NET methods are very picky about the types that you can pass as parameters. For example, the sockets, cryptography, and several of the streaming methods require byte arrays, which you must first convert... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_03/magazine/columns/architecting/ You might be surprised by how your business can benefit from re-examining your n-tier architecture when you move to .NET. by Barry Bloom For this solution: Visual Studio .NET, ASP.NET, .NET Framework N othing drives me crazier than reading about the science of server and application architecture on the Microsoft Web site; do a search for n-tier architecture and you'll receive a huge resultset. There are so many articles from every development group at Microsoft that its message has... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_06/magazine/columns/casestudy/ Rather than expending a great deal of money to adapt a packaged enterprise solution, Intermedia Marketing Solutions used .NET to craft a custom app to meet its needs. by Lee Thé June 2003 Issue Executive Summary Company Intermedia Marketing Solutions Inc. produces direct response commercials, at-home shopping shows, and educational series for television and as streaming video for the Internet. The Catapult Communications division plans and produces corporate events. Project Develop a... http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_05/magazine/columns/architecting/ Discover how a phased migration strategy can help avoid bumps along the way. by Barry Bloom For this solution: ASP.NET, .NET Framework, Application Center 2000 T he release of Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET) has generated an incredible amount of excitement in my department. We've been on the .NET bandwagon ever since its introduction at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Orlando two years ago. This latest release prompted a collective sigh of relief from my department's...