An Early Look At Microsoft's Indigo
MSDN has posted a lengthy article describing Indigo, Microsoft's unified programming model for service-oriented applications. Indigo uses SOAP and other technologies to create reliable and secure...
View ArticleMicrosoft Porting WinFS to Windows XP
According to various sources, Microsoft is porting their WinFS database file system to Windows XP. The WinFS file system lets users search and manage files based on content and metadata, and lets...
View ArticleUsing Enhanced Text Input in Windows Forms 2.0
ONDotnet.com shows you how to use advanced text input handling in .NET 2.0 (Whidbey) with Visual Studio 2005...
View ArticleInterview with Miguel de Icaza
ONDotnet.com has interviewed Miguel de Icaza, the lead developer of the Mono open source .NET framework. Half the interview is about the current state of Mono, and the other half is about upcoming new...
View ArticleWriting Talking .NET Applications With Microsoft's SASDK
An article at Informit.com shows you how to create .NET applications that use Microsoft's Speech Application SDK (SASDK). See what it takes to do speech synthesis and recognition in your own code, as...
View ArticleExtending Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 with .NET
ONDotnet.com has published an article showing you how to create .NET add-ins in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. These extensions can be written in any .NET language including VB.NET and C#...
View ArticleUsing XML DataSource Controls in .NET 2.0
An article over at ONDotNet.com explains how to use new XML DataSource Controls in Whidbey (.NET 2.0). These controls allow your application to bind to XML data just as you would to database tables....
View ArticlePreview of Visual Basic 2005
MSDN has published a detailed and very informative sneak peak at Visual Basic 2005. The article provides an overview of new features like My Visual Basic, IntelliSense, Edit and Continue, AutoCorrect,...
View ArticleUsing System.Transactions in .NET 2.0
MSDN has published a lengthy article about the new System.Transactions framework in .NET 2.0. This new transactional programming model allows developers to write transactional code with low overhead,...
View ArticleUsing the Google Web API from .NET and Java Applications
Informit.com has published an article explaining how to use the Google Web API from your own .NET and Java applications. Using the Google Web API, your applications can access many of Google's...
View ArticleLAMP Development Threatening Dominance of .NET and Java
The LAMP open source development stack is steadily winning marketshare against Microsoft's .NET and Sun's Java programming suites. LAMP includes the Linux operating system, the Apache web server, the...
View ArticleThe Past, Present, and Future of C#
ONDotnet.com has published a fascinating two-part interview with Anders Hejlsberg, the chief architect of the C# language. Anders talks about the past, present, and future of C# and .NET...
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