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MVP Corner: Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps Without ViewState or Postbacks
February 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
ASP.NET has been the odd man out in the web world. While one will find several MVC frameworks in the Java space, ASP.NET's default model has always been Web Forms. Ruby on Rails framework has...
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Use Specialty Arrays to Accelerate Your Code
February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
Visual Studio provides arrays of any data type. One can make one-, two-, and higher-dimensional arrays of integers, strings, objects, structures, or whatever. But there are a couple of useful...
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Real-Life Rails: Develop With NetBeans, Deploy on Linux
February 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Ruby language's conciseness makes it great for development - fewer lines of code means reduced development time and maintenance costs. Rails, the Ruby-based web application framework, can be...
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ASP.NET's New LinqDataSource Control Simplifies Data Access
February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Any user-centric application one writes will require some sort of data integration - at minimum, one will need to retrieve some data and display it in the user interface. Often, applications must...
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C# 3.0 Syntax Additions - Design Guidelines
February 11, 2008, 12:00am PST
C# 3.0 includes a few syntactical additions to the language. For the most part, Microsoft added these language additions to support Language Integrated Query (LINQ). These features include (but...
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Apply IronRuby to Get Started Building Next-Generation UIs
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Ruby is a relatively new language with a large and enthusiastic following in the Web 2.0 world, primarily generated by Ruby on Rails (RoR). Ruby on Rails is a web framework intended for developing...
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Fall in Love With Visual Basic All Over Again in Visual Studio 2008
January 30, 2008, 12:00am PST
Before reviewing the features individually, unlike previous versions of Visual Studio, where the version of the IDE was tied directly to a version of the .NET Framework, Visual Studio 2008...
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What's New in C# 3.0?: Part 1
January 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
With the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has updated the C# language to its latest version, 3.0. C# 3.0 contains several key language enhancements that support the recently-announced...
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Add Custom XML Documentation Capability to Your SQL Code
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
If one has ever worked with sophisticated database systems or large applications one has probably accumulated sizable libraries of stored procedure code. Such libraries typically hold a few...
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XmlTransform - A General-Purpose XSLT Pre-Processor
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
The general-purpose XML transformer and/or validator discussed here, named "XmlTransform" operates on an arbitrarily deep directory tree containing files one want to transform. As output it...
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Tracking XML Data Changes Easily With SDO
January 17, 2008, 12:00am PST
Tracking data changes is an essential requirement in many software, application, and business-integration scenarios. Rigorously implementing this requirement is relatively difficult because...
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Apply the New Vista APIs to Sidebar Gadgets, Part 2
January 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
Developing Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets generally involves a lot of JavaScript programming. To make it possible for Sidebar gadgets to access the various systems' information, Microsoft has...
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Manipulate XML Content the Ximple Way
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
The latest Java version of the Virtual Token Descriptor for XML (VTD-XML) can function as a slicer, an editor, and an incremental modifier to intelligently manipulate XML document content. This...
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Apply the New Vista APIs to Sidebar Gadgets, Part 1
December 31, 2007, 12:00am PST
Developing Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets generally involves a lot of JavaScript programming. To make it possible for Sidebar gadgets to access the various systems' information, Microsoft has...
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Caching With Weak References in .NET
December 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
To cache objects returned from a service, one can use one of several available mechanisms, the simplest of which is to reference the objects indefinitely. However, this approach ultimately suffers...
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Insulate Your Code With the Provider Model
December 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
Developers constantly face problems brought on by changing technologies. When Microsoft releases a new version of a data provider, or a customer decides to switch databases from Oracle to SQL...
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Working With Visual Studio Team Edition for Testers
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
Poorly-written code and nonconformance to coding standards may get an application ready to ship a little more quickly, but often becomes a nightmare after application deployment. The answer is, of...
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Small Steps Lead to Big Improvements in Java Code Quality
December 14, 2007, 12:00am PST
So continuous integration is an important part of one's development process and one is eager to include a code-coverage check as part of the automated builds, but which coverage-rate targets...
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Drawing With Direct3D, Part 2: Lighting and Textures
December 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
In complicated scenes, displaying only specified colors can produce a poor result, because adjacent shapes that have the same colors blend together, making it difficult for viewers to discern what...
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Resuscitate Your .NET Programs With the Application Recovery and Restart API
December 11, 2007, 12:00am PST
Microsoft has gone to great lengths to help one make their software applications more appealing to users. One can create rich user experiences with Windows Presentation Foundation, smooth web...
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Working With Red-Black Trees in C#
December 10, 2007, 12:00am PST
Although Binary Search Trees (BSTs) are used widely, as data gets added, binary search trees tend to degenerate into an unordered linked list over time. The "Red-black tree" is a related type of...
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The Google Web Toolkit's AJAX Recipe: Less JavaScript, More Speed
December 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
How popular is the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)? Google claims their Java web development framework for AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications has been downloaded millions of times since...
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Using the Smart Device Framework for Windows Mobile Development
December 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
If one has been developing Windows Mobile applications using the .NET Compact Framework for some time, there will be a day when one will realize that not all the functionalities one's need can be...
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Introducing ADO.NET Entity Framework
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
The challenge of bringing data from efficient storage engines such as SQL Server into object-oriented programming models is hardly a new one. Most developers address this challenge by writing...
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Model-Driven Architecture Overcomes Limits of Traditional Object Modeling
November 30, 2007, 12:00am PST
Object-modeling methodologies have long held the promise of enabling development teams to deliver higher-quality software faster and with better code reuse. Sadly, traditional object-modeling...
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Integrating AJAX Clients and RESTful Web Services
July 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
It is no coincidence that AJAX and RESTful web services gained the attention of developers in their respective stages of infancy. Both technologies emerged during times that were dominated by...
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Location-Based Services Using CellID
October 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Past papers have discussed how to interface with GPS receivers to obtain the geographical position of a device and then transmit the information over to a server for mapping purposes. However, not...
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An Integrated-Documentation Tool for Oracle Databases
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In an ideal world, all software and database systems would have clear documentation that is always up to date. In the real world, however, documentation usually is either non-existent or so out of...
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Creating Simple Firefox "Add-Ons" With Ubiquity: Developing Add-Ons for Firefox Can Be Tedious, But It's Not Hard
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Making add-ons for Firefox is not hard, but development can be tedious, especially as there is no formal development IDE for making them (Venkman comes closest, but it's not very close). So, if...
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Explore the Data Access Options in Visual Studio 2008: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Give Developers Substantially Increased Data Access Options
November 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
In Visual Studio 2008 running on the .NET framework 3.5, developers can not only create DataReaders and DataSets; Microsoft has also added LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, and ADO.NET Data Services,...
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Redefining the Customer Experience
May 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
People begin by searching online for cameras noting the benefits of certain makes, models, features and prices. They follow up with a shortlist of cameras that they want to touch, feel and see....
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Charting a Web 2.0 Strategy
March 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wikis, blogs, social networks, AJAX rarely does a day go by without these terms being hurled at from different directions and this has resulted in these becoming mnemonics for Web 2.0. The...
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Future Proofing Your Enterprise Architecture
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been promoted as essential for the longevity of IT investments. EA is based on sound principles, but its implementation must address not just...
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The 9 Requirements for a Successful SOA Deployment
February 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural approach that should be looked upon as a journey within an enterprise. Different enterprises embark on the SOA journey with different aims....
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Offshore Considerations for Infrastructure Management
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
Infrastructure management is increasingly offshored these days. Everest Research Institute predicts that remote infrastructure management will grow to $8.6 billion in the next three years with an...
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Effective Software Testing: An Approach to Better Products
December 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
The cost of fixing a software defect is cheaper if the defect is detected in the phase in which it was introduced. Yet in many projects of strategic importance, this testing is only an after...
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Enterprise 2.0 - Giving the Hype a Second Thought
June 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Internet boom forced organizations to get online and looking back it was much simpler compared to making an organization Web 2.0 ready because this involves understanding of an abstract...
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Microsoft Queuing Frameworks: SQL Service Broker Vs. MSMQ
March 27, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Microsoft offers two queuing frameworks to its 'Brand' of developers: MSMQ and SQL Service Broker. These two frameworks offer many of the same features, but differ in some important areas that...
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Design Patterns for ASP.NET Developers, Part 3: Advanced Patterns
April 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the built-in support for standard design patterns in ASP.NET, and ways in which one can implement common patterns in one's own applications. The paper discusses more advanced...
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Converting Your Java App Into a Windows Service
April 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Reusing a framework usually is a good idea, but sometimes developing one's own code for a specific task is easier. Developing code to convert a Java application into a Windows service turns out to...
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Introducing Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0
May 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Off late Microsoft rolled out its next-generation Operating System (OS), Windows Vista. One of the core Vista components is a new version of Microsoft's web server - Internet Information Services...
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Using Windows Workflow to Control ASP.NET Navigation
June 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes one simple solution for achieving interoperability between Windows Workflow (WF) and ASP.NET. It leverages the power of WF's powerful visual logic to design page-flow based on...
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8 Steps to Better Incident Classification
September 7, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Incident classification and initial support and the activities carried out by service desk staff to determine how to work or route an incident for resolution. The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)...
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The ITIL Business Case 101
December 29, 2006, 12:00am PST
There is much discussion of which processes to start with in ITIL, or what order to do them in, or whether to do them at all, or how to decide. If the decision on which processes to re-engineer is...
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The Benefits of a Single Point of Contact
August 10, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In ITIL, the service desk function performs a number of critical tasks. To say it is simply the traditional help desk renamed does not do the service desk justice. In many respects, the service...
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The Truth About Configuration Management and the CMDB
December 6, 2006, 12:00am PST
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) describes configuration management as a method for controlling infrastructure and services. Given the descriptions of configuration management, it can appear...
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What Goes Into an ITIL Business Case
January 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper applies principles of business case design to a business case for an ITIL project. It is not executive management that a person needs to convince, not at first. The person should be...
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Four Steps to a Successful DR Strategy
March 7, 2006, 12:00am PST
As often as not, disaster recovery expectations are unrealistic. Even with a well thought out Disaster Recovery (DR) plan, the ability of an organization to execute is suspect. The hope that DR...
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Ready to Create Your IT Service Catalog?
July 24, 2005, 12:00am PDT
Adopting an IT catalog of services in alignment with an ITIL based Service Level Management process can optimize service provision to the business while reducing the overall costs of IT service...
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How to Produce an Actionable IT Service Catalog
July 18, 2005, 12:00am PDT
The ITIL framework is based on the concepts of Service and Customer Care, and the Service Catalog is at the core of these fundamental concepts. Many IT groups produce a Service Catalog as part of...
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IT Service Catalog - The Central Component of IT Governance
September 19, 2005, 12:00am PDT
IT Governance is now widely recognized as a critical success factor for managing today's complex enterprise IT environments. It has become one of the most popular buzzwords among IT executives and...
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How to Set Up Successful SLAs
March 13, 2006, 12:00am PST
The Service Level Agreement (SLA) is one of the most critical parts - if not the key element - of IT Service Management. But as important as they are, they also can be complicated to set up. And...
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