2002 - September/October

2002 - September/October

Sept/Oct - 2002

  • Rod Paddock

    The Importance of Friends

    By: Rod Paddock

    Rod Paddock Editorial March April 2004 Issue

  • Beccario, Cameron Silver, Amanda

    Visual Basic .NET: A Punch of a Tool

    By: Beccario, Cameron, Silver, Amanda

    The newest version of Visual Basic now has support for full object-oriented programming, provides access to the .NET Framework and use power and flexibility of the Common Language Runtime. Never have there been more reason for VB developers to consider making the move to Visual Basic .NET. Yet, amidst the excitement surrounding the .NET platform, some major productivity features have been lost in the shuffle.

  • Leonardo Esposito

    ASP.NET: Extending the Power of Web Pages with User Controls

    By: Leonardo Esposito

    User controls represent an interesting and powerful level of page reusability in ASP.NET. You can build user controls by extracting and combining blocks of code from existing pages. You can also assemble ASP.NET controls together in a sort of embeddable form for use in Web pages. In this article, you'll get a crash-course on how to design, write and use ASP.NET user controls.

  • Gunnerson, Eric

    C#: Why Do We Need Another Language?

    By: Gunnerson, Eric

    New computer languages are rare and successful ones are rarer still, yet Microsoft decided to create a new language to go along with the .NET Developer Platform. Why weren't existing languages good enough?

  • Manickam, Srinivasan Michael Saltzman

    PerlNET: An Introduction

    By: Manickam, Srinivasan, Michael Saltzman

    Perl is a language that has been around for a while and is one of the most popular open source languages among system administrators, Web developers and the research community. Meanwhile, Microsoft's .NET technology, which is comprised of a framework and set of tools, was recently released for creating sophisticated applications. Is it possible to have any connection between these two different worlds? Yes it is! Perl is now a .NET language. This is the first of a two-part series written to introduce and explore the tools and technologies that are giving Perl and .NET a new dimension.

  • Leclair, Daniel

    The Visual FoxPro Toolkit for .NET

    By: Leclair, Daniel

    Daniel Leclair argues that Visual Studio .NET lacks some beloved FoxPro capabilities, and introduces the Visual FoxPro Toolkit for .NET—a free, public-domain .NET assembly that re-creates many VFP-style functions (225 in total) across arrays, strings, data, and more. Written in managed code and operable without VFP installed, the 56K DLL serves as “training wheels” for VFP developers transitioning to .NET while rewarding VB.NET and C# users with familiar, familiar-function syntax and powerful helpers. Leclair explains installation, usage, and the toolkit’s scope, emphasizing its practicality, extensibility, and value for diverse developers.

  • Paul Sheriff

    ASP.NET: Creating an Application Configuration Class

    By: Paul Sheriff

    Most of you are probably aware that the web.config file in an ASP.NET project controls the behavior of your Web site. If you make a change to one of the built-in settings in this file, ASP.NET automatically detects those changes and applies them immediately. Wouldn't it be nice if you could have your own settings in this file applied immediately as well? In this article you will learn how to do just that. You will also learn the difference between the Application object and creating your own Configuration class.

  • Arnout, Karine

    Eiffel for .NET: An Introduction

    By: Arnout, Karine

    Eiffel Software Inc.'s Eiffel for .NET is now available as part of ESI's EiffelStudio™ . Eiffel for .NET combines the power of two object technology variants: Eiffel (including Design by Contract™, multiple inheritance, genericity and seamlessness of software development) and .NET (including language interoperability, Web services and other advanced facilities.).