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October 22, 2002

New GUIs: XML Is the Heir Apparent

here’s no brawl like the brawl over a GUI technology. XML is the new entrant into this particular pit-fight, and it looks like the ultimate winner to me. XML is

SALT or VoiceXML For Speech Applications?

ALT and VoiceXML are both markup languages for writing applications that use voice input and/or output. Both languages were developed by industry consortia (the SALT Forum and the VoiceXML Forum,

Getting Started with Remoting in .NET

Remoting is a means by which one operating system process, or program, can communicate with another process. The two processes can exist on the same computer or on two computers

Dealing with DllImport (Part 1 of 2)

Learning to program for the .NET Framework has been an interesting experience. I use the term “interesting” loosely: it has sometimes been amazingly easy, and sometimes unexpectedly frustrating. For instance,

Upgrade Your INI Files to XML with .NET

he INI (application INItialization) file format became popular because it provided a convenient way to store values that might change (such as file locations, user preferences, etc.) in a standard

Two Critical Tips for Unit Testing in Java

evelopers write unit tests to check their own code. Unit testing differs from integration testing, which confirms that components work well together, and acceptance testing, which confirms that an application

Dealing with DllImport, (Part 2 of 2)

In the first part of this article, I explained the basics of calling functions in unmanaged DLLs from managed .NET code. In this part, I’ll show you how to use