indows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a runtime environment for your services, enabling you to expose CLR types as services and to consume services as CLR types. Although in theory you
s database developers, many of us have had to dip our feet into the wide ocean of XML. It should come as good news that in SQL Server 2005, you
apid Application Development (RAD) software development techniques have become an integral part of day-to-day software development in the past four years. This is the same RAD that James Martin described
have a recurring dream. It happens often enough that I think of it in waking moments. The dream goes like this. (Don’t you hate it when people tell you their
am the host of “.NET Rocks!,” an Internet audio talk show for .NET developers online at www.dotnetrocks.com and msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks . My co-host Richard Campbell and I interview the movers and
he cry is getting louder and louder and is even starting to come from gurus everywhere, including the likes of Billy Hollis, Jon Box, and Clemens Vasters. “What the heck
ne of the major benefits of writing .NET code to run in the Common Language Runtime (CLR) hosted in any environment is code access security (CAS). CAS provides a code-based
t PDC 2005, Microsoft introduced brand new technology known as LINQ, which stands for “Language Integrated Query.” The feature set hiding behind this acronym is truly mind-boggling and worthy of
indows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the new graphics subsystem in Windows Vista that will enable developers to build applications that provide breakthrough user experiences. If you look at the applications