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ost applications require some sort of configuration data, whether it is a file resource, a database connection string, user settings, a Web service URL, or simply organizational branding requirements. To
t seems that everyone is talking about making an SOA and how much it will improve their operations, yet most people are hard-pressed to define not only what an SOA
n important part of learning any development platform, whether it is a development platform like Visual Studio using C# or Visual Basic .NET or a server environment like SQL Server
isual Basic developers had wanted inheritance for what seems like decades. The feature finally made it into VB.NET, making VB.NET an official object-oriented language. By now you are probably already
ver the last few months, the blogosphere has been waging a battle for continued development and support for VB6. This battle reached its crescendo a few weeks before Microsoft’s schedule
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 shakers
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