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Dances with Vacuums

his past Christmas, my wife Joy asked me for a Roomba. For those of you who don’t know, Roomba is a miniature robotic vacuum cleaner that looks like a motorized

Never Give Up

‘m writing this editorial in early 2004. Yes this is the March/April issue but I see January out my window. Like many people, I made a new resolution for the

ADO.NET Best Practices, Part II

DO.NET has a strong and powerful disconnected model that lets programmers build a Web of in-memory objects and relate contents coming from different tables and even from different data sources.

Three Cool New Features in C#

# has always had a reputation as a clean language with lots of innovation. The Whidbey-release of Visual Studio .NET ships with a new version of the C# compiler that

Creating Web Sites with ASP.NET Whidbey

e remember clearly the time period before ASP.NET 1.0 shipped. While building applications using ASP, we said over and over “I sure wish we could use this stuff right now,”

C# 2.0 Code Refactoring

he next version of C# will feature a code refactoring engine built into the Visual Studio environment. A term coined by Martin Fowler, code refactoring allows you to change the