his is the last entry in a series of articles on Microsoft’s “patterns & practices” (p&p) Enterprise Library tools, and how you can use them in your ASP.NET applications. Enterprise
icrosoft’s new ClickOnce auto-updating technology can radically simplify application deployment. Using it, .NET developers and architects can deliver highly interactive desktop applications while gaining the centralized maintainability and “always-up-to-date” qualities
rom the simplest point of view, ClickOnce is a software technology from Microsoft that gives .NET developers the ability to publish complete applications (executable programs along with their resource and
rawing text in Visual Basic 6 was all very simple?both the process and the results. First, you would set a form or PictureBox’s CurrentX and CurrentY properties and then call
icrosoft’s Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) focuses on the issue of dealing with complex software projects built by a large team. VSTS has all the ingredients needed for a distributed
transaction is a very common operation in our daily lives as well as in the computing world. For example, when you try to deposit a check issued by your boss,
fforts to simplify application globalization and localization have definitely succeeded over the past few years. ASP.NET 2.0 made the process of localizing resources and deploying them with applications easier for
he .NET framework provides strong support for accessing Active Directory Services, letting you create, edit, delete, and search for directory objects efficiently. This article discusses the benefits of Active Directory
essage Queuing (MQ) has long been a foundation for applications that require asynchronous and disconnected communications. Implementations of Message Queuing such as Microsoft’s MSMQ, IBM’s WebSphere MQ, TIBCO’s Rendezvous, and