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he remoting framework in .NET contains a feature set designed to support intra-process communications and application integration functions; however, for many applications the default remoting behaviors may not deliver all
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etting database data into and out of business objects has always been a problem; however, now that SQL Server 2000 supports XML, you can use interesting techniques that capitalize on
here are thousands of ways of applying speech recognition technology to business applications. If you’re not already using some form of speech recognition in your organization, you’ve probably thought of
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