The recently expanded relationship between Microsoft and SAP bore fruit last week in the form of a new portal development kit (PDK). The PDK for Microsoft .NET is designed to make it easier for programmers using the Visual Studio .NET IDE to develop, test, and deploy applications that run within the SAP Enterprise Portal.
Need some industrial-looking controls that aren't overwhelmed by the current
lickable, semi-transparent interface trends? This set may be just what your user
interface ordered.
If you had 90 days to port IPTV software from Microsoft .NET to Java running on Tomcat, you’d have a problem Noam Fogel knows well. Fogel is vice president of research and development for Infogate Online Ltd., a Tel Aviv, Israel-based provider of software used by telcos and cable operators to offer video and games on demand to their customers.
It's pretty hard to be a developer these days and not think about security. But
many of us are having to catch up all of a sudden on the intricate and confusing
details of the Windows security infrastructure. Keith Brown's new book makes
learning what you need to know much, much easier.
It's easy to think of Microsoft and open source as implacable enemies. But in
fact, many people are building open source code with Microsoft tools, and others
use open source tools to build proprietary software. In this book, Brian Nantz
surveys some of the intersections and provides plenty of pointers to good tools
and sample code.
Sure, your IDE includes a button control. But isn't it sort of boring? If you're
looking for an inexpensive way to make your applications look more exciting,
Arcadia PowerButton may be the answer.
Many developers have found themselves on the unit testing bandwagon, setting up
tiny tests to check all of their code whenever they make a change. In the Visual
Studio .NET world, this has required running an external tool to exercise the
tests. With the advent of TestDriven.NET, that's no longer true.
MyGeneration is an object-relational mapper and code generator for .NET. It
supports a great variety of databases, handles regeneration of existing code,
and it's even free.
Now in its second major release, ANTS Profiler is a super-easy to use profiler for .NET applications, letting you track speed or memory usage and drill down to a very granular level.
If your organization is like most out there, you've got a raft of disparate
legacy applications that don't talk much to each other. Butch Clark's new book
provides a recipe for injecting some order into this chaos. Read on to get my
impressions of the book.
Providing law offices and citizens with specific data on court schedules and other judicial information without compromising security was the challenge Robert McDonald faces as chief architect of Court Services Online.
DotNetBar offers a solid and flexible set of controls in modern visual styles for your .NET applications.
Architected Rapid Application Development (ARAD) is a new category of tools with a proven ROI edge, according to a recently completed user survey by Gartner, Inc.
Architects, developers, and IT managers must take collective responsibility for creating secure solutions. Exploit Java's language- and enterprise-level security features to build a secure environment.
Software developers have only vague ideas of what Longhorn will offer, and
conflicting opinions on whether those features will be valuable.
DataDirect Connect for .NET's native managed database providers for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and Sybase improve data-access performance, reliability, and scalability.
There are definite pluses, including ROI savings, and productivity and performance gains, in moving legacy Cobol mainframe apps to Microsoft Windows servers, says Leo Theberge, CIO at a Canadian book club.
Unit-testing tools for .NET are proliferating these days. ZaneBug brings some innovative new features to the familiar NUnit base.
Sun Microsystems has agreed to pay Eastman Kodak $92 million to settle an intellectual property dispute between the two companies, Sun disclosed last week. The announcement came just days after a federal jury found that Sun had infringed on three of Kodak's object-oriented software patents when it created Java.
This client-server licensing system for .NET is improved with more samples, code obfuscation, and a lower entry price.