Vol: 3 Iss: 2 Read Back Issues

Managing XML Data Last week I had lunch with the application manager of a local customer that just completed their enterprise rollout of Office 2003. We had decided to meet and discuss possible ways his team could begin to utilize this deployment. As we sat down he explained that he had been talking to ... May. 26, 2005  Reads: 21,701

How Well Does Work-At-Home Work? Fate likes to urinate in my breakfast cereal! Just days after submitting my previous editorial for publication - wherein, you may remember, I had extolled the virtues of local software expertise over those of off-shore development - I was asked to extend my consulting engagement in San... Feb. 9, 2005  Reads: 19,528

Creating Custom Site Definitions in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server provide a lot of functionality out of the box. After installation you can begin creating portal and team sites. These newly minted sites can be customized; content can be created and managed, color them... Feb. 9, 2005  Reads: 50,504  Replies: 3

Implementing Security For Web Applications How can you take advantage of the new security features of ASP.NET 2.0, and how can you extend them for the specific needs of your Web applications? Feb. 9, 2005  Reads: 30,689

An Interface for Human Workflow Services in BizTalk Server 2004 One of the lesser known or least understood features of BizTalk Server 2004 is Human Workflow Services (HWS). This Web services-enabled platform provides most of the tools you need to build robust workflow solutions. One of the missing tools is a user interface that understands and can... Feb. 9, 2005  Reads: 24,322

Project Server Integration with Office System Microsoft's Project Server provides a platform for enterprise customers to manage multiple projects and resources. Primarily the system should be accessed through the Web interface provided, but there are many occasions on which we would want to access the data programmatically, especi... Feb. 9, 2005  Reads: 9,049

My Generation: A Fresh Approach to Code Generation My Generation is a very flexible, powerful code generator and it's 100% free. MyGeneration executes templates to transform database meta-data or schemas into object-oriented architectures, stored procedures, XML, HTML, ASP.NET pages, and more. Templates can be written in VBScript, JScr... Feb. 9, 2005  Reads: 20,178

Dynamic Windows Forms with XAML During one of my first presentations on XAML as an emerging technology, an enlightened attendee asked if it were possible to load Windows Forms user interfaces via a Web service. I knew we had run successful tests that loaded XAML at run time in the Windows Forms environment, so I answ... Feb. 9, 2005  Reads: 17,520

Feedback Special: The Future of Our Profession Jeffrey Chapinsky writes: The most important thing mentioned is postulates 1-3, which I think is really only one. Once these off-shore projects are done and put into production there will always be the need for a local serviceperson type of trade. The analogy here is someone may buy a ... Feb. 9, 2005  Reads: 11,753

SharpDevelop IDE Impresses The monthly Mono releases are out, 1.0.5 for production use (details at www.gomono.com/archive/1.0.5/), and the development version 1.1.3 (details at www.gomono.com/archive/1.1.3/). The production version has an improved Monodoc, and a half dozen Security fixes. The development version... Feb. 9, 2005  Reads: 21,125