Dino was at the Burton Group's Catalyst conference on Wednesday. A brief note about the panel discussion....

I had previously mentioned that Oracle planned to release a VS2003 add-in. InfoWorld reports that Oracle has delivered it. Download it here . Nice! -Dino

In my original post on Java interop with MSMQ , I gave a sample implementation of a Queue class for Java that was able to send and receive strings, and I suggested that it would be pretty simple to extend it to send whatever you want. A couple of people...

Sys-Con TV interviews of Microsofties at JavaOne 2005: Brian Keller Dino Chiesa The full list of JavaOne interviews on Sys-Con TV .

At TechEd, Microsoft announced some new stuff around interop with Active Directory. openLDAP and MIIS integration a password change notification interface a new one-stop website on AD interop IP licensing AD interop developer labs in...

In a previous post , I talked about transactions without components, spanning MQ and SQL Server. The hardest part in doing that was setting up the environment. For posterity, here's what I did: Steps: install Windows XPSP2 or WS2003 install...

.NET v1.1 apps can exploit COM+ "services without components" to perform transactional work across MQ and SQL Server....

This excellent article by Heinrich Gantenbein of Avanade examines a scenario where bridge technology really shines when connecting a new .NET app to an existing Java-based system. At the Microsoft booth at JavaOne 2005, we had partner JNBridge demonstrating...

http://msdn.demoservers.com/login.aspx?lab=118 Addendum: What does it mean, "Hosted"? you may ask. This means you can try out Visual Studio 2005, without installing anything on your own machine. Suppose you have a machine at work and you are not permitted...

I thought I posted on this previously, but Sybase has an eval version of DataWindow .NET for download .