Hmm, what's ths?!?! BEA has introduced a new line of stuff, under the name Aqualogic Interface, or ALI (I think). As part of that, there is the Aqualogic User Interface (ALUI?). One of the things under that umbrella is the .NET Application Accelerator...

Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the Java programming language was born. Originally intended as an interpreted environment, to run in a "virtual machine", Java's original promise was full portability. The idea was that, rather than writing...

Here's a story of an unlikely marriage of the .NET Framework and green screen terminals. CO-OP Financial services, an electronic funds transfer network, moved their core app off the Mainframe, and to a Windows Server, to save costs. They reduced their...

Microsoft partners can ship preconfigured Virtual Hard drives (VHDs), containing Windows as well as their own apps, for evaluation purposes. For more on this check out the VHD Test Drive Program, http://www.microsoft.com/technet/try/vhd/partners.mspx...

Have you seen this? http://www.infoq.com/j+n/

Ted Neward has resolved to focus his blogging on interop for 2007. Excellent! Worth checking out.

The January CTP for the next version of Visual Studio, code-named "Orcas" is now available . By CTP, Microsoft implies a Community Technology Preview - it is essentially a lightweight beta ship vehicle for a future product. By shipping this preview, Microsoft...

And Now for Something Completely Different... Today I was doing some system maintenance and noticed something that I wanted to point out to y'all. When I installed the .NET SDK v1.1, In the control panel, I got a .NET SDK v1.1 item in the "Add/Remove...

The IBM Redbook entitled "IBM WebSphere and Microsoft .NET Interoperability" tries to tackle a worthy topic, but doesn't quite succeed. ...

It's drop-dead simple to build an RSS library in .NET 2.0, using the .NET SDK. Check this example for how I did it. ...

Microsoft have released the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista, Beta ! What a mouthful! What is this thing? Well, back in September, Microsoft revealed that Visual Studio 2005 would not work on Windows Vista, when Vista first...

Is there a way to upgrade an installation of a time limited trial of Visual Studio 2005 to a full license? Without reinstallation? Yes, just run Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Change. One of the options is to convert from trial to retail...