Gaurav Seth's WebLog

This blog aims at clarifying the issues which 32-bit developers might be having when they start migrating to the 64-bit platform. My observations below would be concentrated towards the .NET Framework related technologies. Most of the things I discuss...

While I tried to learn more about the 64-bit processors, here is what I found out. There are two different sets of architectures present in the world today. The first is called the x64 architecture processors, which is based on the AMD64 and/or Extended...

As we start talking of high performance computing, 64-bit platform offerings etc. some of the buzz words that come into play are dual processor , dual core and Hyper Threading . I thought it would be a good idea to find and write about what these technologies...

Before we discuss this, it is important for the users to understand a few facts about 64-bit platform offerings . 64-bit computing (from a Microsoft perspective) comes in two variants · x64 ( EM64T / AMD64 ) · Itanium ( EPIC ) Both,...

In one of my previous posts I discussed a little bit about WoW/ WoW64 in 64-bit computing . While I was trying to write more about the same, I came across this blog from Craig McMurtry - http://blogs.msdn.com/craigmcmurtry/archive/2004/12/14/301155.aspx...

I recently did some preliminary performance testing on the 64-bit platform Vs that on 32-bit. Here are the results of the same Calculation Speed (milliseconds) Memory Copy (milliseconds) Measure x86 x64...

In a few days from now, come November 7th, the world of software development and developers would take a big leap ahead. Visual Studio a.k.a. Whidbey would be shipped. The product teams and the entire organization are very excited to have come so close...

Java Beans are components that can be controlled dynamically and assembled to applications via visual components. However, they not only have visual uses but they could be used to implement non-visual components as well. They are mainly converted to ...

Here are some of the sites that I have really found good and informative about the different performance reports for 64-bit platforms (from a MS technology centric perspective). 64-bit Performance Benchmark: .NET 2.0 and IBM Websphere 6.0 - http...

Serialization corresponds with the core and native technology that Java provides to save/recover the state of objects. It is used by other Java technologies inherent in J2SE 1.3. Java provides two kinds of Serialization: Basic Serialization (Java managed...

As I promised, I have posted the JLCA 3.0 cheat sheet for the users on my Blogs. The aim of this exercise has been for the JLCA users to understand the conversion process using the Java Language Conversion Assistant 3.0 and the issues they might face...

There are three different types of JScript engines that MS currently offers to the users. In this blog I would like to discuss more about the differences between them and would go into the reasoning for three different types sometime later. JScript...

Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA henceforth) is a tool that provides support for the conversion of software written in VJ++ and Java to Microsoft’s Visual C# .NET and .NET Framework. JLCA 3.0 is the latest version of the tool. It supports conversion...

Visual J# applications were designed to be built in an “x86” only mode using Visual Studio 2005. The main reason for the same was the fact that Visual J# Redist 2.0 supported execution of J# applications natively only on 32-bit platforms. On 64-bit platforms...

We often hear back from customers regarding this interesting problem. I am just throwing a perspective on this. Here is what we heard from one of our customers: I'm trying to get my organization to move to C# as the primary development tool, but I...

Here are links to a virtual series written by Sheetal, one of the developers in the JScript team on Jscript COM interop · Interoperability of JScript with COM · Calling functions of COM object from JScript · Script CallBack from COM · Passing...

This is one of the cool features that is offered in Visual Studio 2005 . I came across this recently, when one of our customers was unable to find the location of the Java Language Conversion Assistant in the normal File -> Open -> Convert... menu...

Java Event Model mechanism is primarily featured by listeners and adapters used to deal with the different types of events fired by AWT, Swing of the user himself. Most of Swing components use new event types and listeners. Java Event Model is mainly...

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines – a quote from an unknown source but so true. With the release of the Visual J# 2.0 Redist-SE over, the time has come for me to change and look for bigger and brighter challenges. I recently moved to...

JLCA v2.0 Vs v3.0 At times users come back to us when they have problems with usage of JLCA v2.0 and find that the conversion using the JLCA 2.0 release is not very effective. The JLCA 2.0 release comes integrated with Visual Studio .NET (2003). For...

In today’s world, a lot of applications are written targeting both the 32-bit and/or the 64-bit platform. Using cross compilation , users can now create applications using the .NET Framework which are platform agnostic. This is achieved by the data in...

A customer recently wrote the following to us- My organization is currently considering either .NET or Java (J2EE) as our enterprise application development platform. I am sold on .NET as I believe that:- · There are cheaper resources ...

Recently, Microsoft made a public release of Windows Script v5.7 which ships with different flavors of Windows® Vista for for Windows® 2000/XP as well as Windows® 2003 Server. Below are the download links for the same Download Windows Script...

The Java Language Conversion Assistant tool is not available as a download with the express editions of Visual Studio 2005. You would need to install Visual Studio .NET 2003 or Visual Studio 2005 to use Java Language Conversion Assistant. For Visual Studio...

MSBuild is a build platform for Microsoft and Visual Studio. Details about MSBuild tasks are documented here . Microsoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package – Second Edition comes with MSBuild support enabled (including cross compilation) from the...