.NET Archive

In this article, Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to build an infrared chat application using the IrDAClient class supported in the .NET Compact Framework class libraries. Elsewhere, by way of a blog entry, David Hill explains how you can implement an asynchronous call pattern that allows you to consume Web services from a Windows Forms application without having to worry about threads.

See the performance of native COM+ and .NET Enterprise Services components when applied to different activation and calling patterns. Get guidelines to make .NET Enterprise Services components execute just as quickly as C++ COM+ components, and get key recommendations to help you create high-performance .NET Enterprise Service components.

This week, Microsoft will release its first upgrade to its .NET Compact Framework, bringing mobile developers more performance, more UI support and a raft of new access technologies to make it easier for devs to integrate mobile devices with a wide array of XML, SQL and COM resources on legacy apps and databases.

Student's team from University of Wroclaw (Poland), developing new .NET platform hybrid language Nemerle, get a grant from Microsoft in the amount to 25 thousand EURO. That was a reward in a competition which was in connection with the ROTOR platform. Mono was also used.

MyXaml is an open source development effort bringing XML markup parsing to the .NET Framework and third party object models. The concept is similar to Longhorn's markup (code-named XAML).

Windows Forms Markup Language (WFML) provides an extensible mechanism to add a markup model on top of an existing .NET Framework object model. WFMLs parsing rules can be summarized as "XML elements map to .NET Framework types and XML attributes map to Type properties (or events)". This sample includes a WFML parser that dynamically generates an object instance tree from an XML file in WFML format.

Microsoft's bet-the-company initiative turns 4 this year. Are developers happier? Has the Windows experience improved? InfoWorld reviews .Net's tools and technologies for a top-to-bottom evaluation.

Some interesting Longhorn and .NET articles for developers appeared on MSDN:

The first and second articles in this series about .NET security covered the basics of .NET identity-based security, and showed you how to implement custom authentication and authorization schemes. In this last installment, you get the missing piece of the puzzle: Learn how to implement identity flow and identity impersonation across.NET-distributed multilayered applications.

Whether you are developing at the enterprise level or for the smallest venues, IT is all about automation, finding ways to allow these infernal machines to do things better, faster, or in many cases, "at all" than the human alternatives.

The .NET Framework class library is a set of namespaces, classes, interfaces, and value types, which you'll use in .NET applications, components, and controls. In this chapter from A "Programmer's Guide to .NET", you'll learn about several of basic classes included in the .NET Framework class library, and get an introduction to collections.

The System namespace holds classes for simple common tasks, and a large number of sub-namespaces for slightly less common (but still important) tasks, including string manipulation, IO, and threading. Learn how .NET handles namespaces -- and how they can make your life easier.

OK, so you want to create a windows service and you're not a .NET guru? This is exactly what got me in trouble with my wife. It started off easy enough, but before the weekend was through, my wife was getting on to me for spending so much time at the computer. She thought that I should be spending quality time with our family, imagine that. I told her that I was doing some 'personal' research, that, "no, it's not work honey" and "I'm trying to learn some new technology", "think of it as reading a book, only on the computer..." Inanities like that, she wasn't having any of it, of course. Regardless, I am glad to report, I figured it out and just in the nick of time, too.

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