Perhaps the most commonly asked questions regarding memory management in .NET are: 'How long does a garbage collection take,' and 'How can I control when the garbage collector runs?' Apprehensive that 'pauses' caused by garbage collections will be perceived by users, application develo...

Before there were Web parts, DotNetNuke created installable private assemblies nicknamed modules to encapsulate the functionality desired within a modular environment. It doesn't take much experience developing modules for DotNetNuke before you start asking the age-old questions: I kno...

Flash has been communicating with JavaScript for a long time through getURL and fscommand, but with Flash 8 it's easier than ever. With the ExternalInterface class, you cannot only call JavaScript functions, but also have JavaScript call Flash functions. And now that JavaScript is gett...

When I was a kid, I remember someone saying, 'If you like where you're sitting, you had better stay there!' They were referring to a prediction that the Earth's population was going to increase to the point that there wouldn't be enough room for everyone to sit, so we'd all have to sta...

.NET 2.0 Generics is my favorite book of 2005. Well, other than Harry Potter anyway. This book is not for new programmers. To understand this book, I would recommend that you have about a year of programming experience, and at least six months with C++, C#, or Java. This book is well w...

SYS-CON West Coast Bureau Chief Roger Strukhoff was on assignment Sunday, Feb. 5, dutifully watching Super Bowl XL, but there was nothing 'Xtra Large' about this year's group of tech ads. Tech was, in fact, almost non-existent. Are they just being smart, or are the good times not close...

Adding to the company's identity management offerings, BMC Software, Inc. , a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, today announced BMC(R) Identity Management for .NET, the industry's most complete identity management solution for Microsoft .NET technologies. The soluti...

Today, in anticipation of the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum (GLF) Europe 2006, Microsoft outlined a worldwide Public Services and eGovernment Strategy aimed enabling governments at all levels to reduce the cost burden of 'red tape' and allow increased technology adoption to stim...

Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at Microsoft, and the company's CFO Chris Liddell were able on Thursday to announce revenue of $11.84 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2005, a 9% increase over the same period of the prior year, marking the highest quarterly revenue in th...

Brad Smith, Microsoft Senior Vice President and General Counsel, said - in reference to the European Commission's March 2004 decision Microsoft's legal obligations to provide companies with the technical specifications of its proprietary communications protocols: 'We are putting our mo...

Microsoft has launched a new 'Linux or Windows?' commercial campaign on SYS-CON.TV. Two different video commercials are appearing in this campaign, and will stream to around 50,000 viewers per day. These commercials are the first that SYS-CON.TV viewers will see during 2006; a number o...

Typical users are SPC engineers and other quality control professionals creating .Net based applications that will be used to monitor critical quality factors in manufacturing, process, and service industries. The feature rich toolkit includes templates for the most common SPC control ...

NJDX provides smooth integration with popular databases including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, and Microsoft Access, according to developer Software Tree. NJDX has also been tightly integrated with Visual Studio .NET and can be used with any CLR-based language including C#, V...

'Microsoft has a history of successful collaboration with Apple, and this agreement underscores our commitment to the Mac platform,' said Tom Gibbons, vice president of the Consumer Productivity eXperiences Business at Microsoft. 'We've had many years of success with Office for Mac, an...

Macrovision has worked closely with Microsoft on several initiatives, announcing products that support and extend the latest Microsoft technology, including FLEXnet InstallShield 11.5, which features complete integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and support for the Microsoft ....

Microsoft Corp. today announced that Target Corp., the nation's second-largest discount general merchandise retailer, will adopt Microsoft .NET Framework-based technologies within its 1,400 stores in 47 U.S. states. Target will migrate its systems within each store to the Microsoft .NE...

With the .NET engine Windward Reports can be used to create reports in either Java or .NET environments. The .NET engine is a 100 percent managed code product that is built from the same source code base as the Java version. It is built using J# and requires .NET 2.0. AutoTag has also ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced that Target Corp., the nation's second-largest discount general merchandise retailer, will adopt Microsoft(R) .NET Framework- based technologies within its 1,400 stores in 47 U.S. states. Target will migrate its systems within each store to the Microsof...

r.a.d.callback is a suite of AJAX-enabled UI controls, which allow you to update page content without postback and loss of scroll position. The short response time combined with the smooth interface transitions results in superior users experience and level of interactivity, which can ...

Back in November when Jerry Dixon was presenting the VS2005 launch at the Memphis .NET User Group meeting, I gave him a hard time publicly at one point for doing most of the demo's from in the Markup View. I thought that this was not very informative to those not familiar with the new...

The requirements for different user-facing applications frequently say something like: 'User has to see/read/be shown only funds/records/itineraries/policies he or she is entitled to.' Permissions in these cases usually depend on multiple factors related to the user profile (job role, ...

Consumer customers who use Automatic Updates will receive the update automatically and do not need to take any additional actions. Consumers can also manually download and deploy the update by visiting Microsoft Update or Windows Update. Consumers can also get more information at Micro...

'Socket is committed to providing the best user experience for Wi-Fi connectivity,' said Peter Phillips, vice president of marketing at Socket. 'The Go Wi-Fi! P500 is the fastest, most secure and easy-to-use 802.11g Wi-Fi card available. Users benefit from improved mobile productivity ...

'Microsoft has been carefully monitoring the attempted exploitation of the WMF vulnerability since it became public last week,' the company said in a recent statement, 'through its own forensic capabilities and through partnerships within the industry and law enforcement. Although the ...

Today, during a keynote address at Interop New York 2005, Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president in the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft Corp. , announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Microsoft(R) Office Communicator Web Access. Communicator Web Access, a Web-b...

OpenPages, the leading provider of enterprisegovernance, risk and compliance management (GRCM) solutions, todayannounced that INTCOMEX, Inc. has selected OpenPages Sarbanes-Oxley Express(SOX Express) for its Sarbanes-Oxleycompliance initiatives. INTCOMEX will deploy SOX Express to auto...

Microsoft Corp. will release fiscal 2006 second-quarter financial results after the close of the market on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006. A live webcast of the earnings conference call will be made available at 2:30 p.m. PST on the Microsoft Investor Relations Web site at http://www.microso...

Mixed-mode deployments where the data center has a mixture of different technology platforms, hardware, and software and where those platforms interoperate together to deliver software applications is the norm rather than an exception.

While Chart FX for Visual Studio 2005 can be as complex as developers require, Software FX has redesigned almost all aspects of Chart FX, including but not limited to the API, IDE integration, documentation, visuals and deployment capabilities, to assure that achieving common tasks is ...

Using Open Source Web Software with Windows addresses these issues by introducing Windows administrators, programmers, and Web developers to open source server tools such as Perl, MySQL, Apache, and PHP, which are currently used to power more than 65% of Web sites worldwide. Users lear...

It looks to me like that the 1.1.9 release of Mono is the biggest since Version 1.0. Many components went through major changes. 118 developers received credit for work done since version 1.1.8.

On the Mobility front, I noticed where Redmond decided to add .NETCF 2.0 and SQL Mobile support to Widwos CE 4.2. This was is in response to customer feedback and specifically one of the MVP mobility discussion lists where we are allowed to interact directly with Microsoft Mobility te...

Hosting.com has announced at the Microsoft Dev Connections 2005 show their new product offerings for Microsoft's recently released ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. To encourage early signups, Hosting.com will offer free hosting until January 1, 2006 for ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005....

Advancements in high-performance computing are on the minds of thousands of IT professionals and scientists attending conferences around the world. Bob Muglia, senior vice president, Microsoft Server and Tools Business, talked about Microsoft's commitment to high performance computing ...

A new workbook from ESRI Press shows how GIS meets the needs of a wide range of professions and technological abilities. GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9 offers exercises and instructions that users can adapt to specific training needs, whether it is teaching GIS in a classroom or ...

GIS Day is a global event that is part of the National Geographic Society's Geography Awareness Week, which focuses on promoting awareness about geography education. Games, open houses, lectures, and a host of other activities will spread the word about the power of the innovative tech...

GraphOn has announced that it has filed a lawsuit against AutoTrader.com alleging infringement of two of GraphOn's patents. The Complaint, filed in United States District Court in the Eastern District of Texas, alleges infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,324,538 and 6,850,940 which prot...

ESRI has announced the 2005 release of its segmentation system, Community Tapestry, at the ZIP+4 geography level. For more precise segmenting of customer records, users can employ this data to quickly and easily append detailed market segmentation codes to customer records at the ZIP+4...

NTT Com has announced that the company would rollout Internet Protocol version 6 targeting general subscribers under its flagship brand OCN Internet service. The upgrade will enable its 5 million subscribers to take advantage of the more secure IPv6 technology to remotely access and co...

The Geography Division of Statistics Canada and Intélec Géomatique were recently presented with ESRI Canada's Award of Excellence at the 8th Annual Regional ESRI User Conference. Alain Dombrowski, Regional Manager for ESRI Canada, presented the award in recognition of their work on an ...