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I'm working on an application where I built a custom membership provider because of custom database scheme requirement. My custom membership provider is using the hashed format for passwords and user answers. I've got that working and now want to deploy the new application including th...
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...
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...
Today, millions of Windows applications exist around the world. They are written with various development tools, with different development languages, and are based on different libraries. Let's suppose that you are responsible for one of these - and then along comes the Tablet PC. You...
There has never been an operating system release more important to .NET developers than the release of Windows Mobile Version 5.0. With this release, Microsoft is poised to take your productivity in writing mobile applications higher than it has ever gone before. Rich multimedia capabi...
People ask me all the time 'Why do you play with these toys?' - and yes, there is the aspect of an addiction to gadgetry. Tablet PC, Pocket PC, My SPOT watch - I call this my device trio because I personally carry all three and they are cool! But I also carry them for reasons other tha...
Recently, one of our clients asked me to build some reports into an ASP.NET application that used SQL Server. I had no experience with report generators, but I did have some experience in building reports programmatically and did not want to get on the bad side of my client by billing ...
In his book Building Solutions with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, Dan Fox begins with a brief discussion of the etymology of 'mobility.' Coming from the Latin word mobilitatem, Dan explains that mobility is the capacity for motion. When I'm talking to user groups, I like to men...
With Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET v2.0 just around the corner, we are about to embark on another exciting wave of technology. Mobile development is becoming easier with each release, and ASP.NET v2.0 will not disappoint. To start the next adventure in development for mobile browsers,...
SYS-CON Radio interviews Bob Beauchemin of DevelopMentor about Yukon.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Chris Sells -- Software Legend and manager of MSDN's new Longhorn web site.
Jon Box interviews Les Pinter, Founder of Pinter Consulting about migrating from Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic.NET
SYS-CON Radio interviews John Robbins, Co-Founder of Wintellect about the state of debugging in the .NET world.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Christoph Schittko, Principal Consultant of Momentum Software.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Richard Hale Shaw, CEO of The Richard Hale Shaw Group about the overall direction of and acceptance of .NET; Web Svcs vs. Remoting. Managed C++ vs. other Managed Languages.
SYS-CON Radio interviews David Treadwell, General manager for Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform of Microsoft about the future of .NET
SYS-CON Radio interviews Julie Lerman, Chief Chick of ineta/vermont.NET
SYS-CON Radio interviews Stephen Forte, CTO of Corzen about SQL Server, .NET Framework, RegEx, CF, SQL Server CE
SYS-CON Radio interviews Brian Loesgen and Dave Noderer from the International .NET Users Group Association.
Jon Box interviews Kevin Collins, Senior Program Manager of Microsoft about SQL Server CE and how it fits into the mobile space for solving business scenarios?
Jon Box interviews Steve Lasker, Program Manager of Microsoft about the DesignTime Experience for consuming Data in Whidbey.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Billy Hollis, Author/consultant of Elysian Group about distributed smart client architectures, and how they are preferred over browser-based systems for many scenarios.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Keith Franklin, Chief Software Architect of Empowered Software Solutions.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics about NetAdvantage 2003 Volume 3 and the initiative behind their new DevCenter portal.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Jackie Goldstein, General Manager of Renaissance Computer Systems and Microsoft Regional Director for Israel about the future of ADO.NET and the future of VB.NET.
.NET Developer's JournalMobility Editor Jon Box recently chatted with Ingo Rammer, consultant, instructor, and best-selling author of books on .NET. In this exclusive interview, Rammer discusses .NET Remoting, his programming roots, and the book he wishes he had when he was starting ou...
SYS-CON Radio interviews Shawn WIldermuth, author of a series of Longhorn articles for MSDN.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Chris Kinsman, President of Vergent Software about ASP.NET and the .NET Compact Framework.
SYS-CON Radio interviews John Beech, VP of Sales of Software FX, Inc. about using third party components in mission-critical applications.
Derek Ferguson and Jon Box interview Jim Wilson, President of JW Hedgehog, Inc. and DevelopMentor's .NET Compact Framework expert.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Andy Wigley, Principal Technologist of Content Master about the key design features of a successful mobile application.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Terry Weiss, Chief Technical Officer of Mentis Solutions, LLC
SYS-CON Radio interviews Michele Leroux Bustamante, Associate of IDesign Inc. about the importance of planning design, architecture and infrastructure and service level agreements to build reliable, scalable and secure 24x7 hosted Web services environment.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Adam Cogan, Chief Architect of www.ssw.com.au and Microsoft Regional Director for Australia about SQL Server Reporting Services, Extreme Programming and Windows Forms.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Craig Neable, .NET Compact Framework Evangelist of Microsoft about what's new in the Compact Framework v1.2.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Steven Smith, President of ASPAlliance LLC about ASP.NET 2.0.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Paul D. Sheriff, President of PDSA, Inc. about Architecting IT Solutions and .NET Security Tips.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Andres Aguiar, Program Manager of DeKlarit.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Kevin Schuler, President of InDepth Technology/PDC Bloggers about the PDC Bloggers site.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Steve Schmidt, Director of Product Management of InstallShield Software Corp about creating all types of Windows installations (MSI, script-based, smart device) with one solution and building installations from within the Visual S