Jon Box

ASP.NET Membership Provider and Different Servers 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 worki... (more)

VS2005: Designer or Markup View 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 informat... (more)

Who says Microsoft does not listen? 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 in... (more)

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 P... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 oth... (more)

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 bi... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 bro... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio interviews Bob Beauchemin of DevelopMentor about Yukon. Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio interviews Chris Sells -- Software Legend and manager of MSDN's new Longhorn web site. Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

  Jon Box interviews Les Pinter, Founder of Pinter Consulting about migrating from Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic.NET Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio interviews John Robbins, Co-Founder of Wintellect about the state of debugging in the .NET world. Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

SYS-CON Radio interviews Christoph Schittko, Principal Consultant of Momentum Software. Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

  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. Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio interviews David Treadwell, General manager for Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform of Microsoft about the future of .NET Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio interviews Julie Lerman, Chief Chick of ineta/vermont.NET Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio interviews Stephen Forte, CTO of Corzen about SQL Server, .NET Framework, RegEx, CF, SQL Server CE. Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio interviews Brian Loesgen and Dave Noderer from the International .NET Users Group Association. Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

  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? Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)