August 2004 - Posts
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In Visual Basic 2005, the Upgrade Wizard has added several new features to continue to help you upgrade your Visual Basic 6.0 projects.
The key improvements to the Upgrade Wizard in this version of Visual Basic include the support for upgrading some common Visual Basic 6.0 ActiveX controls, an additional project type, and a few language features that were not previously supported. It also targets some new Visual Basic 2005 features. |
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Upgrade Wizard from VB2005(sure it is including in VS2005 as well). Although this article is heading to those which are writen in VB6, it is still worth to read as I am sure that most of your application are still in VB6(many companies are not moved to .NET yet). How do I know? Well, my working company is using Oracle with ASP, Yes ASP, NOT ASP.NET yet. However, I am just in a small position and cannot ask the IT dept to change into ASP.NET. And I am sure that most of IT colleagues in my working company, never and never touch .NET yet. As I am also sure that they are not a good programmer. I have join this company for 3 more monthes and found there are many stupid Business Logic that they cannot solve since the Management team has asked for more than 1.5 years, However I can solve few within half days on each function by using VB.NET2003. See then power .NET gave us?
So.....same wording.....Get ready for the next wave. |
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In this episode we talk with Jason Zander and Amnon Horowitz about the important improvements that have been added not only to Visual Studio 2005, but also to ASP.NET and the .NET Framework (v2.0) as well. Later, Rick LaPlante and Shanku Niyogi give us some hands-on examples of how these improvements can aid in the productivity of developing various styles of applications. |
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Yes, it is the .NET Show for VS2005 now. I am not sure how many of you have tired VS2005(or its express Edition), But it is good to watch and at least get the most update information about this product. If you are one of my MCAD/MCSD students, please make sure that you watch it too.
Get ready for the next wave. |
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This article discusses:
a) How SQL injection attacks work
b) Testing for vulnerabilities
c) Validating user input
d) Using .NET features to prevent attacks
e) Importance of handling exceptions |
Yes.....This Security Topic is hot. I attended many seminar from Microsoft and showing how damagerous it is and how careless we are in the past. However, I found out, most of my MCAD/MCSE students are not knowing this issue. And so.....Lucky that MSDN Magazine is talking about this in the currect Issue in Sept-2004.
Hurry go and read about it, get ready to change your code and your design from now on.
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As WinXP SP2 is going to be released and it change a lot to your Windows XP by applying a lot of security. These including These technologies include:
a)Network protection
b)Memory protection
c)Improved email security
d)Safer browsing |
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To developers these technologies will have impacts on the applications that they create and the tools they use. There are many codes that one may need to rewrite. So, don't wait and go to check asap, found out what the area of update is and what your code has to changed for SP2
More Info...
Read from Windows & .NET Magazine and know that finally WinXP SP2 is going to be released. It is Build 2180. For MSDN Subscriber could be able to download soon. However, for this week, Only English and German version. Early next week Japanese version will be there too. And lately next week, you may found in the Windows Update(When is the Traditional Chinese version????). This SP2 will be including .NET Framework v1.1 Runtime Library and its size will be 272Mb(Good news as it is now only optional to download the .NET Framework Runtime Library).
More info....
However, From MVP Private newsgroup, I heard that there will be Build 2812 or 2813.....Well, Don't know where/how they got the news, you may found it out once you have installed it.
I received another email from Windows & .NET Magazine, and found this....X#?
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Then I search on Google, Also found a Blog, Don Box's Spoutlet(Architect, XML Messaging Microsoft). He did mention this in 2001...but....this blog has stopped since Jan2004, Don't know why....
Well, If you wanna know more about X#, go to TechTarget.com(for Web Services professionals)
X# is the name that has been given to a "data-centric" programming language that Microsoft is said to be developing in order to make it easier for a programmer to specify XML-defined data and how it should be handled by the program. Sometimes referred to as functional programming, a language like X# might allow a programmer who identified an XML document to write a language statement to address a particular data item by symbolic name and specify what to do with it.
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What about F#? Here is F# in Microsoft Research
F# is combining the safety and productivity of ML and Caml with the libraries, tools and cross-language working of .NET.
New: Planning and development are now beginning for F# 0.7. A draft description of some changes in the works can be found in the version 0.7 README file.
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Don't know any of you is subscribing this magazine, but it is a good magazine which has many update info about windows & .NET related sever. I just know that this Magazine is going to rename, Reason? New Name? Read the following la.... |
As many of you already know, with our September 2004 issue, Windows
& .NET Magazine becomes Windows IT Pro. This is not only a change
in name, but a new opportunity for Windows IT Pro to provide you with
more chances to participate and even more valuable resources to assist
you in your everyday information needs.
Over the past year we have been slowly developing a reader's Advisory
Panel which has helped us with many of the changes you will be seeing
in our magazine and content beginning September 1st. We would now
like to open participation in that on-going panel to a broader group of our
readers and would like to invite you to participate.
The Windows IT Pro Advisory Panel is already an influential group of
readers and web users who are called upon routinely to provide insight
and opinions about Windows IT Pro and advertiser products and
services, the IT industry as a whole, and many other characteristics of the
IT industry that are current and relevant. Our editors and many of our
advertisers have grown to rely on the input of this group over the short
time our panel has been in existence.
We contact panel members on a weekly basis with brief, three to five
question inquiries, invitations to participate in Advisory Bulletin Board
discussions, and requests to complete on-line surveys. Occasionally, we
may even seek your insights in person in a focus group at conferences
such as Connections or Tech Ed (if we learn you plan to be there
anyway.) Participants in many of the formats we use have told us they
are interesting and fun. In other words, we would like to maintain a
valuable and engaging relationship with you over time. And the decision
to participate is yours each time we send a request.
As a reward for your participation in the Windows IT Pro Advisory
Panel we offer monthly and quarterly drawings for some of the T-Shirts,
caps and other fine memorabilia related to our magazine. (Some of those
may be collectables now!) Many of the research projects themselves
also have incentives for participation that are more dependent on the
amount of time and effort required on your part. Again, we want to make
this process valuable to you as well.
If you would like to be a member of the Windows IT Pro Advisory Panel
please go to the URL shown on the bottom of this page and fill out the
enclosed registration form. We apologize that in some cases we may
already have much of this information in another form, but our systems
are not tied at this time.