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  • Domain-Driven Design Case Study: So We Thought We Knew Money

    Ying Hu and Sam Peng show how they solved some major problems dealing with international currency by selectively applying Domain-Driven Design to their existing application.

  • Reflector for .NET now supports C# 3.0

    Lutz Roeder's Reflector for .NET 5 has been released. Reflector for .NET is one of the most popular development tools for .NET. Primarily used as a class browser and decompiler for analyzing .NET assemblies, Reflector's newest release has to offer some new compelling features including support for C# 3.0.

  • SQL Server Now Supports Vista

    With the release of Service Pack 2, SQL Server 2005 finally has full support on Vista. This includes SQL Server Express, which had serious difficulties running on the new operating system. Several new features are also included in this release.

  • Tutorial: TDD with Selenium and Castle

    Dan Bunea shows how TDD can be applied in .NET using Selenium RC and Castle. Test first principals provide architects a way to quickly jump into active development early in the application development lifecycle. The benefits of TDD are a drastic reduction in defects as well as increased flexibility in the code base since the application evolves quickly through an iterative process.

  • BitSharp: A BitTorrent Client Library for C#/Mono

    In what hopes to be a new tend, an interesting new library for .NET developers was developed with Mono as its main audience. In conjunction with Google's Summer of Code, Alan McGovern has created a set of BitTorrent client libraries using C# and Mono he collectively calls BitSharp.

  • Early Problems for Microsoft's Software as a Service Sample: LitwareHR

    Microsoft is offering a new sample application called LitewareHR to serve as a springboard for discussions about software as a service. Available on CodePlex , this sample application uses many of the concepts and theories described in the white papers and articles on MSDN.

  • How .NET Handles Standards Compliance that Result in Breaking Changes

    Two security classes in .NET, HMACSHA512 and HMACSHA384, have a bug. It isn't an earth-shattering bug, but it does produce results that are inconsistent with the standard. The .NET Security team shows how this will be handed so that current applications won't break when the code gets fixed.

  • InfoQ.com publishes its 1000th news post

    InfoQ has this week published its 1000th news post; since the site launched just 8 months ago it has also published 90 in-depth technical articles, 4 original books, and a number of video interviews and presentations. Thank you to all our readers for their support and to the editors for all the hard work!

  • biztalk247.com launches

    Saravana Kumar, a BizTalk expert, launched biztalk247.com(BETA) on February 14, 2007. BizTalk 24 * 7 aggregates diverse resources regarding BizTalk and related technologies.

  • CS-Script - The C# Script Engine

    Do you wish for a scripting language with access to the .NET Framework and the syntax of C#? With CS-Script, you get just that.

  • Review of Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns

    As a follow-up to our interview with Jimmy Nillson, we bring you a review of his book Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns and a sample chapter from courtesy of Addison Wesley Professional.

  • .NET Compact 3.5 to Support LINQ

    A new demo of the next .NET Compact Framework is included the January Orcas CTP. The .NET Compact Framework team has listed several of the new features including a subset of Linq's Standard Query Operators.

  • Offline Storage Mechanisms Compared

    Niall Kennedy has written an article on boosting Ajax performance using local storage. He discusses four different local storage mechanisms (cookies, Flash local shared object, userData in IE, and DOM storage in Firefox), mentions Dojo Storage as a way to abstract them and concludes that local storage is the next logical step for Ajax applications.

  • MyEclipse Brings Tools to Visual Studio and Netbeans

    Last week MyEclipse released version 5.5 which includes Simple Non-integrated APplications (SNAPs). This week they are announcing integration of SNAP's for Netbeans and Visual Studio.

  • Return to the Days Of 640K With The .NET Micro Framework

    The .NET Micro Framework is being positioned by Microsoft for very small devices such as sensors, actuators, and wearable electronics. And unlike the .NET Framework, the Micro Framework doesn't even require an operating system.

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