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The recent evolution of .NET has been fun to watch. Since .NET became an open-source platform, it has finally delivered on its cross-platform promise. At the same time, support for Linux has given it ...

Application logic, which is currently coded in VB, C#, or C++, offers the simplest migration to .NET. While not a simple recompile, rewriting to the .NET framework libraries from VB, C#, or C++ gives ...

Two paths are available for migrating Java applications to .Net: upgrade them to Visual J# .Net or convert them to Visual C# .Net. Upgrading Java applications to J# is the quickest and easiest way to ...

In context: The .NET Framework technology has been part of the Windows platform since the NT 4.0/XP era, providing developers with an integrated environment (class library, language interoperability, ...

Modern distributed applications require much more than just application logic. Features such as state management for services, communication using publish/subscribe messaging and event-driven binding ...

Before you begin deploying applications based on the .NET framework, you need to decide how your organization will manage common application settings. To promote code reuse and application ...

This article is excerpted from Windows Developer Power Tools, by James Avery and Jim Holmes, with permission of O’Reilly Media Inc. All rights reserved. Mono is an ...

When a company like Microsoft talks about the future of computing, you can expect a fair bit of self-serving market positioning - public software companies need to be careful to sell a vision of the ...

If you have developed C or C++ applications, then you are no doubt aware of memory leaks and their pitfalls. Although the .Net CLR abstracts memory management from the developer, memory leaks can ...