DNJ Online Article Update

Parallel programming

Matt Nicholson — 07 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Limitations in processor design mean the ‘free lunch’ is over for software developers, as we come to terms with the fact that chips simply aren't going to get much faster. Matt Nicholson went to Think Parallel, Intel's conference held in Lisbon in April 2007, to find out more. More

Coming up for AIR

Matt Nicholson — 01 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT

We report from Adobe’s San Francisco office where we attended a meeting with Kevin Lynch, Chief Software Architect at Adobe, and other reporters including Simon Bisson, Tim Anderson, Ian Murphy and Jack Schofield of the Guardian newspaper. More

Inside Open XML

Matt Nicholson — 28 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT

As Matt Nicholson explains, Open XML is not just a new file format for the latest version of Microsoft Office, but an open standard capable of expressing any Word, Excel or PowerPoint document. More

Open for business

Matt Nicholson — 27 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT

The new file format introduced with the 2007 Microsoft Office System opens up many business opportunities. Matt Nicholson finds out who is doing what. More

Opening the package

Tim Anderson — 27 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT

Tim Anderson explains how the new Packaging API helps you work with Office Open XML documents. (Registration required) More

Understanding Open XML

Matt Nicholson — 27 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT

Matt Nicholson introduces a range of articles covering the new Ecma Office Open XML standard, as supported by 2007 Microsoft Office system. Find out how Open XML works, how to use it and what you can do with it. More

Accessing 32-bit DLLs from 64-bit code

Mike Becker — 25 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT

Migrating your 32-bit Windows application to a 64-bit machine can be problematic if you have 32-bit DLLs that you cannot re-write. Mike Becker shows you how you can access 32-bit DLLs from 64-bit code using built-in IPC mechanisms. More

Visual Studio 2005 for Database Professionals

Mark Whitehorn — 01 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals brings the data dude into the fold. Mark Whitehorn investigates this latest addition to Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System. More

Microsoft makes AJAX easier

Matt Nicholson — 21 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Microsoft 'Atlas' aims to make AJAX development much easier for the Visual Studio developer, thanks to client-side Javascript code and AJAX-enabled controls on the server. Matt Nicholson finds out more from Microsoft's Mike Ormond and Ian Moulster. More

Developing for Office 2007

Matt Nicholson — 08 Aug 2006 12:00:00 GMT

The forthcoming 2007 Microsoft Office System offers many new opportunities for software developers. Matt Nicholson looks at the new user interface and the Open XML file format, finds out what's happened to VSTO, and explores the possibilities opened up by SharePoint Server 2007 and Groove 2007. More

Writing secure code

Matt Nicholson — 24 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Security can seem a daunting subject but there are a few basic concepts and simple techniques that can help you build more secure applications. As Matt Nicholson explains, you need to think like a hacker and adopt a mind-set that makes you suspicious of every item of data that can come into your system. More

Pick a card

Benjamin Mitchell — 23 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Microsoft's failure to establish Passport as an identity system on the Web has prompted it to go back to basics. The result is Windows CardSpace (formerly 'InfoCard') a new identity management system based on Web services. Benjamin Mitchell explains why this one might succeed. (Registration required) More

Understanding security

Matt Nicholson — 23 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Authentication and confidentiality are issues that have fascinated scientists and mathematicians for centuries. Matt Nicholson looks at some of the techniques in use today. More

Security glossary

Matt Nicholson — 22 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT

From anonymous proxies to zombies through boot viruses, botnets, cross-site scripting, decoy scanning, denial of service, Google hacking and honeypots, keystroke logging, pharming and phishing, rogue diallers, rootkits, spiders, trojan horses and worms - a glossary of the tools and techniques used by those who want to break into your computer system. More

Wayne Smith on WinFX

Matt Nicholson — 25 Feb 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Preview versions of a new set of designer tools, and of the WinFX runtime and the Visual Studio 2005 toolset, mean you can start developing WinFX applications right now. We talk to Wayne Smith, senior product manager for the Microsoft Expression range in the EMEA region, about these new releases, about WinFX and XAML, and how they will affect developers who are currently working with Win32 applications. More

Using WMI from managed code

Andriy Klyuchevskyy — 12 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and the Common Information Model (CIM). Although WMI is COM-based, Andriy Klyuchevskyy shows you how you can access it from C# and VB.NET through System.Management, thanks to COM Inter-Op. (Registration required) More

Is BizTalk Server an ESB?

Matt Nicholson — 09 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT

Is Biztalk Server Microsoft’s version of the Enterprise Service Bus? Matt Nicholson discusses this together with human workflow and long-running transactions with Scott Woodgate from Microsoft’s Business Process and Integration team. More

Infragistics talk components

Matt Nicholson — 08 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT

Matt Nicholson talks to director of engineering Steve Dadoly and marketing director Adam Jaffe about the Infragistics product range, the state of the software component market, the effect of Visual Studio 2005 and the future of presentation layer development. More

Visual Studio 2005 launches

Matt Nicholson — 10 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT

November 7th saw the "biggest launch in Microsoft history" with the launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 across the world. Matt Nicholson was at the UK event. More

Visual Studio Team System

Matt Nicholson — 07 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT

By taking a role-based approach, Visual Studio Team System claims to give you all you need to manage the software development lifecycle. Matt Nicholson finds out what it has to offer the project manager, the architect, the developer and the software tester. More