| 2. | Visual Studio.Net: Write Once, Run Everywhere? | | | Microsoft, riding the wave of its newfound popularity as an Internet standards supporter, claims it will do with .NET what Sun refuses to do with Java: push it as an open standard. By Paula Rooney, CRN. www.crn.com |
| 6. | Doing .NET In Internet Time | | | Pioneers are testing Microsoft's new architecture, even as components are being released. By Don Kiely. www.informationweek.com |
| 7. | Microsoft's .NET Impact | | | Exploiting Microsoft's enterprise application strategy, .NET, should prove a dream for IT managers. The pre-beta version is inherently scalable and easy to build and deploy, saving valuable time and resources. By Tom Yager, InfoWorld Test Center. www.javaworld.com |
| 10. | Garbage Collection: Automatic Memory Management in the Microsoft .NET Framework | | | Explains how resources are allocated and managed, then gives a description of how the garbage collection algorithm works. Also discussed are the way resources can clean up properly when the garbage collector decides to free a resource's memory and how to force an object to clean up when it is freed. By Jeffrey Richter, MSDN Magazine. msdn.microsoft.com |
| 11. | .NET: Type Fundamentals | | | Discusses type fundamentals. Starts off by introducing primitive types and then quickly moves on to reference types and value types. By Jeffrey Richter, MSDN Magazine. msdn.microsoft.com |
| 13. | Garbage Collection: Automatic Memory Management in the Microsoft .NET Framework, Part 2 | | | Explains strong and weak object references that help to manage memory for large objects, as well as object generations and how they improve performance. In addition, the use of methods and properties for controlling garbage collection, resources for monitoring collection performance, and garbage collection for multithreaded applications are covered. By Jeffrey Richter, MSDN Magazine. msdn.microsoft.com |
| 14. | The Significance of .NET | | | MicrosoftÂs latest offers an unprecedented level of language interoperability for Web-based applications. By Bertrand Meyer, Software Development Magazine. www.sdmagazine.com |
| 15. | XML in .NET | | | Microsoft .NET introduces a new suite of XML APIs built on industry standards such as DOM, XPath, XSD, and XSLT. A discussion of the XMLDOM-Document is also included. By Aaron Skonnard, MSDN Magazine. msdn.microsoft.com |
| 17. | Back end of .Net | | | eWEEK Labs' tests of betas of Microsoft servers show how the rhetoric meets the road. By Timothy Dyck. www.zdnetindia.com |
| 18. | Using Resources in Visual Studio .NET | | | Visual Studio .NET has poor support for managing project resources such as bitmaps and icons. This is a short tutorial that explains the VS.NET resource management model, points you to a useful tool for editing resources, and provides example code for loading resources at run-time. By Dejan Jelovic. www.jelovic.com |
| 19. | The Code Project | | | A range of tutorials submitted by site users. www.codeproject.com |
| 20. | i-sources.net | | | Provides a collection of theme based articles for .net developers. www.i-sources.net |
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