Technology

7 steps to good working habits away from the office ...[ view ]

Your laptop was built for doing work away from the office. Making sure your self-discipline comes along for the trip is something else.

Developing Data Access Components in Microsoft.NET ...[ view ]

If you are designing a data access layer for a .NET-based application, you should use Microsoft ADO.NET as the data access model. ADO.NET is feature rich and supports the data access requirements of loosely coupled, multi-tier Web applications and Web services. As with other feature-rich object models, ADO.NET offers a number of ways to solve a particular problem.

Developing 'Smart Client' user interfaces in Microsoft .Net ...[ view ]

Smart clients are easily deployed and managed client applications that provide an adaptive, responsive and rich interactive experience by leveraging local resources and intelligently connecting to distributed data sources. This basically means that smart client applications are traditional Windows applications that interact with a web based server via web services and other remote connection protocols.

General Guidelines for Optimising .NET Applications ...[ view ]

This article provides general guidlines for the production of code on the Microsoft .NET platform. It gives numerous tips on how to write faster code by reducing performance and memory bottlenecks. It also provides advice on selecting the right technologies for certain programming situations.

Using Patterns and Application Blocks ...[ view ]

This article provides a general overview of the resources available to .NET enterprise developers that wish to leverage common development practices and industrial strength application source in their own applications.