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Most user applications benefit from the ability to be extended by other developers. It's often easier and more efficient to extend an existing application that users are already familiar with and trained on than it is to develop one from scratch. Thus, extensibility makes your application more attractive. You can build extensibility into your application by supporting features like plug-ins or macros. This is easily accomplished using the .NET Framework even if the core application isn't a .NET ... |
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Michael Sanford takes an in-depth look at the .NET Framework 2.0 ClickOnce technology and compares it with the existing Windows Installer technology. Michael concludes by making some recommendations on when to use each technology. One of the most exciting features demo'ed at the 2004 PDC was the new ClickOnce deployment technology. With an impressive feature set, ClickOnce is certain to be a popular technique for deploying applications, but what about Windows Installer? In this article, we'll de... |
| | Total Hits: 58 | Today: 0 | Author: Microsoft Corporation | Rating: |
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Provides an overview of how Microsoft Component Installer for Windows works, as well as how it can be customized to support third-party install scenarios. PSetup provides a simple wizard user interface for end users and provides details for when an error occurs, or when the system needs to reboot as the result of an installer. PSetup is localized for over 20 languages and will auto-detect the system locale at launch and adjust its language support as appropriate.... |
| | Total Hits: 36 | Today: 0 | Author: Jason Clark | Rating: |
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Most user applications benefit from the ability to be extended by other developers. It's often easier and more efficient to extend an existing application that users are already familiar with and trained on than it is to develop one from scratch. Thus, extensibility makes your application more attractive. You can build extensibility into your application by supporting features like plug-ins or macros. This is easily accomplished using the .NET Framework even if the core application isn't a .NET ... |
| | Total Hits: 51 | Today: 0 | Author: James Avery | Rating: |
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You cannot expect to build a first-class application unless you use the best available tools. Besides well-known tools such as Visual Studio® .NET, there are a multitude of small, lesser-known tools available from the .NET community. In this article, I'm going to introduce you to some of the best free tools available today that target .NET development. I'll walk you through a quick tutorial of how to use each of them, some of which will save you a minute here and there, while others may complete... |
| | Total Hits: 82 | Today: 0 | Author: azamsharp | Rating: |
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All the web applications needs some data that is to be available for the whole application. Usually this data is put in the web.config file. Sometimes writing information in the web.config file is tricky since its an xml file and writing information manually can be dangerous and may contain errors. Microsoft introduces "Configuration Application Block" which is a part of the Enterprise Library. Enterprise Library is like a tree which has many branches. Each branch can be taken as a separate bloc... |
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Every now and then we need to catch exceptions and perform actions on that exceptions. If you have noticed there is always a common pattern in handling exceptions and than recovering from the exceptions. Let's see a common pattern of handling exceptions. The above code generates an exception since the numerator is divided by denominator which is "0". You will see these patterns everywhere there is nothing wrong using using the above approach. But as you might have noticed that we need to write s... |
| | Total Hits: 224 | Today: 0 | Author: Paul Kimmel | Rating: |
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As you might have gathered by now, a lot of information is available in the general and project-neutral extensibility models. What are all of these automation objects for? They are there to help language extenders—people like you—create Add-Ins among other things. Because the object model is so vast, you will have to rely heavily on the help files to begin scratching the surface of extensibility; more than likely, several tool vendors will develop in-house expertise, and a developer from one of ... |
| | Total Hits: 49 | Today: 0 | Author: annie | Rating: |
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O/R mapping tools are becoming more popular each day and people are realizing the productivity gain they provide to developers. Yet, many people don’t know enough about O/R mapping to consider using these tools and many others are weary of using any code generators (including O/R mapping tools). In this article, I will try to educate you about the various important features that a good O/R mapping tool would provide you and how it can be beneficial to you. I am not discussing any particular O/R ... |
| | Total Hits: 59 | Today: 0 | Author: Don Espen, Jose Baldner, and Ximing Zhou | Rating: |
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The information in this paper applies to emulator version 4.1 as shipped with Visual Studio .NET 2003. You can use the integrated development environment (IDE) to configure most emulator settings, or you can launch it from the command line with additional settings, such as custom skins. Using a share on the development computer is the preferred method of transferring files. Emulator connection problems can usually be identified and resolved quickly. Appendix A provides help for defining emulator... |
| | Total Hits: 88 | Today: 0 | Author: Tony Patton | Rating: |
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The Microsoft Enterprise Library was introduced in last week's column. It provides a collection of seven application blocks that utilize similar design patterns as well as development and configuration requirements. These blocks may be used to enhance your application while reducing development time. Today, we take a closer look at the library by putting it to work in a sample application.... |
| | Total Hits: 90 | Today: 0 | Author: Tony Patton | Rating: |
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While the .NET platform provides a powerful set of tools and libraries to build robust applications, I am always amazed by the additional free add-ons provided by Microsoft. In my opinion, the most notable is the Enterprise Library. This set of application blocks developed by the patterns and practices group utilizes best practices for solving common problems. The result is less development time and subsequent costs. In this week's column, we take a closer look at the Enterprise Library.... |
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