Woodster.com .Net Web Log

The great ASP.NET code-behind debate

Woodster — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:40:00 GMT

"Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET) provides a very intuitive Web development environment for Visual Basic developers. VB developers have been trained for years to drag and drop their visual interface on the design surface and then double-click on an element when they want to write code that controls it. I think one of the crowning achievements of VS.NET is the way that it has taken the Windows software design and message loop paradigm and mapped them to a stateless environment like the Web. Once you begin writing production applications, you quickly find that the mapping isn’t perfect, but VS.NET’s ability to bring Windows programmers into Web development quickly is nothing short of remarkable.

Of course there are a lot of Web programmers who learned to write Active Server Pages using Visual Interdev, Visual Notepad, or other Web-development tools. Many of these developers have had a difficult time adjusting to the VS.NET world. They’re used to breaking down their applications into a series of ASP pages, which encapsulate both the visual interface and the behavior for that interface."

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VS.NET 2003 Delivers Solid Enhancements, Microsoft Promises Even More in 'Whidbey'

Woodster — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:19:00 GMT

"With the technical groundwork for .NET development already paved and, for many developers, traveled as well, Microsoft's attention turns now to the business of delivering the next set of productivity features."

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.NET Rocks! is an Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers

Woodster — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:29:00 GMT

"Carl Franklin and Mark Dunn interview .NET experts and other industry movers and shakers, and answer your .NET questions on the air, all for the purpose of bringing you insights into .NET technology, the marketplace, and the state of software development in general."

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IIS Owns the Fortune 1000 Web Server Market

Woodster — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:03:00 GMT

"Port80 Software conducted a survey of the 1000 leading corporations' Web sites and discovered Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server, their Web server software) commands a strong 54% market share in the race for Web server dominance."

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Microsoft Hones .Net

Woodster — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:30:00 GMT

"A year after introducing Visual Studio .Net, Microsoft Corp. is expected to offer showgoers sneak peeks of the next two versions of its integrated tool suite at the VSLive developers conference in San Francisco this week."

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Microsoft plots Macromedia coup against Java

Woodster — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 18:52:00 GMT

"Microsoft Corp is believed to have trained its acquisition crosshairs on Macromedia Inc, lining up a deal that would throw enterprise Java into a spin, Gavin Clarke writes. Industry and analyst sources believe Microsoft covets San Francisco, California-based Macromedia's Flash vector graphics design tool and player, which was radically updated this year."

I can't imagine Macromedia selling out to Microsoft, although I would welcome this acquisition.

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Borland targets .Net developers

Woodster — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:25:00 GMT

"Borland Software will make a play for Microsoft's .Net developer community with tools based on the software giant's homegrown programming language, C#."

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Digex: IIS 6.0 Delivers the Goods

Woodster — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:03:00 GMT

"IIS 6.0 isn’t in final form yet, but that doesn’t mean it’s not in use. In fact, one of the largest managed hosting companies in the world has been using it for two years now—and not just on a test network."

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Blogs open doors for developers

Woodster — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:51:00 GMT

"Secrecy has long been a hallmark of the software development process: Let too many people know too much about what you're working on too early, and somebody might steal your ideas."

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Learn Visual Studio.Net "Visually"

Woodster — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:51:00 GMT

"This site contins FREE short daily Screen Cam Videos, AND over 200 longer Screen Cam Videos for over 40 hours of instruction on Visual Studio.NET, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, ADO.NET, etc."

LearnVisualStudio.net