What´s software anyway? Code, software is code, right? Well, I´d say, software is more than that. And to realize that is important for the whole software production process. Lets step back and take the big picture into view: Software is an entity "sitting" in an environment; you could even say, it´s...

What´s software anyway? Code, software is code, right? Well, I´d say, software is more than that. And to realize that is important for the whole software production process. Lets step back and take the big picture into view: Software is an entity "sitting" in an environment; you could even say, it´s...

One of the best things that Microsoft has started doing is producing Hands on Labs. Using the new search on Microsoft .com, you can easily find these from the downloads section . In fact, last week Microsoft released an Enterprise Library 2.0 Hands on Labs . I don't know how many times I've been asked...

I was on the ASP.NET website earlier and saw the weekly poll asking visitors if they use unit tests in their ASP.NET applications. At the present time, over 40% of the visitors said 'What are unit tests?' In all but one of our applications, we are not using them simply because of the size and complexity...

I'm just catching up on some things today which is the reason for all the blogs. I came across an entry from one of the RSS feeds I subscribe to pointing me to a press release by Microsoft on April 19th. According to the press release, the Visual Studio Express editions (including Web Developer, SQL...

Wow! I just realized how much material the ASP.NET team has posted on Atlas. There are videos demonstrating certain features of Atlas. There are blogs listing upcoming events, how-to's, and upcoming features. Then there are the forums wher users and the ASP.NET team collaborate about Atlas. If you haven...

I have a really good question that I'd love to pose to Business Objects: Will there ever be a stable version of Crystal Reports that doesn't crash, deploys easily with .NET, and generates everything you need? Over the past few months, I've been trying to deploy an application that uses the Crystal merge...

It's been a little while since I've posted. Reason being, I've been hard at work building a few add-in modules for Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006. Yesterday, I needed to install SBA and BCM SP1 on the server and client machines. Little did I realize that because I was debugging my add-ins using...

As Scott Guthrie already detailed in his blog , the ASP.NET team has released a new add-in for VS.NET to make deploying web apps much easier. One of the coolest features in my opinion is the fact that you can replace sections of the web.config from debugging to release. So, I can modify my debug build...

.NET Valley Event Oct 26 - Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006 SIGN-UP This event will be held at Luzerne County Community College, Nanticoke on October 26th, 2005. For directions to the facility and for room information, click here . The event will begin at 6:00pm. Here is the schedule: 6:00pm...