Year: 2005
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Control Freak: Creating a C# Login User Control
Categories: Tech CompaniesBigger projects often benefit by being modularized, and .NET gives you more ways to do this than does ASP. You could do a fairly good job modularizing an ASP application with subroutines, functions, and includes, but at some point you’ll find yourself forced to mix the server side code with HTML code. While mixed code… Read more
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Sonic’s New Burner Software Adds DRM
Categories: Tech CompaniesSonic Solutions, a digital media software company specializing in professional product groups, consumer applications and advanced technology licensing, released the newest edition of its AuthorScript Advanced Music SDK (software development kit) today. AuthorScript Advanced Music adds a number of features to the existing line of download- and- burn solutions, created for license to online music… Read more
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Developers Get New Tools for Vista
Categories: Tech CompaniesAlong with the release of the new Windows Vista beta, developers are being treated to technologies to create applications for the new operating system. Microsoft Corp. last week gave developers access to the WinFX Runtime Components Beta 1 and the WinFX SDK (Software Development Kit). The WinFX SDK contains documentation, samples and tools designed to… Read more
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Vendors: Eliminate Channel Conflict Now
Categories: News and TrendsIt’s a story as old as the IT channel itself: A reseller contacts a vendor for product information to prepare a customer bid. Next thing you know, a vendor sales rep tries to steal the customer with a lower price. Such incidents could be the result of an unstated policy within the sales staff that… Read more
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ERP Makes a Comeback
Categories: News and TrendsEnterprise resource planning projects have been a staple of the integrator’s business for years. Implementations of ERP’s antecedent, MRPII (manufacturing resource planning), were a huge business long before the Web came along, and even before client/server computing, for that matter. But the ERP business has had its ebbs and flows, hitting a particularly low point… Read more
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Developers Tools Are Never Good Enough
Categories: Tech CompaniesIt’s often said, and I agree, that “‘Better’ is the enemy of ‘good enough’”–but I’m not prepared to declare myself the loyal ally of one or the other. There are times when I’m prepared to hold the line against the assault of “better,” but there are also times when “good enough” really is not. Developer… Read more