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Tcoz Bach
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04-06-2003 10:56
Opening this thread to discuss this technology if anybody is interested. Don't know what it's all about? Here's some basic info: the MS slant: http://www.microsoft.com/net/basics/whatis.aspThe compeitive slant: http://java.sun.com/features/2000/11/dotnetvsms.htmlOverall, everybody seems to think that (open source vs. evil empire discussions aside) for Windows, and possibly other OSs, it's a good thing.
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Nada Epoch
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04-06-2003 13:28
i am actually working on an xml schema, you interested in helping?
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Tcoz Bach
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Sure  04-06-2003 15:25
Show me a sample of the XML and the schema is a done deal . I don't hand craft them anymore I just use the tools nowadays, far too painful to write XML schema. XML Spy, BizTalk XML Toolset or VS.Net all have automated schema generation tools.
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Nada Epoch
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04-06-2003 15:37
no kidding? gah i wish i had know about that, i have been doing it all by hand, in notepad LOL which might explain the difficulties i have been having. send me an email at [email]bulllfrog@mail.utexas.edu[/email] and i will send you the file.
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Zanlew Wu
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04-14-2003 09:35
Some of my old favorite websites used to have one of those buttons at the bottom that said:
Created in:
NOTEPAD.EXE
I loved those sick people!
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Ama Omega
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04-14-2003 11:29
At first I was sceptical but I dunno. I havn't actually used it, although I have a strong aversion to using anything but linux/unix/apache for web serving. I have also heard testimonials from RL friends who had to use it for work, saying they thought they would hate it but its actually nice. The other parts of the framework..... just havn't had a chance/reason to play with it. I do own VS .NET that I bought through my colleges MS agreement for like $17 right before I graduated, just in case. |
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Tcoz Bach
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04-14-2003 12:01
You won't be sorry. It is by far the most elegant commercial dev environment you can get. The remoting libraries alone are worth the sum of their bytes in gold. I've been working heavily with the technology every day long before MS even publicized it, and have done several high-end transactional systems using it for almost every business vertical you can think of. I was formerly very dubious of IIS/ASP (though I used it a lot when I had to), preferring instead Java/J2EE servlet transaction/state environments, Apache, etc., but when I really got well versed in both development environments, I found the majority of anti-MS was really just bunk; technology is as good as the people using it, but I just found that you needed to be a lot better (and have deeper pockets) to get the same results out of the non-MS stuff. If you are privvy to TPC-C Benchmarks or the Middleware Company's recent finding on .Net (that company is a world-class J2EE shop), you'll see what I mean.
Not to say the Java world doesn't have it's merits, but that's more about approach to tech, not tech itself.
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Flint Stone
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04-18-2003 07:15
.NETrocks. End of subject.
Forget everything you thought you knew about Microsoft development environments and climb into .NET.
Even VB developers become OOP programmers and the transition is mostly painless. In fact, the .NET framework is so powerful that a VB developer can be cranking-out multithreaded applications after a couple of hours of study and code-throwing.
I am a .NET junky, and I'm proud =]
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