Top Stories by Richard K. Blum
As an experienced .Net developer, I'm sure you are comfortable creating
programs in your home environment - using Visual Studio on a Windows PC. What
about using other platforms? In the .NET world, not many developers think
much about cross-platform development. However, with the growing popularity
of Unix, and specifically Linux, as a server platform, it might be time to
consider a cross-platform .NET development environment.
You may not even be aware that there are options for .NET developers in the
Linux world. Much of the .NET work in Linux is a result of Microsoft's
attempt to standardize the C# language by submitting it to the ECMA. With an
international standard for .NET programming, many open source organizations
are starting to look at the .NET development environment on non-Windows
systems.
The trick to .NET development in Linux is to build the proper deve... (more)
In the past, using open source databases meant running UNIX (or Linux)
servers and open source development environments. Today however, the two most
popular open source database packages - MySQL and PostgreSQL - have full
featured Windows installations, and can be run on most Windows platforms.
This allows Windows developers to easily utilize open source databases in
their applications.
To make life even easier, both MySQL and PostgreSQL provide .NET Data
Provider classes that can be used in your .NET programs to easily access the
database servers, send queries, and retrieve que... (more)
In today's computing environment, creating applications that transfer data
between devices on networks has become a necessity for programmers.
Fortunately, Microsoft has included several classes in the .NET Framework
that make network programming easy. The TcpClient, TcpListener, and
NetworkStream classes are popular classes that provide all the functionality
necessary to pass data across any network.
However, sending data across networks can be a risky business. There are lots
of prying eyes watching packets as they traverse the network. This can be a
serious problem if your ap... (more)
In the past, using open source databases meant running UNIX (or Linux)
servers and open source development environments. Today however, the two most
popular open source database packages - MySQL and PostgreSQL - have full
featured Windows installations, and can be run on most Windows platforms.
This allows Windows developers to easily utilize open source databases in
their applications.
To make life even easier, both MySQL and PostgreSQL provide .NET Data
Provider classes that can be used in your .NET programs to easily access the
database servers, send queries, and retrieve que... (more)
Richard Blum currently works for a large US government organization as a network and systems administrator. He is the author of C# Network Programming (2002, Sybex) and Professional Assembly Language (2005, Wrox).
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