I recently stumbled upon this weird white paper from MD Consulting: http://www.md-consulting.de/PortalData/2/Resources/download_techn_infos/Migration_bestehender_TD-Anwendungen_nach_C_.pdf It's in german, but the translation is quite clear to understand. MD talks about the differences between port...

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Have you had a chance to look at the Windows Presentation Foundation, yet? It is a fundamentally new concept for developing user interfaces in .NET applications. The UI definition is stored in an XML-based language called XAML which is then tied to the business logic. The user interface can be defin...

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What is the most important feature of Unify's Team Developer? Native database access or 4GL capabilities together with visual inheritance? My personal favorite is the outline. I fell in love with this concept right from the beginning: all code available in a large tree that is easy to navigate. It...

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I've lately been busy writing our new conversion engine for Microsoft Reporting Services. This is now the third platform we support, next to Crystal Reports (now owned by SAP) and List & Label, a tool from the German-based combit GmbH (see www.combit.net). We are very happy with the C...

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The next release of Microsoft Windows server operating system will be a true 64-bit release. Applications developed with 32-bit development environments such as Gupta Team Developer can only be emulated and this could be unreliable.

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