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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With their Language-INtegrated Query (LINQ), Microsoft developed a very powerful extension to their .NET programming languages. It offers a uniform technique to query all different kinds of data (SQL, XML, collection of objects, etc.) There are many introductions and resources at the web about th...

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.NET or Team Developer, that is the question. Of course there are other options: a) rewrite it in Java; b) Packaged Solution; c) drop the application; d) assembler. However, for this article I'd like to focus on one simple dilemma: Option 1: Change the platform to Microsoft .NET Opt...

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I prefer to work with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET for a long list of items that are entirely missing or in my opinion inadequate in Team Developer. However, the most important one is not directly and technically related to Unify's Team Developer. It has little to do with how good TD may be or will e...

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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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