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HP rakes in cash from .Net
HP has earned hundreds of millions of dollars over the past two years from consultancy relating to Microsoft's .Net software. Read more »
Google in sight as Ballmer vows .NET push
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confessed the software giant's .NET strategy has come to a standstill, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings, and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google. Read more »
Microsoft throws .Net over China
Software giant strikes new deal with the largest system integrator in mainland China. Read more »
NetBeans 5.0 nears completion
The NetBeans open source project made a release candidate for the NetBeans 5 Java development tool available earlier this month and said that the final version is due later in January. Read more »
Tech giants edgy over Web services patent sale
The upcoming auction of dozens of key Web services patents in a California bankruptcy case has some big Silicon Valley companies on edge. Read more »
XP, Exchange take center stage at US TechEd
Microsoft is expected to lay off Longhorn evangelism in favour of current products at its IT conference. Read more »
Linux kernel to include IPv6 firewall
Firewall features already available in IPv4 will be added to IPv6 protocol in Linux, but not until later in the year. Read more »
BEA packages Web application tools
BEA Systems released this week a new all-in-one package to help software partners create and install Web applications more quickly. Read more »
Webmaster held on terror charges
The publisher of two pro-jihad Web sites has been arrested in London on suspicion of terrorism-related activities, US investigators said on Friday. Read more »
Sun wrestles with open-source Java
Sun Microsystems is grappling with applying an open-source philosophy to its Java software as the company weighs risks and benefits over whether it should jump in further or not. But some experts are suggesting a middle ground. Read more »
Features (15)
Generating and working with GUIDs in .NET
A GUID is a 128-bit integer (16 bytes) that you can use across all computers and networks wherever a unique identifier is required. This article explains how the .NET Framework makes it possible for you to create your own GUID. Read more »
Working with null values in .NET
One of the trickier aspects of application development is dealing with null or nonexistent data. Tony Patton takes a closer look at null values in the .NET framework. Read more »
Review: Total .NET Developer Suite
Properly managing code production can make an application project. Total .NET Developer Suite is a third-party add-in for Visual Studio .NET that can give you an edge when it comes to creating reusable code. Read more »
Easily utilise Microsoft Word functionality in your .NET application
Microsoft Office may be utilised in .NET code via .NET and COM interoperability. Create more powerful applications by integrating the many functions available in the Word products into your application. Read more »
A better way to create XML documents in .NET
Creating XML documents in .NET isn't difficult, but it can be tedious. Here's what you need to know about .NET's streaming model for writing XML. Read more »
Store dynamic page responses with output caching in ASP.NET
In ASP.NET, you can cache either an entire dynamic page or a portion of a page. Find out how to perform smart page caching based on a requesting URL, POST parameter, or query string. Read more »
Define and apply delegate declarations
How do you define a delegate and where do you put it? Tony Patton dives into delegates in this article. Read more »
Build a page framework in ASP.NET
ASP.NET enables you to create an object-oriented page framework to build Web sites. Find out how to put this handy capability to work. Read more »
Tech.Ed Australia 2003
Microsoft's Tech.ED 2003 technical conference runs in Brisbane this year from August 10-13. Builder AU will cover the event live in this special report. Read more »
Skills shortage: A thing of the past?
It's official. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.

