SBC DotNet Weblog

Database design is very much an intuitive process - so quite a few (I'd say most), just wing it. This would be true for smaller-type applications, i.e., websites or smaller apps but not so, for larger and complex apps that perform healthcare or financial services.

MSDN now has five Applications Blocks for .NET. Two of these have been around for well over a year but three were  released within the past two weeks !

I got this email from WinDevNet. I couldn't find the content below at their website, so I have excerpted it here. I believe it's written by Richard Grimes and it'll interest the MC++ developers in particular.

Found two interesting (free) dev tools -  AxTools Visual Logger (trace log) & AxTools VssRecursive Purge (for Visual Source Safe).

Mixed-feelings Borland has announced 'Janeva' (that's Java+Geneva, perhaps they are short on their marketing staff). 'Janeva' will be incorporated in Borland's development products and will tie-in .NET front ends to CORBA and J2EE-based applications. This will help bridge the different platforms which is something we have to address in the corporate environment.