Even though the beta release of Silverlight 2.0 is a more robust platform for delivering full-featured applications, Tony Patton says it still may have trouble catching on.

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What it will take to get developers to stop trying to replicate desktop functionality in Web apps and start using presentation layer abstraction systems?

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JAXR enables Java programmers to use a single, easy-to-use abstraction API to access a variety of XML registries. In this tutorial, Peter Mikhalenko shows you how JAXR works.

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While it's not the best documented feature out there, it's actually pretty easy to use SQL Server 2005 Integration Services variables from within a Script Task. Here's a quick step-by-step example to get you started.

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Microsoft has made an important contribution to the software development community with the release of the Trustworthy Computing Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) to the general public. The guide documents a process for developing secure software that can withstand attacks.

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The Java Persistence API (JPA) is a Java framework that allows developers to manage relational data in J2SE and J2EE applications. Peter Mikhalenko explains what persistence is, describes how it works in the JPA, and details the simplifications achieved in the persistence specifications in the last few years.

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Thanks to the rise of Flash technology, image maps are rarely used anymore. However, CSS does allow you to create an image map with some subtle mouse over effects with a few slick modifications to the HTML list tags. John Lee shows you how to create an image map with two hotspots using CSS code.

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If you are wondering how Microsoft .NET 3.5 certification relates to .NET 2.0 and .NET 1.1 certs, read Tony Patton's overview of where Microsoft is going with its .NET certification.

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Microsoft's Parallel Extensions Library is a library of objects designed to speed the development of multithreaded applications. Justin James examines how the Parallel Extensions Library CTP compares with more traditional .NET multithreading.

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Enhance your productivity and coding standards with Visual Studio 2005 code snippets. Tony Patton puts this concept into action with examples and instructions for creating custom code snippets to easily reuse common code blocks in your application.

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