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>NetAdvantage for JSF 2006 Volume 2

		DEVELOP A FULL PAGE OCR & AUTO ROTATE APPLICATION Input a scanned TIFF image. Auto rotate and clean it up. Perform full-page OCR. Output a searchable text PDF. Simple, with the .NET OCR Xpress toolkit and Pegasus Imaging’s support. Find free sample code, a full-featured trial download, and the best imaging technologies at www.pegasusimaging.com.

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The More Things Change...
by Patrick Hynds
This month, I want to talk about Windows Workflow and what it means for the state of .NET development (in my experience and, of course, in my opinion). Before the release of Window Workflow (WF for short because WWF means something else entirely already), there were several avenues open to developers to make things work with a workflow feature.

SQL Anywhere 10 & DataWindow .NET 2.0 in an ASP Environment
Speeding up database development
by Berndt Hamboeck
Most of the applications we software developers build need to interact somehow with data from a database. The .NET Framework defined by Microsoft provides a rich set of objects to manage database interaction; these classes are collectively referred to as ADO.NET and the latest versions of DataWindow .NET (which is now version 2.01).

Avoiding Blocking Issues in ASP.NET Session State Databases
Improve the robustness of your systems
by Greg Low
As soon as ASP.NET systems grow to the point that more than a single Web server needs to be deployed, decisions need to be mode about where the session state will be held. By default, ASP.NET session state lives in the memory of the server hosting the application. The problem with this is that a user who connects to one of our Web servers will not have the same session if their next request is sent to another one of our Web servers, yet this is exactly what we want to achieve to improve the robustness of our systems.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Stored Procedure Programming in T-SQL and .NET
by Steven Mandel
With the release of a major new version of SQL Server, it's incumbent on developers to take time to refresh and enhance their knowledge of this new version of T-SQL (Transact SQL) and stored procedure programming. The challenge is to find a good book that will cover the highlights but not give you a hernia in the process. Dejan Sunderic's book fits this bill. The book consists of 21 chapters and three appendices. The first 10 chapters provide a nice review of current and new features of the T-SQL found in SQL Server 2005. There is a review of the new SQL Server environment as well as a discussion of stored procedure design concepts. Each chapter from Chapter 4 through 10 covers an important T-SQL concept such as functions and error handling.

The Old New Thing
Interview with Raymond Chen
by Carl Franklin
Hanselminutes is a weekly audio talk show with noted Web developer and technologist Scott Hanselman and hosted by Carl Franklin. Scott discusses utilities and tools, gives practical how-to advice, and discusses ASP.NET or Windows issues and workarounds (www.hanselminutes.com/). In this interview Scott sits down with the original raconteur of Windows, Raymond Chen, to talk about all things Win32 and where Microsoft Bob is currently.

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Mono Release Version 1.2.4
More than just a point release
by Dennis Hayes
Mono version 1.2.4 has just been released. Typically source code for a release is branched off for final clean up and bug fixing, with the release coming a few days to a week later; for this version, there were almost 25 days between branch and release. This may have been due in part to distractions such as the 24 new Google Summer of Code (SOC) programmers and the new Silverlight beta, but mostly I think it was because the team sees this release as more than just a point release, so they spent extra time testing it to make sure it was good. Another factor is the size of this release. As I mentioned last month, it contains over 20 megabytes of diff files, and the release notes point that out with the help of Moma, it also contains over 1,000 newly implemented APIs (680 new APIs, 290 not implemented, and 43 TODOs done).