Components of a Hosted Unified Communications Solution [ Source: Alteva ]

August 2010- For decision-makers to decide whether or not a hosted unified communications solution is right for their organization, it is important to examine two aspects of the solution. The first is whether or not to take advantage of unified communications solutions and the second is whether or not to adopt cloud (hosted) technology. Alteva takes a look at the hosted UC landscape in this report.

Continuous Testing with ElectricCommander [ Source: Electric Cloud ]

August 2009- Drive quality earlier in the development process with continuous testing.

Large development organizations have increasingly been adopting select agile practices to enable faster development, create more reliable software, and reduce costs. Chief among these practices is providing developers early and frequent feedback from users, from other developers, and especially from the programming, build, and test tools. In the latter category, continuous integration and continuous testing are emerging as valuable techniques for ...

Performance in the Infragistics xamWebGrid for Microsoft Silverlight [ Source: Infragistics ]

September 2009- Everyone talks of user experience – it is the key differentiator in the new economy. But this conversation is often limited to an application’s aesthetic design, which while important, constitutes only a fraction of the overall user experience. Often overlooked is an area of user experience that can have just as substantial an impact on overall user experience as their application’s aesthetics – application performance! Infragistics takes the user experience of your Web application very ...

Implementing Outlook-Style Interfaces With Schedule for .NET [ Source: ComponentOne ]

January 2008- The 2007 v1 release of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise introduced a new product for developing Outlook-style desktop scheduling applications. Schedule for .NET includes two visual components: C1Schedule and C1Calendar. This paper from ComponentOne discusses some of the features of these new components. C1Schedule displays appointments in day, week, work week, or monthly views. C1Calendar provides navigation and date range selection for an associated C1Schedule control. Both controls include AutoFormat settings for applying ...

Improving ASP.NET Application Performance and Scalability [ Source: Jupitermedia ]

January 2008- This paper published by Jupitermedia discusses some best practices that one can follow during an application’s development life cycle to help ensure that the application is both scalable and achieves high performance. One doesn’t have to use special tools to achieve this. The paper describes about writing structured, readable code, paying particular attention to techniques that are instrumental for improving, optimizing and boosting the performance of .NET applications.

Dynamic Component Composition in .NET [ Source: ETH Zurich ]

January 2008- Nowadays, adding and composing non-functional requirements at deployment time or at runtime have become a ubiquitous way to deal with service integration such as transaction, security, replication and other high-level features. Deployment in component models. To partially achieve the static service integration, component models such as CORBA Component Model (CCM) and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) have emerged. Those standards specify how some services can be statically plugged into components. One of the most important contributions ...