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Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere - Microsoft is taking its next-generation user interface cross-platform, with a new runtime that lets .NET and XAML run on the Mac and elsewhere. Tim Anderson talks to Forest Key, Director of Developer Tools Product Management at Microsoft.

DRM and the future of digital downloads - Michael Bornhäuser, CEO of DRM provider SDC ag, and Barney Wragg, Senior Vice President of eLabs at Universal Music, talked to the press about the digital download industry. On the agenda: Subscription vs individual download, Apple, and rogue download site allofmp3.com. Wragg believes that no one DRM standard will dominate, but that some form of interoperability is desirable and inevitable. See my full account of the briefing here.

XML in SQL Server 2005 - SQL Server 2005 includes deep XML integration, including a native, indexed XML datatype along with commands that accept or return XML. Tim Anderson interviews Dr Michael Rys about the thinking behind the new features along with guidance on when to use them.

Miguel de Icaza on Mono - Mono is an open-source implementation of Microsoft .NET for Linux and other operating systems. In this article, Tim Anderson interviews project leader Miguel de Icaza. Why is Mono now partnering with Mainsoft to ease migration to J2EE?

Why Microsoft abandoned Visual Basic 6 - Visual Basic was the most popular programming language in the world, yet Microsoft froze its development in favour of a new and different VB. Here's why.

How much memory does my .NET application use? - The memory usage of .NET applications is a frequent discussion topic. It usually starts when a developers looks in Task Manager and sees a huge figure in the "Mem usage" column. But is Task Manager the best place to evaluate your application's memory requirements? In this short article I explain why Task Manager is misleading, and how to get a more useful measurement.

Behlendorf on Open Source - Brian Behlendorf is founder and CTO of CollabNet, closely involved with Apache, and a leading member of the open source movement. Late last year I interviewed Brian for Application Development Advisor. The interview was wide-ranging, and there was only room for a short extract in the magazine, so with the editor's permission I've just posted a fuller transcript. Topics include how Apache came about, the future of Subversion, mitigating risk when using Open Source projects that may disappear, copyright and licensing issues, whether Sun should open source Java, and how Behlendorf believes that open source development solves the problem of software reusability.

How good is the iPod? - A review of the iPod Photo with comparisons to Creative and iRiver devices and comments about DRM.

A simple Delphi wrapper for Sqlite 3 - A while back I started using a simple (no data binding or TDataset) Sqlite 2.x wrapper for Delphi. I found it very useful, although I amended it extensively. I've now updated it for Sqlite 3.0. I've posted a more detailed explanation and a download link. Comments, bug reports and improvements are welcome. It's free for anyone to use.

The iRiver H320 portable MP3 player reviewed - A review of iRiver's 20/40GB portable music player, the H320 / H340. Can it compete with the iPod? And why does it "play for sure", but only in North America?

XBox game of the year 2004 - It's December - so here's the ITWriting XBox Game of the Year 2004. No, it's not Halo 2...

Version Control with Subversion - Subversion is a great open-source version control system. Here is a review of the official handbook, together with some comments on the product itself.

Borland's vision for software development - An interview with Borland CEO Dale Fuller and EMEA VP Nigel Brown, about where Borland is going with its Enterprise software. After Application Lifecycle Management comes this, Software Delivery Optimization.

Oracle's JDeveloper: An interview with Ted Farell - Ted Farrell is Architect and Director, Application Development Tools Division at Oracle Corporation. Here he talks about JDeveloper, both the current 10g and future versions. Topics include JDeveloper vs Eclipse, refactoring, MDA, and model-driven development.

What's so good about Microsoft .NET? - Wondering whether to jump to .NET? This forum is dedicated to discussing the pros and cons, offering an at-a-glance view of key points with comments from the developer community.