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Leverage Current Apps With Web Services
An early adopter of Web services, .NET, and J2EE helps you find the action items buried in the buzz.
by Patrick Meader
Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#
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Dean Guida
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Infragistics' CEO and President Dean Guida has the inside scoop on what you can do now about Web services, .NET, C#, VB.NET, and copy protection. Plus, Infragistics is active in both the .NET and Java environments, so he's in a position to compare them. VSM Editor in Chief Patrick Meader discusses these issues and more with him.
VSM: You yourself began as a developer. Do you still find time to do any coding personally?
Guida: I don't find time to do any coding right now, but my love has always been coding. There's a therapeutic feeling I get after coding. But these days, I don't really have a chance to write any code. At least I still look at and review code.
VSM: Speaking as a developer, what do you see as significant in VS.NET?
Guida: The main thing is that the platform was built to build out IP-based technology and build out distributed applications with security in mind. It supplies technology that enables developers to create more secure applications that go out over public networks in a distributed fashion. Microsoft did a good job of designing .NET to take advantage of the benefits you learned about in computer science—you build your applications using components, reusable parts, and object-oriented techniques. The IDE has been designed to be a great productivity aid to the developer with IntelliSense, integrating the frameworks. Visual Studio .NET and the .NET platform are compelling for building Web-based and IP-based, distributed applications.
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