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Too bad that vnc is not permitted or hereby the windows XP EULA, or maybe you are just
need to purchase another XP license?

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http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details. aspx?tutorial_id=187

Sure .NET has a successor to ActiveX.

http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details. aspx?tutorial_id=187/

I think what he's saying is that the syntax isn't the only thing that defines a language. A language's type system probably plays a more important part in defining how the language works.

With .Net, it may seem like you have a lot of interoperating languages, but they're all basically the same language with different superficial characteristics. VB developers complain about how VB.Net is totally different from previous versions of Visual Basic. It's because they gutted its internals and implanted C#. I wouldn't be able to tell the difference because I see similar syntax, but someone who really knows the language will detect a different core.

That's not to say that different type systems cannot be emulated. Nice is a language with Java-like syntax but with a much better type system (among other things) and it still runs on an ordinary JVM. However, any interoperability will have to be at the level of the lowest common denominator. If you want to call Nice code from Java, your interface ends up losing or having to give up some power.

You really can't even share libraries between truely different languages. The STL just doesn't fit into the Java/C#-style type systems (though generics is a step towards accomodating the STL). Perl libraries are also distinct. Imagine dealing with a Haskell-style lazy list in your C# code. It just wont feel right.

Alternatively, if you're using any NT derivative (4 and up), you can schedule a task to use Robocopy (from the Windows Resource Kits) to mirror data to remote shares.

Here: RoboCopy
Usage: RoboCopy

1. Newsgroups: Most microsoft technologies have a newsgroup in the microsoft.public.* hierarchy that are read not only by Microsoft employees but by dozens of regular developers who just want to help others who are having problems. I personally monitor microsoft.public.xml and microsoft.public.dotnet.xml where I answer a lot of questions and pass many of those I can't answer to the actual devs who work on the applications and APIs in question.
   
   
2. Online Communities: There are a number of strong online communities where Windows developers congregate to share information, tips and tricks. These range from Microsoft sponsored sites like GotDotNet, ASP.NET, and Windows Forms.NET that are run by MSFT employees who participate actively in these communities to independent sites like 4 Guys from Rolla, Code Project, Dev Hood, DevelopMentor and CodeGuru
   
   
3. Microsoft Websites: Few places beat MSDN as a source of information about Microsoft technologies. By the way, if you are into XML check out my Extreme XML column
   
   
4. Mailing Lists: There are number of mailing lists hosted by various parties about Microsoft technologies. The ones I've seen with the most vibrance have been the DevelopMentor mailing lists and the ASP Friends lists

Though you've got a rather nasty attitude to a person expressing a simple opinion, here are some benchmarks of .NET vs J2EE architecture here
and an interesting IO benchmark here
this computation benchmark is interesting (java w/ hotspot jitter
here is a simplified benchmark with integer and fp operations
Also, to my understanding, the .NET IL is not stack based as is the JVM which Sun had said is not designed for speed but for simple architectures in embeded designs.
One of the advantages over Java is that C# allows inline allocation (as opposed to heap allocation) for simple structs or primitives.
Try not to use foul language, it just makes you look reactionary and foolish.
Then again all these benchmarks could be fabricated but since i have had experience with C# development and Java (w/ AWT and swing) 1.3, I noticed the speed difference right away...

Another fairly good summary of .NET is Here.

This guy really knows his shit, and this is is precise, scientific, unbiased and statistically correct analysis from a student employee of Microsoft.

On second thought it's really bad. But it's good for a laugh!!

microsoft seems to be giving out free copies of windows xp to students of select universities.