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Experience Pollux - Microsoft .Net
In Pollux sees its mission as helping businesses to take advantage of .NET value propositions: better integration, cross-platform compatibility, and lower IT costs.
To stay abreast of ever evolving field of technology, Pollux has been following the developments by Microsoft via our R&D team. As a result, the company has
been involved with Microsoft .NET from grounds up and has accumulated rich experience
now in .net based project execution. The focus is on helping the clients with planning,
migration, development, QA, and support of any. NET-based technology.
Pollux’s Competencies on Microsoft’s .NET framework
Pollux has created internal Microsoft Competency Center for .NET located at our
Development Center, which serves as the hub of all .NET related development activities
in the company. This initiative helps in offering leading-edge technology solutions
to the customers across the globe. The center is equipped with the .NET servers,
tools and technologies. It is also equipped with e-learning tools to impart training
to employees.
The center has a .NET ready trainer who pioneers the development of talent around
.NET Architecture with special focus on mobility, workflow, high availability and
business intelligence. Pollux also has a small but dedicated Microsoft .NET R&D
team. Their responsibility is to research the latest releases, get acquainted with
the latest technologies and share knowledge with the rest of the team.
Members of this group and other software developers attend internal training sessions
and technical seminars organized by various technical user groups. Pollux currently
has 20 .NET developers and architects and plan on adding 20 additional Software
Architects and developers on the .NET framework by the end of the year.
Advantages .NET [
There are several reasons to be interested in .NET, including the following: ]
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Fewer Development Paradigms To Learn.
Office macro development requires you to learn a development paradigm using Visual
Basic for Applications (VBA). Web application development requires you to learn
another development paradigm using a different set of development languages, such
as Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) or Microsoft JScript®. If
you need to call the Microsoft Windows® application programming interface (API),
you have to learn yet another development paradigm. Microsoft .NET consists of one
development paradigm for both desktop and Web-based applications, which reduces
the number of new Microsoft development technologies you need to learn.
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Easier And Faster Application Deployment.
One big frustration for Office developers is application deployment and versioning.
If you ask an Office developer about distributing macros, deploying Microsoft Outlook®
Forms, registering dynamic-link libraries (DLLs), or updating Component Object Model
(COM) add-ins, you are bound to get complaints. For many .NET applications, .NET
features "copy and paste" or XCOPY deployment (users simply copy your application
files from the source media to any single directory and run the application). Finally,
.NET no longer relies on the Windows registry or regsvr32.exe, which eliminates
DLL and COM add-in version compatibility issues. |
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New Types Of Office Solutions.
Office VBA solutions development is currently restricted to macros, UserForms, or
Outlook Forms applications, and Web projects such as data access pages, Microsoft
FrontPage® Web sites, applications interacting with the Microsoft Office Web Components,
and static HTML pages. Office VBA has made advances into the .NET world by integrating
with XML Web services
through the SOAP Toolkit, as well as integrating with the
Microsoft Windows
Server System™, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL
Server™, and Microsoft BizTalk™ Server. However, additional types of applications
in .NET include richer desktop-based applications with custom user controls, Web
form–based applications with custom Web controls, .NET Framework class libraries,
command-line applications, and Windows background services. In the years ahead,
Visual Basic .NET will also be the language of choice for Office developers to create
digital dashboard solutions, solutions based on SharePoint™ Team Services and SharePoint
Portal Server, Web Parts, smart tags, XML-based solutions, and more. |
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