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Reviews: 3=> Product: Programming ASP.NET by Jesse Liberty & Dan Hurwitz, book Reviewed by: Songmuh Jong, mailto:songmuh@yahoo.com 4=> Product: WordDog Plain English Editor, educational Reviewed by: Robin Nobles, mailto:robin@robinsnest.com 5=> Product: RestoreIT, utility Reviewed by: Jim Huddle CNE CNE5 CBS MCSE ES-RC, mailto:jhuddle@compunotes.com 6=> Product: CorelDRAW 10 Graphics Suite, graphics Reviewed by: Don Hughes, mailto:dhtech1@sympatico.ca 7=> Product: PentaZip 5.1, utility Reviewed By: Paul Schneider, Ph.D., mailto:paul@studio5d.com --- To turn a friend on to this mailing, go to: http://go.MailBits.com/Tell.asp?611002.2 --- 1=> This Week's Notes, By Patrick Grote, mailto:pgrote@compunotes.com You obviously like your PC and the internet as you are a CompuNotes subscriber. You have great taste as well, but we'll leave that for another column. CompuNotes is now looking for folks to join our team of writers. 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This week's winner: Brock Labarge! Brock has won a $10.00 Amazon gift certificate. Would you like to win something just for subscribing? We give away a prize each and every week to one of our subscribers. Who knows, it could be you! You could win next week ... all you have to do is subscribe! 3=> Product: Programming ASP.NET by Jesse Liberty & Dan Hurwitz, book Reviewed by: Songmuh Jong, mailto:songmuh@yahoo.com Requires: Visual Studio .NET MSRP: USD$49.95/CAD$74.95; ISBN 0-596-00171-1 Since my review of Active Server Pages for Dummies was published, this field has advanced a lot. Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) was the first innovation that made server-side programming available to Windows programmers. The idea of ASP was copied over to Java and became Java Server Pages (JSP). Now Microsoft has created another great innovation by creating ASP.NET. The main difference between ASP and ASP.NET is that ASP is a linear interpreted language, whereas ASP.NET is compiled on the server side and is supposed to be faster. Looks like Java has some catching up to do now. Because ASP.NET is built on top of the .NET framework, the author describes the .NET framework in Chapter 1, using more or less the same sort of description found in other publications (including O'Reilly's book called ".NET Framework Essentials" which I'm also reviewing. It is a fundamental view of the .NET framework, and everyone needs to see it no matter which book you purchase on the topic. The great tour begins in Chapter 2 as the authors guide you through Visual Studio .NET and create the first HelloWorld ASP.NET project. The authors provide examples in C# and VB.NET - C# followed by VB.NET with a few exceptions. Before continuing, I suggest that you download the errata pages from the O'Reilly web page (link provided at the end of this review). Although they are classified as unconfirmed errors, they are real. I also want to emphasize that HTML controls and Web Forms controls are different species. If you don't pay attention to this, you may be left wondering why an example in the book doesn't work. Events and controls are the main concerns in any GUI programming. The authors tackle ASP.NET events in chapter 3 and are quick to point out the differences between client-side events and server-side events. Obviously, not all client-side events are suitable for server- side processing. This chapter uses a good data grid example to illustrate the power of event binding to an ASP.NET control. As the authors say, event model in ASP.NET may not be much easier than traditional ASP, but its object model makes the codes more maintainable and scalable. Chapter 4 provides an outline and lists of ASP.NET controls while chapter 5 discusses controls details. Chapter14 discusses user and custom controls. Almost every control gets its own section and sample code. Because data access is the major focus in web applications, chapter 9 discusses data binding to controls, chapter 10 and 13 discuss list-bound controls, chapter 11 discusses ADO.NET, and chapter 12 discusses data update using ADO.NET. This is also one of the few books that actually discusses stored procedure calling and transaction control. It is also important to understand the lifecycle of a web page (web form) and its states. This is discussed in chapter 6 along with the Visual Studio .NET development environment or IDE in greater detail. Standard debugging techniques are reviewed in chapter 7, validation techniques chapter 8. Traditional ASP programmers will appreciate the debugging capability in Visual Studio .NET. The days of writing line after line of print statement in ASP pages are gone. The best part of this book starts with chapter 15 when it discusses the web services. You've probably heard a lot about web services, but most books give it a meaning that is no different from regular HTTP or TCP/IP services. The exact meaning of this term is explained clearly here. Chapter 15 also starts the discussion of web protocols, including HTTP and XML. Chapter 16 uses a stock ticker example to create a web service and chapter 17 discusses how to use (or consume) the web service. Because web services are non-visual, it is even more important that the book discusses how the Visual Studio .NET can help with Code-Behind. Readers may be interested to know that ASP.NET pages can control the caching mechanism for either the whole page or part of the web page on the server. The caching can even be requested at an object level. Traditionally, server caching is totally up to the web server or container vendor. ASP.NET changes the picture and allows the server pages to define the caching mechanism down to the object level. Java programmers cannot predict what kind of server caching will be used, whereas an ASP.NET page can dictate in the code which caching mechanism should be used. The book concludes by discussing security and application control, configuration and deployment. The crash course on relational database in Appendix A is probably too short for beginners, but it can serve as a reminder for programmers who rarely work with a database. The authors have written a great reference book on ASP.NET for use by both C# and VB.NET programmers. Unlike other reference books, it is not a list of classes, but rather a concise tutorial. Users at every level will appreciate this approach. I highly recommend this book to ASP.NET programmers. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Programming ASP.NET by Jesse Liberty & Dan Hurwitz Product web sites: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progaspdotnet/ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progaspdotnet/errata/ 4=> Product: WordDog Plain English Editor, educational Reviewed by: Robin Nobles, mailto:robin@robinsnest.com Requires: Microsoft Word XP (2002), 2000 or 97; Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98, NT4, or 95; Pentium 200+ MHz, 32 MB RAM, 1.2 MB disk space MSRP: $24.95 When you sit down to read the newspaper, a book or a letter, what do you do when the words are difficult to read or a little too flowery? Do you skip the section and find one that is easier to read and understand? If you're the writer of that content, you certainly want to make sure your readers find nothing which causes them to stumble or skip. The point struck home recently when a copy editor changed all my "utilizes" to "uses" because she remembered something that I forgot: the simpler words, the easier they are to understand. Plain English Technologies has created a unique program which helps ensure your writing is clear and easy to understand. It helps cut needless words and it makes your writing stronger and more professional. Key features include a database of over 16,000 suspicious words, wordy phrases and plain language choices. It even has a built-in spelling and grammar checker. So, how does it work? Once you've created some content, simply click on the little WordDog icon. You're asked if you'd like to run a spell check on the document first. Then, the program starts at the beginning of the document, searching for redundant words, "wordy" phrases, or simpler replacements for some words. You're given several options, which can be selected or ignored (leaving the original words intact). Here's some text from one of the WordDog sample documents: "All warm-blooded animals and human beings can acquire rabies. Rabies is a disease of the central nervous system and the fact remains that it is in most cases fatal once symptoms have developed. "There were substantially more occurrences of rabies in France prior to the twentieth century due to the fact that there were an abundance of rabid foxes. At present the majority of persons acquire rabies by a bite from an infected dog." Here's the result of running WordDog to see if the text could be simplified, made easier to understand and generally more professional. "All warm-blooded animals and human beings can get rabies. Rabies is a disease of the central nervous system, and it is usually fatal once symptoms have developed. "There were more incidents of rabies in France before the twentieth century because there were plenty of rabid foxes. Now most people get rabies by a bite from an infected dog." Quite a difference in content and readability, isn't there? Who can benefit from this program? Anyone who creates Web site content, writes articles or fiction, creates reports for his or her job, or authors any work that will be read by someone else. WordDog fast and easy to use, with no learning curve whatsoever. It even links to Web-based encyclopedias and thesauri for extra help. The only downside that I can see is that WordDog only works with Microsoft Word XP (2002), Word 2000, and Word 97. WordPerfect users are out of luck. Give WordDog a try. You'll be surprised at how it can clean up your writing! A free trial version is available so that you can download and try this handy utility. Plain English Technologies WordDog Plain English Editor Product web site: http://www.worddog.com 5=> Product: RestoreIT, utility Reviewed by: Jim Huddle CNE CNE5 CBS MCSE ES-RC, mailto:jhuddle@compunotes.com Requires: Win 95, 98, NT Me or XP; 15MB hard disk space and 5-10% free space on drive. MSRP: $39.95 RestoreIT is billed by Farstone Technology as disaster recovery software. It certainly is that, but don't let the phrase make you think it's too complicated. It isn't. The software is simple to install, set up and use to recover damaged or deleted files. It also claims to recover from accidentally formatted drives (but to be honest, I didn't try that!). What the software does is make real time, full backups or incremental backups of changed files and puts them in a secure, hidden area of your hard disk. When installed, the program creates a hidden partition on your disk where it writes the backups. The partition is hidden from Windows Explorer and you can't directly access it, so the chance of accidentally deleting it is much reduced. Installation is straightforward. The setup program asks you to supply the basic info and you can just accept the defaults. I had one problem when the setup program was unable to create it's partition on my C: drive. I had been using Norton's Speed Disk for defragmenting the drive and it had written data blocks to the end of the drive. Since that is where RestoreIT wants its partition, the setup program concluded I didn't have enough free space. Once I used the Windows 98 built-in defragmenter, which moved the offending data blocks, the install went without a hitch. Once installation is done and during the reboot process, RestoreIT initializes itself. Just let the procedure finish. The RestoreIT Manager is used to create what Farstone calls Restore Points. These amount to either full or incremental backups. A Static restore point represents everything and will match in size all the data on your drive. An Incremental restore point consists only of files which have changed since the last session. You can have as many incremental restore points as you have the disk space to store them. When creating restore points I found it best to close any application that wrote to the drive. RestoreIT needs to lock the disk and having another program writing will cause RestoreIT to stop. To create a restore point all you have to do is select the New button inside the manager, select the type of restore point, static or incremental, give it a name, click Next twice, and wait for the Close button. That's all there is to it. This is a nice safe way to back up your system prior to installing that program your brother-in-law gave you (and you're a bit leery about his motives). You can also set the program to automatically create incremental restore points for you both at boot up and during normal system operations. Okay, so now you've created one or more restore points and foolishly opened that e-mail with the subject line "Don't open me, I'm full of attached viruses." Oh, and you're still not using anti-virus software that checks your mail. You're just the trusting type, that's all. Now you find that your system is completely messed up. If it's not too bad, you can use the RestoreIT manager and revert to one of your incremental or static backups. If you truly did a number on the system you can access the DOS RestoreIT manager on reboot. Either way, you will get a list of the backups available which shows the date and time the backup was made. Another very nice feature has nothing to do with the software itself. Farstone includes a real, printed manual. Maybe it's just that I'm getting old and cranky, but I prefer something I can hold in my hands and read, instead of online manuals. The manual is laid out well and provides simple procedures for all the operations the software supplies. It also includes a FAQ and an appendix containing the company's important e-mail addresses. Do you tend to experiment with your system just to see "What If?" Are you one of those trusting souls who figure they'll never need anti- virus software? Have you ever lost several days work because you accidentally deleted a file and have no backup? Get this program. FarStone Technology RestoreIT! 3 Deluxe Product web site: http://www.farstone.com 6=> Product: CorelDRAW 10 Graphics Suite, graphics Reviewed by: Don Hughes, mailto:dhtech1@sympatico.ca Requires: Windows 98, 2000, NT4, ME, XP; Pentium 200MHz or faster; 64MB RAM; 2X CD-ROM drive; SVGA monitor; mouse or tablet; 160MB of hard disk space MSRP: $549.00, Upgrade $199.00 Founded in 1985, by Dr. Michael Cowpland, the Corel Company released CorelDraw 3 in 1989 as the first graphics suite for Microsoft Windows 3.0. The product soon became a worldwide hit with graphic artists and in 1990 Corel launched its first worldwide design contest. A visit to the gallery of winners at http://www.corel.com/contests is a feast for the eyes, and an acknowledgment of human creativity and the power of CorelDRAW. CorelDRAW10 is the latest version and represents Corel's continued commitment to developing excellent products for its customers. The large envelope arrived for this CompuNotes review containing the CorelDRAW 10 Graphics Suite on 3 CDs containing CorelDRAW 10, Corel PHOTO-PAINT 10, Corel Real Animated Vector Effects (R.A.V.E.), Corel Trace, Corel Texture, Corel Capture, Bitstream Font Navigator, and Adobe reader 4.0. The CorelDRAW 10 boxed product does not come with the Digital Content Manual (which contains thumbnail-size prints of 25,000 professional clipart images and symbols, and the fonts, photos, photo objects, fills and frames supplied in the Suite). You can purchase the content manual from Corel for US$14.99. During the installation, the Corel setup places a link to Corel City on the desktop. The link is especially useful for access to clipart, tips, tricks, tutorials and is always worth a visit for users of Corel products. The program has a very clean, easy to navigate interface with the usual File, Edit, View, Layout, Arrange, Effects, Bitmaps, Text, Tools, Window and Help pull down menus across the top. Just below the pull down menus are the page settings, file, save, snap-to guides, X & Y distance and nudge settings, etc. On the left side of the screen is the Tool Box and the default CYMK color palette on the right side. Clicking & dragging the toolbar border moves toolbars to a new location on your desktop. Resetting the toolbar to its original position is simply a matter of dragging it back to the side of the desktop. The toolbar will change shape and dock. When I tried to do this, the toolbar docked, but half way down the left side. It was easily corrected with an upward mouse pull. Creating graphics and importing clip art into DRAW 10 is very easy, and help is a click away if needed. Having been a user of CorelDraw 3 & 6, I was in awe of the changes and improvements in v10. For beginners or any user wanting to brush up on techniques, CorelDRAW10 comes with a handy built-in tutorial which takes you through the process of creating a brochure. In addition, Corel has several online tutorials for CorelDRAW10, PHOTO-PAINT 10, and Corel R.A.V.E. The program comes with several ready-to-use templates for making business cards, stationary, flyers, greeting cards, envelops, labels for CDs, videos and web pages. CorelDRAW10 can handle different languages as long as the correct language modules are installed. The program comes with writing tools including Spell Check, Grammatik, QuickCorrect and a Thesaurus. Besides its many graphic functions this amazing program can also publish in PDF and HTML formats and create rollover buttons for the web. The PHOTO-PAINT interface is much like DRAW's and is for the most part uncluttered, leaving plenty of work space. Users can re-size files with the click of a mouse. I found the program extremely fast when editing a photograph, with changes applied almost instantly. There is not enough space in this review to list the huge number of effects and functions in PHOTO-PAINT. PHOTO-PAINT can (as can the entire CorelDRAW suite) import all of the popular file formats: JPG, GIF, TIF, BMP, PCX, AL, WMF, MAC, CAL, PMG, GEM, DFX, TXT, DRW, PCT, CDR, and DWG or AutoCAD drawings. The list is only a partial one - almost any graphic format can be imported or exported. An added bonus is the support for MPEG, MOV, AVI and animated GIF. PHOTO-PAINT also supports QuickTime Virtual Reality mode (QTVR). Images (color only) are stitched together to produce a panoramic effect, and users can view in 360 degrees, as if you are standing in one spot and looking around. I had a lot of fun importing photographs and trying out the many different effects and transformations the program was capable of rendering on any object. Corel has included a really fun photographic tool called Squizz by Hsoft for creating some very unusual rendering distortions. Corel's new Real Animation Vector Effects (R.A.V.E.) is a tool for creating live animations for the World Wide Web and converting images to Macromedia Flash (SWF) format. You can add sound and adjust the timing to suit your individual preferences, make banners for web sites, rollover buttons, and so on. The R.A.V.E. tutorials are excellent and will help you quickly learn how to use and apply the power of R.A.V.E. In a few minutes I was able to produce banners and roll-over buttons. It was easy to import a JPG of a duck and create a colorful text banner running under the photo. Anyone who sells goods and services online can use R.A.V.E. to display "specials of the week" as banners under product shots. R.A.V.E. is only limited by your imagination! Corel receives high marks for keeping the DRAW 10, PHOTO-PAINT and R.A.V.E. user interfaces consistent across the suite. Learn commands, tools and functions in one program and apply the knowledge across the entire suite. There will still be a definite learning curve with CorelDRAW for new users. However, the excellent built-in and online tutorials help get new users up and running quickly. The new CorelDRAW 10 Graphics Suite has a host of fantastic graphic tools for layout, vector illustrations, working with and enhancing photographs, creating animations, all in one very neat package. You can publish in PDF and HTML, create web banners, buttons, and even make personalized greeting cards. Small businesses can easily create window ads, businesses cards, stationary, labels or flyers in-house, and soon recoup the cost of buying CorelDRAW 10. The programs in the suite make the package a good buy for the money. Even if you've had problems using a box of crayons or been the laughing stock in art class, you will soon be producing graphics and the envy of your friends. The CorelDRAW 10 Graphics Suite is like having your own graphic artist on call 24 hours a day. If you're interested in computer generated graphics for business or pleasure take a look at the sheer power of the CorelDRAW 10 Graphics Suite. Corel Corporation CorelDRAW 10 Graphics Suite Product web site: http://www.coreldraw.com/ 7=> Product: PentaZip 5.1, utility Reviewed By: Paul Schneider, Ph.D., mailto:paul@studio5d.com Requirements: PC running Windows 95 or later. MSRP: $49.95 Okay, anyone who gets excited about compressing and uncompressing files and creating file archives raise your hand. I'm guessing while many of you appreciate a well-packed suitcase, doing the packing yourself is probably not on your top ten list of life thrills. The same can be said for compressing and uncompressing your computer files. Geek that I was, I remember way back when compression was pretty exciting and there were new technologies abounding at a rapid rate - that is, until ZIP technology pretty much became ubiquitous with compression on Windows platforms. Nowadays we all pretty much just want something that is simple, fast and efficient. PentaWare's latest release of PentaZip is just that, but oh so much more. With the release of Windows XP, Microsoft beefed up its ZIP support and integrated it into the operating system. Given this improvement one might ask, why use something like WinZIP, PkZIP or PentaZip? It's PentaZip's whole-lot-more aspect that answers this question. I reviewed PentaZip on an AMD Athlon-based computer with 256MB of RAM running Windows 2000 Server. PentaZip does a decent job of compressing and extracting files, providing internal support for a whole gamut of formats including support for files larger than 4GB (gigabytes), something not commonly supported. I did a couple of quick compression and speed tests against an old stalwart, WinZIP (v7.0 in this instance) to see how it stacked up. Using a variety of files totaling 19MB, it took PentaZip 25 seconds, at its maximum compression setting, to compress the files to 5.99MB and 12 seconds to uncompress. Comparatively, it took WinZIP 18 seconds to compress them to 5.96MB and 16 seconds to decompress. In my second test I used a different mix of files totaling 25MB. PentaZip took 24 seconds to compress them to 2.25MB and 5 seconds to decompress. WinZIP managed the job in 16 seconds resulting in an identical file size and 10 seconds to uncompress. In the end the differences between the two programs were small, and depending on your situation may be unimportant. At this point I'm betting you are thinking "umm yeah, while watching snail races is slower, they are just as exciting," so on to the "whole-lot--more" aspect of PentaZip. It is what you can do with the ZIP files where PentaZip really shines, e.g. viewing the contents of a ZIP file. Sure, most ZIP programs out there have a built-in viewer, but do they also, supporting dozens of image types, allow you to manipulate an image, change the size, crop, color, rotate, or convert to a different format? Chances are you have yet another utility installed for that specific task. What else? How about built-in support for common anti-virus programs and a command line interface to handle the less common ones? How about the ability to view the contents of a ZIP file and generate an automatic e-mail that sends a single file from the archive, uncompressed? For those using UNIX and Windows you'll probably like the ability to automatically convert line feeds (LF) in text files upon extraction. (For the non-geeks that means changing UNIX text files so that they word wrap properly in Windows). Maybe you'll like the text and word processor that allow you to change the file on the fly and save it outside of the original archive. Having search and disk information utilities at your fingertips is also a nice touch. You might be asking, but what about those compression features? Creating archives and extracting them are a snap. There are also a few extras I noticed right away such as the simple way PentaZip handles the creation of executable ZIP (zips that have their own unpacking code built in - the file is given an EXE extension), and the completely painless way the program lets you break ZIP files into multiple pieces (for saving large ZIPs across multiple floppies or Zip disks for example). For the advanced user there are scripting and scheduling features. Using these features you can easily schedule a backup. Yep, another excuse for not backing up has been eliminated! There are not a lot of downsides to this product. I suppose one might be the price. It is more expensive than some of its competitors. I also had some problems with the installation. However I believe this was more due to PentaWare's rush to get the product out to us. (A file reference in the install had not been updated to the new version number.) Last, while the user interface (UI) is fairly intuitive, it might take some getting used-to for those who are more comfortable with a more 'standard' Windows UI or with WinZIP. All in all, PentaZip does a solid job of delivering file compression capabilities to your desktop. However, it is in the whole-lot-more category where it really shines. Combining the commonly used basic functions in graphic and text viewers/editors, playing nicely with other programs, and bringing common Windows features directly into the program make for a very attractive package. Who knows, you might begin to look forward to packing and unpacking your computer files! 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