On 26 September, Varun Gupta from the Visual J# team met with Pratap Lakshman (Lead Program Manager of the Visual J# team) in his office at Microsoft Hyderabad. In this interview Varun and Pratap discuss some of the design choices J# made....   Read Article.

Pratap Lakshman of the Microsoft Visual J# Team guides you through exception handling (EH) in J#, how the common language runtime supports EH models, and what you need to consider as a J# programmer....   Read Article.

Use the Delegate Type in Microsoft Visual J# .NET to treat methods as data....   Read Article.

Choose whether to use a property or a method for a particular need in your J# applications....   Read Article.

Use this excerpt from the book, "Microsoft Reporting Services in Action" to learn how to implement advanced report functionality using custom code....   Read Article.

Simulation is an important technique for understanding and predicting the behavior of large systems by modeling them in the small. In this, the second part of the series Problem Solving with J#, Pratap Lakshman discusses a simulation modeling a simple digital circuit using the delegate type....   Read Article.

CAD systems provide the ability to apply constraints on parts of a drawing. In this, the third part of the series Problem Solving with J#, Pratap Lakshman discusses a system to set up and then solve constraints....   Read Article.

In this first article in a three-part series, Problem Solving with J#, Pratap Lakshman introduces a few basic design concepts by solving a problem over several complete solutions, refining it at each step by applying a simple pattern....   Read Article.

Pratap Lakshman introduces various enhancements to Visual J# 2005 and discusses themes such as, providing language level support for common programming idioms, making it easier to write better and correct code, and enabling new scenarios through enhanced security and integration....   Read Article.