Brian Berry is a senior consultant with Tallán, Inc., a professional services firm providing customized technology solutions to Global 2000 and brand-name firms. Brian is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET. Since 1985 Tallán has been building intelligent technology systems that help clients achieve critical business goals. The company is based in Glastonbury, CT, with offices in Irvine, CA; Chicago; Boston; New York; and Washington, D.C.
When I first read that .NET assemblies could be "redirected" at runtime, I
was stunned and a little bit suspicious. After all, in the COM world the
intricacies of component interaction had baffled me, but I knew enough to
know that dynamic redirection just wasn't possible. To be honest, I relied on
Visual Basic's Binary Compatibility mode to do the job and hoped for the
best. But most of the time I found myself having to rebuild VB6 executables
simply because I had changed the implementation of a method they referenced
in a library. The process of fixing the mistake was infuriating; as far as I
was concerned, code reuse was a nice-sounding concept, but not something with
which to be overly preoccupied.
But things have changed now that Microsoft has unveiled the Common Language
Runtime (CLR), which promises side-by-side execution and the holy grail of
assembly bindi... (more)
Brian Berry is a senior consultant with Tallán, Inc., a professional services firm providing customized technology solutions to Global 2000 and brand-name firms. Brian is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET. Since 1985 Tallán has been building intelligent technology systems that help clients achieve critical business goals. The company is based in Glastonbury, CT, with offices in Irvine, CA; Chicago; Boston; New York; and Washington, D.C.
Scott Sellers
Anthony Franco
Daniel Morris
Wayne Walls
Niki Acosta
Jereme Hancock
Oren Michels
Marvin Wheeler
Douglas Kim
Ken Guiberson
