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Whether you call it source control, version control, or source code management, if you're in the business of software development, providing a safe repository for your code is critical. This article ...
SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services has an interactive sorting feature built-in that allows you to click on the header of a column in a report to sort the report by that column. Unfortunately previous...
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio enables developers to quickly and easily create robotics applications for a variety of different platforms. This article will serve as a quick overview of the diff...
The beauty of a dynamic Web site is that a handful of physical scripts can generate any number of different Web pages. One downside of this approach is that the URLs associated with these pages can g...
Microsoft revealed quite a bit of exciting information at PDC 2008. Sprinkled in with the first real Windows 7 information and all the talk about the Azure Services Platform, was some interesting inf...
Getting a new ASP.NET Web development machine up and running isn't hard, but there are a lot of steps involved and it takes a fair amount of time. That's why Microsoft is working on a new tool called...
As well as XCOPY deployment works, it requires that the user be reasonably comfortable using the command line. For users who prefer a GUI, Microsoft recently released a simple utility called SyncToy ...
These days, many .NET developers are taking advantage of the fact that you can quite easily store many of an application's settings in .NET configuration files instead of hard coding them into the app...
The GridView is a great control that allows you to display paginated results. But what happens if you want to change the underlying display for all of your projects? This article shows you how to ex...
One of the most frequent gripes programmers have about ASP.NET is that you can't implement include files across multiple web sites like you could in classic ASP. In ASP.NET, Microsoft recommends that...
The first part of this article introduced Visual Studio code snippets and showed how they can save you lots of time and typing by reducing the need for you to manually type repetative code. This inst...
Sometimes it's the little things that can really make your day. That's the way I feel about Visual Studio's Code Snippets. Ever since they were introduced in Visual Studio 2005, I've wondered how I ...
If you've been wanting to get started with AJAX, but haven't known where to start, this is your lucky day. The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is designed to provide a rich infrastructure for you to wri...
This is the second article in the .netTiers series. The first article included getting started with the template settings, generating the libraries, a first look at the admin site, a page selecting da...
Data layers allow the abstraction of your application's SQL calls to a separate set of objects. The .netTiers template library (using CodeSmith) can help you build a data layer for your .NET Web appl...
This article walks you through the process of building a simple .NET command-line application that is designed to be scheduled to execute. The sample application will send an HTTP request to a web se...
Part of the business logic encapsulated in the Typed DataSet is the ability to add specialized queries to the table adapters to retrieve the data with different filters. By manipulating the XML schem...
This article shows how you can build a search form that will search a number of different sources without the need for a different textbox for each. It even incorporates some basic OpenSearch functio...
While most of us are no strangers to FTP, performing file transfers from a web page is not that common of a requirement. Come to find out, .NET handles it quite well. The trick is keeping it simple....
The binding source component in Visual Studio 2005/2008 Windows Forms provides a valuable service for data driven applications by providing automatic data binding between controls and the data source....
With the introduction of C# 3.0, Microsoft has released a number of features that greatly enhance the object oriented programming experience for C# developers. These new features enable you to declar...
Most web-based slide show applications depend on a database for some or all of the storage. This application allows you to show pictures from a directory structure without any underlying database. Th...
The Dataset Editor in Visual Studio 2005 assists in the design of a data entity structure and generates a set of classes that meets the requirements of a good object relation mapper (ORM). This artic...
The Dataset Generator in Visual Studio 2005 generates a data entity structure that meets the requirements of a good object relation mapper (ORM), except for a couple small areas. This article shows t...
In the first part of this three part series on designing an N-tiered data access layer using datasets, David Catherman discusses the pros and cons of using datasets and examines how the dataset genera...
In the first part of this two-part article, David Beahm created the SQL database objects and .NET classes that provide the database backend for the website. In this part, he will tie that logic to an...
In this two-part article, David Beahm builds upon his previous SQL Server 2005 paging solution. Part one covers creating a data access layer that provides an efficient way to incorporate paging and u...
The process of uploading a file to a web server generally requires that the incoming file be stored in memory until the upload is complete. This works fine for relatively small files, but uploading l...
If your Web site has large quantities of data to manage, then a database-driven design is pretty much a necessity. However, storing all your data in the database often creates a lot of work for the d...
The most common questions about this series all relate to why the article doesn't discuss stored procedures. The answer to that question and more in the forth installment of Ziran Sun's popular serie...
While Try...Catch...Finally and ASP.NET custom error pages are both error handling godsends, they're not the only error handling methods available. This article will examine the Page_Error method and...
A couple weeks ago, I gave you guys a sneak peek at Windows Server 2008 Beta 3. Well, what good is a brand spanking new server platform without the development tools to properly utilize it? This wee...
Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET can open a whole new world of possibilities for your web-based applications. Moving to ASP.NET allows you to take advantage of all of ASP.NET's new features and at the s...
This article focuses on the GoldParser/Calitha usage and C# programming required to build a .NET class library that converts simple Google-style syntax into Transact-SQL syntax for full-text searches....
How would you like to enable searching of your SQL Server data using Google-style syntax instead of Transact-SQL? Because of the commonality of the Google search syntax, most web users find it simple...
Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. It's a great little tool to have in your web application debugging toolbox and is invaluable whe...
Developers and database administrators have long debated methods for paging recordset results from Microsoft SQL Server, trying to balance ease of use with performance. The simplest methods were less...
The first part of Alex Homer's article on using the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block in ASP.NET examined its built-in validators, configuring validation rule sets, and using validation ...
This article shows how you can take advantage of the validation features within the Validation Application Block, part of version 3.0 of Enterprise Library, in your ASP.NET applications. Part one exa...
The second installment in our introduction to Microsoft Silverlight walks you through installing the development tools and creating your very first Silverlight Web page.Visit our new .NET 2.0 section!...
The first part of our introduction to Microsoft Silverlight explains what Silverlight is, how to get it, and shows some sample usage scenarios.Visit our new .NET 2.0 section!...
Microsoft has just released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" Express Edition family of products. This marks the first publicly available re...
This article presents a one-page, extremely simple, online note taking application built in ASP.NET. It's not much from a technology point of view, but sometimes it's the simple little things that he...
Webparts provide an easy way to customize a website at runtime. This article will cover the basics of using webparts in ASP.NET 2.0, including the Web Part Manager, Web Part Zones, and using a databa...
If you've been wanting to leverage the power of AJAX in your ASP.NET Web applications, but aren't a client-side Javascript and XML guru, the moment you've been waiting for is finally here. Microsoft ...
It used to be that you could figure out how a web page worked simply by using your browser's view source command. Unfortunately, these days it's not so easy to take a look at the magic going on behin...
In Part 1 of this article series, you saw the use of data contracts and service contracts and the steps involved in leveraging IIS to host WCF services. In this installment, we'll cover the basics of...
The adoption of XML as the native file format for Excel 2007 has opened up a whole host of new possibilities for utilizing the power of Excel as a reporting tool. Now instead of relying on hacks and ...
Did you know that you can actually use the ASP.NET authentication system to secure other types of files like images and PDFs? It only works on IIS 5 or later and has some limitations, but it can be d...
If you've been curious about what to expect in the next version of IIS, there's no need to wonder any more. Microsoft quietly slipped the latest version of their web server, IIS7, into the recent rel...
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