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In the second part of his series on building N-tier web applications using ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005, Thiru Thangarathinam covers the business logic and user interface layers. In the process, he also examines some new features in ASP.NET 2.0 that greatly simplify the development process. [Read This Article][Top]
Code reusuability is one of the major goals of any good object-oriented programmer. While the ASP.NET framework has made code reusuability easier and more elegant than it was in classic ASP, one area where reusuability could be improved is at the UI level. This article outlines a technique that you can use in ASP.NET 1.x that allows every page in your web application to inherit not only the functionality of a base page, but its UI as well. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Gayan Peiris looks at creating an ASP.NET web application that will display the usage details of a selected SharePoint site. Building such an application enables SharePoint administrators to gather all SharePoint usage data from a central location. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Gayan Peiris examines using the SharePoint Object Model
to access SharePoint site information from an ASP.NET web application.
It should be of particular interest to SharePoint administrators who
can use the included code as a starting point for development of
their own web-based SharePoint administration application. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, David Every outlines a step-by-step account of how he solved the problems he encountered while implementing an auto-deployment process. He also describes how to create a stable process for automated remote .NET deployment featuring "side-by-side" capability. [Read This Article][Top]
Most default SharePoint Server Web Parts can be connected across organizations. The third article in this series shows how to develop connectable Web Parts that consume information provided by other Web Parts. [Read This Article][Top]
Automatic daily builds is a well known software engineering best practice. This article introduces a strategy for implementing and promoting daily builds and offers tips and tricks for preventing and fixing breaks. [Read This Article][Top]
Building an application can be more than pressing F5. With an increasing
number of quality packages being released, developers for the .NET platform now have options to create a very sophisticated build process. Aaron Junod describes a sample build environment and shows how a number of tools can work together to make reliable, predictable, and value-added builds. [Read This Article][Top]
The first part of this three part series walks through the process of creating a mobile blog application using a BASIC development environment for Palm OS devices called NS Basic.
Subsequent articles will focus on synchronizing the data to the desktop using C# and creating an installer. [Read This Article][Top]
This short article provides source code for a classic ASP online database functions testing application and shows how to configure and use the tool for either SQL Server or Oracle. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article Robert Chartier shows you how to use functionality in the .NET Framework to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. [Read This Article][Top]
In the past, developers typically relied on XML and XSLT to create sites that needed to target multiple client platforms. Today, with ASP.NET mobile controls, developers only need to focus on creating one application. In this article, Rob Chartier shows how easy it is to use the ASP.NET mobile controls to create a full-blown wireless portal. [Read This Article][Top]
Mansoor Ahmed Siddiqui introduces .NET Remoting and the .NET Tracking
Service and then shows how to build a custom tracking handler that keeps
track of object creation and marshaling related activities and logs all the information in a SQL Server database table. [Read This Article][Top]
Learn how Robert Chartier created a flexible configuration library that allowed his assemblies to read and write to disk over a distributed environment spanning multiple ISPs. [Read This Article][Top]
Brian Korzeniowski presents the exciting conclusion to his popular .NET CodeDom trilogy. Learn how to build a Web Service that generates C# source code for creating custom attributes ... and may the source be with you! [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Rob Chartier takes advantage of the Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) specification in the Web Services Enhancements (WSE) to create an application that sends and receives large binary messages within the .NET Web Service environment. [Read This Article][Top]
Create custom attributes and apply them to your own code-generation
application. Also learn how to interrogate the source code at runtime using
reflection. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article Jeff Gonzalez explains how to build a class library and client application that will validate given XML documents to associated schema or XSD documents. [Read This Article][Top]
Last week Rob Chartier showed how to create an extensible Windows Service that accepts custom plug-ins. This week Rob explains how to create custom plug-ins, their interfaces, and a schedule manager. [Read This Article][Top]
Windows Services are difficult to create and debug. There is no user interaction by design, and the system usually has a hard time releasing the service once installed and ran. In the first part of this two-part series, Rob Chartier shows how to create an extensible Windows Service that accepts custom plug-ins and never needs modification. [Read This Article][Top]
In the first part of this three-part article on .NET CodeDom technology, Brian J. Korzeniowski introduces .NET CodeDom by examining the inputs and outputs of a working source code generator. [Read This Article][Top]
There is never a guarantee of project success when endeavoring to build a sophisticated application. However, there are established steps to follow that will ensure a clear, concise scope, support for the team involved, and a solid opportunity for successful deployment. [Read This Article][Top]
Reflection is a way to discover information about assemblies in .NET. In this article, Rob Chartier shows how to build a tool that utilizes Reflection to document .NET assemblies. This is especially useful when assemblies' source code is not available. [Read This Article][Top]
Craig Emilio Probus shows us how to build an ASP.NET SOAP test harness, which allows technical and functional personnel to test Web Services under uniform and generic conditions. [Read This Article][Top]
Mansoor is back to explain .NET runtime's forward compatibility feature. Here he shows us how to access .NET components from COM components. [Read This Article][Top]
Microsoft's new .NET platform provides several base services, a new runtime
environment, an easier programming model, and tools for the development and
deployment of .NET applications. Let's take a closer look. [Read This Article][Top]
When their boss told them to create a site-wide prefilled form that would cull information from the database fields of previously entered customer information forms, Ryan Keenan and Ryan Tuma’s solution was to create two interstitial pages that would limit the code necessary and their work load. The customer’s personal information automatically displays on pages where a form or application needs to be filled out, and this information comes from a table in a database containing this customer information. Their solution is offered here in a downloadable ZIP file. The pre-fill of information applied only to forms that asked for information contained in this Microsoft Access database table. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article by Joung-ho Jay Jung, he will show how to connect an Access database to your Active Server Pages using Microsoft FrontPage. This is a beginning-level article with plenty of screen shots to show how to connect via ODBC, generate a SQL query in Access and construct the Active Server Page. [Read This Article][Top]
