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Liberty on Whidbey
Liberty on Whidbey: Master Pages in ASP.NET
On many web sites, it is important to achieve a consistent "look and feel" as the user moves from page to page. While this was possible with .NET 1.1, it was difficult and required both programmer and designer discipline. ASP.NET 2.0 makes this far easier with the creation of master pages. Jesse Liberty shows you how master pages work in ASP.NET 2.0.
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Cooking with ASP.NET Michael Kittel and Geoffrey LeBlond have selected a few of their favorite recipes from O'Reilly's recently released ASP.NET Cookbook. Learn how to add a Totals row to a DataGrid, communicate between user controls, and display user-friendly error messages. Check back next week, as the authors offer two more recipes--for creating a reusable image handler and saving and reusing HTML output. [ONDotnet.com]
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Learning ASP.NET for the ASP Developer, Part 1 You may be an ASP developer. After the boom of the 1990s, there are thousands of you out there. We know you want to learn ASP.NET. In this, the first of three articles by Dr. Nahal J. Mehta, he shows you how to leverage your ASP knowledge to learn how to think like an ASP.NET developer. [ONDotnet.com]
Site Navigation in ASP.NET 2.0 As your web site grows in complexity, it is imperative that you make the effort to make your site much more navigable. A common technique employed by web sites today uses a site map to display a breadcrumb navigational path on the page. ASP.NET 2.0 comes with the SiteMapPath control to help you in site navigation. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how it all works. [ONDotnet.com]
Logical and Physical Software Design with Microsoft .NET When integrated circuit engineers design components, they pay attention not only to the logical design of the chip, but also to the way it is physically implemented in silicon. With improved .NET deployment technology, programmers must do likewise. Michael Stiefel and George Wesolowski show you how physical and logical design can help you with .NET applications. [ONDotnet.com]
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Introducing Themes and Skins in ASP.NET 2.0 Most web designers use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to maintain a consistent look and feel on their web sites. ASP.NET 2.0 introduces a new way to maintain a consistent look and feel without having to manage your own CSS files. This new article by Wei-Meng Lee introduces the new feature and shows you how it works. [ONDotnet.com]
Using the ESB Service Container O'Reilly's Enterprise Service Bus, by Dave Chappell, shows how to use an event-driven SOA to integrate enterprise apps and web services built on J2EE, .NET, C#/C++, or other legacy platforms, into a single integration network that spans the extended enterprise. In this excerpt from Chapter 6 of his book, Dave discusses the ESB service container--a key architectural concept that provides the implementation of the ESB's service interface. [ONJava.com]
Personalization in ASP.NET Personalizing your web site can enhance the experiences of users visiting your site. Personalization allows information about visitors to be persisted so that the information can be useful to the visitor when he visits your site again. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how it all works in ASP.NET 2.0. [ONDotnet.com]
Using the New Callback Manager in ASP.NET 2.0 One of the inherent limitations of web applications is the costly round-trip delay when a web page posts something back to the server and reloads the page. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to use the new Callback Manager to eliminate this limitation. [ONDotnet.com]
Using the Gtk Toolkit with Mono As a cross-platform UI framework, Gtk allows you to develop graphical user interfaces for applications on Microsoft Windows, various flavors of Unix and Linux, and Mac OS X, without having to write OS-specific UI code. Because it is cross-platform and object-oriented, the Mono team decided to use Gtk as the basis for its UI framework. Gtk#, the C# wrapper for Gtk, is the result. Niel Bornstein, coauthor of Mono: A Developer's Notebook, shows you how to get started with Gtk#. [ONDotnet.com]
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Liberty on Whidbey: Rapid Application Development with VB.NET 2.0
For a couple of years now, Jesse Liberty been touting the Microsoft endorsed-sentiment that it really doesn't matter if you program in C# or in VB.NET, since both are just syntactic sugar layered on top of MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language, the true language of .NET). That appears to be changing a bit with Whidbey. Jesse Liberty investigates the new My object in VB.NET 2.0.
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Writing Cross-Platform Mobile Applications Using Crossfire If you are a Microsoft developer familiar with the .NET Framework, you generally have two options if you want to write mobile applications. For mobile handsets, you can develop mobile Web applications using the ASP.NET Mobile controls. For standalone applications, you can use the .NET Compact Framework. However, using the .NET Compact Framework you can only target Pocket PC devices. And that essentially means that you are out of luck when it comes to developing for competing devices such as Palm and Symbian Smartphones. In this article, Wei-Meng Lee introduces you to a new open source project known as Crossfire that promises to close the gap. [ONDotnet.com]
Power Up the Windows Clipboard The Windows Clipboard is about as useless a utility as you can imagine. Throw it away and replace it with one of these clipboard power tools. [WindowsDevCenter.com]
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Liberty on Whidbey: ASP.NET Forms Security, Part 2
In his previous column, Jesse Liberty showed how to add web form security to your ASP.NET 2.0 application, and how to add users. In this follow-up, he demonstrates how easy it is to create and manage roles.
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Refactoring in Whidbey Code refactoring means restructuring your code so that the original intention of the code is preserved. In this article, Wei-Meng Lee walks you through Whidbey's new support for code refactoring. [ONDotnet.com]
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Liberty on Whidbey: ASP.NET Forms Security
Jesse Liberty shows how easy it is to provide forms-based security via login screens and authentication in Whidbey.
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Liberty on Whidbey: C# Iterators
If you are creating a class that looks and behaves like a collection, it is handy to allow your users to iterate through the members of your collection with the foreach statement. This is easier to do in C# 2.0 than it is in 1.1. In this new column by Jesse Liberty, he shows you what is coming up in .NET 2.0 to make this common task easier.
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New Features in VB.NET — Generics One of the new features in .NET Framework 2.0 is the support of Generics in the Intermediate Language (IL). As such, languages such as C# and VB.NET now support this new feature. You've heard a lot about Generics in C#, but seldom hear people talk about it in VB.NET. In this article, Wei-Meng Lee introduces Generics to the VB.NET programmer. [ONDotnet.com]
What's New in Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition? Wei-Meng Lee looks at the major improvements to the new Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition (SE). Improvements covered include support for VGA resolution for Pocket PC devices and support for Quad-VGA for Smartphones; dual display mode for Pocket PCs; and a new form factor for VGA screens. Wei-Meng is the author of the .NET Compact Framework Pocket Guide. [WindowsDevCenter.com]
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C# Generics
The single most anticipated (and dreaded?) feature of Visual C# 2.0 is the addition of Generics. Jesse Liberty show syou what problems Generics solve, how to use them to improve your code, and why you need not fear them.
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Creating an FTP Client in .NET "The .NET framework provides the plumbing, allowing you to concentrate on the application you are building." At least, that's the theory, but when it comes to FTP, .NET has a bit of a gap in the pipes. Jesse Liberty shows you how to write a simple FTP application in .NET. [ONDotnet.com]
An Inside Look at XP SP2 The first real beta of SP2, Release Candidate 1, is finally out. Final release is only a few months away. Is it ready for prime time? And what's inside? Wei-Meng Lee gives you an inside look. [WindowsDevCenter.com]
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Wrangling CoLinux Networking [David Sklar] Spyware Targets Only Windows Users [Preston Gralla] Microsoft should release Windows 98 SE as Open Source [Todd Ogasawara] Test Driving OpenOffice.org, the Next Generation [Jean Hollis Weber] You've got a target on your back [Preston Gralla] 
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Slashback: Pong, Economics, Stability Slashback with updates and clarifications from several previous stories -- read on below for updates on connecting continents, mechanical pong, Microsoft's ASP fix, and more. [Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines] Briefly: Profits, revenue climb at Rambus roundup Plus: Apple iTunes sales quicken...Nortel pushes back Flextronics deal...HP rakes in .Net dough. [Source: CNET News.com: Enterprise] Briefly: Apple iTunes sales quicken roundup Plus: Nortel pushes back Flextronics deal...HP rakes in .Net dough...Escend raises $3 million...Hitachi cuts 10 percent of U.S. work force. [Source: CNET News.com: Enterprise] Briefly: Nortel pushes back Flextronics deal roundup Plus: HP rakes in .Net dough...Escend raises $3 million...Hitachi cuts 10 percent of U.S. work force...Evite goes local with invitations. [Source: CNET News.com: Enterprise] Briefly: HP rakes in .Net dough roundup Plus: Escend raises $3 million...Hitachi cuts 10 percent of U.S. work force...Evite goes local with invitations. [Source: CNET News.com: Enterprise] HP rakes in .Net dough Company has brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in consulting revenue related to Microsoft's .Net software in the past two years. [Source: CNET News.com: Enterprise] HP Touts $600M from .NET Packages The systems vendor talks up the pulse of its software pact with Microsoft. [Source: internetnews.com: Top News] What's The Linux Kernel Worth? schneelocke writes "What's the value of the Linux kernel? After an offer by one Jeff V. Merkey to pay 50K USD for a BSD-licensed copy of Linux, David Wheeler does some calculations and comes up with an estimate of 612M USD." Wheeler has come up with a number of interesting software-worth estimates and other quantified facts about Free software; since some aspects involve ineffables and hypotheticals, the details can be argued, but he provides a good framework with SLOCCount. [Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines] Java 1.5 vs C# SexyFingers writes "Sun released Java 1.5. The non-API stuff that they've added made it finally "catch-up" with C# - like we were talking about before, since both language is built to support OOP from the ground-up, their constructs become almost identical as additional OOP "features" are supported overtime - so if you're doing C# and you're foundations in OOP is rock-solid, there really isn't any difference whether you're coding C# or Java." [Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines] Microsoft Issues Ominous ASP.Net Security Warning An anonymous reader writes "A security flaw in Microsoft's ASP.NET apparently allows access to password-protected areas just by altering a URL. There's no patch yet, but in the meantime Microsoft is telling ASP.NET developers they can rewrite their applications to prevent exploits. About 2.9 million web sites run on ASP.NET according to Netcraft." Some more links: another Microsoft article, NTBugtraq, K-Otik and Heise. [Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines] Sun SPARCs Latest Chip The company doubles the speed with its UltraSPARC IV+ with an eye toward Niagara and Olympia. [Source: internetnews.com: Top News] Kodak Wins $1 Billion Java Lawsuit nberardi writes "The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle is reporting that Eastman Kodak Company has just won a patent suit against Sun on the Java Language. According to the article Kodak owns a patent which describes a way for a piece of software to "ask for help" from another application. What they are claiming is that Sun violates this patent when Java byte code uses the Java engine to run the code. This may really upset the industry, because not only Sun uses this technology for Java but Microsoft uses this technology in .Net." [Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines] |
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