Introducing SQL Server Reporting Services  Microsoft has finally added reporting capabilities to SQL Server 2000. Wei-Meng Lee walks you through the basics of creating a simple report using the SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services.   [ONDotnet.com]

Learning ASP.NET for the ASP developer - Part 2  In the first part of this tutorial, we showed how ASP.NET allows us to cleanly separate presentation markup from server side script code. In this second part, we will continue our investigation of ASP.NET from a classic ASP developer's perspective. We will delve deeper and demonstrate how an ASP.NET page is put together.   [ONDotnet.com]

Liberty on Whidbey
ASP.NET 2.0 Databinding  In ASP.NET 2.0, a great deal of the ADO.NET object model has been incorporated into controls that let you interact with data declaratively, and that spare you from writing boilerplate code to create datasets, extract tables, bind tables or views to controls, and so forth. Jesse Liberty shows you how ADO.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 are now meaningfully matched.   [ONDotnet.com]

Liberty on Whidbey
Personalization in ASP.NET 2.0  In previous articles, Jesse discussed security and managing users' roles. This article picks up from where those articles left off, and show you how to provide personalized web pages for your users. Personalization allows your web site to welcome the user and to persist the user's state.   [ONDotnet.com]

The Magic of ClickOnce  One of the major attractions of the web application is its ubiquitous access--anyone with a web browser can access the application and there are no setup issues to worry about. With the advent of web services, a new model can be drawn from the best of both worlds--harnessing the rich capability of the client-side Windows environment as well as the distributed and connected model of web services. This new model is known as smart clients. In this article, Wei-Meng Lee shows you how smart clients are supported in Visual Studio 2005 and how it makes deploying them easy and painless.   [ONDotnet.com]

Making Sense of Partial Classes  In Whidbey, Microsoft has introduced partial classes, with which we can spread the definition of a class over multiple files. The use of partial classes attempts to solve the problem of separation of designer code and implementation code. Nick Harrison shows you these solutions and explores the benefits of using partial classes in your own projects.   [ONDotnet.com]

Cooking with ASP.NET, Part 2  Last week, in part one of this two-part excerpt from the ASP.NET Cookbook , authors Michael Kittel and Geoffrey LeBlond cooked up three recipes to make ASP.NET work for you. This week, they're back in the kitchen with two more recipes: one to create a reusable handler that reads image data from the database and sends it to the browser, and another to improve the performance of pages that rarely change by saving and reusing HTML output.   [ONDotnet.com]

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.   [ONDotnet.com]

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]

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]

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]

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.   [ONDotnet.com]

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]

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.   [ONDotnet.com]

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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