Liberty on Whidbey
XML DataSource Controls in .NET 2.0  With .NET 2.0's XML DataSource control, you can bind to an XML document just as easily as you bind to tables in a database. If the XML document you load is hierarchical, the data is exposed hierarchically, which makes it ideal for mapping an XML document to a TreeView control. Jesse Liberty explains how the XML DataSource works in ASP.NET.   [ONDotnet.com]

Building .NET Add-Ins for Windows Media Center Edition  Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is an exciting platform for enjoying all of your media from the comfort of your sofa. However, in many cases you might wish to extend Media Center to perform functionality that it does not have "out of the box." Microsoft has created a software development kit that lets you write your own software that runs in Media Center. In this article, Michael Earls shows you how to write your first .NET add-in for Media Center Edition of Windows XP.   [ONDotnet.com]

Liberty on Whidbey
Enhanced Text Input in Windows Forms 2.0  Visual Studio 2005 provides enhanced controls for managing data input in Whidbey. To get you started, Jesse Liberty takes a look at the masked editing control, which allows you to restrict the input from a user that a Windows Form will accept and to control how it is displayed by using a mask.   [O'Reilly Network]

Miguel de Icaza Explains How To "Get" Mono  It's perhaps the most controversial project in the open source world, but this mostly stems from misunderstanding: Mono, the open source development platform based upon Microsoft's .NET framework. Immediate reactions from many dubious Linux developers have ranged from confusion over its connection with .NET to wondering what the benefits of developing under it are. Throughout the course of its four years of intense development, sponsored by Novell, Mono founder Miguel de Icaza has had to frequently clarify the .NET issue and sell the community on it. In this new interview, Howard Wen asks Miguel to explain himself one more time.   [ONDotnet.com]

An Introduction to Developing Software for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005  At a recent consumer electronics show, Bill Gates suggested that the Media Center PC would be the centerpiece for combining online entertainment sources with existing video sources. As Sean Alexander (a product manager for Media Center) later suggested, Windows Media Center Edition will be the "hub for whole-home entertainment". Windows XP Media Center Edition allows you to do those things today. Michael Earls starts you out with how to write applications for Windows Media Center.   [ONDotnet.com]

Liberty on Whidbey
Enhanced Text Input in Windows Forms 2.0  Visual Studio 2005 provides enhanced controls for managing data input in Whidbey. In this new column by Jesse Liberty, he discusses the advanced WinForms Text Input control.   [ONDotnet.com]

Liberty on Whidbey
Data Binding in ASP.NET 2.0  Not only has Microsoft made radical changes in how data binding is done between ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0, but it has also created significant differences between how it is done in Windows Forms and ASP.NET in 2.0. This keeps life interesting (Jesse Liberty says, gnashing his teeth). In this new column, he dives into data binding in the new Web Forms.   [ONDotnet.com]

Encrypting Connection Strings in Web.config  One of the best practices in ASP.NET is to save your database connection strings in the Web.config file instead of hard-coding it in your code. It's not such a good idea to save your connection strings as plain text in Web.config – you should ideally encrypt the connection strings so it leaves no chance for a potential hacker to easily get more information about your database server. In ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has taken this further by allowing you to encrypt the connection strings in Web.config, all without much plumbing on your part. In this new article by Wei-Meng Lee, he shows you how it works!   [ONDotnet.com]

Building Mono on Windows  Mono, the open source implementation of the CLR, is not just for non-Microsoft platforms. Kevin Shockey walks you through the three phases required to build Mono on Windows without using the .NET framework.   [ONDotnet.com]

Using SQL Cache Dependency  Caching has long been recognized as one of the more effective ways to improve your ASP.NET web applications. One particular caching feature missing in ASP.NET 1.x was SQL cache dependency: the ability to invalidate a database cache if data in a table is changed. In ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has added the new SQL cache dependency feature. Wei-Meng Lee discusses the SQL cache dependency in ASP.NET 2.0, and how you can manually implement it in ASP.NET 1.x.   [ONDotnet.com]

Liberty on Whidbey
Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0  In a previous article, Jesse Liberty discussed how personalization works. This article picks up from where he left off and shows you how to use Web Parts to allow your users to further personalize users' interactions with your web site.   [O'Reilly Network]

Using the Observer Pattern in .NET  Recently, after visiting a friend who received a binary clock as a gift, Michael Weier thought it would be a great example to show how to use the Observer pattern.   [ONDotnet.com]

Learning ASP.NET for the ASP Developer - Part 3  In the final part of this tutorial, Nihal Mehta will demonstrate how to construct largescale ASP.NET websites. In the previous tutorials of this series, Nihal showed how to build single ASP.NET pages where all the code for a page was written on the page itself. This approach can quickly get tedious when you have code that is common across several pages. Thus, one of the most important elements in sites with a large number of pages is the ability to share code.   [ONDotnet.com]

Using the SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services  Microsoft has finally added reporting capabilities to its flagship database server, SQL Server 2000. In this article, Wei-Meng Lee walks you through the basics of creating a simple report using the SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services.   [ONDotnet.com]

Liberty on Whidbey
Skins and Themes  In his previous column, Jesse Liberty showed you how to use web forms security to create a personalized site. Here, he builds on that work to introduce the concepts of skins and themes, which allow users to configure the look and feel of your site.   [ONDotnet.com]

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]

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