Building Web Parts, Part 1 --
Websites today contain a wealth of information; in fact, so much that a
poorly designed site can easily overwhelm users. To better help users
cope, portal websites today (such as MSN) often organize their data
into discrete units that support a degree of personalization. In this
first of three articles, Wei-Meng Lee discusses how to use Web Parts
for user customization in your ASP.NET 2.0 websites. Wei-Meng is the
author of the upcoming ASP.NET 2.0: A
Developer's Notebook.
Hacking Visual Studio -- In this
excerpt, author James Avery shares five hacks that really stood out to
him from his recently released book. Learn to create comments faster
using GhostDoc, to refactor your code with Visual Studio 2005's new
Refactor menu, and more. James is the author of Visual Studio
Hacks.
C# Generics: Collection Interfaces
-- The .NET framework provides two sets of standard
interfaces for enumerating and comparing collections: the traditional
and the new generic type-safe collections. In this excerpt, Jesse
Liberty focuses on the key type-safe collection interfaces, reviewing
each collection interface and providing code examples that demonstrate
how to implement each one. Jesse is the author of Programming C#,
4th Edition.
Getting Started with Safari Web Services
-- Joining the ranks of Amazon and Google, Safari
Bookshelf recently exposed a web service for developers to integrate
Safari's vast content of technical books into their web sites. Wei-Meng
Lee shows how to create an application for the Safari Web Services API
using the .NET framework. Enrich your website by becoming a Safari
Affiliate.
Cooking with ASP.NET, Part
2 -- Learn how to create a reusable handler that
reads image data from the database and sends it to the browser, and how
to improve the performance of pages that rarely change by saving and
reusing HTML output. It's all in these sample recipes from O'Reilly's
ASP.NET Cookbook.
In Better, Faster,
Lighter Java authors Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland lay out five basic principles to combat the bloat that has built up over time in modern Java programming. Justin applies these same principles to programming in .NET in this article, Better, Faster, Lighter Programming in .NET and Java.
Seven Cool Mono Apps -- The Mono
development environment allows programmers to be more productive than
they would be with conventional C programming. The C# language and the
Mono APIs together provide a great platform for building applications.
Because of this ease of development, there are many cool open source
programs being built on Mono. Here are seven from Edd Dumbill, a
coauthor of Mono:
A Developer's Notebook.
O'Reilly Network Launches eDocuments -- Affordable, downloadable PDFs of premium O'Reilly Network content are now available covering topics such as digital media, Java versus .NET security, and
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Using Gtk with Mono -- Because it is cross-platform and object-oriented, the Mono team decided to use the Gimp Toolkit (Gtk) as the basis for its UI framework. Gtk#, the C# wrapper for Gtk, is the result. Learn how to write a Gtk# program and how to deploy it in a Windows environment, from Niel M. Bornstein, a coauthor of Mono: A Developer's Notebook.
Rapid Application Development with VB.NET
2.0 -- Jesse Liberty has supported the idea 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 the Microsoft Intermediate
Language--the true language of .NET. But that appears to be changing
with Whidbey. Get a look at the new My object in VB.NET 2.0 in this
article by Jesse, author of Programming
Visual Basic .NET, 2nd Edition.
