Security Briefs: Encrypting Without Secrets(msdn.microsoft.com)

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If you encrypt your secret data with a key, you'll need to separate the key from the data to keep them safe. Keith Brown shows you how. read more...

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Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is released(msdn.microsoft.com)

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The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on enterprise development projects. This release of Enterprise Library provides similar functionality to the previous releases for the .NET Framework 1.1; however, Enterprise Library has been redesigned to use the new capabilities of the .NET Framework 2.0. read more...

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Speak at an INDA meeting for a chance to win an Xbox 360(weblogs.asp.net)

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In order to support the growing demand for .NET user group events in Ireland, we need more speakers to talk about .NET topics. This year, Microsoft's Developer and Platform group will be putting in place a program to help encourage people to get involved. read more...

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Exceptions and Performance in .NET - The True Cost of Exceptions(developerfusion.co.uk)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 6 years, 4 months ago

Almost every time exceptions are mentioned in mailing lists and newsgroups, people say they're really expensive, and should be avoided in almost all situations. As an idea of just how expensive some people think they can be, in one article someone asked whether the fact that his web application was throwing about 200 exceptions an hour was likely to be harming his performance. Various people replied saying that it would indeed be causing a problem. This article examins the claim read more...

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What's new in System.Xml 2.0 - Introduction, XML readers & writers(developerfusion.co.uk)

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While there have been many improvements and new features added to ADO.NET, the changes going on in the XML-related classes in version 2.0 have been even more dramatic. Through the XML InfoSet model defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XML is evolving to become a universal data access technology that can represent both structured rowset data and hierarchical and unstructured information. As this view of XML, and the associated standards, have been emerging, so the classes in the System.Xml and its subsidiary namespaces have been changing to better accommodate the needs of developers and provide the best possible performance. The what follows is a brief overview of these changes and the associated techniques that the new classes enable when working with XML. read more...

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Channel 9 Video: Microsoft Max(channel9.msdn.com)

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Robert Scoble sits down with project Max Group Program Manager Piero Sierra and friends to find out more about Max. read more...

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ViewStateAnalyzer for ASP.NET 2.0(lab.aspitalia.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 6 years, 4 months ago

ViewStateAnalyzer is a tool for ASP.NET 2.0 developers. It's an Internet Explorer toolband that allows you to analyze local ASP.NET pages. By pressing the "Analyze" button, you will retrieve page controls graph and for each element you can check the handled event, read the viewstate saved by the control and HTML rendered, easily focusing it into IE. read more...

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Ajax Patterns Wiki(ajaxpatterns.org)

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This wiki is a great resource for various Ajax patterns. It also has a comprehensive page listing the various Ajax frameworks for .NET. read more...

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Service Station: ASMX, WSE 3.0 & WSF answers(msdn.microsoft.com)

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This months Service Station answers some common questions about ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX) 2.0, Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0, and Windows® Communication Foundation (WCF). read more...

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The Grouper - Custom Groupbox Control(codeproject.com)

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The Grouper is a special groupbox control that is rounded and fully customizable. The control can paint borders, drop shadows, gradient and solid backgrounds, custom text and custom icons. The purpose of this control was to design a better looking groupbox winform control. I used the (Keep it Simple Stupid) philosophy to design a tight knitted re-useable control that i hope you all enjoy. This control is still in beta version, but it seems to be stable. read more...

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What's in Visual Basic 2005 for the Visual Basic 6.0 Developer(msdn.microsoft.com)

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A nice article outlining the many reasons to move from VB6 (we know you are out there!!) to VB.NET 2.0. It also has video demonstrations of various features. read more...

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Best and Worst Practices for Mock Objects(codebetter.com)

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Mock objects are like any other tool. Used one way they’re a huge time saver. In other cases they can easily create more work and degrade the quality of the testing code. In this post, Jeremy Miller presents some best and worst practices for utilising mock objects. read more...

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Building a DAL using Strongly Typed TableAdapters and DataTables(weblogs.asp.net)

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Scott Guthrie walks us through using Visual Studio 2005 to build a data access layer for the Northwind database. He will be using the resulting DAL in soon to be published tutorials including master details, filtering, sorting, paging, 2-way data-binding, editing, insertion, deletion, hierarchical data browsing, hierarchical drill-down and optimistic concurrency. read more...

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Data Paging with the ASP.NET 2.0 DataList Control and ObjectDataSource(weblogs.asp.net)

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A hands on walk through by Scott Guthrie on how to implement efficient data-paging using an ASP.NET DataList or Repeater control read more...

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