MSDN Magazine: ASP / ASP.NET All MSDN Magazine Topics Innovationen: Web Forms und ASP.NET MVC im Vergleich Dino Esposito - Juli 2009 In der Kolumne dieses Monats werden die Vorzüge und Nachteile sowohl von ASP.NET Web Forms als auch von ASP.NET MVC untersucht. Testlauf: Anforderung/Antwort-Tests mit F# James McCaffrey - Juli 2009 In diesem Monat erfahren Sie, wie Sie HTTP-Anforderung/Antwort-Tests für ASP.NET-Webanwendungen mithilfe von F# durchführen können. Extreme ASP.NET: Leitprinzipien für Ihre ASP.NET MVC-Anwendungen Scott Allen - Juli 2009 In dieser Kolumne beschreibt der Autor einige Leitprinzipien, die Sie bei der Arbeit mit ASP.NET MVC Framework befolgen sollten. Cutting Edge: Go Beyond HTML Forms With AJAX Dino Esposito - June 2009 This month we examine forms in the context of AJAX applications and look at various approaches to implementing features such as auto-saving, just-in-time validation, and submission throttling. .NET RIA Services: Building A Data-Driven Expense App with Silverlight 3 Jonathan Carter - May 2009 .NET RIA Services provides a set of server components and ASP.NET extensions such as authentication, roles, and profile management. We’ll show you how they work. Data Services: Access Your Data On Premise Or In The Cloud With ADO.NET Data Services Elisa Flasko - May 2009 In this article the author looks at two versions of the same application--one consuming an on-premise Data Service, and one consuming an Azure Table Data Service to illustrate data access in the cloud. Cutting Edge: Build Rich User Interfaces with jQuery Dino Esposito - May 2009 In this month's installment we build modal and modeless dialog boxes in jQuery and explain how to post data from them to the Web server. Cutting Edge: Erforschen Sie reichhaltiges Clientskripting mit jQuery, Teil 1 Dino Esposito - März 2009 Dank Auswahlen und Funktionsverkettung können Sie mit jQuery kompakten, browserübergreifenden Code schreiben. Extreme ASP.NET: Diagrammerstellung mit ASP.NET und LINQ K. Scott Allen - März 2009 Durch Verbindung des ASP.NET-Diagrammsteuerelements mit der Datenabfrageleistung von LINQ können Sie flexible Diagramme erstellen. Hier erfahren Sie, wie das geht. ASP.NET-Workflow: Webanwendungen, die lang andauernde Vorgänge unterstützen Michael Kennedy - Januar 2009 Das Integrieren von Workflows in ASP.NET-Anwendungen beinhaltet das Kommunizieren mit Aktivitäten über eine Workflowwarteschlange und das Hosten der Laufzeit in der globalen Anwendungsklasse. Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie es geht. Extreme ASP.NET: Routing mit ASP.NET-Web Forms Scott Allen - Januar 2009 Erfahren Sie in dieser detaillierten Betrachtung des Neuschreibens von URLs in ASP.NET, wie sie die Vorteile des Umleitens nutzen und gleichzeitig die Risiken verringern können. Cutting Edge: ASP.NET-Darstellungsmuster Dino Esposito - Dezember 2008 Die Wahl des richtigen Entwurfsmusters für Ihre ASP.NET-Webanwendung kann Ihnen helfen, die Trennung von Bereichen zwischen Ihrer Darstellungsschicht und den Schichten darunter zu gewährleisten. ASP.NET AJAX 4.0: Neue AJAX-Unterstützung für datengesteuerte Webanwendungen Bertrand Le Roy - Oktober 2008 Hier wird eine datengesteuerte ASP.NET AJAX-Webanwendung vorgestellt, die die besten Features der server- und clientseitigen Programmierung in effizienter und benutzerfreundlicher Weise miteinander verbindet. Office Space: Benutzerdefinierte Überwachung in SharePoint Ted Pattison - September 2008 Erfahren Sie, wie Sie mit angepassten Steuerelementseiten in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 eine Überwachungslösung für Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 bereitstellen können. Cutting Edge: Erstellen einer sicheren AJAX-Dienstschicht Dino Esposito - September 2008 In diesem Monat erstellt Dino eine Dienstschicht, mit der Benutzer von Silverlight 2- und ASP.NET AJAX-Diensten authentifiziert werden, um illegalen Zugriff auf vertrauliche Back-End-Dienste zu verhindern. Security Briefs: SDL fasst das Web zusammen Bryan Sullivan - September 2008 In dieser Ausgabe führen wir Sie in die neuen weborientierten Sicherheitsleitfäden und -tools des Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)-Teams bei Microsoft ein. Toolbox: Serialisieren von Objekten, der Blog von Scott Allen, Websiteleistung und mehr. Scott Mitchell - August 2008 Serialisieren und Deserialisieren von Dateien mit fester Länge sowie von durch Trennzeichen getrennten Dateien, der Blog von Scott Allen, Untersuchen von Webseiten und mehr. Cutting Edge: Programmieren von AJAX mit partiellem ASP.NET-Rendering Dino Esposito - August 2008 Dino Esposito vergleicht die Verwendung von AJAX-Mustern und DOM-Manipulationen mit der Verwendung des ASP.NET-Moduls für partielles Rendering. Office Space: Automatisiertes SharePoint-Websitebranding Ted Pattison - Juli 2008 Hier finden Sie eine benutzerdefinierte Brandinglösung für SharePoint-Websites, die Masterseiten und CSS-Dateien auf Ebene der Websitesammlung integriert. Cutting Edge: Das HTML Message-Muster Dino Esposito - Juli 2008 In dieser Ausgabe bietet der Autor eine verbesserte Implementierung des BST-Musters und vergleicht es mit HTM-Lösungen. Cutting Edge: ASP.NET AJAX und clientseitige Vorlagen. Dino Esposito - Juni 2008 AJAX ist für ein breiteres Aufgabenspektrum als das bloße partielle Rendering von Seiten vorgesehen. Erfahren Sie, in welche Richtung die Entwicklung dynamischer Seiten mit ASP.NET AJAX nach Ansicht von Dino Esposito zukünftig tendiert. Sicherheit: Sicherere Authentifizierung mit einer Einmalkennwortlösung Dan Griffin - May 2008 Einmalkennwörter bieten Lösungen für Wörterbuch-, Phishing- und Abfangangriffe und viele andere Sicherheitsverletzungen. Hier erfahren Sie, wie das funktioniert. Toolbox: Datenbanküberwachungsprotokolle, Joel on Software, Codearbeitsblätter und mehr Scott Mitchell - May 2008 Diesen Monat befasst sich der Toolbox-Artikel mit Datenbankprotokollierung, Joel Spolskys Blog, dem Drucken von Codeprojekten und mit ASP.NET-Literatur. Cutting Edge: Single Page Interface und AJAX-Muster Dino Esposito - May 2008 In diesem Monat beschäftigen wir uns mit dem SPI-Modell (Single Page Interface) sowie mit Entwurfsmustern für AJAX-Anwendungen. Testlauf: Anforderung/Antwort-Tests mit Windows PowerShell Dr. James McCaffrey - May 2008 Wussten Sie schon, dass Sie mit Windows PowerShell einfache Anforderung/Antwort-Tests für eine ASP.NET-Webanwendung durchführen können? Hier erfahren Sie, wie das geht. Wicked Code: Einfacher Seitenwechsel in Silverlight Jeff Prosise - May 2008 Wie Sie sehen werden, können Sie mit wenigen Zeilen JavaScript ein universelles Framework erstellen, mit dem Sie in Silverlight 1.0-Anwendungen Seitenwechsel ermöglichen können. Leistung: Skalierungsstrategien für ASP.NET-Anwendungen Richard Campbell and Kent Alstad - April 2008 Beim Skalieren von Webanwendungen können sich Leistungsprobleme einschleichen. In diesem Fall müssen Sie die Ursachen feststellen und die besten Strategien zu ihrer Behandlung finden. Toolbox: Protokollieren von Webanwendungsfehlern, Erlernen von LINQ und mehr Scott Mitchell - April 2008 Erfahren Sie, wie Sie Webanwendungsfehler zur Verbesserung der Integritätsüberwachung protokollieren können, was Sie zum Thema LINQ lesen sollten und welchen Blog Scott Mitchell diesen Monat empfiehlt. Cutting Edge: Tipps und Tricks zu ListView Dino Esposito - April 2008 In diesem Monat verwenden Sie verschachtelte ListView-Steuerelemente zum Erstellen hierarchischer Ansichten von Daten und zum Erweitern des Ereignismodells des ListView-Steuerelements durch Ableiten einer benutzerdefinierten ListView-Klasse. ASP.NET MVC: Erstellen von Webanwendungen ohne Webformulare Chris Tavares - March 2008 Chris Tavares erläutert, wie das Model View Controller-Muster von ASP.NET MVC Framework das Erstellen flexibler, leicht zu testender Webanwendungen unterstützt. Testlauf: Webbenutzeroberflächenautomatisierung mit Windows PowerShell Dr. James McCaffrey - March 2008 In diesem Artikel wird aufgezeigt, wie Sie mit Windows PowerShell schnell und einfach eine Benutzeroberflächen-Testautomatisierung für ASP.NET und klassische ASP-Webanwendungen erstellen Extreme ASP.NET: Das einzige Datenbindungssteuerelement, das Sie je benötigen werden Fritz Onion - March 2008 Fritz Onion führt vor, wie das ListView-Steuerelement in ASP.NET 3.5 dank Unterstützung für Gestaltung mit CSS, flexible Paginierung und die umfassende Auswahl an Features zum Sortieren, Einfügen, Löschen und Aktualisieren Datenbindungsaufgaben vereinfacht. IIS 7.0: Erstellen von Webserverlösungen mit End-to-End-Erweiterbarkeit Mike Volodarsky - Launch 2008 Mike Volodarsky führt das IIS 7.0-Erweiterbarkeitsmodell vor, indem er die Antwortänderung in ein konfigurierbares Webservermodul und eine benutzerdefinierte Verwaltungsseite für IIS-Manager erweitert. Cutting Edge: Modale Dialogfelder mit AJAX Dino Esposito - Launch 2008 Diesen Monat zeigt Dino Esposito Ihnen, wie Sie mithilfe des AJAX Control Toolkit und klugem Codieren modale Dialogfelder im Windows-Stil für Ihre Webanwendung erhalten. Bereit für die Welt: Rund um die Welt mit ASP.NET AJAX-Anwendungen Guy Smith-Ferrier - January 2008 .NET Framework verfügt über ausgezeichnete Internationalisierungsunterstützung, JavaScript allerdings leider nicht. Wenn Sie ASP.NET AJAX verwenden, können Sie hier erfahren, welche Anpassungen vorgenommen werden müssen. Cutting Edge: Anpassen von Steuerelementen mit AJAX-Extendern Dino Esposito - January 2008 AJAX-Extender erweitern das Verhalten und die Features herkömmlicher Websteuerelemente, sodass Sie Postbacks und Steuerelementeingaben noch stärker einschränken können als bei alleiniger Verwendung von AJAX. Wicked Code: Drag & Drop mit ASP.NET AJAX Jeff Prosise - January 2008 Jeff Prosise zeigt auf, wie sich Drag & Drop-Funktionalität mithilfe von ASP.NET AJAX in Webanwendungen implementieren lässt. Extreme ASP.NET: Einkapseln von Silverlight mit ASP.NET-Steuerelementen Fritz Onion - January 2008 Zum Implementieren von Silverlight in ASP.NET-Seiten können Sie die Silverlight-Elemente in ASP.NET-Steuerelemente einkapseln. Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie es geht. Toolbox: Livechat, Codekonvertierung, Arbeiten mit mehreren Monitoren und mehr Scott Mitchell - December 2007 In diesem Monat erfahren Sie mehr über die Tools, die Sie für Ihre Arbeit benötigen. Cutting Edge: Einblick in die Microsoft AJAX-Bibliothek Dino Esposito - December 2007 Dino Esposito stellt die Microsoft AJAX-Bibliothek und die Javascript-Bibliothek für ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 vor. Office Space: Ereignisse in SharePoint 2007 Ted Pattison - November 2007 Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 bietet eine neue, verbesserte Infrastruktur zum Verarbeiten serverseitiger Ereignisse. Diese Ausgabe von „Office Space“ befasst sich mit Verfahren zum Verknüpfen von Vor- und Nachereignissen mithilfe von Features und Code. Cutting Edge: Verwalten der Benutzerfunktionalität in AJAX Dino Esposito - November 2007 In diesem Monat befasst sich Dino Esposito mit Einschränkungen und Problemen in puncto Benutzeroberfläche, die bei der partiellen Erzeugung von AJAX-Seiten und bei Methoden der Benutzeroberflächenverwaltung zu berücksichtigen sind. Bugslayer: Messen der Auswirkungen des Ansichtstatus John Robbins - November 2007 Ein aufgeblähter Ansichtstatus kann für Ihre Webanwendung eine gewaltige Leistungsbremse sein, ist aber unter Umständen nur schwer zu diagnostizieren. John Robbins hat ein nützliches Tool geschaffen, das die Ansichtstatusgröße von Seiten, die in Ihren ASP.NET-Anwendungen enthalten sind, aufzeichnet und meldet. Toolbox: Verwalten von Datenbanken, ein einfacheres FTP und gruppiertes Zwischenspeichern Scott Mitchell - October 2007 Zu den in diesem Monat behandelten Produkten zählen DatabaseSpy, FileZilla, NCache und andere. Cutting Edge: AJAX-Anwendungsarchitektur, Teil 2 Dino Esposito - October 2007 Im zweiten Teil dieser zweiteiligen Reihe wird das Programmiermodell für Skriptdienste näher untersucht. Dieses Modell ist nützlich, wenn Sie einen vollständigen Paradigmenwechsel beim Erstellen von AJAX-Anwendungen in Erwägung ziehen. ASP.NET: ScriptManager aktiviert AJAX in Ihren Webanwendungen Ben Rush - September 2007 Erfahren Sie, wie das ScriptManager-Steuerelement verwendet wird, das vielen eindrucksvollen Prozessen von ASP.NET AJAX zugrunde liegt. Suchen und Finden: Integrieren von Suchfunktionen in Ihre Website mit ASP.NET Marco Bellinaso - September 2007 Wir implementieren Suchanbieter sowohl für Live.com als auch für SharePoint, damit Sie beide in Ihren eigenen Anwendungen nutzen können. Anmerkung des Herausgebers: Sommer in New York Joshua Trupin - September 2007 Während die Quecksilbersäule steigt, wollen wir uns mit einer Betrachtung der AJAX-Technologien abkühlen. Toolbox: ASP.NET-Steuerelemente, FTP und mehr Scott Mitchell - September 2007 ASP.NET-Steuerelemente, eine umfassende FTP-Bibliothek, umfangreiche Bildverarbeitungsunterstützung und ein Buch über SQL Server 2005. Cutting Edge: AJAX-Anwendungsarchitektur, Teil 1 Dino Esposito - September 2007 Im ersten Teil einer zweiteiligen Reihe wird AJAX von einem architektonischen Standpunkt aus erläutert, sodass Entwickler, Architekten, Designer und Administratoren die Probleme, die ihre Websites betreffen, besser verstehen können. Cutting Edge: Abbrechen von Serveraufgaben mit ASP.NET AJAX Dino Esposito - August 2007 In diesem Monat erklärt Dino, wie von einem Remotestandort aus mit ASP.NET AJAX Aufgaben abgebrochen werden können, die auf dem Server ausgeführt werden. Extreme ASP.NET: Web Client Software Factory Fritz Onion - August 2007 Die Web Service Software Factory soll Hilfe und verbesserte Tools zum Erstellen von Webdiensten mit ASMX oder WCF bereitstellen. Cutting Edge: Kontextbezogenes Feedback mit AJAX Dino Esposito - July 2007 Über Statusanzeigen hinaus: Kommunikation mit serverseitigen Anwendungen über ASP.NET AJAX. SILVERLIGHT: Einführung in das Erstellen tieferer Weberfahrungen Laurence Moroney - June 2007 Erstellen von umfassenden, überzeugenden, plattformübergreifenden, interaktiven Anwendungen mit Microsoft Silverlight. Wicked Code: Tipps und Tricks zu UpdatePanel Jeff Prosise - June 2007 Jeff Prosise erläutert, wann UpdatePanel am besten geeignet ist und wann es vorzuziehen ist, stattdessen asynchrone Aufrufe von WebMethods oder Seitenmethoden zu verwenden. Migration: Umwandeln einer Java-Webanwendung in eine ASP.NET-Anwendung mit JLCA Brian Jimerson - May 2007 Cutting Edge: Unterklassen und Überschreiben von ASP.NET-Seiten (Teil II) Dino Esposito - May 2007 Identität: Sichern von ASP.NET-Anwendungen und WCF-Diensten mit Windows CardSpace Michèle Leroux Bustamante - April 2007 In Windows CardSpace wird die traditionelle Authentifizierung durch einen einheitlichen und vereinfachten Anmeldeprozess ersetzt. Darüber hinaus verbessert Windows CardSpace die Vertrauensstellung zwischen Endbenutzern, Anwendungen und Diensten. Michèle Leroux Bustamante erläutert diese Vorgänge. ASP.NET 2.0: Durchsetzen von Webstandards zur Verbesserung des Zugriffs Ben Waldron - April 2007 Webstandards beinhalten sehr viel mehr als das Schließen von HTML-Tags. Sie sind ein wichtiger Faktor dafür, wie gut sich Softwarekomponenten in zukünftigen Kontexten einsetzen lassen. Cutting Edge: Unterklassen und Überschreiben von ASP.NET-Seiten (Teil I) Dino Esposito - April 2007 Es gibt eine Reihe von Verfahren, die das Ändern einer laufenden ASP.NET-Seite ermöglichen, ohne den Quellcode aktualisieren zu müssen. Einige davon werden diesen Monat von Dino Esposito vorgestellt. Extreme ASP.NET: Webbereitstellungsprojekte Fritz Onion - April 2007 Mit ASP.NET 2.0 ist Entwicklung leichter denn je. Fritz Onion erklärt, wieso. IIS 7.0: Webserver für Windows Vista und mehr Mike Volodarsky - March 2007 IIS 7.0 verwandelt die Geschwindigkeit, die Zuverlässigkeit und die Sicherheit von IIS 6.0 in einen äußerst erweiterbaren und doch leicht verwaltbaren Webserver, auf dem die Webanwendungen der Zukunft ausgeführt werden. ASP.NET 2.0: Verwalten von Webbenutzern mit benutzerdefinierten Profilanbietern Jason N. Gaylord - March 2007 Mithilfe von Profilanbietern in ASP.NET 2.0 können Sie Benutzer effizienter verwalten. Hier erfahren Sie, wie das geht. Cutting Edge: Überprüfen der ASP.NET-Abfragezeichenfolgen Dino Esposito - March 2007 , Wenn Ihr ASP.NET Abfragezeichenfolgen-Parameter verwendet, müssen Sie sicherstellen, dass sie vor Verwendung ordentlich überprüft werden. Hier zeigt Dino Esposito wie. Wicked Code: Skalierbare Anwendungen mit asynchroner Programmierung in ASP.NET Jeff Prosise - March 2007 ASP.NET unterstützt drei asynchrone Programmiermodelle, die für einen optimalen Zustand Ihres Threadpools sorgen. Hier erfahren Sie, wie Sie diese Modelle installieren. Testlauf: AJAX-Testautomatisierung Dr. James McCaffrey - February 2007 In diesem Monat präsentiert James McCaffrey ein Verfahren, das Ihnen ermöglicht, einfache Testautomatisierungen zu schreiben, um die Funktionalität von AJAX-Webanwendungen zu überprüfen. Topaktuell: Perspektiven zu ASP.NET AJAX Dino Esposito - February 2007 AJAX ermöglicht Ihnen, umfassende Browseranwendungen mithilfe leistungsfähiger Kombinationen vorhandener clientbasierter Webtechnologien zu erstellen. Diesen Monat vertieft sich Dino in AJAX Cutting Edge: Die serverbasierten Aspekte von ASP.NET-Seiten Dino Esposito - January 2007 Wo werden die von ASP.NET generierten Dateien gespeichert, und wie werden sie zur Abwicklung von Seitenanforderungen verwendet? Eine Erklärung hierzu finden Sie diesen Monat in der Rubrik „Cutting Edge“. Extreme ASP.NET: Clientbasierte Webdienstaufrufe mit AJAX Extensions Fritz Onion - January 2007 Microsoft AJAX Library und ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions stellen eine Reihe interessanter Funktionen bereit, die von der clientbasierten Datenbindung bis hin zu DHTML-Animationen und -Verhalten reichen. Hier erfahren Sie alles zu diesem Thema. Security Briefs: Verwenden des Protokollübergangs – Tipps aus der unmittelbaren Praxis Keith Brown - January 2007 Windows Server 2003 ist inzwischen weit verbreitet, und Keith Brown kann nun die Fragen von Lesern beantworten, die mithilfe des Protokollübergangs sichere Gateways in ihren Intranets erstellen möchten. Erweitern von ASP.NET: Vereinfachen Sie die Datenbindung in ASP.NET 2.0 mit benutzerdefinierten Steuerelementen Rick Strahl - December 2006 Das wwDataBinder-Steuerelement berücksichtigt die einfache Datenbindung von Steuerelementen: die Bindung einfacher Formularsteuerelemente, wie z. B. Textfelder, Kontrollkästchen und ausgewählte Werte von Listensteuerelementen, an individuelle Daten- oder Objektwerte. Cutting Edge: Der Client-Aspekt von ASP.NET-Seiten Dino Esposito - December 2006 In diesem Monat analysiert Dino Esposito den clientseitigen Quellcode, der von ASP.NET-Seiten generiert wird. Single Sign-On: Eine Entwicklereinführung in Active Directory-Verbunddienste Keith Brown - November 2006 Basic Instincts:: Die serverseitige Erstellung von Word 2007-Dokumenten Ted Pattison - November 2006 Cutting Edge: Simplify Task Progress with ASP.NET "Atlas" Dino Esposito - October 2006 Dino Esposito rewrites his task progress bar with the help of ASP.NET “Atlas.” Extreme ASP.NET: Control Adapters Fritz Onion - October 2006 Control adapters let you provide alternate renderings of controls for mobile devices. But they can also be used to completely change the rendering of a con¬trol based on browser type, which can be useful in a number of situations. Security Briefs: CardSpace, SqlMembershipProvider, and More Keith Brown - October 2006 This month Keith Brown fields some reader questions on InfoCard turned CardSpace and passwords for SqlMembershipProvider. Wicked Code: Running ASMX Web Services on STA Threads Jeff Prosise - October 2006 Jeff Prosise describes performance problems in an ASMX Web service that relied on legacy COM and Visual Basic 6.0 to perform key processing tasks and the approach he took to find a fix. Cutting Edge: Reporting Task Progress With ASP.NET 2.0 Dino Esposito - September 2006 The progress bar is great for keeping users informed about the progress of a task. Unfortunately, there’s no progress bar element built into ASP.NET, so Dino Esposito solves that problem with his ProgressPanel control. Gathering MOSS: New Dev-Centric Features In Office SharePoint Server Keep Your Apps Rolling Ted Pattison - August 2006 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 provides great portal and search features and much more, and Ted Pattison puts them to good use here. Basic Instincts: Resources and Localization in ASP.NET 2.0 Ted Pattison - August 2006 In this installment of Advanced Basics Ted Pattison discusses the localization of Web sites in ASP.NET 2.0. Cutting Edge: All About Enums Dino Esposito - August 2006 Dino Esposito reviews the basics of enumeration types and their implementation in the Microsoft .NET Framework. Design Patterns: Model View Presenter Jean-Paul Boodhoo - August 2006 The MVP pattern helps you separate your logic and keep your UI layer free of clutter. This month learn how. Atlas At Last: ASP.NET Atlas Powers the AJAX-Style Sites You’ve Been Waiting For Matt Gibbs - July 2006 Web App Follies: Keep Sites Running Smoothly By Avoiding These 10 Common ASP.NET Pitfalls Jeff Prosise - July 2006 WSS 3.0 Preview: Discover Significant Developer Improvements In SharePoint Services Ted Pattison - July 2006 : Get Ready for AJAX - July 2006 If you’re fortunate enough to attend a developer conference this year, look around at the variety of people. There are all kinds out there, a diverse ecosystem as the marketing folks might say. Even within a relatively narrow group like programmers, you’ll find a wide range of goals and interests. Inside MSDN: Building the MSDN Aggregation System John Mollman - July 2006 Have you visited msdn2. microsoft. com? It’s the new online face of the MSDN® Developer Tools and Enterprise Server documentation. The infrastructure behind it includes a system developed by my team at Microsoft for aggregating information related to our content. Extreme ASP.NET: Asynchronous Web Parts Fritz Onion - July 2006 Building a customizable Web site complete with a collection of pluggable Web Parts is fairly easy with the portal infrastructure of ASP. NET 2. 0. This model is very flexible, allowing users to easily place your Web Parts anywhere on the Web page so they are free to customize your site. Share the load: Report Visual Studio Team System Load Test Results Via A Configurable Web Site Wen Ding - June 2006 This article discusses a new load test tool in Visual Studio 2005 Team System for performance and stress testing your Web sites, Web services, and other server components. Combined with its handy reporting capabilities, the load test tool provides some powerful options for sharing and managing test results. Cutting Edge: A Provider-Based Service for ASP.NET Tracing Dino Esposito - June 2006 When it comes to catching programming errors, the debugger is a developer's best friend. ASP. NET tracing, however, is a nice complement to the debugger and shouldn't be overlooked. It enables your ASP. Wicked Code: Three Cures for Common Site Map Ailments Jeff Prosise - June 2006 Data-driven site navigation is among the niftiest and most useful features in ASP. NET 2. 0. To get it working, all you do is create an XML site map file (or a SQL site map if you're using the MSDN®Magazine SqlSiteMapProvider), add a SiteMapDataSource, and bind a TreeView or Menu to the SiteMapDataSource. Cutting Edge: Extending the GridView Control Dino Esposito - May 2006 Welcome to my100th consecutive installment of Cutting Edge. I've been writing this column since January 1998 in Microsoft Internet Developer. Looking back over the past eight years, I realize that I've touched on almost every subject in the Windows® SDK and the Microsoft® . Extreme ASP.NET: Keeping secrets in ASP.NET 2.0. Rob Howard - May 2006 Storing data securely in a configuration system is not an easy problem to solve. While I was on the ASP. NET team, this particular feature, secure connection string storage, looked as if it wouldn’t get done. Extreme ASP.NET: A New Solution to an Old State Storage Problem Fritz Onion - April 2006 State management in Web applications is a contentious issue. Should you store user data per session or should you persist it across sessions? You can easily store information temporarily while someone navigates your site by using session state. Basic Instincts: Introducing ASP.NET Web Part Connections Ted Pattison - February 2006 When you begin to work with the Microsoft® . NET Framework 2. 0 and ASP. NET, you discover that the new Web Parts infrastructure adds some very powerful functionality to the underlying platform. In the September 2005 issue of MSDN®Magazine, Fritz Onion and I have an article on programming Web Parts titled "ASP. Cutting Edge: Build Providers for Windows Forms Dino Esposito - February 2006 In ASP. NET and Windows Forms projects, some file types are treated differently than others. For example, ASPX and ASCX files are dynamically parsed and compiled to an assembly on the fly. The contents of an XML Schema Definition (XSD) file are used to create a new, strongly typed DataSet-based object at design time. Wicked Code: The SQL Site Map Provider You've Been Waiting For Jeff Prosise - February 2006 Now that ASP.NET 2.0 is a shipping product, it seems appropriate to revisit an issue that tops the new features wish lists of many developers: a SQL Server™ site map provider. Cutting Edge: Custom Data Control Fields Dino Esposito - January 2006 In ASP. NET 2. 0, the GridView and DetailsView controls are designed to work together. They don't merely provide complementary services, they also share a number of helper classes and components. The output of the GridView control consists of a sequence of rows, each with a fixed number of columns. Extreme ASP.NET: Codebehind and Compilation in ASP.NET 2.0 Fritz Onion - January 2006 As I write this column, the release candidates of the Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio® 2005 have just come out, and by the time you read this, they will both already be on the shelves. It feels like it's been a long time coming. Web Apps: An Overview Of The New Services, Controls, And Features In ASP.NET 2.0 Jeff Prosise - Visual Studio 2005 Guided Tour 2006 ASP.NET 2.0 aims to reduce the amount of code required to accomplish common Web programming tasks by 70 percent or more. New services, controls, and features make it almost as dramatic an improvement to ASP.NET 1.x as that was to ASP Classic. Here Jeff Prosise explores the new features. UI on the Fly: Use the .NET Framework to Generate and Execute Custom Controls at Run Time Morgan Skinner - December 2005 Creating UI controls on the fly can be accomplished via run-time code generation. And there are lots of reasons to do so. Generating these controls once and then reusing them as needed is more efficient than generating the controls each time. Read on. Cutting Edge: Flexible Custom Data Views Dino Esposito - December 2005 ASP. NET 1. x introduced some powerful and useful data-bound controls. However, none were designed specifically to manage the view of a single record. When you build master/detail views, you need to display the contents of a single record. Are You Protected?: Design and Deploy Secure Web Apps with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0 Mike Volodarsky - November 2005 Ensuring the security of a Web application is critical and requires careful planning throughout the design, development, deployment, and operation phases. It is not something that can be slapped onto an existing application. In this article, Mike Volodarsky outlines best practices that allow you to take advantage of the security features of ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0 to build and deploy more secure Web applications. Who Goes There?: Upgrade Your Site's Authentication with the New ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarello - November 2005 Here Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarello cover the plumbing of the Membership API and its inherently extensible nature, based on pluggable providers. To demonstrate the features, they take an existing ASP.NET 1.x authentication mechanism and port it to ASP.NET 2.0, exposing the legacy authentication mechanism through the new Membership API. Web Q&A: ASP.NET Session State, Validation, DataGrids, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - November 2005 Cutting Edge: A Quick Tour of Themes in ASP.NET 2.0 Dino Esposito - November 2005 It's much easier to build a rich user interface into your Web application in ASP. NET 2. 0 than it was in previous versions. Master Pages let you build pages based on existing templates of markup and code. Extreme ASP.NET: Page Navigation Rob Howard - October 2005 In my childhood I spent several weeks a year in Holland with my extended family. As a young American boy I was fascinated with the electric Dutch trains, something we didn't see in my hometown of Dallas, Texas. Cutting Edge: Personalization and User Profiles in ASP.NET 2.0 Dino Esposito - October 2005 Personalization is growing to be more and more of an essential ingredient in many types of Web apps, including portals and shopping sites. Without it, it's quite difficult to serve your customers efficiently. Wicked Code: Asynchrone Seiten in ASP.NET 2.0 Jeff Prosise - October 2005 ASP. NET 2. 0 bietet eine Fülle von neuen Features, die von deklarativer Datenbindung und Masterseiten bis zu Verwaltungsdiensten für Mitgliedschaften und Rollen reichen. Zu den interessantesten neuen Features zählen meiner Meinung nach jedoch asynchrone Seiten, und das hat folgenden Grund. Best Practices: Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for Your Web Applications Mike Volodarsky - September 2005 ASP.NET provides a number of ways to maintain user state, the most powerful of which is session state. This article takes an in-depth look at designing and deploying high-performance, scalable, secure session solutions, and presents best practices for both existing and new ASP.NET session state features straight from the ASP.NET feature team. ASP.NET 2.0: Personalize Your Portal with User Controls and Custom Web Parts Ted Pattison and Fritz Onion - September 2005 ASP.NET 2.0 introduces a Web Part control that is designed to deal with the serialization, storage, and retrieval of customization and personalization data behind the scenes. In this article, the authors explain how you can put the WebPart control to work in your ASP.NET 2.0 applications. Call MOM: Instrument and Monitor Your ASP.NET Apps Using WMI and MOM 2005 Michael Jurek - September 2005 The current version of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) satisfies many current and future manageability requirements. In this article Michael Jurek demonstrates how WMI provides important system management capabilities and develops a WMI-aware monitoring solution you can use to instrument your ASP.NET applications. He then introduces the capabilities of MOM 2005 that allow you to monitor these instrumented applications. Web Q&A: Smart Navigation, ASP.NET Project Structure, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - September 2005 Cutting Edge: ASP.NET Forms Dino Esposito - September 2005 Forms are an essential piece of ASP. NET—the ASP. NET Web programming model itself wouldn't be possible without forms. The use of forms is not constrained in pure HTML, but it is subject to some restrictions in ASP. Security Briefs: Anmeldeinformationen und Delegierung Keith Brown - September 2005 Ich erhalte häufig Fragen zum Thema Sicherheit von Freunden und ehemaligen Schulungsteilnehmern und habe kürzlich einige Fragen zum Erstellen von sicheren, datengesteuerten Websites für interne Unternehmenssysteme bekommen. Cutting Edge: DHTML-Enabled ASP.NET Controls Dino Esposito - July 2005 In the past, I've covered some core aspects of the interaction between DHTML behaviors, the browser, and ASP. NET runtime (see Cutting Edge: Extend the ASP. NET DataGrid with Client-side Behaviors and Cutting Edge: Moving DataGrid Rows Up and Down). Web Q&A: Locking Pop-Up Blocker, Mixed Authentication, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - June 2005 Cutting Edge: Data Repeater Controls in ASP.NET Dino Esposito - June 2005 The ASP. NET Repeater is a basic container control that allows you to create custom lists from any data available to the page. It's a handy control, especially since most ASP. NET pages that display data need to repeat the same kinds of data over and over. Extreme ASP.NET: Tools of the Trade: Application Center Test Rob Howard - June 2005 When you sit down to write an ASP. NET application, how much time do you spend thinking about performance? It's unfortunate, but for most developers performance is an afterthought. Performance planning and design really need to be front and center. Wicked Code: Power Programming Tips for ASP.NET 2.0 Jeff Prosise - June 2005 In the February 2005 issue, I introduced five lesser-known features of ASP. NET 2. 0 that have the potential to make a significant impact on the security, performance, and robustness of your code (see Wicked Code: Five Undiscovered Features on ASP. Web Q&A: ASP.NET Performance, Notification, Keeping Sort Order, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - May 2005 Cutting Edge: Collections and Data Binding Dino Esposito - May 2005 When it's time to design the Data Access Layer (DAL) of your distributed Microsoft® . NET Framework-based app, one of the key decisions you'll make is how you'll pass data to and from methods of DAL classes. Extreme ASP.NET: A Little Bit of Control for Your Controls Rob Howard - May 2005 Having worked for so many years designing and developing ASP. NET while at Microsoft, it's exciting now to have a venue in which to talk about it. In this new column, Extreme ASP. NET, I'll discuss and demonstrate time-tested techniques and approaches to implementing high-performance, reliable, secure, and user-friendly Web applications with ASP. Security: Unify Windows Forms and ASP.NET Providers for Credentials Management Juval Lowy - April 2005 The .NET Framework 2.0 provides custom credentials management to ASP.NET apps out of the box. Using it, you can easily authenticate users without using Windows accounts. In this article the author presents a set of helper classes that let a Windows Forms application use the ASP.NET credentials management infrastructure as easily as if it were an ASP.NET application. Web Q&A: Get Authentication Type, Get Screen Resolution, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - April 2005 Test Run: Lightweight UI Test Automation for ASP.NET Web Apps James McCaffrey - April 2005 The release of ASP. NET revolutionized Web development and made it easy to create full-featured Web applications. Visual Studio® 2005 and ASP. NET 2. 0 will let you add even more functionality to your applications, but the more features a Web application has, the more important testing becomes. .NET Matters: ICustomTypeDescriptor, Part 1 Stephen Toub - April 2005 ASP.NET: Combine Web and Windows Services to Run Your ASP.NET Code at Scheduled Intervals Andrew Needleman - March 2005 If you want to schedule ASP.NET tasks, one solution is to use a Web service to provide an interface to your ASP.NET application and build a Windows service that calls to it at scheduled intervals. Thus the ASP.NET application doesn't have to own the scheduling logic. Here the author shows how to schedule your ASP.NET tasks using a Windows service to initiate the Web service call because Windows services can start themselves when Windows boots up. Cutting Edge: Moving DataGrid Rows Up and Down Dino Esposito - March 2005 Imagine opening your Inbox one morning and finding a message that reads "Dear Mr. DataGrid, I urgently need an ASP.NET DataGrid that lets my users move rows on the client. You're my last hope. Will you please help me?" Web Q&A: ActiveX Privileges, Making Icon Files, Sticky Sessions, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - February 2005 Inside MSDN: Designing URLs for MSDN2 Tim Ewald - February 2005 This is the first installment of a new column about MSDN® projects: what we're doing, how we're doing it, and what we're learning along the way. It will be written by MSDN staff with the goal of sharing the team's experiences in solving the real-world business problems MSDN faces. Cutting Edge: Adding a Context Menu to ASP.NET Controls Dino Esposito - February 2005 Although the context menu is a common element of most desktop applications, it is still fairly uncommon in Web application names because it doesn't map well to a server-based technology like ASP. NET. Wicked Code: Five Undiscovered Features on ASP.NET 2.0 Jeff Prosise - February 2005 By now, developers everywhere have had the opportunity to download the first beta of the Microsoft® . NET Framework 2. 0. ASP. NET developers who have played with it are no doubt salivating at all the cool new features. ASP.NET: 10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications Rob Howard - January 2005 Writing a Web application with ASP.NET is unbelievably easy. So many developers don't take the time to structure their applications for great performance. In this article, the author presents 10 tips for writing high-performance Web apps. The discussion is not limited to ASP.NET applications because they are just one subset of Web applications. Interop: Get Seamless .NET Exception Logging From COM Clients Without Modifying Your Code Matt Adamson - January 2005 Using .NET objects from ASP can help you gain experience with the .NET Framework before migrating to ASP.NET. Your ASP pages will make use of the new .NET components through COM-callable wrappers (CCW). But how will you handle exceptions? This article fills you in. Data Points: Data Source Controls in ASP.NET 2.0 John Papa - January 2005 ASP. NET 2. 0 introduces a series of new tools that improve data access including several data source and data bound controls. The new assortment of data source controls can eliminate a ton of repetitive code that was required in ASP. Cutting Edge: Custom Script Callbacks in ASP.NET Dino Esposito - January 2005 ASP. NET client callbacks represent a neat and elegant way to execute server-side code without posting and refreshing the current page. I discussed ASP. NET callbacks in the August and December 2004 installments of Cutting Edge, considering them from the perspective of rendered pages making background callbacks to the server, sending input data to the relevant page, and receiving a response. The ASP Column: Determining Browser Capabilities in ASP.NET George Shepherd - January 2005 Web applications are different from applications that run in homogenous environments because they send their output to all kinds of platforms and Web browsers. Some browsers support client-side scripting, some support XHTML, and still others have limited screen real estate. Web Q&A: Windowed and Windowless Elements, Cookie Characters, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - December 2004 Cutting Edge: Implications of Script Callbacks in ASP.NET Dino Esposito - December 2004 Script callbacks in ASP. NET 2. 0 is a feature whose time has come. Script callbacks can significantly speed up an application by limiting server postbacks. They also allow you to execute small portions of server-side code without having to manage the view state for reading or writing. Service Station: Run ASMX Without IIS Aaron Skonnard - December 2004 When the Microsoft® . NET Framework first shipped, it introduced a breakthrough Web services framework known as ASMX. The motivation behind the ASMX design was to simplify the process of developing Web services as much as possible so that even if you're not an XML expert, you can get a Web service up and running. Web Q&A: ADO.NET Joins, HTML to XHTML, ASP.NET ViewState, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - November 2004 Cutting Edge: The ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control Dino Esposito - November 2004 ASP.NET has a lot to offer to both the low-level programmer willing to control every little step of the code and the busiest of developers who needs to point-and-click his way through Web app development using just a few existing components. ASP.NET 2.0: Speed Up Your Site with the Improved View State in ASP.NET 2.0 Fritz Onion - October 2004 View state is a wonderful thing. It allows the ASP.NET developer to maintain state for server-side controls that are not form elements.Used judiciously, it can improve the user experience. But in the wrong hands, it can cause your pages to grind to a halt. The release of ASP.NET 2.0 will include a variety of improvements to view state that will make it easier to use and less likely to slow performance. Web Q&A: Refreshing Web Pages, Spyware, Group Policy, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - October 2004 Cutting Edge: Design Smarter Tracing for ASP.NET Pages Dino Esposito - September 2004 Tracing is important to the success of your ASP. NET applications. When tracing is enabled for an ASP. NET page, a large chunk of runtime information is appended to the page's output for your perusal. The ASP Column: What's in ASP.NET Config Files? George Shepherd - September 2004 Even though you've been using ASP. NET for a while, how much do you really know about ASP. NET configuration files? While you've probably touched the Web. config file from time to time, there are some nuances involved in configuring ASP. Reporting: Deliver User-Friendly Reports from Your Application with SQL Server Reporting Services John C. Hancock - August 2004 SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services--a server-based reporting platform built on the .NET Framework and integrated with SQL Server 2000--lets you easily add reporting from diverse data sources. Using Visual Studio and Reporting Services you can integrate reports from any data source that has an OLE DB, ODBC, or ADO.NET provider into your Web applications. This article explains how it's done. GridView: Move Over DataGrid, There's a New Grid in Town! Dino Esposito - August 2004 When incorporating the ASP.NET DataGrid control into your Web apps, common operations such as paging, sorting, editing, and deleting data require more effort than you might like to expend. But all that is about to change. The GridView control--the successor to the DataGrid-- extends the DataGrid's functionality it in a number of ways. First, it fully supports data source components and can automatically handle data operations, such as paging, sorting, and editing, as long as its bound data source object supports these capabilities. In addition, the GridView control offers some functional improvements over the DataGrid. Here DataGrid expert Dino Esposito introduces the GridView and explains all its long-awaited features. Web Q&A: Page Ready State, DataGrid Row Deletion, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - August 2004 Cutting Edge: Script Callbacks in ASP.NET Dino Esposito - August 2004 If you're involved in Web development you may have faced a problem that you couldn't find a good solution for—making client-to-server calls outside the current page. For example, you might want to validate the content of a textbox against data stored on the server asynchronously, without interrupting the continuity of the work or without forcing a full page refresh, which is particularly heavy for UI-rich pages. Test Run: Test Automation for ASP.NET Web Apps with SSL James McCaffrey - August 2004 If you're encrypting user data with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) over HTTP and you want to test your Web applications programmatically you'll find that the techniques are not widely known. In this month's column I'll show you how to set up a test SSL server and write test automation that verifies the functionality of a simple but representative Web application. Wicked Code: Foiling Session Hijacking Attempts Jeff Prosise - August 2004 Let's face it: every minute of every day, someone, somewhere, is patrolling the Web looking for sites to hack. ASP. NET developers must constantly be on their guard to ensure attempted hacks can't be successful. Cutting Edge: Implement Custom Cache Dependencies in ASP.NET 1.x Dino Esposito - July 2004 One of the most compelling improvements that ASP. NET brought to ASP programming was the Cache object. The Cache has some similarities to the Application object and is a container of global data (as opposed to session-specific data) that features a fair number of innovative characteristics. Advanced Basics: Data Binding Radio Buttons to a List Duncan Mackenzie - July 2004 The Big Story: An Overview of the New Services, Controls, and Features in ASP.NET 2.0 Jeff Prosise - June 2004 ASP.NET has become a bit of a gold standard for Web programming. The upcoming version, ASP.NET 2.0 will have even more of the kinds of features that have made it the popular framework it is today. This article takes a broad look at those features, including what's new in data source controls, themes and skins, the DataGrid and its new functionality, managing roles, and other administrative tasks. Security: Security Headaches? Take ASP.NET 2.0! Keith Brown - June 2004 ASP.NET 2.0 provides significant advantages with respect to security, especially for folks developing Web sites that use Forms authentication. By providing a user profile repository with support for roles, Forms authentication will move beyond the purview of the ASP.NET internals guru, and should become much more broadly accessible. This article introduces security in ASP.NET 2.0 to give you a head start with upcoming features. Portals: Unleash Your Site's Potential with Web Parts and Personalization in ASP.NET 2.0 Steven A. Smith - June 2004 ASP.NET 2.0 has addressed some of the most common problems developers face today with a suite of controls, components and IDE tools. One such issuer is maintaining preferences information about individual users of a Web application in a uniform manner. This article drills down into ASP.NET 2.0 to illustrate how it helps solve these problems far easier than is possible today, and demonstrates how these features can be combined to build powerful, personalized Websites in very little time. Data: More Load, Less Code with the Data Enhancements of ASP.NET 2.0 Dino Esposito - June 2004 A data source control is a server control that wraps some basic functions of a data source - be it a SQL Server database, an XML document, an Excel worksheet, or a sitemap description. Through the services of a similar component, data-bound controls can fetch data as well as insert new records or update and delete existing ones. Data source controls enable a consistent model across a variety of data sources and dramatically reduce the amount of code needed to implement a two-way data-binding scenario. This article provides an introduction to data source controls and other related data binding features. Master Pages: Master Your Site Design with Visual Inheritance and Page Templates Fritz Onion - June 2004 Master pages in ASP.NET 2.0 solve a problem many Web developers have been solving on their own with a variety of techniques for years - providing a single master template for an entire site. This article covers the details of master pages, discussing their usage and implementation and how they are a natural evolution of custom techniques developers are using today. Controls: Plan Your Migration to the Visual Studio 2005 Navigation Controls Dave Donaldson and Steven DeWalt - June 2004 Navigation is central to a well functioning Web application and it can be implemented numerous ways using today's technologies. This article highlights some of the key details of the new navigation controls that are part of the upcoming ASP.NET 2.0, and talks about how to design and implement one of these navigation controls today. This article contains a simple Web site that demonstrates the use of these navigation controls, pointing out some of the key items such as a breadcrumb control and things to watch for along the way. The article then describes how to implement a breadcrumb control today. Editor's Note: Fun with ASP.NET 2.0 - June 2004 As you could probably tell from the cover, we are bringing you early, in-depth coverage of ASP. NET 2. 0, the Web components of the next version of the Microsoft . NET Framework. ASP. NET 2. 0 was unveiled at the October 2003 Microsoft PDC, but until now has had limited availability. Cutting Edge: Dress Your Controls for Success with ASP.NET 1.1 Themes, Part 2 Dino Esposito - June 2004 Web Q&A: Request Timeouts, Byte Array Conversion, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - May 2004 Data Points: Saving Parent-child Data in a Multitiered App Using ADO.NET John Papa - May 2004 Cutting Edge: Dress Your Controls for Success with ASP.NET 1.1 Themes Dino Esposito - May 2004 Cutting Edge: Image Generation Service for ASP.NET 1.1 Dino Esposito - April 2004 Data Points: Exception-handling Techniques John Papa - March 2004 Cutting Edge: Personalization in ASP.NET 1.1 Dino Esposito - March 2004 The ASP Column: Using SOAP Extensions in ASP.NET George Shepherd - March 2004 Resource File: ASP.NET "Whidbey" - March 2004 Web Q&A: ANSI Chars in XML, E-commerce Architecture, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - February 2004 The ASP Column: Web Services: ATL Server Versus ASP.NET George Shepherd - February 2004 Wicked Code: Client-side Paging for DataGrids Jeff Prosise - February 2004 Cutting Edge: Extend the ASP.NET DataGrid with Client-side Behaviors Dino Esposito - January 2004 Web Q&A: Virtual Directories, Releasing DB Connections, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - December 2003 Design Patterns: Asynchronous Wait State Pattern in ASP.NET Lyn Robison - December 2003 The ASP Column: ATL Server Versus ASP.NET George Shepherd - November 2003 OLAP: Build an OLAP Reporting App in ASP.NET Using SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services and Office XP Jeffrey Hasan and Kenneth Tu - October 2003 Many organizations analyze their business-critical data using Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) technology. OLAP-based data mining provides a way to query multidimensional data sets and drill down into the data to find patterns. ASP.NET and the Microsoft Office Web Components (OWC) enable Web-based OLAP reporting. The OWC controls include PivotTable and Chart components that can be embedded in a Web page and scripted by programmers. In this article, the authors build a Web-based OLAP reporting app using ASP.NET, OWC, and SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services to illustrate the process. Blogging: Design Your Own Weblog Application from Scratch Using ASP.NET, JavaScript, and OLE DB Marco Bellinaso - October 2003 The ASP.NET advanced templated controls, such as the DataList and DataGrid, are perfect for many data representation situations. However, when you need the flexibility to render a variety of layouts, the Repeater control is what you need. In this article the author builds a full-featured blog application to illustrate the use of the Repeater and DataList controls that render nested data in a master-detail relationship. He then discusses how to override the default implementations of these controls by adding some client-side JavaScript code that makes the blog more responsive and enhances its usability. Cutting Edge: Nested Grids for Hierarchical Data Dino Esposito - October 2003 Web Q&A: InfoPath Back End, WSH Script Signing, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - September 2003 The ASP Column: The Internet Explorer Toolbar Control George Shepherd - September 2003 ASP.NET: Jump Start Your Web Site Development with the ASP.NET Starter Kits Paul Litwin - August 2003 If you're building an ASP.NET Web site you could probably use a good, solid code foundation to start with and build upon. Wouldn't it be nice to start with a complete site, make a few tweaks and customizations, and go live? The ASP.NET Starter Kits are packaged solutions that let you do just that. The five kits—Community, Reports, Commerce, Portal, and Time Tracker—supply full, reusable code that can be easily customized. In addition, there are a number of ISPs that support automatic deployment of ASP.NET Starter Kit Web sites, leaving you with little left to do when you have to get there fast. Here, the author introduces the ASP.NET Starter Kits and builds a community Web site with lots of advanced features such as ratings, user polls, upload quotas, change notifications, and themes. Web Services: Extend the ASP.NET WebMethod Framework with Business Rules Validation Aaron Skonnard and Dan Sullivan - August 2003 In an earlier article the authors showed how to build a custom WebMethods extension that provides XML Schema validation, a function that is lacking in ASP.NET. In the process they established a foundation for enforcing business rules during the deserialization of XML data. The technique, which is described in this article, uses declarative XPath assertions to test business rule compliance.In building this business rules validation engine, the authors integrate the validation descriptions into the WSDL file that is automatically generated by the WebMethod infrastructure. Finally, they demonstrate how to extend wsdl.exe, the tool that generates WebMethod proxy/server code from WSDL files, to make use of their extensions. Cutting Edge: Creating a Multi-table DataGrid in ASP.NET Dino Esposito - August 2003 If you bind a multi-table DataSet to a DataGrid, only the first table is recognized. Here Dino Esposito writes a custom solution the the multi-table problem. Vector Graphics: Build Flexible, Lightweight XML-Based Images for ASP.NET Using Scalable Vector Graphics Dennis Forbes - July 2003 Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a W3C graphics standard built around XML, is one of several vector graphics technologies that allows fast, lightweight drawings such as charts and graphs to be rendered on the fly in an appropriate viewer. There are many advantages to such vector graphics, including conservation of bandwidth and storage media, and flexibility. This article explains these benefits and shows you how to easily add powerful, dynamic, interactive visual elements to your Web applications. Web Services: Extend the ASP.NET WebMethod Framework by Adding XML Schema Validation Aaron Skonnard and Dan Sullivan - July 2003 WebMethods make the development of XML Web Services easier by encapsulating a good deal of functionality, but there is still a lot of underlying XML processing that you have to be responsible for. For example, WebMethods do not validate messages against the implied schema. Because they are not validated, the response that's returned can result in unintended consequences. To address this, the authors extend the WebMethod framework by adding XML Schema validation through a custom SoapExtension class. Web Q&A: Accessible Images, Image Format Converter, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - July 2003 Data Points: Managing Hierarchical Inserts in ASP.NET and ADO.NET John Papa - July 2003 ASP.NET Pipeline: Use Threads and Build Asynchronous Handlers in Your Server-Side Web Code Fritz Onion - June 2003 Fortunately for developers, threading in ASP.NET is a lot easier than it was in ASP. In this article, the author takes a look at threading in the ASP.NET HTTP pipeline, and explains how threads are managed efficiently without the involvement of the developer. The article considers how the common language runtime threadpool is used by ASP.NET to service requests, looks at the pooling mechanisms used for handlers, modules, and applications, and covers both IIS 5.0 and IIS 6.0 and how they differ in their approach to request processing and thread allocation. Finally, how and when to use asynchronous handlers is discussed for developers who still need to use threads in their own applications. Web Q&A: Font Sizing, Internationalization in JScript, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - June 2003 Font Sizing, Internationalization in JScript, and More. Cutting Edge: ASP.NET Controls Templates Dino Esposito - June 2003 It's easy to create a custom control in ASP.NET by deriving a new class from an already existing control. Creating a new ASP.NET control from scratch, on the other hand, is more challenging. When you need a Web server control and none of the existing ones meet your requirements, you can derive from one of the base classes - Control or WebControl. Try it out. ASP Column: Tree Controls with XSL George Shepherd - June 2003 Manipulating the TreeView server-side control is very much like programming any other ASP.NET server-side control. There are a number of properties, methods, and events that are available both programmatically and through the designer. Find out how to take advantage of it. Data Points: Techniques for Managing Rowset Paging John Papa - May 2003 There are a number of ways to handle paging in Web applications. This month I'll examine several paging techniques and weigh their pros and cons. John Papa discusses how to manage paging and caching issues through the lower tiers of an n-tiered architecture, including how to make SQL Server manage the paging on your app's behalf. Cutting Edge: Form-based Programming in ASP.NET Dino Esposito - May 2003 One of the most common snags that ASP developers encounter when they first approach ASP.NET is that managed Web applications must be written according to a single-form interface model. Find out how it works. ASP.NET: Nine Options for Managing Persistent User State in Your ASP.NET Application Steven Smith - April 2003 ASP.NET provides many different ways to persist data between user requests. You can use the Application object, cookies, hidden fields, the Session or Cache objects, and lots of other methods. Deciding when to use each of these can sometimes be difficult. This article will introduce the aforementioned techniques and present some guidelines on when to use them. Although many of these techniques existed in classic ASP, best practices for when to use them have changed with the introduction of the .NET Framework. To persist data in ASP.NET, you'll have to adjust what you learned previously about handling state in ASP. Cutting Edge: MyTracer Monitors and Traces ASP.NET Apps Dino Esposito - April 2003 The Microsoft® . NET Framework comes with a rich set of programming tools for debugging and tracing applications. I'm not talking about integrated debuggers; I'm referring to software components that you use in the development cycle. Wicked Code: Supporting Database Cache Dependencies in ASP.NET Jeff Prosise - April 2003 Developers love the ASP. NET application cache. One reason they love it is that ASP. NET lets them create dependencies between items placed in the cache and files in the file system. If a file targeted by a dependency changes, ASP. Resource File: ASP.NET Starter Kits - April 2003 It's a well-known axiom in the world of programming: build the samples and they will come. ASP. NET is well suited for building online storefronts and communities, but a lack of easy-to-use, standardized samples has sometimes slowed adoption. Site Skinning: Rich XML Classes Let Users Personalize Their Visual Experience on Your ASP.NET Site Harry Pierson - March 2003 One way that Web sites and applications become better able to meet the needs of customers is by allowing them to personalize their experience. For Web sites, this means displaying the content as the user wants to see it. For rich-client applications, this often means allowing the user to choose the user interface through a technique known as skinning, which is similar to themes in Windows XP. This article shows how you can apply skinning to Web sites, wrapping their functionality in a new user interface. The technique uses the rich XML classes in the .NET Framework and the built-in extensibility of ASP.NET. House of Web Services: Accessing Raw SOAP Messages in ASP.NET Web Services Tim Ewald - March 2003 Web Services exchange XML messages. Most of today's Web Service toolkits do their best to hide this fact from developers, by exposing a Web Service's behavior as method invocations against objects instead. Cutting Edge: The ASP.NET View State Dino Esposito - February 2003 In ASP. NET pages, the view state represents the state of the page when it was last processed on the server. It's used to build a call context and retain values across two successive requests for the same page. The ASP Column: Using the Internet Explorer WebControls George Shepherd - February 2003 During the lifespan of ASP, there have been many technologies developed for making browser-based user interface development easier. For example, during the early days of classic ASP development, keeping a browser-based UI consistent required many conditional statements into the ASP script. Web Q&A: Releasing Memory in JScript, Bulkload Problems, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - January 2003 Cutting Edge: ASP. NET Client-side Hosting with Cassini Dino Esposito - January 2003 In the September and October 2000 issues of MSDN® Magazine I discussed how to build a client-side environment for ASP applications; that is, a serverless environment to run ASP pages (see Cutting Edge: A Client-side Environment for ASP Pages and Cutting Edge: A Client-side Environment for ASP Pages—Part 2). XML Schemas: Take Advantage of Existing External XML Schemas with a Custom Import Framework in ASP.NET Scott Short - December 2002 Over the years, many industry-standard XML schemas and dialects have been developed. These industry-specific schemas embrace the original purpose of XML and are extremely valuable in promoting and supporting B2B interaction. Unfortunately, the ASP.NET Web Services runtime does not allow developers to directly reference external schemas from within their XML Web Services interface (the WSDL file). This article builds an external schema framework as an extension to the ASP.NET Web Services runtime to enable you to reference external schemas within your XML Web Service interface. Provisioning: Use Web Services Provisioning to Control Access, Usage, and Billing on Your Site Chandu Thota - December 2002 Building Web Services to provide enterprise-level solutions is only the first step. You need to take care of the infrastructure aspects of your solution as well, including provisioning, billing, security, and reporting. In this article, the author uses the .NET Framework and SQL Server 2000 to design a provisioning system that will take care of all these housekeeping tasks. He discusses the general requirements of a Web Service provisioning system, walks through the implementation, and then outlines various scenarios for putting this system to work. Web Q&A: Web Services Edited by Nancy Michell - December 2002 Wireless Web: Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit Lets Your Web Application Target Any Device Anywhere Paul Yao and David Durant - November 2002 If you've built Web sites using ASP.NET, you'll welcome the Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit (MMIT). MMIT extends the Visual Studio .NET IDE you already know by providing new controls for handheld devices letting you easily develop applications for wireless devices. This means you can write less code while adapting it to more devices. Not only does MMIT integrate with Visual Studio .NET, it extends ASP.NET as well. This article gives you the background you need to write, test, and deploy a site with MMIT and make all your code able to target specific devices for a custom fit. Web Q&A: Mobile Internet Toolkit versus Smart Device Extensions, SSL Glitch Again, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - November 2002 The ASP Column: Deploying an ASP.NET App Using Visual Studio .NET George Shepherd - November 2002 When Visual Studio® . NET was released back in February 2002, it included a number of new features that made it easier to create Web applications. The Microsoft® . NET Framework includes classes for intercepting and processing HTTP requests, and Visual Studio . Web Q&A: Allowing ASP in IIS 6.0, Sorting XML Elements, SSL and Navigation, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - October 2002 HTTP Pipelines: Securely Implement Request Processing, Filtering, and Content Redirection with HTTP Pipelines in ASP.NET Tim Ewald and Keith Brown - September 2002 ASP.NET is a flexible and extensible framework for server-side HTTP programming. While most people think of ASP.NET in terms of pages served, there is a lower-level infrastructure sitting beneath this page model. The underlying plumbing is based on a pipeline of app, module, and handler objects. Understanding how this pipeline works is key if you want to get the most out of ASP.NET as an HTTP server platform, while making your process more efficient, and keeping your server secure. This article introduces the architecture of the pipeline and shows how you can use it to add sophisticated functionality to an ASP.NET-based app. Tamper-Resistant Apps: Cryptographic Hash Algorithms Let You Detect Malicious Code in ASP.NET Jason Coombs - September 2002 Cryptographic hash algorithms produce fixed-length sequences based on input of arbitrary length. A given input always produces the same output, called a hash code. Using these algorithms, you can compute and validate hash codes to ensure that code running on your machine has not been tampered with or otherwise changed. ASP.NET provides a software mechanism for validating hash code fingerprints for every page requested by a client. In this article, the author shows how to use hash codes with ASP.NET applications to detect tampering and prevent malicious code from running when tampering is detected. XML Files: WS-Security, WebMethods, Generating ASP.NET Web Service Classes Aaron Skonnard - September 2002 ASP.NET: Intercept, Monitor, and Modify Web Requests with HTTP Filters in ISAPI and ASP.NET Panos Kougiouris - August 2002 There can be many reasons to reroute incoming Web requests. For instance, sometimes it's necessary to redirect a browser to a page based on user criteria without passing long lists of parameters in the URL. In the past, the only way to intercept such page requests and send them elsewhere was with ISAPI. Now, in ASP.NET, the IHttpModule interface provides notification of server requests, and lets you easily reroute them based on criteria other than browser type or version. Here the author demonstrates the use of IHttpModule for interception and explains the use of ISAPI filters for anyone who isn't yet using ASP.NET. Commerce with ASP.NET: Leverage the Authentication and Form Validation Features of ASP.NET to Bolster Your Commerce App Jason Lefebvre and Robert Lair - August 2002 If you're planning to build an e-commerce site, you'll be pleased to see that ASP.NET makes it easier than ever. Existing controls can be used and extended to add a great deal more functionality than you might expect. In this article, forms-based authentication is used to verify the identity of users and make certain areas of the site, such as the check-out page, inaccessible to unauthorized users. The power and flexibility of validation controls are demonstrated using the CustomValidator control to connect to a Web Service that verifies addresses. A shopping cart is then implemented in ASP.NET using the DataGrid, and finally, credit card authorization and billing are performed. Web Q&A: Passing XML to SQL Server, Document.write on Resize, Transformations on the Fly, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - August 2002 The XML Files: Dynamic Discovery in .NET, Codebehind, WebService Inheritance, and More Aaron Skonnard - August 2002 The ASP Column: Code-behind in ASPX Files George Shepherd - August 2002 Wicked Code: Code Your Way to ASP.NET Excellence Jeff Prosise - August 2002 ASP.NET: Develop Polished Web Form Controls the Easy Way with the .NET Framework David S. Platt - June 2002 Pre-built custom controls make application design easier and faster and allow you to maintain UI consistency. However, prepackaged controls can be big and slow, and are OS-specific. For those who don't want to use prepackaged controls, Visual Studio .NET provides controls for Web Forms similar to those found in Windows Forms, including label and textbox, and new additions such as the DataGrid, all of which you can customize. If you want to design your own controls, the .NET Framework provides inheritable classes that take care of all the nasty stuff you want to avoid, including page lifecycle, maintaining state across invocations, and browser detection. This article discusses these concepts, as well as eventing, rendering, and client-side scripting. Cutting Edge: Building a Data Navigator Control, Part III Dino Esposito - June 2002 ASP.NET Security: An Introductory Guide to Building and Deploying More Secure Sites with ASP.NET and IIS, Part 2 Jeff Prosise - May 2002 Forms authentication is one of the most compelling and useful new features of ASP.NET. It enables developers to declaratively specify which files on their site can be accessed and by whom, and allows identification of a login page. When an unauthenticated user attempts to retrieve a page protected by forms authentication, ASP.NET automatically redirects them to the login page and asks them to identify themselves. Included here is an overview of forms authentication and what you need to know to put it to work. Also included is hard-to-find information on the security of cookie authentication and on combining forms authentication with role-based URL authorizations. The ASP Column: HTTP Modules George Shepherd - May 2002 Data Points: Building a Tiered Web App Using the DataSet and the ASP DataGrid John Papa - May 2002 Cutting Edge: Building Editing Capabilities into the SqlDataNavigator ASP.NET Control Dino Esposito - May 2002 ASP.NET Security: An Introductory Guide to Building and Deploying More Secure Sites with ASP.NET and IIS Jeff Prosise - April 2002 ASP.NET and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) work together to make building secure Web sites a breeze. But to do it right, you have to know how the two interrelate and what options they provide for securing access to a Web site's resources. This article, the first in a two-part series, explains the ABCs of Web security as seen through the eyes of ASP.NET and includes a hands-on tutorial demonstrating Windows authentication and ACL authorizations. A range of security measures and authentication methods are discussed, including basic authentication, digest authentication, and role-based security. Virus Hunting: Track and Report Server Attacks Quickly and Easily with the .NET Networking Classes G. Andrew Duthie - April 2002 To help stop the spread of worms, viruses, and other hostile activity, it is important to track down and report the servers used in these attacks along with those used to send spam. Many Web administrators, however, don't take the time to track them because the manual process can be quite cumbersome. The Microsoft .NET Framework comes to the rescue with several networking classes, including the Dns class and the TcpClient class, that abstract away the complexity of performing DNS and WHOIS lookups. These classes make it easy to create a simple, straightforward ASP.NET-based utility for performing these lookups and automating this very important task. ASP.NET: Selectively Enable Form Validation When Using ASP.NET Web Controls James M. Venglarik II - April 2002 Sometimes the extra controls that come with Visual Studio .NET can be a bit inflexible or they just don't provide enough functionality or flexibility for all situations. The ASP.NET form validation controls, while powerful and easy to use, require that the entire page be valid before it's submitted back to the server. Through the use of the new object-oriented features of Visual Basic .NET, it is possible to extend their functionality to overcome this limitation. This article tells you how and helps you decide when it's a good idea to keep validation on the client and when you'd be better off disabling it. Cutting Edge: Building a DataNavigator Control Dino Esposito - April 2002 Cutting Edge: ASP.NET Data Shaping Dino Esposito - March 2002 ASP.NET: Create Snazzy Web Charts and Graphics On the Fly with the .NET Framework Scott Mitchell - February 2002 Knowledge workers can understand data more effectively when raw numbers are presented in a graphical format. This is especially true when displaying database information on a Web page, where a simple chart can make the difference between a dry presentation and a vivid data source. In the past, creating dynamic, data-based charts on the fly in ASP required purchasing a third-party, image-generating COM component. Now with ASP.NET, developers can access the .NET Framework's drawing classes directly with C# to create dynamic images and charts. The XML Files: Publishing and Discovering Web Services with DISCO and UDDI Aaron Skonnard - February 2002 Data Points: Using the ADO.NET DataSet for Multitiered Apps John Papa - January 2002 Cutting Edge: Understanding Templates in ASP.NET Dino Esposito - January 2002 Security Briefs: Managed Security Context in ASP.NET Keith Brown - January 2002 Generative Programming: Modern Techniques to Automate Repetitive Programming Tasks Chris Sells - December 2001 Even when developers have recurring computer-readable metadata to process and a clear idea of how code should be structured, they can still find themselves in need of a technique to automatically generate the code to avoid the drudge work of repeatedly writing and tweaking it. Generative programming is a technique that addresses this problem. Using generative programming techniques, you can solve software engineering problems in families, rather than individually, saving time and coding effort. This article describes these techniques, and builds a sample template-driven code generator. The article also lists existing utilities that have been built with generative programming techniques, as well as actual code generators. The ASP Column: DataList vs. DataGrid in ASP.NET George Shepherd - December 2001 Cutting Edge: Using Session and Application Objects in ASP.NET, Part 2 Dino Esposito - December 2001 Data Points: Abstracting ADO.NET John Papa - November 2001 Cutting Edge: Using Session and Application Objects in ASP.NET Dino Esposito - November 2001 Security Briefs: ASP.NET Security Issues Keith Brown - November 2001 Cutting Edge: Build a Variety of Custom Controls Based on the DataGrid Control Dino Esposito - October 2001 Bugslayer: Handling Assertions in ASP.NET Web Apps John Robbins - October 2001 ASP.NET: Collect Customer Order Information on an Internet Site Using XML and Web Forms Jeff Jorczak - September 2001 XML has quickly become the new data structure standard for everything from database access to cross-platform computing. XML is typically considered to be a vehicle for data exchange, dynamic data presentation, and data storage. However, the potential of XML far surpasses those limited applications. This article examines one new use: the gathering of data across a number of forms in an ASP.NET Beta 1 framework application. The sample program is a Web app used for ordering pizza. It uses ASP and C# to gather order information and then stores it in XML. To build the application, several concepts are explained, including data collection, order persistence using cookies, grouping input forms, and formatting the data for display. .NET Migration Case Study: Using ASP.NET to Build the beta.visualstudio.net Web Site Jay Schmelzer - September 2001 When the Web site used to collect customer feedback about the Visual Studio .NET beta needed an update, the Visual Studio team saw a good opportunity to implement, deploy, and showcase a real-world site using .NET technologies. This article covers the migration of the Web site, beta.visualstudio.net, from components written in Visual Basic 6.0 and ASP hosted on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 to ASP.NET and the .NET Framework. The choices of technologies to be incorporated, along with issues such as validation, security, and authentication, are all discussed. Both existing components and the new components written in JScript and ASP.NET that were used to migrate the site are also explained. The ASP Column: HTMLControls and WebControls in ASP.NET George Shepherd - September 2001 Cutting Edge: Reusability in ASP.NET, Part 2 Dino Esposito - September 2001 SQL and XML: Use XML to Invoke and Return Stored Procedures Over the Web Dave Grundgeiger, Anson Goldade, and Varon Fugman - August 2001 Front-end developers frequently want to add functionality to the presentation tier of an n-tier architecture, but such requests can require changes on all tiers just to get the data and present it. This process can be made easier and more flexible by using SQL Server stored procedures to automate the delivery of data in XML format from the database to the front-end components. In the component presented here, stored procedures are invoked by XML strings, XML is returned, converted using XSL, and presented to the client in HTML. The technique supports rapid changes yet doesn't sacrifice the n-tier approach. This approach can be used with either SQL Server 7.0 or SQL Server 2000. Web Q&A: Include Files, ActiveX DLLs, Target a Window in JScript, Cancel a Form Submission, and More Edited by Nancy Michell - August 2001 Cutting Edge: Reusability in ASP.NET: Code-behind Classes and Pagelets Dino Esposito - August 2001 The ASP Column: ASP.NET Connection Model and Writing Custom HTTP Handler/Response Objects George Shepherd - July 2001 Cutting Edge: Custom Web Data Reporting Dino Esposito - July 2001 .NET Mobile Web SDK: Build and Test Wireless Web Applications for Phones and PDAs Eric Griffin - June 2001 Cell phones, PDAs, and other wireless devices that connect with the Internet enjoy growing popularity, making wireless applications more important and especially useful to companies with remote employees. This article presents an overview of the .NET Mobile Web SDK for building wireless apps. The technologies and design decisions that influence the development of mobile Web applications are discussed along with specific strategies for setting up a development environment using an emulator and building a real-world mobile Web application. ASP.NET: Web Forms Let You Drag And Drop Your Way To Powerful Web Apps Jeff Prosise - May 2001 Web Forms have the potential to change Web programming by introducing a new programming model built around server-side controls-a model in which controls render their own UIs by generating HTML to return to clients and firing events that are handled by server-side scripts. Since all the action takes place on the Web server, virtually any browser can run a Web Forms app. And thanks to Visual Studio .NET, building a Web Forms app is a lot like using Visual Basic: just drop a control onto a form then write an event handler. This article describes the Web Forms programming model, how it fits with ASP.NET, and introduces DataGrid, TextBox, and other classes in the .NET Framework class library. Cutting Edge: Server-side ASP.NET Data Binding, Part 3: Interactive DataGrids Dino Esposito - May 2001 Cutting Edge: Server-side ASP.NET Data Binding, Part 2: Customizing the DataGrid Control Dino Esposito - April 2001 Cutting Edge: Server-side ASP.NET Data Binding Dino Esposito - March 2001 Visual Programmer: Advanced ASP.NET Server-side Controls, Part 2 George Shepherd - March 2001 Web Services: Building Reusable Web Components with SOAP and ASP.NET David S. Platt - February 2001 XML and HTTP are cross-platform technologies especially suited for building applications that can communicate with each other over the Internet, regardless of the platform they are running on. Web Services in the Microsoft .NET Framework make it easy to write components that communicate using HTTP GET, HTTP POST, and SOAP. An understanding of these concepts, along with knowledge of synchronous and asynchronous operations, security, state management, and the management of proxies by the .NET Framework is essential in building these applications. This article has been adapted from David Platt's upcoming book introducing the Microsoft .NET Platform to be published by Microsoft Press in Spring 2000. Cutting Edge: The Component Model in ASP.NET Dino Esposito - February 2001 Visual Programmer: Advanced ASP.NET Server-side Controls George Shepherd - January 2001 Web Q&A: Client-side Cookies, Unchecking Checkboxes, Microsoft.com Toolbar, WebBrowser Control, and More Robert Hess - December 2000 Beyond ASP: XML and XSL-based Solutions Simplify Your Data Presentation Layer Scott Howlett and Jeff Dunmall - November 2000 The combination of XML and XSL can provide a powerful alternative to ASP development. This article presents arguments for building even small-scale Internet applications on the XML model. An example written with traditional ASP programming is compared to the same example written with XML and XSL in order to show the benefits of this approach. The example is followed by nine good reasons to make the switch. These reasons include separation of presentation and data, reusability, extensibility, division of labor, enhanced testing, and legacy integration. The XML/XSL solutions described hold the promise of greater simplicity, flexibility, and durability than ASP solutions built the traditional way. Web Q&A: Onstop, Connecting to SQL with ASP, Hiding Images, Passing Values from a Control Robert Hess - November 2000 Basic Instincts: To Cache or not to Cache Ted Pattison - November 2000 Taming the Stateless Beast: Managing Session State Across Servers on a Web Farm John Papa - October 2000 Running a Web farm means managing session state across servers. Since session state can't be shared across a Web farm with Internet Information Services 5.0, a custom solution is required. One such solution using a tool called the session manager is described here. The article begins with a description of the SQL Server database used to store state information, the stored procedures used to update it, and the retrieval of session data. ASP code drives the session manager tool and the COM and COM+ components that run the stored procedures. Cutting Edge: Client-side Environment for ASP Pages-Part 2 Dino Esposito - October 2000 Visual Programmer: Server-side Controls in Active Server Pages+ George Shepherd - October 2000 Active Server Pages+: ASP+ Improves Web App Deployment, Scalability, Security, and Reliability Dave Sussman - September 2000 ASP has been rebuilt from the ground up. The result? Active Server Pages+. ASP+, with a host of new features, provides for easier to write, cleaner code that's simple to reuse and share. ASP+ boosts performance and scalability by offering access to complied languages; development is more intuitive thanks to Web Forms; and an object-oriented foundation facilitates reuse. Other important features include page events, Web Controls, and caching. Server Controls and improvements in data binding are also new with ASP+. Libraries for use with ASP+, and the Microsoft .NET Framework which allows custom business functions to be exposed over the Web, provide more new development opportunities. Cutting Edge: A Client-side Environment for ASP Pages Dino Esposito - September 2000 Develop a Web Service: Up and Running with the SOAP Toolkit for Visual Studio Rob Caron - August 2000 The new Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Toolkit for Visual Studio 6.0 provides the infrastructure for developers to build, expose, and consume Web services. With a few exceptions that are outlined in the toolkit, the SOAP Toolkit complies with the SOAP version 1.1 specification. It includes the Remote Object Proxy Engine (ROPE), a Service Description and Code Generation Wizard, and code that provides ASP and ISAPI reference implementations of SOAP listeners. This article describes the tools and the object model of the SOAP Toolkit, and then demonstrates ASP and ISAPI implementations of a functional Web service using this toolkit. Wicked Code: Implementing Handler Marshaling Under Windows 2000: DeviceClient Sample App Jeff Prosise - August 2000 Microsoft Office 2000: Create Dynamic Digital Dashboards Using Office, OLAP, and DHTML Todd Abel - July 2000 Digital Dashboards provide users with one single interface through which they can view information from a variety of sources that have been chosen specifically for that user. In addition, dashboards allow a user to view the information offline, adding portability to the mix. This article discusses options for building a dashboard based on the Microsoft Outlook folder home pages feature. It covers culling the data from disparate sources and storing it using the MSDE. It then discusses the creation of nugget definitions for structuring the data, and providing a synchronization mechanism to update to the data stores. Web Security: Part 2: Introducing the Web Application Manager, Client Authentication Options, and Process Isolation Keith Brown - July 2000 This article, the second of two parts, continues coverage of Web security for Windows. It introduces the Web Application Manager in IIS that allows Web processes to be isolated, decreasing the security risk associated with running in a logon session. The article then picks up where Part One left off-it discusses authentication methods such as basic authentication, digest authentication, integrated Windows authentication, and anonymous logons, and the benefits and drawbacks of each. Building a Custom Data Grid: Performing Ad Hoc Web Reporting with a VBScript 5.0 Class Object Randall Kindig - July 2000 A flexible, customizable grid for displaying data is a useful tool for ASP developers. It allows Web visitors to customize their view of your data. This article takes the data grid presented in "Ad Hoc Web Reporting with ADO 2.0" by John Papa and Charles Caison (MIND, December 1998) and adds handy features such as a finds feature that supports multiple finds and a mode for adding and editing records. This version also improves response time by allowing asynchronous record download and it componentizes the code so it can be used as a standalone VBScript class object that can be reused in other pages. Go Global: Designing Your ASP-based Web Site to Support Globalization Michael Kaplan - July 2000 If you have a Web site for your business, you already have an international presence. But how can you make sure users in any country can access your site effectively? The Trigeminal Software site at http://www.trigeminal.com has pages localized into up to 48 languages and allows users to see pages in the language of their choice. This article describes how the site was implemented and how issues such as whether the site should use frames and what character set to choose for multibyte languages were dealt with. Which database to use for storing dynamic content, whether to use static or dynamic pages, and how to implement localized solutions on both Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 is also discussed. Info on the Go: Wireless Internet Database Connectivity with ASP, XML, and SQL Server Srdjan Vujosevic and Robert Laberge - June 2000 Many handheld wireless devices such as cellular phones and PDAs already have the ability to access Web sites. So how do you build Web applications that tap this wireless audience? Although there are a number of limitations to wireless devices-such as screen size, navigation, and connection speed-you can use familiar Web development technologies to make your existing Web applications available to mobile users. This article outlines the services and equipment currently available to support wireless Web access. A sample wireless-accessible Web site that dynamically draws data from a SQL Server database back end in real time is created using tools such as ASP and XML. Cutting Edge: Creating and Optimizing Performance for XML Document/View Web Applications Dino Esposito - June 2000 B2B Frontiers in E-Commerce: Implement Affiliate Programs to Create New Partnerships and Generate Business Ted Coombs - May 2000 Like the Internet itself, e-commerce is evolving. Today's e-commerce companies are allowing their customers to plug into existing catalogs and ordering systems, creating new synergistic relationships. Some companies are even adding real-time chat with customer service personnel. This article gives you an overview of some of the new e-commerce concepts and implementations that are helping forge those new relationships with customers, vendors, and shipping companies. The importance of these relationships, as well as the specific technologies used to encourage communication and collaboration are discussed and illustrated with representative code samples. Virtual Source Code Control Systems: Promoting and Managing Projects using Visual SourceSafe Ken Ramirez - May 2000 Source code control systems like Microsoft Visual SourceSafe can simplify just about any development project, and make it easier for your code to move safely among individual programmers, development teams, and project stages. Visual SourceSafe provides an object model that you can use as the basis of your own customized source code control environment. To give you an idea of what is possible, we'll walk you through the elements of a browser-based source code control system built with Visual SourceSafe, ASP, and VBScript. This simple system lets members of your team build, label, and promote individual files or entire projects, and to reverse promotions. Web Q&A: Displaying Processing Messages, Accessing File Size and Bandwidth, and Debugging ASP Robert Hess - May 2000 Using Server-Side XSL for Early Rendering: Generating Frequently Accessed Data-Driven Web Pages in Advance Paul Enfield - April 2000 Dynamic data-driven pages have become the basis of many cutting-edge Web sites. Early render systems can provide better performance and maintainability for data-driven Web sites by generating frequently accessed pages that contain less-volatile information ahead of time. We'll show you an example of a server-side solution that uses Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) to merge data and layout information into HTML that is compatible with just about any modern Web browser. Using these techniques to render Web pages early can reduce the load on your database back end and increase performance for your users. New Directions in Redirection: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 Provides Two New Methods Ram Papatla - April 2000 Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 provides several enhancements to its support for ASP-based Web development, including two new server-side redirection methods: Server.Transfer and Server.Execute. Rather than redirecting requests with a round-trip to the client, these new methods can be used to transfer requests directly to an ASP file without ever leaving the server. While this functionality doesn't replace the Response.Redirect method used by IIS 4.0, you can take advantage of it to implement better application flow control mechanisms and to handle errors more efficiently. The different redirection options are described, along with some tips and tricks for implementing them on your own site. Web Q&A: Windows Script Host, Dropdown Menus, ASP-to-HTML, and More Robert Hess - April 2000 Serving the Web: Working with MTS, ASP, and Visual Basic Ken Spencer - April 2000 Build an Easy Maintenance Intranet Site: Using Office Docs, File System Object, and OLE Structured Storage Josef Finsel - March 2000 If you've ever needed to build an easy-to-maintain intranet site, here's a solution based on Microsoft Office documents. Many sites require constant updating of their HTML, but the use of Word documents can simplify the process. This article details the construction of a human resources site that exploits the File System Object (FSO), OLE Structured Storage, and ActiveX capabilities of Word documents. This allows the HR staff to copy their revised or newly created Word files to the site, dynamically generate a list of links to their files, and free IS from the constant recoding of HR updates into new HTML pages. The XML Files: XML-based Persistence Behaviors Fix Web Farm Headaches Aaron Skonnard - March 2000 Serving the Web: Compiling Components in Visual Basic for ASP Ken Spencer - March 2000