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October 2005September 2005- Free ASP.NET Learning Challenges for Visual Basic.NET Developers
InnerWorkings presents a collection of ASP.NET learning challenges for Visual Basic .NET developers. InnerWorkings offers migration resources for VB developers – FREE to MSDN users for a limited time! Also get 3 technical articles and an eBook on VB.NET. - Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites Using Web Standards
Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 has many features to help you design and build Web sites that are compliant with XHTML and accessibility standards. This article looks at how and why you should be building these standards-compliant sites.
August 2005- Common ASP.NET 2.0 Conversion Issues and Solutions
Solve some of the common conversion issues developers may face when upgrading from ASP.NET 1.x to 2.0. - Free ASP.NET Learning Challenges for Visual Basic.NET Developers.
InnerWorkings presents a collection of ASP.NET learning challenges for Visual Basic .NET developers. InnerWorkings offers migration resources for VB developers – FREE to MSDN users for a limited time! Also get 3 technical articles and an eBook on VB.NET. - ASP.NET 2.0 Security Practices at a Glance
This module presents a set of consolidated practices designed to address ASP.NET version 2.0 security issues. The practices are organized by various categories that represent those areas where mistakes are most often made. - Understanding and Extending the Site Navigation System in ASP.NET 2.0
The ASP.NET 2.0 site navigation system is built on a powerful and flexible architecture that has been designed to be extensible. This article examines the site provider architecture, and includes a sample provider that exposes the file system as a data source for site navigation, as an alternative to the standard Web.sitemap XML file. - Custom Site Map Providers in ASP.NET 2.0
Presents an overview of the provider model in Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, and presents a custom implementation of the SiteMapProvider, which is used by controls such as the Breadcrumb and Treeview when rendering a page. - AppDev Training
Free ASP.NET 2.0 using Visual Basic 2005 or Visual C# 2005 Training CD from a leading developer training company. Get ready for Visual Studio 2005 and become a more efficient, effective developer with our award-winning CD-ROM and DVD-ROM training for SQL Server, VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET and more. 3 hours of training - a US$95 value.
July 2005- Support Voice: Globalization issues in ASP and ASP.NET
This month, Sukesh Khare discusses globalization issues in ASP, how things have changed in ASP.NET 1x, and what's up with ASP.NET 2.0 on the globalization front. - Best Practices: Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for Your Web Applications
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 bot - 101 Code Samples for Visual Studio 2005
101 Samples, in both Visual Basic and C#, featuring many of the new features available with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. - How to create keys by using Visual Basic .NET for use in Forms authentication
Describes how to create keys to use for encryption, decryption, and validation of Forms authentication cookie data. You can use the keys that you create in this article for the validationKey and decryptionKey attributes of the machine.config. - Life Without Refresh
Looks at creating more dynamic user interfaces using JavaScript RPC to communicate with the server and update without requiring a browser refresh. - Support Voice: Full content protection using ASP.NET
This month, Adam Semel looks at how you can use the features of ASP.NET and IIS to protect all the content of your site, including graphics and static files.
June 2005May 2005- .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 (Beta) Compatibility and Application Testing
Learn how to test your application for compatibility on the .NET Framework 2.0 (beta), see issues that can impact compatibility, and get guidance on upgrading your application. - Get skmFAQs.NET: An ASP.NET FAQ Application
Scott Mitchell presents a case study of ASPFAQs.com, followed by an overview of skmFAQs.NET, an ASP.NET 1.x application for allowing a defined group of individuals to publish information online. - GridView Examples for ASP.NET 2.0
This article illustrates how to accomplish a number of common tasks with the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 GridView control. Each task is accompanied by a description of the new concepts covered, and the complete working examples are available for download with this article.
April 2005March 2005February 2005January 2005December 2004November 2004October 2004September 2004August 2004- ASP.NET 2.0: Speed Up Your Site with the Improved View State in ASP.NET 2.0 -- MSDN Magazine, October 2004
The release of ASP.NET 2.0 brings several improvements to the view state mechanism that will make it easier to use without hindering your site's performance. These improvements include a reduction in encoding size, the introduction of control state to separate behavioral state from content, and intelligent integration with data-bound controls. - Web Site Operations in ASP.NET 2.0
Use ASP.NET 2.0, Internet Information Services 6.0, and the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to make deploying, configuring, monitoring, and maintaining Web applications easier than ever before. - DotNetNuke! A Conversation with Shaun Walker and Jim Duffy
In episode #76 of DotNetRocks, Carl & Rory talk with Shaun Walker, creator of DotNetNuke, a free ASP.NET-based content management system with a huge install base and support community, and Jim Duffy, probably its biggest evangelist. - Build Your ASP.NET Pages on a Richer Bedrock
Inheritance can provide a means to add functionality to common Microsoft ASP.NET classes, such as the Page class. This gives you a common place to add functionality, and to make it available to all your pages. In this article, Dino adds page refresh handling, support for long processes, and focus control to the Page class. - Working with Client-Side Script
While ASP.NET performs most of its processing on the server, some actions are better served by client-side processing. Scott Mitchell shows how your ASP.NET pages and controls can add client-side code. - ASP.NET 2.0 Internals
While 100 percent backward compatible with ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0 brings a number of internal changes to ASP.NET. These include changes to the code model, compilation, page lifecycle, and more. This article outlines those changes. - ASP.NET Support Voice: Finding ASP.NET Session State Information
Session state can be a very useful tool for your ASP.NET applications, but there are many issues you need to be aware of depending on the session state mode you are using, whether or not you’re application is running in a Web farm, and so on. This column takes a look at ASP.NET session state management issues and how to find answers to them in the Knowledge Base (KB). - Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0
Master Pages enable you to create ASP.NET pages that follow a consistent theme and style. Stephen Walther shows you how to take advantage of this new feature. - Migrate from ASP.NET 1.x to ASP.NET 2.0
Explore features new to ASP.NET 2.0 from ASP.NET 1.x that offer a better set of options for Web development within the .NET Framework. - Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition is a lightweight, easy-to-use and easy-to-learn development tool focused exclusively on Web development. Inside, you will find everything you need to begin building exciting, dynamic Web applications with ASP.NET 2.0.
July 2004June 2004- Coding Strategies with the Microsoft ASP.NET Team
.jpg) Who best to ask for information on best practices working with ASP.NET? Perhaps two members of the ASP.NET team?
- Announcing the Release of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1
Visual Studio 2005 is the next release of Visual Studio, and includes many of the enhancements that you've told us you want. Be one of the first to learn about the new features in this beta release. - June 2004 MSDN Magazine: The ASP.NET 2.0 Issue
Read about the new features in ASP.NET 2.0, including Security, Portals, Data Enhancements, Master Pages and more in this special issue of MSDN Magazine. - Voice of Support: Why is my ASP.NET application restarting?
Application restarts are no fun, however, they do restart for valid reasons. See some of the reasons for application restarts, and how you can use them to diagnose problems in your Web applications. - Master ASP.NET View State
Confused about view state? Scott Mitchell explores the benefits of using view state in Microsoft ASP.NET applications, and how to interpret (and protect) the data stored in view state. - New Security Features in ASP.NET 2.0
ASP.NET 2.0 includes a number of new features to make securing your ASP.NET applications easier than before. See how you can use the new controls, tools, and APIs to control access to pages, and make it easier to store information about your users. - Improved Caching in ASP.NET 2.0
Stephen Walther looks at the new caching features included in ASP.NET 2.0, and how you can use them to improve the performance and scalability of your ASP.NET applications. - How To: Perform Capacity Planning for .NET Applications
This How To describes how to perform capacity planning for Microsoft® .NET applications using transaction cost analysis and predictive analysis. Transaction cost analysis measures the cost of a user operation on the available server resource. Predictive analysis applies a mathematical model to historical data to predict future resource utilization. - Download presentations from TechEd 2004
The ASP.NET presentations from TechEd 2004 (US) are now available for downloading. - Rearchitect Your Web Applications for Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0
While ASP.NET 2.0 is completely backwards compatible with ASP.NET 1.1, its new features may require you to revise parts of your Web applications. This article provides a detailed analysis of how changes in ASP.NET 2.0 will influence your porting decisions.
May 2004April 2004March 2004- Allow End Users to Upload Files with the File Field Control
Learn how to use the Microsoft ASP.NET File Field control to allow your end-users to upload one or more files to your server. - Enable Remote Debugging on Windows XP Service Pack 2
Windows XP Service Pack 2 introduces several security enhancements that increase security in Microsoft Windows. See the steps you need to take in order to enable remote debugging on a Windows XP Service Pack 2 machine. - Cutting Edge: Personalization in ASP.NET 1.1
Dino Esposito shows you how to build a personalization API in ASP.NET 1.1 similar to the one in ASP.NET 2.0. - Building DataBound Templated Custom ASP.NET Server Controls
Explore the art of developing templated databound controls: create the control's content based on external data, raise events during the control's construction, and bubble events that occur in the templates. - Build Data-Driven Web Applications with ASP.NET and MSDE 2000
Build dynamic, data-driven Web applications with Microsoft ASP.NET and MSDE 2000 using the Workload Governor to limit the number of concurrent operations that the database engine can perform. - Two New Migration Guides Available
Migrate your skills and your applications from ASP and PHP to ASP.NET with the help of these new Migration Guides, with whitepapers, utilities, and code samples. - Employ Single Sign-On Enterprise Security for Web Applications
Discover a technique for enabling single sign-on for multiple Web applications, and get a head start with sample code for creating a robust enterprise security system complete with single sign-on. - New Caching Features in ASP.NET "Whidbey"
Boost performance of the next generation of ASP.NET applications with these new caching features in ASP.NET "Whidbey": extensible cache dependencies, SQL cache invalidation, and post-cache substitution. - Fall in Love with ASP.NET Again (or for the Very First Time)
Download the ASP.NET Resource Kit for free and get essential tools, tutorials, samples, over $1000 worth of .NET controls and components, and more.
February 2004January 2004- Handling Client Files in ASP.NET Whidbey
Understand the technical issues involved when working with resource files with ASP.NET 1.x, and see how this will improve with ASP.NET Whidbey. - ASP.NET Webcast week
Learn about ASP.NET from the experts! These free events are live and interactive. Live code demos and attendees asking in depth engaging questions are all part of this live event. This is a great way to get educated, engaged, and enlightened on Microsoft developer tools. - One Site, Many Faces
Examine a technique for building and maintaining a site that presents a variety of output formats (XML, HTML, RSS) from a single source. - Turn Your Log Files into Searchable Data
Discover how to use the built-in regular expression functionality in the .NET Framework to convert delimited log files into XML for later processing. - ASP.NET Mobile Controls Update 4.0 Available
The Microsoft® .NET Framework version 1.1 includes ASP.NET Mobile Controls that enable developers to easily create mobile Web applications. Developers can write and maintain a single application that targets multiple devices. - ASP.NET and Struts: Web Application Architectures
Compare and contrast ASP.NET and the Apache Struts Framework for building dynamic Web applications. - Creating a Plug-In Framework
Make your .NET applications extensible by adding this simple plug-in mechanism. - Search Dynamically for Plug-Ins
Roy Osherove extends the framework to create extensible applications to allow you to dynamically search for plug-ins.
December 2003November 2003Headlines from November 2003 October 2003Headlines from October 2003 - Jumping into ASP.NET: Part 2
In this series, work through the design, implementation, and deployment of a typical Web application using ASP.NET and Visual Studio .NET. Part 2 discusses data storage layers with SQL Server 2000 and how you can use the Visual Studio .NET database tools to build a database for the DotNetKB application. - .NET Rocks! Interview with Scott Guthrie
Listen to a .NET Rocks! interview with Microsoft Product Unit Manager Scott Guthrie on the new features and code enhancements to ASP.NET 2.0 code name "ASP.NET Whidbey," Internet Information Server 6.0, and SQL Server 2005. - Get Test Infected with NUnit: Unit Test Your .NET Data Access Layer
Take advantage of NUnit—an open-source unit-testing tool—to prevent bugs in your ASP.NET applications. - The Creation of ASP.NET Whidbey
Read about the creation of ASP.NET Whidbey from Nikhil Kothari, one of the Microsoft Lead Developers on the ASP.NET team. - Visual Studio .NET Documentation Updates
Get the latest version of the Visual Studio .NET 2003 documentation. This updated documentation includes content improvements, bug fixes, and over 5,000 new code examples. - ASP.NET Developer Center Authors
The success of the ASP.NET Developer Center is due in a large part to the efforts of our authors. Here's where you can get more information on these fine folk. - See the Future of Microsoft Developer Tools
Follow the Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap for the latest details on the future of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. Learn about groundbreaking innovations in the programming languages, development environment, and .NET Framework class libraries. - Master Pages in ASP.NET Whidbey
Create consistent Web sites with ease using the new MasterPages feature in ASP.NET Whidbey. - ASP.NET Whidbey Articles
Find articles by MSDN andasp.netPRO magazine authors. Then, download hands-on labs to work through the new features in ASP.NET Whidbey. - Get Your Free Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit Now
This kit contains Microsoft .NET controls, worth $899 US, from ComponentOne and other leading .NET component vendors. Technical content includes white papers, videos, and code samples to help you get the most from Visual Basic .NET. Download for free or order a CD for a small fee. - Preview Web Development with Visual Studio Whidbey
Discover 24 features in Microsoft Visual Studio code-named "Whidbey" that will make the development of data-driven Web applications easier and faster. - Discover Upcoming Features in ASP.NET Whidbey
Learn about new membership features, security and data controls, and how to unify your site with MasterPages in ASP.NET Whidbey. - Common Datagrid Mistakes
Discover the 10 most frequent mistakes when working with the ASP.NET Datagrid, and how to fix them. - Optimize Session State Implementation in ASP.NET
Examine the underpinnings of the session state functions and facilities of ASP.NET 1.1. Then, discover ways to optimize session state management from within managed Web applications. - Adding Design Time Support to ASP.NET Controls
Discover how you can add design-time support to your ASP.NET server controls. Enable your users to work with your controls as easily as they work with the built-in ASP.NET controls. - Simulate include Files with an ASP.NET Server Control
Learn to create a server control to include common HTML across multiple pages. Because ASP.NET 1.1 has no built-in means of maintaining a common look and feel across multiple Web sites, simulating #include files enables you to modify HTML for multiple sites in one location.
September 2003Headlines from September 2003 August 2003Headlines from August 2003 - One Day in the Life of an ASP.NET Web Page
Explore the eventing model built around ASP.NET Web pages and the various stages that a Web page experiences on its way to HTML. Discover the events that characterize the lifecycle of page and how control and page authors can intervene to alter the standard behavior. - See the Future of Microsoft Developer Tools
Follow the Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap for the latest details on the future of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. Learn about groundbreaking innovations in the programming languages, development environment, and .NET Framework class libraries. - ASP.NET for Visual Basic 6.0 Developers
Explore how Visual Basic 6.0 developers can easily move their skills to the Web using ASP.NET. With ASP.NET and Visual Studio .NET, creating Web applications and stand-alone Windows desktop applications are becoming nearly identical tasks. - Create a Pageable, Sortable DataGrid
Learn how to build a pageable DataGrid and a sortable DataGrid, and then combine these two techniques to create a single pageable, sortable DataGrid. - Enhance ASP.NET Server Controls by Adding Client-Side Script
Examine two means by which server controls can emit client-side script.
July 2003Headlines from July 2003 June 2003Headlines from June 2003 - Welcome to the ASP.NET Developer Center!
The ASP.NET Developer Center is designed to give you ready access to the content and resources you need to successfully work with ASP.NET and related technologies. - Threats and Countermeasures: Improve Your Web Application Security
Bake security into your application lifecycle. You'll get guidance that is task-based and modular, with tons of implementation steps. - Subscribe to the ASP.NET Newsletter
Read the ASP.NET Newsletter for the latest news and information on ASP.NET, written by the Microsoft product team. - New ASP.NET Web Matrix 0.6 Is Now Available
Download the new ASP.NET Web Matrix v0.6, a lightweight, easy to use, community-oriented tool for developing data-driven Web sites and Web applications with ASP.NET. - View the IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET Demo
Learn how the Internet Information Services 6.0 and ASP.NET components available with Windows Server 2003 provide an integrated platform for developing Web-based business applications. - The Secret of the Starter Kits
Darren Niemke describes a recent encounter where the Reports Starter Kit solved a common customer request. - .NET Security Guide
This guide presents a practical, scenario-driven approach to designing and building secure ASP.NET applications for Windows 2000 and the Microsoft .NET Framework. - Building and Configuring More Secure Web Sites
Learn Microsoft’s Security Best Practices for the .NET Framework, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, IIS 5, and SQL Server 2000, from eWeek's OpenHack IV Competition.
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