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October 2005

• ASP.NET Spiced: AJAX
  Learn how AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) can be used to make your Microsoft ASP.NET applications more dynamic and responsive.
• Register today to attend ISV Touchdown Briefings
  Learn on how the powerful ASP.NET 2.0 framework will help you create dynamic, high performance Web applications with less hassle than ever before.
• Introduction to the Media Share Library Starter Kit
  Learn how to build your own starter kit using Microsoft ASP.NET and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition.
• Configuring ASP.NET 2.0 Application Services to use SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005
  Describes how to setup the new ASP.NET Membership, Role Management, and Personalization services to use a regular SQL Server instead of SQL Express.
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Web Project System: What Is It and Why Did We Do It?
  This article describes the new Web project system used by Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, describes the motivation for the changes, and gives some background on the features it provides.
• Introduction to the Time Tracker Starter Kit
  Learn about the new Time Tracker Starter Kit, which is a downloadable project type for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition.
• Building Re-Usable ASP.NET User Control and Page Libraries with Visual Studio 2005
  Scott Guthrie shows how you can build Web projects that encapsulate common libraries of .ascx Web user controls or .aspx pages with Visual Studio 2005 that can then be easily re-used across multiple other Web projects.

September 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 2005

• DHTML-Enabled ASP.NET Controls

  Dino looks at creating ASP.NET controls that add client-side behavior   

• How to debug error messages and hang conditions in the Visual Studio .NET

  Adam Semel shows you how to use the Visual Studio debugger to troubleshoot hang conditions or unclear error messages that you may receive in the Visual Studio .NET Integrated Development Environment (IDE).   

• Introduction to the Club Web Site Starter Kit

  Learn about the new Club Web Site Starter Kit, which is an available project type in Visual Studio 2005.   

• Extending the Club Web Site Starter Kit

  Learn how to extend the new Club Web Site Starter Kit, which is an available, installable project type for Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition.   

• patterns & practices: Threat Modeling Web Applications

  Model your threats. Identify vulnerabilities. Design for security. Adopt threat modeling to design secure Web applications   

May 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 2005

• Writing Generic Data Access Code in ASP.NET 2.0 and ADO.NET 2.0

  Use a step-by-step approach to learn how to use different ASP.NET 2.0 and ADO.NET 2.0 tools and techniques for writing generic data access code.   

• Extend the Personal Web Site Starter Kit

  Use Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition to personalize and extend the Personal Web Site Starter Kit.   

March 2005

• Support Voice: Recap of debugging permissions in ASP.NET

  "Why won't the debugger start?" Setting permissions for local and remote debugging can sometimes be tricky with ASP.NET. In this new Support Voice column, Mike Clay shows you what's needed.   

• MSDN TV: Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET

  Learn some of the differences when moving from VBScript-based ASP pages to Visual Basic.NET-based pages running inside of ASP.NET. Stefan Schackow demonstrates dealing with changes in variable declaration syntax, subroutine usage and inline code, data access with ADO, and VB-style error handling.   

• Security: Unify Windows Forms and ASP.NET Providers for Credentials Management

  Unify Windows Forms and ASP.NET Providers for Credentials Management   

• MSDN TV: Working with Medium Trust in ASP.NET

  ASP.NET 1.1 introduced a new security feature enabling developers and admins to create and configure a security "sandbox" for ASP.NET code. Stefan Schackow discusses security restrictions with trust levels and demos the medium trust policy config file and runtime effect of trust levels on page code.   

• Scott Guthrie Talking ASP.NET and IIS 7.0 , part 2

  Watch Scott Guthrie, Product Unit Manager for the Web platform and tools team discuss plans for ASP.NET and the next version of IIS (Internet Information Services) 7.0. (And learn just how much managed code is in ASP.NET)   

• On the Way to Mastering ASP.NET: Introducing Custom Entity Classes

  There are situations for which untyped DataSets may not be the best solution for data manipulation. This guide is explores an alternative to DataSets: custom entities and collections.   

February 2005

• Migrating AnandTech from Macromedia ColdFusion to ASP.NET

  AnandTech migrated to Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and ASP.NET, finding their application faster than before. See what they learned during the process.   

• Creating Dynamic Data Entry User Interfaces

  Scott Mitchell demonstrates one method of dynamically generating ASP.NET data entry forms based on the data you're editing.   

• Learn ASP.NET 2.0 with Jeff Prosise

  See how to maximize your business potential with Microsoft solutions. This series of presentations by Jeff Prosise of Wintellect introduces you to many of the new features of ASP.NET 2.0.   

• ASP.NET: Combine Web and Windows Services to Run Your ASP.NET Code at Scheduled Intervals

  Combine Web and Windows Services to Run Your ASP.NET Code at Scheduled Intervals   

• Debugging ASP.NET with the CLR Debugger

  In this month's Support Voice column, Jim Cheshire looks at how you can debug ASP.NET applications using the freely available CLR debugger, part of the .NET Framework SDK.   

• ASP.NET How-to articles

  Just need a quick answer to your "How do I?" question? Check out our directory of How To items from the Knowledge Base.   

• Fend Off Web Attacks with the Built-in Features of ASP.NET

  Dino summarizes the most common types of Web attacks and describes how Web developers can use built-in features of ASP.NET to increase security.   

January 2005

• Analyze and Tune Speech Applications Deployed on MSS 2004

  The Speech Application Log Analysis Tools in Microsoft Speech Server 2004 allow developers and business managers to perform sophisticated analysis and troubleshooting of application performance.   

• Browsing the Web Safely as an Administrator, Part 2

  Michael Howard builds upon his previous article by showing you how to use SAFER with local or enterprise policy to reduce potential threats when running as an admin.   

• MSDN TV: The Code Room – Pilot Episode

  In this new reality show, three MSDN event attendees are taken to an inner-city warehouse, equipped with a partially-charged laptop, and tasked with designing and developing an e-commerce Web site.   

• E Pluriblog Unum: Merging RSS Feeds

  Kent Sharkey describes one technique for merging multiple RSS feeds into a new RSS feed, which enables merging common data into a single source to make it easier for users to find the information they want.   

• The ASP Column: Determining Browser Capabilities in ASP.NET

  Determining Browser Capabilities in ASP.NET   

• Report-enable Your Web Apps with Microsoft Reporting Services

  Teo Lachev shows you how to leverage Microsoft Reporting Services to generate reports on the server side of your ASP.NET application.   

• Use Role Based Security with the Web Services Enhancements 2.0

  See how WSE 2.0 integrates X.509-based WS-Security authentication with role-based security features in the Microsoft .NET Framework, and how to use WS-Policy in WSE 2.0 to greatly simplify tasks.   

• Tools for Building Custom Data-bound Controls Evolve in ASP.NET 2.0

  Get an early look at the changes in the ASP.NET 2.0 data-binding model that affect custom controls.   

• Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 Special Edition – Upgrade today and save!

  Web applications created using the Special Edition are incredibly fast and highly scalable. The Special Edition now includes Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition, and in-depth developer training, all at a much more affordable price. Upgrade today for US $549.   

December 2004

• Cutting Edge: Custom Script Callbacks in ASP.NET

  ASP.NET client callbacks represent a neat and elegant way to execute server-side code without posting and refreshing the current page. See how any custom control can be endowed with script callback capabilities to use background round-trips to collect server data and update the user interface.   

• ASP.NET: 10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications -- MSDN Magazine, January 2005

  ASP.NET is so easy, many developers don't take the time to structure their applications for great performance. Discover 10 tips for writing high-performance Web apps.   

• Working with the ASP.NET 2.0 ObjectDataSource Control

  Learn how to use the ObjectDataSource control to build a proper multi-tier Web application with the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework.   

• Essential ASP.NET: Explore configuration to webforms

  Join Fritz Onion as he guides you through a complete course on Microsoft ASP.NET in 15 easy-to-attend webcasts. Fritz will cover the core features of ASP.NET and discuss some of the key differences between it and other Web development technologies, including ASP.   

• Support Voice: Troubleshooting ASP.NET using Filemon

  Part 2 of their Troubleshooting ASP.NET Support column. This aritcle covers the use of Filemon (from SysInternals) to help you troubleshoot file locking problems with ASP.NET.   

• Nothin' but ASP.NET: Use Cache, Save Cash

  Learn how to use database cache invalidation in ASP.NET 1.1 with a similar technique as the one used by ASP.NET 2.0.   

November 2004

• Let's Get Personal: Personalizing Web Sites in ASP.NET 2.0

  Learn how to personalize your data-driven Web applications by using profiles, Web parts, theming, and skins. Also see how to implement XML-driven forms using the new XMLDataSource object.   

October 2004

• Important Information on ASP.NET Vulnerability

  Microsoft has posted guidance that protects against a reported vulnerability in all versions of ASP.NET that could allow a Web site visitor to view secured content by using specially crafted requests to a Web server.   

• Working with the ASP.NET 2.0 ObjectDataSource Control

  Learn how to use the ObjectDataSource control to build a proper multi-tier Web application with the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework.   

• Dynamic Creation of Validation Controls

  Use an XML configuration file to control the dynamic creation of ASP.NET validation controls that are automatically applied to user input controls.   

• ASP.NET 2.0 Localization Features - A Fresh Approach to Localizing Web Applications

  Creating global Web applications with Microsoft ASP.NET is becoming more and more important. ASP.NET 2.0 makes it even easier to provide support for multiple cultures and locales through improved runtime and tool support.   

• .NET Rocks! - Fritz Onion on ASP.NET

  Noted author and developer Fritz Onion is our guest this week on .NET Rocks! After lavishing praise on F.O. for what seemed an eternity, Carl and Rory get down to the HTTP Pipeline, HttpContext, User Controls, Web Controls, and what Fritz likes (and dislikes) about the current beta of ASP.NET 2.0.   

• A DetailsView Control for ASP.NET 1.x

  Dino Esposito builds an ASP.NET 1.x custom control that mimics the behavior and the programming interface of the ASP.NET 2.0 DetailsView control.   

• Using HTTP Modules and Handlers to Create Pluggable ASP.NET Components

  Scott Mitchell and Atif Aziz show how you can use HTTP modules and handlers to add error logging to your ASP.NET applications.   

• Support Voice: Common security issues when you access remote resources

  It is very common for developers to remotely access file shares or other resources from ASP.NET applications. This article explores some of the techniques for accessing these resources without comprimising security.   

September 2004

• An ASP.NET Framework for Human Interactive Proofs

  Stephen Toub introduces concepts involved in Human Interactive Proofs and creates a framework for their incorporation into your ASP.NET sites.   

• Use reflection to Bind Business Objects to ASP.NET Form Controls

  Use reflection to bind your Business objects to ASP.NET Web Forms with a single line of code, resulting in decreased complexity and fewer errors.   

• Get the limited edition Microsoft Speech Server Starter Kit.

  For only $995.00 (USD) you can get started building speech-enabled Web applications with Microsoft® Speech Server and Intel Dialogic hardware. Order your Starter Kit from participating Intel distributors today.   

• ASP.NET Support Voice: Using Publisher Policy Assemblies

  The .NET Framework provides you with ways that you can control assembly binding. One powerful way of harnessing that control is the publisher policy assembly.   

• Introducing the ASP.NET 2.0 TreeView and Menu Controls

  Discover how you can use the TreeView and Menu controls in ASP.NET 2.0 to represent hierarchical data in your applications. Use both controls with various data sources and customize the appearance of both controls.   

• Learn How to Deploy Applications to Microsoft Speech Server

  Learn from the first-hand experience of application developers who built Speech-enabled sample applications using the Microsoft Speech Application SDK.   

• Coding4Fun: Rotating Is Fun

  Duncan Mackenzie describes the creation of a simple "content rotator" in ASP.NET.   

• Identity and Access Management: Developing Identity-Aware ASP.NET Applications

  This paper provides guidelines for developing applications that use the directory and security services of the Microsoft® Windows® platform. Specifically, the paper discusses identity considerations and guidelines when developing Microsoft ASP.NET multitier extranet and intranet Web applications. You can develop these applications using Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET and Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 directory and security services.   

• MSDN TV: New Visual Studio Tools Features for Web Developers

  In this episode, Brian Goldfarb shows some of the new tools enhancements that are coming with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and Visual Studio 2005. See enhancements to both design editor and code editor like validation, Intellisense improvements, source code preservation, and more.   

August 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 2004

• Coding4Fun: Add a Quick Poll to Your Web Site

  Duncan Mackenzie describes his process to build a "Quick Poll" using Visual Basic and ASP.NET.   

• Transform XML to RTF and Display in Word Using ASP.NET or Visual Basic .NET

  Create useful documents quickly (and easily) from a wide variety of data sources when you convert XML data to RTF. Frank Rice shows how in this new article.   

• Changes to the Validation Controls in ASP.NET 2.0

  While ASP.NET 1.x supported validating user input, ASP.NET 2.0 increases the flexibility of the validation through the addition of validation groups. This article looks at this new feature, and shows you how you can use it in a number of common scenarios.   

• Introducing the ASP.NET 2.0 GridView and DetailsView Controls

  Display and edit database data and single database records with GridView and DetailsView, two new controls in the ASP.NET 2.0 framework.   

• Test Run: Test Automation for ASP.NET Web Apps with SSL

  Testing your Web apps with automation hasn't been easy, but James McCaffrey can help!   

• Cutting Edge: Script Callbacks in ASP.NET

  Solve your problems with scripting behind the scenes   

• Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET 2.0

  Tour the advantages of developing with ASP.NET 2.0, and gives guidance to developers in migrating from ASP to ASP.NET 2.0.   

• Data Access in ASP.NET 2.0

  ASP.NET reduces the amount of code required to perform common data access tasks by adding a number of data-enabled controls. This article shows these new controls, and how you can use them in your applications.   

• Personalize Better with ASP.NET 2.0

  Create personalized Web sites faster, and build entirely new classes of applications, with the new personalization features in ASP.NET 2.0.   

June 2004

• Coding Strategies with the Microsoft ASP.NET Team

  
  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 2004

• Manage Detail Pages Across Multiple Platforms with Centralized Data Caching

  Use the ASP.NET Cache API in a tiered application design to get the most out of your applications.   

• Serving Dynamic Content with HTTP Handlers

  Learn how to provide templated URL driven content with HTTP Handlers, using three real-world scenarios presented in this article.   

• Code Generation in the .NET Framework Using XML Schema

  Learn the difference between typed datasets and classes generated by the xsd.exe tool. Extend this process by reusing the infrastructure classes supporting it, staying compatible with the XmlSerializer.   

• Use the Provider Design Pattern in Your ASP.NET 1.1 Apps Today

  Implement the Provider Design Pattern today in your ASP.NET 1.1 applications and dynamically replace or extend the behavior of published APIs without needing source access to the API itself.   

• The Quest for ASP.NET Scalability

  Look at architectural and design decisions that affect ASP.NET application scalability.   

• Building Custom Providers for ASP.NET 2.0 Membership

  Build a custom provider based on Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode for the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Service.   

• Improving ASP.NET Performance

  Read this chapter out of the new PAG book, "Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability". Find common issues, design guidelines, and coding techniques on threading guidelines, specific techniques to reduce page size, scalable solutions for managing state, data caching guidelines and much more.   

• How To: Use ACT to Test Web Services Performance

  Microsoft® Application Center Test (ACT) does not directly support the testing of Web services, so you must manually modify your test scripts to make the tool work correctly. This How To walks you through the creation of an ACT test script file that you can use to load test a Web service.   

• VB at the Movies: Web Development

  Web Development: part of the VB at the Movies series. See Visual Studio .NET and ASP.NET in action building dynamic Web sites.   

• Microsoft Speech Technologies SDK Version 1.0

  The Microsoft Speech Application SDK (SASDK) is a set of development tools supporting the Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) specification that will make it easier and faster for developers to incorporate speech functionality into Web applications.   

April 2004

• Developing ASP.NET Server Controls and Components

  
  If you need to create ASP.NET controls, this is *the* book you will need. Co-written by one of the lead developers of ASP.NET.   

• Create Dynamic Web Pages with FrontPage 2003 and ASP.NET

  Discover how to use the powerful, professional design, authoring, data, and publishing tools in FrontPage 2003 to create high-end dynamic Web sites with ASP.NET.   

• MSDN TV: Data with ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2005

  Scott Guthrie provides an introduction to some of the new data features with ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2005 (formerly referred to as "Whidbey").   

• Deferred ASP.NET Session State Management

  Conserve your environment by waiting to load your Session State data into memory until needed.   

• Examine User Controls with Scott Mitchell

  Learn how user controls are implemented and rendered by ASP.NET, and get answers to the most frequently asked user control questions.   

• A Beginner's Guide to Regular Expressions in ASP.NET

  Validate user input, search for patterns within strings, or reformat text in powerful ways by using regular expressions.   

March 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 2004

• Add Wizard Functionality to Your Web Applications

  Explore a solution for creating Wizards using ASP.NET that step your users through a process. Discover how this feature will become even easier with ASP.NET Whidbey.   

• Use JavaScript with ASP.NET

  Leverage JavaScript in your ASP.NET applications to provide client-side functionality, such as button roll-overs, control focus, and alerts.   

• Build Templated Custom ASP.NET Server Controls

  Learn how to create ASP.NET Server controls that enable users to customize their look and feel.   

• Mixing Forms and Windows Security in ASP.NET

  Learn how to combine Forms and Windows Authentication to enable ASP.NET security for both internal and external users.   

• Rich Custom Error Handling with ASP.NET

  Ease debugging and improve customer satisfaction by adding your own custom error handling to your ASP.NET Web applications.   

• Build a Custom Registration and Login Control

  Why wait for ASP.NET Whidbey to add Registration and Authentication controls? Build that functionality into ASP.NET 1.1 with this article.   

• The Forgotten Controls – HTML Server Controls

  Discover the ASP.NET HTML server controls. Learn how they can help you tune the HTML generated for your Web pages, and allow you to alter parts of the page normally not reachable.   

• Data Access & Storage Developer Center

  Check out the new Data Access & Storage Developer Center.   

January 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 2003

• 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.   

• Using Visual SourceSafe for ASP.NET—Start to Finish

  Find out how to best manage your ASP.NET projects with Visual SourceSafe.   

• Validating ASP.NET Server Controls

  Learn how to use all the available ASP.NET validation server controls that are at your disposal. This paper introduces these new controls and discusses tips and tricks on working with them in practical scenarios.   

• What's new in ASP.NET Whidbey

  Discover the new features coming soon in the next release of ASP.NET, codenamed ASP.NET Whidbey   

• Creating Server Controls

  See how to create a simple server control in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET to display items from any database.   

• Adding Cross-Site Scripting Protection to ASP.NET 1.0

  Protect against cross-site scripting attacks. Add this feature from ASP.NET 1.1 to your ASP.NET 1.0 Web sites.   

• Tips for Successful Data Access

  Discover techniques to speed up data access retrieval in your .NET applications.   

• Build an ASP.NET Menu Server Control

  In this first of two parts, create an ASP.NET Server Control that generates interactive menus in an ASP.NET Web page.   

• MSDN TV: Process and Thread Identity in ASP.NET

  Erik Olson discusses the configuration options in ASP.NET that control process and thread identity. He presents a brief summary of how the various impersonation modes work locally and with remote network resources.   

• Examine the skmMenu Server Control

  Drill into the creation and use of the skmMenu ASP.NET Server Control.   

• Evolve Custom Controls in ASP.NET

  Discover techniques to migrate ASP.NET functionality into a rich, reusable control.   

November 2003

Headlines from November 2003

• New to .NET? Get Started With Free Online Training & Labs

  Microsoft's new .NET Developer Jump Start sessions teach selected core skills for .NET Web and Windows application development, using seminars and hands-on labs hosted by MSDN Online.   

• Design ASP.NET Pages and Controls that Take Advantage of the DHTML Object Model

  Improve response time of your ASP.NET pages by including DHTML code in the page.   

• ASP.NET Whidbey

  Find articles by MSDN and asp.netPRO magazine authors. Then, download hands-on labs to work through the new features in ASP.NET "Whidbey."   

• Watch Your Server Processes

  Learn how to create an HTTP Handler to help you monitor the health of your ASP.NET applications.   

• Design and Implementation Guidelines for Web Clients

  Use design patterns and Microsoft .NET Framework programming idioms to the greatest advantage in the presentation layer of your distributed applications.   

• Common Datagrid Mistakes

  Discover the 10 most frequent mistakes when working with the ASP.NET Datagrid, and how to fix them.   

October 2003

Headlines 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 2003

Headlines from September 2003

• Designing and Developing a Line-of-Business Web Application in ASP.NET

  See three demonstrations of Time Tracker, a sample line-of-business application created to show best practices in application architecture and design. Gain insight into key development techniques in .NET, intranet security design, and implementation.   

• Jumping Into ASP.NET, Part One

  In this series, you'll learn best practices for Web application design and programming. First step: defining the application and planning ahead.   

• Explore Application Architecture for ASP.NET in Order to Support Future Globalization

  Learn how to architect and build Web applications that enable you to add support for multiple languages and cultures.   

• New Server Controls Provided by the ASP.NET Web Matrix

  Quickly and easily build your ASP.NET Web applications with ASP.NET Web Matrix. Learn about this free development tool and new server controls that you can use in Web Matrix or Visual Studio .NET.   

• Add Design Time Support to ASP.NET Controls

  Discover how you can add design-time support to your ASP.NET Server Controls. This allows your users to work with your controls as easily as they work with the built-in ASP.NET controls.   

• Developing on Microsoft and J2EE/Linux Platforms: A Comparison

  Will Linux take the lead over Microsoft? Download the Giga Research report for cost and benefit comparison between organizations developing and deploying applications on Microsoft versus J2EE/Linux.   

• Creating a Cache Configuration Object for ASP.NET

  Learn how the CacheConfig helper class can improve caching policies across an ASP.NET application, improve the reuse of cached data, and reduce the lines of code you need to implement caching.   

• Creating Custom Columns for the ASP.NET Datagrid

  See how you can make the ASP.NET Datagrid control even more powerful. Learn to add custom columns to display your data more appropriately for your users.   

• The ASP.NET Page Object Model

  Explore the eventing model built around ASP.NET Web pages and the various stages that a Web page experiences on its way to HTML.   

August 2003

Headlines 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 2003

Headlines from July 2003

• Focus on Architecture: Web Presentation Patterns

  This set of patterns starts with well known web presentation patterns including Model-View-Controller and then shows implementations using ASP.NET. For more architectural content visit the .NET Architecture Center .   

• Walkthrough: Tracking Server Progress from an ASP.NET Client Application

  Visually track the progress of an ASP.NET code-behind server application from a client Web application.   

• Explore Hierarchical Data Binding in ASP.NET

  Learn techniques for performing data binding to hierarchical data sources.   

• JSP to ASP.NET Migration Portal

  Here's a comprehensive guide to migrating your existing JSP Web sites to ASP.NET using JLCA 2.0. See the steps involved, and learn the best practices for your migration.   

• The ASP.NET HTTP Runtime

  Dino Esposito looks at the constituent components of the HTTP runtime, the logic that drives the processing of individual requests directed to ASP.NET applications, and shows all the steps by which a HTTP request becomes plain HTML text.   

• Decide When to Use the DataGrid, DataList or Repeater

  There are three controls typically used when working with data in ASP.NET applications. Examine the pros and cons of each to decide what's best for your application.   

• Learn About ASP.NET Server Control Licensing

  Examine the licensing requirements for ASP.NET server controls and see how to create an ASP.NET control licensing implementation that can be used with versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the .NET Framework. The implementation can be extended to create custom server-side licensing schemes.   

• Using the TreeView IE Web Control

  Learn how to use the TreeView Web Control to create rich hierarchical user interfaces for your Web Applications.   

• Create an RSS News Aggregator with ASP.NET

  Examine how the XML support in the .NET Framework makes creating an RSS News Aggregator simple.   

• New Patterns & Practices: User Interface Process Application Block

  With this simple yet extensible framework, pull the control flow and state management logic out of the user interface layer into a UI process layer.   

• Best Practices Using ASP.NET Caching

  ASP.NET provides three forms of caching in Web Applications. Examine best practices and techniques for using these three methods to improve your performance.   

• Jumping Into ASP.NET, Part One

  In this series, you'll learn best practices for Web application design and programming. First step: defining the application and planning ahead.   

June 2003

Headlines 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.