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	170 Articles found and displayed in this view. Simplest Thing Possible: Introduction to TypeScript Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 May/Jun Release Date: Saturday, April 06, 2013 Quick ID: 1305051 TypeScript is a new Microsoft offering that seeks to change the way we write JavaScript. As the name implies, TypeScript associates a strongly typed layer in conjunction with JavaScript. TypeScript also associates an object-oriented layer with JavaScript. Creating a Robust Web Application with PHP and CodeIgniter Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 May/Jun Release Date: Saturday, April 06, 2013 Quick ID: 1305061 Some time ago, a client called me and asked me to tell him when someone had logged in and out of the network. It was a reasonable request but it presented a challenge for which I had to develop a quick solution. Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and javaScript UNLEASHED - Chapter 1 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, April 01, 2013 Quick ID: 1304033 In Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed, author Stephen Walther covers everything you need to build, test, and distribute outstanding Windows 8 software with JavaScript and HTML5. Walther clearly demonstrates the unique advantages Windows 8 offers to web developers. He guides you through using Microsoft’s new WinJS library to develop apps for Microsoft’s brand-new version of Windows--you learn how to use JavaScript templates, controls, and data binding. You’ll find in-depth coverage of everything from displaying data with a ListView control to supporting SkyDrive cloud storage, creating games to using IndexedDB and HTML5 forms. Fluent C#: Chapter 1 - Application Development Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, March 25, 2013 Quick ID: 1301023 Fluent C# By Rebecca M. Riordan, Published Oct 12, 2011 by Sams. Copyright 2012. Sample Chapter is provided courtesy of Sams Publishing. Simplest Thing Possible: Introduction to Knockout.js Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Mar/Apr Release Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 Quick ID: 1304061 It seems you cannot turn in one direction or another and not hear about a new JavaScript library or CSS framework that promises to be the silver bullet-to be THE thing that will make web-based application development a breeze. This article will introduce you to Knockout.js (http://knockoutjs.com/). Knockout.js is an open source library (under the MIT License) that is pure JavaScript that works with any existing web framework and every mainstream browser. Further, Knockout.js is fully documented with a complete set of online tutorials. What does Knockout.js do? It simplifies the task of building data-aware web UIs through the application of the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) pattern. Regardless of the business problem your web applications are built to solve, all web applications, and just about every other application for that matter, shares the following characteristics: Chapter 7 from Murach’s JavaScript and jQuery. Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, February 04, 2013 Quick ID: 1301013 Now that you have the JavaScript skills that you need for using jQuery, you’re ready to learn jQuery. So, in chapter 7, you’ll learn a working subset of jQuery that will get you off to a fast start. And in chapter 8, you’ll learn how to use the jQuery effects and animations that can bring a web page to life. Log Users in to Your Web Application with OpenID or OAuth Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Jan/Feb Release Date: Monday, December 10, 2012 Quick ID: 1301081 Users already have many usernames and passwords for different popular online services, and with OpenID and OAuth, you can leverage those. Why burden users with yet another set of credentials for your site if they can use their Google or Facebook account, or any other OpenID or OAuth account? In this article, I will show you how to do this with ASP.NET 4.5, but more importantly help you understand what’s going on behind the scenes. HTML5 History: Clean URLs for Deep-linking Ajax Applications Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Jan/Feb Release Date: Monday, December 10, 2012 Quick ID: 1301091 The value of URLs for a website cannot be understated. The scheme of URLs can help give clues to visitors and machines alike regarding the structure of your website and well-crafted locations help facilitate search engine indexing, bookmarking and sharing. The role of URLs in Ajax applications becomes even more important as content is often changing on the page while the URL remains untouched. The Simplest Thing Possible: A File Directory-based NuGet Feed Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Jan/Feb Release Date: Monday, December 10, 2012 Quick ID: 1301101 Increasingly, we rely on NuGet Packages in our .NET Development efforts. When you need to add a library to your project, whether it is Entity Framework, AutoMapper, jQuery, etc., NuGet makes that task a simple one. What happens when you are on a plane, train, an automobile - in some circumstance where you are not online and consequently, not connected to your NuGet package source? This is where a local NuGet package source comes in handy. Locally, we can easily stand up an IIS-based NuGet package source. While useful, that is not the simplest thing we can do. Fortunately, the NuGet authors had the foresight and wisdom to allow us to create file directory-based NuGet package sources. This brief article will take you through the steps to create your own local NuGet package source. Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML - Introduction to UI Design Patterns for Windows 8 Apps Chapter Excerpt Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Sunday, November 11, 2012 Quick ID: 1211053 In this excerpt from Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML, learn about the various parts of MVVM and how to apply it with a special focus on testing. By Jeremy Likness, Published Oct 25, 2012 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of theMicrosoft Windows Development Series series. Copyright 2013 ISBN-10: 0-321-82216-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-321-82216-1. To Purchase go to: http://www.informit.com/store/building-windows-8-apps-with-c-sharp-and-xaml-9780321822161?w_ptgrevartcl=%20Introduction%20to%20UI%20Design%20Patterns%20for%20Windows%208%20Apps%20_1960915. C++ Primer, 5th Edition - Chapter 1 - Getting Started Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 Quick ID: 1211043 This excerpt is from the book, ‘C++ Primer, 5th Edition”, authored by Stanley B. Lippman, Josée LaJoie, Barbara E. Moo, Published Aug 6, 2012 by Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 0-321-71411-3, Copyright 2013. For more info, please visit the publisher site http://www.informit.com/store/c-plus-plus-primer-9780321714114. ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Websites Succinctly - Chapter 3 - Designing Mobile-Friendly Websites Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Sunday, October 28, 2012 Quick ID: 1209033 ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Websites Succinctly by Lyle Luppes is a concise guide to creating a website aimed at mobile but also serving desktops-from just one code base. Luppes extols the virtues of .NET’s ASP.NET MVC framework, offering it up as the perfect solution for cross-platform website development. The following excerpt from his book discusses design. This book is part the Succinctly series and can be downloaded for free from Syncfusion’s Technology Portal. What’s New in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Nov/Dec Release Date: Thursday, October 04, 2012 Quick ID: 1211041 Microsoft has added an abundance of new features and functionality to ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012. This article provides an overview of many of those new features and enhancements ranging from improved editors for HTML, CSS and JavaScript all the way through to publishing your work to the web. The Simplest Thing Possible: Windows Azure Web Site Deployment with TFS 2012 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Nov/Dec Release Date: Thursday, October 04, 2012 Quick ID: 1211081 In the last 12 months, Windows Azure has undergone a dramatic transformation. It’s gone from “What is it?” to “We need it!” in very short order. Much, if not all of this, can be attributed to the stellar leadership of Scott Guthrie and his team. It should come as no surprise the ASP.Net team, which includes all the goodies from ASP.Net MVC, Web API and SignalR to name a few, were and continue to be under ScottGu’s leadership. It’s another reminder of what the power of people (really smart people to boot), working together in furtherance of a common vision can accomplish. Today, Windows Azure is a manifestation of that accomplishment. Windows Azure is actually many things. It can host TFS, Windows (obviously), SQL Server as well as other non-Windows technologies like PHP, Ubuntu, Java, Node.js to name a few. Windows Azure also has the capacity to host “Big Data” and to be a full-fledged media server. One of the biggest catch phrases today is “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS). Though its virtual machine features, Windows Azure delivers this capability as well. For the full details on what Windows Azure can deliver, navigate to windowsazure.com. Murach’s HTML5 and CSS3. Chapter 15 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 Quick ID: 1209013 This chapter is from the book Murach’s HTML5 and CSS3by Zak Ruvalcaba and Anne Boehm18 chapters, 636 pages, 264 figuresISBN 978-1-890774-66-0. For more information visit https://www.murach.com/books/htm5/index.htm . Designing Silverlight Business Applications: Chapter 7 of Best Practices for Using Silverlight Effectively in the Enterprise Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, September 17, 2012 Quick ID: 1209023 By Jeremy Likness , Published Mar 29, 2012 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of theMicrosoft Windows Development Series series. Copyright 2012, ISBN-10: 0-321-81041-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-321-81041-0 Chapter 7: Designing Silverlight Business Applications: the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Building Web APIs with Node.js and MongoDB Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Sep/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 16, 2012 Quick ID: 1210041 Node.js by itself is a blank canvas. However, the Express.js web framework for Node.js provides programmers with a clear, concise development platform to build high performance Web APIs. Real-Time Web Apps Made Easy with WebSockets in .NET 4.5 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Sep/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 16, 2012 Quick ID: 1210051 In the world of browser-based development, interoperability is king. Unfortunately, interoperability can be at the expense of performance. Building ASP.NET Single Page Applications in HTML 5 with Upshot Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Sep/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 16, 2012 Quick ID: 1210061 A Single Page Application (SPA) is a different way of building HTML 5 applications from traditional Web page development. Instead of spreading the functionality of your Web applications across a collection of separate Web pages with hyperlinks between them, you instead define a single root page that the user lands on and never leaves as long as they are working with your application. You define client-side logic that switches out the data and chunks of content within that page to allow the user to navigate from logical screen to logical screen without ever leaving the page. This means that the user never sees a full page refresh while using your application. They see portions of the screen change based on their interaction, and those changes can be done in a more fluid way with transitions to enhance the user experience. You can also support using the application while offline by storing data client-side, based on some of the newer APIs of HTML 5. Taking this approach makes an SPA feel very much like a desktop application to the end user. The Simplest Thing Possible: Creating Push Notifications with SignalR Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Sep/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 16, 2012 Quick ID: 1210071 The ASP.NET team has created lots of new goodies. One of the most useful, SignalR, is an async library for .NET to help build real-time, multi-user interactive web applications. Imagine this scenario: you have a web application and would like a simple way to push notifications to any number of clients. Perhaps you want to inform the client when something happens. You could write a polling mechanism, but that is inefficient. An event-based approach is a much more efficient approach. Event-based systems that can publish and subscribe to events are typically loosely coupled systems that easily adapt to change and are highly scalable. The SignalR library makes it very easy to build loosely coupled scalable applications that can send real-time updates to specified clients. In this article, I will take you through the some basic steps to get up and running with SignalR. ASP.NET MVC 4 Highlights - Part 2: Bundling and Minification Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Jul/Aug Release Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 Quick ID: 1208071 In the first installment of this series, I explored a few of the new features in ASP.NET MVC 4, including the new default project templates, mobile templates, and display modes. Since that article, ASP.NET MVC 4 has been released to beta. For brevity’s sake, when I refer to MVC the design pattern, I’m referring to the ASP.NET implementation of the pattern. In this installment, I’m going to focus on one of MVC’s most useful features: integrated JavaScript and CSS bundling and minification. Business Web Page Layout Ideas for HTML5 Applications Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012 Quick ID: 1206061 In most business applications, you create a common look and feel, data entry pages, and a method for navigating through the application. As you begin to work with HTML5, you will want to build these features and take advantage of the features of HTML5 that can make your applications stand out from the crowd. In this article, you will be presented with several common business Web pages that give you an idea of the power of HTML5 and CSS 3. An Introduction to ASP.NET Web API Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012 Quick ID: 1206081 Microsoft recently released the ASP.NET MVC 4.0 beta and along with it, the brand spanking new ASP.NET Web API. Web API is an exciting new addition to the ASP.NET stack that provides a new, well-designed HTTP framework for creating REST and AJAX APIs (API is Microsoft’s new jargon for a service, in case you’re wondering). Although Web API currently ships and installs with ASP.NET MVC 4, you can use Web API functionality in any ASP.NET project, including WebForms, WebPages and MVC or none of the above. You can also self-host Web API in your own applications. ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed: Chapter 1 - An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, March 12, 2012 Quick ID: 1203013 This excerpt is from the book, ‘ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed, authored by Stephen Walther, Published Jul 14, 2009 by Sams. Part of the Unleashed series. ISBN 0-672-32998-0, Copyright 2010. For more info, please visit the publisher site http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0672329980. ASP.NET MVC 4 Highlights, Part 1 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Mar/Apr Release Date: Saturday, February 18, 2012 Quick ID: 1203091 Microsoft released ASP.NET MCV 3 just over a year ago. If history is a good indicator of timing, we can expect the next ASP.NET MVC release in the not too distant future. As of this writing’s date, Microsoft has not announced a firm release date. You don’t, however, have to wait to get your hands on the bits. You can download the developer preview here: http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc4. ASP.NET MVC 4 also runs inside of Visual Studio 10 and the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. MVC 4 can be hosted alongside MVC 3. You can find all the details concerning installation in the aforementioned link. As with all developer preview/pre-release software, features sets are subject to change, which may range from minor tweaks to major changes. Please keep that in mind as you evaluate any developer preview as to how you can incorporate it into your development efforts. Seven New Features in Silverlight 5 (Plus a 3D Bonus) Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Jan/Feb Release Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Quick ID: 1201031 The next version of Silverlight should be available by the time you read this article. The Silverlight team has followed a fast pace during the last few years, producing four versions of their framework in only thirty months. Each new version of Silverlight has been full of surprises and useful features. Version 5 is no different. Let’s look as some of the best features available in SL 5 Introducing jQuery Mobile Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Jan/Feb Release Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Quick ID: 1201041 The newest member of the jQuery family of projects is jQuery Mobile. A good way to describe what jQuery Mobile is to think of it as jQuery UI for mobile devices. If you have wanted to write mobile-optimized UIs over your applications, jQuery Mobile is a library that you will want to add to your bag of tricks. Like jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile is themeable. This article makes two assumptions. First, you are familiar with jQuery and second, you are familiar with jQuery UI. If you are not familiar with jQuery or jQuery UI, I suggest that you take a moment to familiarize yourself with those libraries. Fortunately, the websites for these projects (jquery.com and jQueryUI.com respectively) are replete with comprehensive documentation and code examples. jQuery Mobile is no different. The official website for jQuery Mobile is jquerymobile.com. As of this writing, jQuery Mobile 1.0 Beta 3 has been released. Its beta status notwithstanding, jQuery Mobile is ready for primetime and has been incorporated into many applications already. In this article, I will cover what you need to get started with some simple examples that illustrate how to create one page and multi-page apps. In addition, I’ll touch upon the theming capabilities in jQuery Mobile. ASP.NET 4 Unleashed - Chapter 1 -Overview of the ASP.NET Framework Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Thursday, October 06, 2011 Quick ID: 1110123 This excerpt is from the book, ‘ASP.NET 4 Unleashed, authored by Stephen Walther, Kevin Hoffman, Nate Dudek, Published Oct 14, 2010 by Sams. Part of the Unleashed series. ISBN 0672335522, Copyright 2011. For more info, please visit the publisher site http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn= 0672331128. Chapter 1 - Three Years of Silverlight Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, September 05, 2011 Quick ID: 1107093 This excerpt is from the book, ‘Silverlight 4 Unleashed’ By Laurent Bugnion, Published Oct 21, 2010 by Sams. Part of the Unleashed series. ISBN 13: 978-0-672-33336-1, Copyright 2011. For more info please visit the publisher site: http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0672333368 Session State in SharePoint 2010 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Sep/Oct Release Date: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 Quick ID: 1109021 The title of this article is a misnomer, but I still picked this title because it is indeed the problem we are trying to solve. The problem is session state, especially in-process session state, is just evil. It makes your application less predictable, less reliable, less scalable, and locks you out of possibilities such as Windows Azure. Beginning PHP Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Jul/Aug Release Date: Sunday, July 03, 2011 Quick ID: 1108041 So, you’re considering using PHP for a project, but aren’t sure where to start, or maybe even why you should use it? Perhaps you’ve heard all the horror stories about PHP being spaghetti code, bad for your health or that it’ll run slow as molasses. Don’t believe them! It’s not as bad as you think, and with the right approach, can be quite fun (and productive). Honest! Don’t believe me? Read on... Entity Framework 4.1: Code First Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Jul/Aug Release Date: Sunday, July 03, 2011 Quick ID: 1108051 The Entity Framework team at Microsoft has been making several improvements since the launch of v4 with Visual Studio. The biggest of these is the capability to use a Code First or Code Only development model. Previously, if you wanted to work with the Entity Framework, you had to use either a Database First or Model First development model. Introduction to HTML5 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Jul/Aug Release Date: Sunday, July 03, 2011 Quick ID: 1108071 As the bedrock to the web, HTML has evolved in many ways from its birth in 1991. While the markup language has had its share of ups and downs, the advent of what’s being called “HTML5” is a welcome and much anticipated addition of new semantic capabilities and valuable APIs. Six Silverlight ListBox Tips Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Jul/Aug Release Date: Sunday, July 03, 2011 Quick ID: 1108081 The Silverlight ListBox is much more than you may think. When most people think of a ListBox they typically think of just a simple control that displays rows of text. However, the Silverlight ListBox is one of the most flexible controls you will find. I tend to think of the ListBox as similar to the ASP.NET Repeater control as it too is very flexible. In this article, I will show you six different ways to display data in a Silverlight ListBox. Introduction to Ruby on Rails Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 10, 2011 Quick ID: 1108061 Ruby on Rails is an open source web development stack with a large developer base. Last year, Ruby on Rails reached a critical milestone with the release of Ruby on Rails version 3.0. For more information about Ruby on Rails I recommend checking out www.rubyonrails.org. You can find installation information, documentation and links to other resources on this site. This article will demonstrate how to get up and running with Ruby on Rails with help from the RailsInstaller. Discovering MooTools Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011 Quick ID: 1105051 MooTools is an object-oriented JavaScript framework aimed at experienced web developers who need to write effective code quickly, effectively, and in a cross-browser manner. Dino walks you through how to use it and why you just might want to. Creating Wijmo: The New JavaScript Library in Town Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011 Quick ID: 1105071 Wijmo contains over 30 widgets built on jQuery and jQuery UI that can help you build a better Web. The Razor View Engine Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 11, 2011 Quick ID: 1103041 The new view engine for ASP.NET MVC and WebMatrix combines simplicity and functionality to facilitate clean view development. In this article, I’ll dive into the Razor View Engine, the new default view engine for the ASP.NET MVC framework and WebMatrix products. Razor’s main goal is to simplify view development and to improve developer productivity while providing a clean view infrastructure. Leveraging Razor Templates Outside of ASP.NET: They’re Not Just for HTML Anymore! Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 11, 2011 Quick ID: 1103081 The Razor syntax is much more than just a clean way to write ASP.NET MVC Views and WebMatrix web pages. In fact, with a working knowledge of the Razor API, you can leverage Razor templates in any application. The Razor API exposes a powerful library for parsing, compiling, and executing templates created using the Razor syntax. Microsoft and jQuery Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 Quick ID: 100233 Highlights of ASP.NET MVC 3 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 22, 2010 Quick ID: 1011061 As developers are just getting used to ASP.NET MVC 2 and Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has already planned and released a preview of the next version of ASP.NET. What started out as “just another option” for ASP.NET developers has become the programming style of choice for developers writing .NET applications for the web. Beyond the Boundaries of Visual Studio 2010 with WebUI Test Studio Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 22, 2010 Quick ID: 1011081 Advertorial ASP.NET MVC & the ADO.NET Entity Framework Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 20, 2010 Quick ID: 1009071 Both ASP.NET MVC and the ADO.NET Entity Framework are both very popular topics right now in the developer community.Having spoken at various user group meeting and code camps it is very obvious to me what topics a lot of developers are interested in. I see that sessions about ASP.NET MVC or the Entity Framework are always packed with developers eager for more information. The focus of this article is the Entity Framework, but in the context of an ASP.NET MVC application. As such, I am assuming at least basic understanding of ASP.NET MVC but little-to-none with Entity Framework. Hour 1 - Getting Started with ASP.NET 4 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, July 19, 2010 Quick ID: 100163 Scott Mitchell introduces you to ASP.NET, shows you how to install Visual Web Developer, along with the .NET Framework and SQL Server 2008, and helps you create your first ASP.NET page. What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0, Part Two: WebForms and Visual Studio Enhancements Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Monday, June 21, 2010 Quick ID: 100143 What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0, Part One: Core Engine Features Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Monday, May 17, 2010 Quick ID: 100133 Microsoft released the .NET Runtime 4.0 and with it comes a brand spanking new version of ASP.NET - version 4.0 - which provides an incremental set of improvements to an already powerful platform. .NET 4.0 is a full release of the .NET Framework, unlike version 3.5, which was merely a set of library updates on top of the .NET Framework version 2.0. Because of this full framework revision, there has been a welcome bit of consolidation of assemblies and configuration settings. The full runtime version change to 4.0 also means that you have to explicitly pick version 4.0 of the runtime when you create a new Application Pool in IIS, unlike .NET 3.5, which actually requires version 2.0 of the runtime. New Features in WCF 4 that Will Instantly Make You More Productive Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 Quick ID: 1006061 WCF 4 is all about productivity. Exploring the Bing API Using WCF Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 Quick ID: 1006091 The TV commercials took me and many others by surprise. A stream-of-conscienceless-style ad that had our brains struggling to catch up with the next topic that the next person blurted out. Funny enough, the bouncing from topic to topic by the actors in the commercial seem to be a familiar metaphor to anyone that has traversed search results at one time or another. And at the end, a familiar logo appears: Microsoft, followed by a not-so-familiar one: Bing. Reflections on a Decade of Visual Studio Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 Quick ID: 1006081 Reviewing where we’ve been over the last decade in the world of .NET and Visual StudioAt the brink of a new release of .NET and Visual Studio, you may wonder where all of this new technology is taking us. Not only do we now have a number of new flavors of Visual Studio targeted to release on April 12, 2010, we also get to enjoy a plethora of new technologies such as Silverlight 4 and RIA Services, as well as new hardware platforms to consider, such as Windows Phone 7 Series. Understanding the future usually begins with a reflection upon the past so let’s take a look at how Visual Studio has changed in the last decade. ASP.NET MVC and the Spark View Engine Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 12, 2010 Quick ID: 1003051 Getting friendly with HTML in ASP.NET MVC just got a whole lot easier.In this article, I’ll delve into the Spark View Engine, an alternate view engine for the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Spark’s main goal is to allow HTML to dominate the flow of view development while allowing code to fit in seamlessly. Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 12, 2010 Quick ID: 1003111 Hot on the heels of the groundbreaking release of ASP.NET MVC CTP 1 in December of 2007, an open source project called MvcContrib came to life.MvcContrib has enjoyed tens of thousands of downloads since it started in December of 2007. In this article, I will explain MvcContrib; it’s major components, how to use it, and how to get involved in its continued development. Graphics in Silverlight 3 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, February 08, 2010 Quick ID: 100043 In this chapter, you will learn how to add rich vector graphics and images to your application.You will also learn how to optimize performance and image quality of those graphics elements. Post Mortem Web Project Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009 Quick ID: 1001091 First Premier Bankcard (www.firstpremier.com) is the 10th largest issuer of Visa and MasterCard credit cards in the United States.First Premier employs multiple thousands of people spread across the state of South Dakota. A major percentage of the employees at First Premier work in call-center operations helping people apply for credit cards. Chapter 1: An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 Quick ID: 090123 An introduction to the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC framework and learn why you should build web applications using ASP.NET MVC. Post Mortem: Tower48 Software Escrow Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 21, 2009 Quick ID: 0909041 Chapter 1: Mashup Styles, Techniques, and Technologies Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Saturday, August 01, 2009 Quick ID: 090093 This chapter is an excerpt from the new book, Mashups: Strategies for the Modern Enterprise by Jeffrey Hanson, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 032159181X Copyright 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. For more info please visit: www.informit.com/title/032159181X Safari Books Online subscribers can access the book here: http://safari.informit.com/9780321591869To begin design work on a mashup, you must determine what is to be “mashed” together. Three high-level categories of items can be mashed together-user interface artifacts (presentation), data, and/or application functionality (processes). This might include HTML snippets, on-demand JavaScript to access an external API, web service APIs from one of your corporate servers, RSS feeds, and/or other data to be mixed and mashed within the application or pages. The implementation style, techniques, and technologies used for a given mashup depend on this determination. Once the items are determined, your development team can proceed with applying languages, processes, and methodologies to the application at hand.In this chapter, I point out some of the most widely used styles, techniques, and technologies to build mashups for each of the three primary categories or items. Native JSON Parsing: What Does it Mean for Your AJAX Applications? Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009 Quick ID: 090011 JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) has become the de facto data transfer standard for client-side Web applications that use JavaScript. JSON is a JavaScript-based object/value encoding format that looks very close to raw JavaScript and can be very easily parsed by JavaScript code because JavaScript can effectively evaluate a JSON string and re-materialize an object from it. Unlike XML there’s no parsing involved in the process, so it’s easy to work with and also relatively quick because the actual parsing (or rather evaluating) of a JSON string is done internally in the JavaScript engine rather than through manual code. The format and data types are also well defined so it’s easy to generate JSON strings in other languages like .NET (although parsing is a bit more complex). Post Mortem: WPF and Silverlight Styling Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 Quick ID: 0907081 Design for Change in UpdatePanel-based ASP.NET AJAX Applications Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 Quick ID: 0907091 Change is always a central issue for software development.In this regard Microsoft AJAX Web application is never an exception. You may find your application packed with a plethora of UpdatePanels and event handlers. Besides, you may be confused that ASP.NET AJAX offers more than one technique to do one thing but you cannot use them consistently. As a result, it becomes hard to make changes in your application. SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 Ninja Debugging Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 Quick ID: 0907041 One of the challenges of working as an on-demand consultant is that I frequently get called into projects where the SharePoint installation is a bit sick, and it is in production.All the usual tricks have been tried, and the Infrastructure Ogre won't let me install Visual Studio on the production systems to truly be able to debug the problem. Yet another problem of being an on-demand consultant is that the clock starts ticking even before I've understood the problem description.One of the challenges of working as an on-demand consultant is that I frequently get called into projects where the SharePoint installation is a bit sick, and it is in production. All the usual tricks have been tried, and the Infrastructure Ogre won't let me install Visual Studio on the production systems to truly be able to debug the problem. Yet another Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 Quick ID: 0907141 July/August 09 Doc Detective Column An Introduction to jQuery, Part 1 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 19, 2008 Quick ID: 0902051 jQuery is a small JavaScript library that makes development of HTML-based client JavaScript drastically easier. With client logic getting ever more complex and browsers still diverging in features and implementation of features, jQuery and other client libraries provide much needed normalization when working with JavaScript and the HTML DOM. Heard on .NET Rocks! Future of Web Development Panel Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 19, 2008 Quick ID: 0902091 Internet Explorer 8 New Accessibility Features Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 4 - Windows Accessibility Focus Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0810092 Windows® Internet Explorer® 8 has a lot of cool new features that make Web page browsing more accessible.I’m going to cover Caret Browsing, Zoom Version 2, High DPI, Accessibility Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) support and User Interface Automation (UI Automation) support. Caret Browsing is particularly helpful for low-mobility users. Zoom 2 and High DPI support targets low-vision users, and the new ARIA and UI Automation support targets screen-reader users. Low-mobility users prefer to use the keyboard or devices that interact with a virtual keyboard. Some low-vision users require specialized assistive software to interact with computers while others can do well with features and tools shipped with the operating system. Creating Accessibility-aware Silverlight 2 Content Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 4 - Windows Accessibility Focus Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0810062 If you haven't heard, accessibility is one of the most important aspects of a Web site experience.By using the accessibility features in Silverlight™ 2, you can provide the best experience for all users. Building a rich Internet experience can be a daunting task when you have to balance a cool visual design with usability. Secure Coding with Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 3 - IE8 Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0811132 The Internet Explorer team has made significant investments to ensure that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is the most secure version to date.Many of these improvements (like the SmartScreen anti-phishing/anti-malware filter) operate automatically and require no changes to Web pages or add-ons. However, other security improvements will impact Web applications and browser add-ons. This article describes how to take advantage of these new Internet Explorer security features to help protect Web users and applications. Performance Improvements in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 3 - IE8 Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0811112 Great performance is one of many things being delivered in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, the latest version of the popular browser. Beyond a much faster JScript engine, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 includes profound performance improvements and exciting new developer features that make it one of the most exciting browser releases in years. Developer Tools in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 3 - IE8 Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0811082 Great tools play a critical role in developer productivity, and while many web development tools exist, they likely don’t meet your needs in all tasks. For example, you may want to quickly debug JavaScript, investigate a behavior specific to Internet Explorer, or iterate rapidly to prototype a new design or try solutions to a problem. New Search Features in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 3 - IE8 Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0811072 Can you imagine a world without search?I don’t think a single day goes by when I don’t do a least one Internet search. Internet search has gotten leaps and bounds better than what it started out as years ago; yet aside from adding a search box to the browser chrome, browsers, as of yet, have not significantly changed the way that users search online. Accelerators in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 3 - IE8 Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0811062 Connect the user to your Web application with Accelerators!Accelerators provide an easier and faster way for users to access your Web application while seamlessly plugging in to your existing infrastructure. Create Your Own Web Slices Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 3 - IE8 Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0811052 Web Slices are a new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 feature that allow you to subscribe to parts of a Web page and view updates directly from the Internet Explorer Favorites bar.Web Slices let users bring their favorite parts of the Web with them wherever they browse. This article will explain how Web Slices work, why they are cool, and how you can start creating Web Slices of your own. Introducing Compatibility View Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 3 - IE8 Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0811042 Compatibility View allows access to content designed for older Web browsers. When a website says that it supports modern Web standards, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 respects that and displays the site using its most standards compliant mechanism. In the majority of cases, this works out just fine. However, every once in a while, a page that says “display me using modern standards” really means “display me like Internet Explorer 7 used to display modern standards pages”. This is where Compatibility View comes in. Making Your Web site Compatible Across Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 3 - IE8 Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0811032 Improved standards support in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 makes developing sites that work across browsers simpler and less time consuming. The latest release of the world’s most popular Web browser includes upgrades to the Web platform, compatibility, and functionality designed to keep you on-point creating high-quality interactive experiences, not debugging browser interop issues. Let’s discuss how to best take advantage of these new features while ensuring your Web pages continue to work correctly in older browsers. What’s New in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2? Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 3 - IE8 Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0811022 For those of you who have been waiting to see what Microsoft has been cooking up for the standards-based Web, dinner is served! Released to the Web in August 2008, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 delivers much more than just a snack for today’s ravenous tech-savvy users. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 dispenses a four-course meal guaranteed to please even the most discriminating of palates. Welcome to CoDe Focus for Internet Explorer 8! Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 3 - IE8 Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0811012 In this issue, you’ll find information on all things related to Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2.From Web Slices to Developer Tools, from our improvements in performance to the great new features for building Web 2.0 applications, there’s something here for everyone. MVP Corner: We Are the Masters of the Twitterverse Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 22, 2008 Quick ID: 0809021 How did we ever survive without social networks? I asked myself that today and couldn’t come up with an answer I liked. If I need to find contact information for that DBA I worked with three jobs ago, it’s off to LinkedIn or Plaxo. When I’m wondering about that guy from high school who was going to be a world famous rock star, Facebook is only a couple of clicks away. Out of town for a conference? No worries, I just check Twitter to see where my friends are. Chapter 11: Adding Client Capabilities to Server Controls Using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008 Quick ID: 080063 In the preceding chapter, we covered the architecture of the AJAX Control Toolkit, describing at a high level what it has to offer and the attributes, classes, and interfaces that make it all happen.The enhanced functionality you get in the toolkit, from attribute-based programming to rich animations, provides a compelling alternative to coding against the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions and the Microsoft AJAX Library directly. In this chapter, we delve into the details of the toolkit a little further as we develop as series of extender controls that demonstrate the rich features the toolkit provides. What’s New in ASP.NET 3.5? Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Jul/Aug Release Date: Saturday, June 07, 2008 Quick ID: 0807051 Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 in November 2007. I have good news and, depending on your perspective, I have either bad news or good news. If you were hoping ASP.NET 3.5 would be released with a variety of new controls, features, and architectural changes then I have bad news for you. If you’re still trying to master all the controls, features, best practices, project structures, deployment options, and architectural changes introduced when ASP.NET went from version 1.1 to 2.0, I have good news for you. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of new things you will want to take advantage of in ASP.NET 3.5, but the changes from ASP.NET 2.0 to ASP.NET 3.5 are more additive and incremental than monumental. jQuery Puts the Fun Back into Browser Scripting Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 Quick ID: 080033 Rick Strahl discuss scripting with jQuery. The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Tips for Building Database Web Applications Using ASP.NET 3.5, LINQ, and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 May/Jun Release Date: Friday, April 18, 2008 Quick ID: 0805071 Are you moving a Windows desktop application to the browser, and sweating bullets, or perhaps just not quite sure about how all the new Web and data tools work together?With each passing year, Microsoft offers newer and more powerful tools for building rich database applications on the Web. So many and so frequently, in fact, that it can be hard to keep up with the new tools and still meet the requirements of your job! This article will show you how to get the most out of the new features in ASP.NET 3.5. The article will also show how you can use features in LINQ, even if you only use stored procedures for data access. And finally, since most applications use reporting, I’ll throw in a few nuggets on using SQL Server Reporting Services. Chapter 3: Working with the DataList Control Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 Quick ID: 080013 In Chapter 3, we saw the Repeater control in ASP.NET and how we can use it to bind and unbind data in our applications. In this chapter, we will discuss the DataList control, which, like the Repeater control, can be used to display a list of repeated data items. Developing Plugins for Windows Live Writer Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live Release Date: Sunday, March 16, 2008 Quick ID: 0804092 Plugins for Windows Live Writer are simple to create and can provide many extra features.This article will show you how to start writing plugins for Windows Live Writer, including how to get started, how to debug, and how to package the final plugin. Building Personalized Applications on the Windows Live ID Platform Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live Release Date: Sunday, March 16, 2008 Quick ID: 0804062 Do you have a cool personalized application that you want to offer to over 400 million users? Do you want to light it up with Live controls or create a mashup with Live resources? Windows Live ID now offers a simple way for third parties to get Live ID authentication in your Web or rich client applications, letting you reach millions of Live ID users, integrate with Live Controls, and access Live services. Windows Live Delegated APIs Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live Release Date: Sunday, March 16, 2008 Quick ID: 0804072 The smart way to share data between computers and other people is to place it in an online Internet store, which the other parties can access, but you want to make sure only the right people can access your data. This article will help you understand how the Windows Live delegated authentication system is used to access certain Windows Live data stores and the technologies Microsoft is building to make this work easier for you. Light Up the Web-Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live Release Date: Sunday, March 16, 2008 Quick ID: 0804082 Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live™ is a free streaming and application hosting service for delivering rich interactive applications (RIAs) over the Web.In this article I’ll show you how to get started with Silverlight and how to upload your applications and rich media to the Silverlight Streaming Service. Getting Started with the Windows Live Tools Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live Release Date: Sunday, March 16, 2008 Quick ID: 0804102 Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio enables developers to incorporate a set of Windows Live services into their Web sites using Visual Studio and ASP.NET.Using the Contacts ASP.NET Server Control, your users can easily share their contacts between Windows Live and your Web site. With the SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer ASP.NET Server Control, you can show videos on your Web site from your Silverlight Streaming account with just drag-and-drop. The IDLoginStatus and IDLoginView ASP.NET Server Controls provide Windows Live ID authentication at your Web site for your users. Microsoft released its second community technology preview (CTP) in December, 2007. You can download this CTP from http://dev.live.com/tools. Weaving the Windows Live Services into Your Web Site Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live Release Date: Sunday, March 16, 2008 Quick ID: 0804052 Ready to build a Web experience your users will love? Windows Live Services are the building blocks of your new site. Get started right now with the Windows Live Quick Applications. Live from the Web! Bring the Windows Live Messenger Experience to Your Web Applications Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live Release Date: Sunday, March 16, 2008 Quick ID: 0804032 Windows Live Messenger is one of the central offerings nestled among a suite of products and services under Microsoft’s Windows Live brand.For years online chat has been progressively and swiftly revolutionizing how you communicate with your friends, family, coworkers, and businesses you deal with. It is the foundation of the original chat room concept and the heart of instant messaging applications. Online chat-also called instant messaging or just “IM”-connects people for one-to-one or group chat, for social networking purposes, or for business directives, such as enabling access to technical support, customer services, or sales. Now, Windows Live Messenger supports a rich set of features for Web applications through the Windows Live Messenger IM Control, the Windows Live Messenger Presence API, and the Windows Live Messenger Library. The collective features of these products go beyond the simplicity of a chat application, making it possible to embrace this new era of social networking by leveraging your built-in Windows Live network within any Web application. Windows Live Admin Center Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live Release Date: Friday, March 14, 2008 Quick ID: 0804112 When developing with Windows Live services, you open your application to a whole new world of software integration. In this fascinating realm of mash-up mania, developers can find tools for adding maps, searches, video, chats, and even social networking services directly into their applications and ultimately right into their users’ browsers. The benefit of adding services like Virtual Earth and Silverlight Streaming are obvious-creating dazzling content and facilitating rich user experiences. Yet services like these are still limited to specific contexts within your program. They are perfectly wonderful for beefing up the user experience in Web sites, but wouldn’t it be great if the folks at Microsoft provided a service that helps you administer user accounts and customize services around your Web site? Well indeed they have, and its name is Windows Live Admin Center (admincenter.live.com). Welcome to the Windows Live Platform CoDe Focus Magazine Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live Release Date: Friday, March 14, 2008 Quick ID: 0804012 Building compelling applications and Web sites just got easier.Microsoft is opening up Windows Live Services to developers everywhere. This edition of CoDe Focus shows you how to use Windows Live Services to draw users to your Web site, get them hooked, and keep them engaged. Introduction to the Live Search API Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 2 - Windows Live Release Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008 Quick ID: 0804122 Have you ever wanted to implement search capabilities on your own Web site but didn’t want to implement the logic and deal with issues such as storage and indexing? The Live Search team now offers two different ways to utilize Search on your site: using the Live Search Box or using the Windows Live Search API. Never Write an Insecure ASP.NET Application Ever Again Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 28, 2007 Quick ID: 0801031 One of the most important security principles for software development is least privilege.Simply put, least privilege means that an application, process, or user should have the least access to resources required to accomplish a task and no more. By following this principle, even if your application is attacked or a user goes on the payroll of your nastiest competitor, you’ll have limited the potential damage. Bottom line: implementing partial trust in ASP.NET is the single biggest thing you can do to make your applications secure. MVP Corner: Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without Viewstate or Postbacks Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 28, 2007 Quick ID: 0801021 Jan/Feb 08 MVP Corner Article Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 28, 2007 Quick ID: 0801101 Jan/Feb 2008 Doc Detective COlumn. What’s Ailing ASP.NET Web Forms? Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Quick ID: 070183 Rick Strahl discusses ASP.NET Web Forms The Provider Model Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 26, 2007 Quick ID: 0711081 In this article you will learn how to isolate yourself from change by taking advantage of the Provider Model.Designing your applications using the Provider Model will allow you to swap components out at runtime, thus allowing you to upgrade them easily. Catching the (Silver) Light Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 26, 2007 Quick ID: 0711061 I’d guess that everyone reading this magazine has heard of Silverlight™. I’ll also guess that not everyone has jumped at the opportunity to “play” with something that had been in beta. The good news is that Silverlight 1.0 is now released! I’ve spent a lot of time with Silverlight since Microsoft made the Community Technology Preview version available as WPF/E. The delta between a Web site without Silverlight and a Web site that allows you to experience the wonderfulness of Silverlight is huge. Before you finish reading this article, I hope you’ll realize how very easy it is to bridge that gap. Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without Viewstate or Postbacks Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Monday, October 22, 2007 Quick ID: 070173 The Web View October 2007 Chapter 1: Getting Started Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 Quick ID: 070163 Silverlight Unleashed - Embedding the Silverlight Control Manually - Letting Silverlight.js Handle the Dirty Work - Understanding Your Hosting Options - Interacting with the Silverlight Control Programmatically ADO.NET Data Services Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 3 - Data Programability Release Date: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 Quick ID: 0712082 Separation of presentation and data has long been considered a best practice in the development of Web applications.Driven by the need for low friction deployment and a richer user experience, the types and architectures of Web applications are evolving dramatically. With the introduction and growth of AJAX-based applications and Rich Interactive Applications (RIA) using technologies such as Microsoft® Silverlight™, separation of presentation and data is no longer just a best practice, it is required. Programming Against the ADO.NET Entity Framework Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 3 - Data Programability Release Date: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 Quick ID: 0712042 The ADO.NET Entity Framework raises the level of abstraction at which developers work with data.Rather than coding against rows and columns, the ADO.NET Entity Framework allows you to define a higher-level Entity Data Model over your relational data, and then program in terms of this model. You get to deal with your data in the shapes that make sense for your application and those shapes are expressed in a richer vocabulary that include concepts like inheritance, complex types, and explicit relationships.The ADO.NET Entity Framework raises the level of abstraction at which developers work with data.Rather than coding against rows and columns, the ADO.NET Entity Framework allows you to define a higher-level Entity Data Model over your relational data, and then program in terms of this model. You get to deal with your data in the shapes that make sense for your application and those shapes are expressed in a richer vocabulary that include concepts like inheritance, complex types, and explicit relationships. Browsing Windows Live Expo with LINQ to XML Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 3 - Data Programability Release Date: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 Quick ID: 0712072 LINQ to XML, which makes query a first class construct in C# and Visual Basic, is the new XML API in the .NET Framework 3.5. With the introduction of Language Integrated Query (LINQ), Microsoft is introducing LINQ implementations that work over objects, data, and XML. LINQ to XML improves on System.Xml in the .NET Framework 2.0 by being both simpler to use and more efficient. Microsoft developed this new API because the W3C-based DOM API does not integrate well into the LINQ programming model. Unwrapping LINQ to SQL Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Quick ID: 070153 Rick Strahl discusses LINQ to SQL features. A Silverlight to Illuminate the Path Ahead… Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Monday, September 17, 2007 Quick ID: 070143 At Mix 2007 in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced Silverlight (formerly known as WPF/E) to much fanfare. Silverlight is very intriguing in concept, as it further travels the path previously laid out by WPF (Silverlight’s big brother), and it aims to bring the worlds of Windows and Web development, as well as the worlds of software development and graphical design, much closer together. As more and more details emerge (and the first released version is now available), it becomes clear that Silverlight is not just an intriguing concept, but it is for real! Markus discusses Silverlight concepts in this article. Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 Sep/Oct Release Date: Sunday, August 12, 2007 Quick ID: 0709091 Doc Detective Article for Sept/Oct 2007 Chapter 4: State Management Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, August 06, 2007 Quick ID: 070073 Essential ASP.NET 2.0 is the Microsoft developer's definitive reference for ASP.NET 2.0 programming. It covers all you need to know to build robust, well-designed Web applications with ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, and .NET 2.0. ASP.NET MVP Fritz Onion and Developer Security MVP Keith Brown draw on their unparalleled experience working with ASP.NET 2.0 and teaching it to professional developers. From data binding to security, UIs to performance, they demystify ASP.NET 2.0's most difficult areas, and introduce little-known techniques for leveraging it to the fullest. ASP.NET Orcas: Quiet Revolution Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Monday, July 16, 2007 Quick ID: 070123 Rick Strahl discusses the new ASP.NET Orcas beta release. Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 29, 2007 Quick ID: 0707111 July/August 2007 Doc Detective Column. The Client-Side JavaScript Dilemma Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Monday, June 04, 2007 Quick ID: 070063 Rick Strahl discusses considerations when writing JavaScript Beyond HTML: Rich Internet Applications Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 Quick ID: 070053 Rick Strahl discusses building rich internet applications Overcome the Barriers Around Using the Custom Class in ASP.NET Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, April 26, 2007 Quick ID: 0705081 In .NET Web applications you can find that in many places custom classes and collections are better choices than the DataSet or DataTable. The custom classes or the custom class collections, which are truly object oriented, allow developers to employ all object-oriented programming techniques. Enterprise Application Integration with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006-Part 1 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, April 26, 2007 Quick ID: 0705031 Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is a collection of architectural principles combined to integrate new and existing applications both within the enterprise and in business to business or partner integration scenarios. This article (Part 1) will provide a conceptual overview of BizTalk Server 2006 and how it serves to address the problem domain common in the EAI space. In Part 2, I’ll introduce a business case for implementing an online ordering and fulfillment system and provide a step-by-step example of how to implement a solution that addresses the problem domain. How to Be Where Your Customer Wants to Be Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 2 - Mobility Release Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Quick ID: 0704032 We all know that applications have evolved, and not just towards Web deployment, .NET Framework development, and mash-up functionality. Inking in ASP.NET 2.0, AJAX, and IE7 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 2 - Mobility Release Date: Monday, March 19, 2007 Quick ID: 0704092 In the past year, new technologies from Microsoft have changed how we can add ink to Web sites and the change is definitely for the better! ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 is here Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Quick ID: 070033 Rick Strahl discusses the newly released ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (MS AJAX) Building a PreserveProperty Control in ASP.NET 2.0 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, March 02, 2007 Quick ID: 0703051 ASP.NET provides a couple of page-level state persistence mechanisms in ViewState and the new ControlState.While both mechanisms work, they both have some limitations in that they are not deterministic for the application developer-ViewState can be turned off and can be very bulky, and ControlState can only be set from within a control implementation. In this article I’ll show another, more flexible state mechanism using a PreservePropertyControl that allows automatic persistence and restoration of field values automatically without requiring ViewState. Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API Extended Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, March 02, 2007 Quick ID: 0703071 Working with big applications requires extending the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API to handle more detailed member records.In this article, I’ll present one of the available techniques used to extend the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API to solve some of the limitations of that API. The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Steps for Building a Lookup Page Using ASP.NET 2.0, SQL 2005, and C# 2.0 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, March 02, 2007 Quick ID: 0703041 Lookup and navigation screens initially seem like no-brainers, when compared to other parts of an application-yet by the time a developer has met all the user requirements and requests, he/she has expended much more time than expected. This issue of The Baker’s Dozen will build a lookup Web page using ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005, and C# 2.0. The lookup and results page will contain optional lookup criteria and custom paging of the result set. The solution will utilize new language features in SQL 2005 for providing ranking numbers to correlate with custom paging, and new capabilities in .NET generics to pump the results of a stored procedure into a custom collection. Just like Mr. Mayagi taught Daniel the martial arts by doing exercises, the example in this article will demonstrate some common design patterns, such as factory creation patterns, using .NET generics. The article also subtly presents a general methodology for building database Web pages. Visual FoxPro Web Services Revisited Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 1 - Sedna: Beyond Visual FoxPro 9 Release Date: Monday, January 29, 2007 Quick ID: 0703062 Web services with Visual FoxPro (VFP) have never been easy. The most common Web service tool for FoxPro is the SOAP Toolkit, which has been discontinued and which had a host of problems when dealing with complex types passed over Web Services. In this article I’ll show how you can leverage the powerful Web service features of .NET and the new Windows Communication Foundation in your FoxPro application through COM Interop. Hosting WCF Services Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 22, 2006 Quick ID: 0701041 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services can be hosted with Internet Information Services (IIS); with the new Windows Activation Service (WAS) installed with IIS 7.0; or with any managed application process including console, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), or managed Windows service applications.Selecting the right hosting environment for your services is a choice driven largely by deployment requirements related to transport protocol and operating platform. ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part Infrastructure and SharePoint 2007 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 22, 2006 Quick ID: 0701081 In my previous article, (“ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part Infrastructure”, Nov/Dec 2006, CoDe Magazine) I talked about the ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part framework. I made the case for the emergence of Web Part or widget-like solutions, and explained the support for Web Parts in the ASP.NET 2.0 framework. However, I stopped short with a teaser into connecting these Web Parts with each other and where this story fits in with SharePoint 2007. A New Foundation: Taking a Look at WCF Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Quick ID: 060123 Rick discusses WCF Are You Ready for IIS 7? Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 Quick ID: 060103 In this article, Rick discusses the new features of IIS 7. ClickOnce for the Real World, Not Hello World Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 20, 2006 Quick ID: 0611041 After four years of trying out every iteration of Web server application deployment that Microsoft created for .NET, ClickOnce has finally allowed me to succeed in deploying one particularly complex smart client application. But I still had to tear a few more hairs out before I got it working and came to love ClickOnce. I’m writing this article to share some of the not-so-obvious ways (including a hack or two) to use ClickOnce for application deployment. Fundamentals of WCF Security Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 20, 2006 Quick ID: 0611051 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for the .NET Framework 3.0.With WCF, SOAP messages can be transmitted over a variety of supported protocols including IPC (named pipes), TCP, HTTP and MSMQ. Like any distributed messaging platform, you must establish security policies for protecting messages and for authenticating and authorizing calls. This article will discuss how WCF accomplishes this. ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part Infrastructure Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 20, 2006 Quick ID: 0611031 Web applications today do a number of things. They could be a banking site, a content management system, or a news Web site. In spite of the diversity of Web applications available today, it almost always makes sense to break a Web page into smaller, reusable widgets ATLAS Grows Up Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 Quick ID: 060073 Rick Strahl discusses ATLAS, Microsoft's ASP.NET implementation of AJAX. Detect Web Form Field Changes in ASP.NET Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 18, 2006 Quick ID: 0609071 In ASP.NET, the value change related event will be triggered at server side per server control when the value of such a server control (form field) is changed upon postback. In most cases, a group of form fields are correlated with each other and typically correspond to member data in a business object. Thus developers need to check if such a group of form fields has changed as a whole. Unfortunately, the .NET Framework (1.x, 2.0) doesn’t offer an effective solution. This article will present an elegant technique to solve this problem and it can even go further so that you can know which field has changed. Web Control Enhancements in ASP.NET 2.0 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 18, 2006 Quick ID: 0609031 I’m sure by now you’ve read more than your share of books and articles describing new ASP.NET 2.0 features. Master pages, themes, providers, etc., are all great, but have you read anything regarding custom Web control development and what has changed in 2.0? Well that’s what I’m here to tell you. If you’ve become involved in control development, either through my articles or on your own, I’ll describe some very cool enhancements that you can put to work right away in your controls using ASP.NET 2.0. Compilation and Deployment in ASP.NET 2.0 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 18, 2006 Quick ID: 0609061 It’s crucial to understand how your ASP.NET code compiles in order to debug your Web applications effectively. ASP.NET 2.0 has changed the way compilation and deployment works, and in this article I’ll dig in and show you how compilation works now and what has changed from ASP.NET 1.x. A Look at Windows Vista from a Developer Perspective Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 Quick ID: 060053 Rick Strahl discusses Windows Vista for developers. Web Application Projects Are Here Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Quick ID: 060043 Rick Strahl discusses Web Application Projects Web Standards: Standards or Stasis Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Monday, May 01, 2006 Quick ID: 060023 Rick Strahl discusses the current status of the Web. The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Remoting in Visual Studio 2005 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - May/Jun Release Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Quick ID: 0605071 This installment of the Baker’s Dozen presents an introduction to remoting and remoting interfaces. Achieving Synchronicity: A Listbox Double-Feature Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - May/Jun Release Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Quick ID: 0605041 Building complex Web controls with rich client-interfaces often requires the integration of some client-side JavaScript code with the control’s server-side code. While in some cases this does not have to become too complicated to achieve some pretty nifty results, it can often break the data synchronization between the control’s internal server code and the rendered client HTML code. This becomes a problem when the page posts back. In this article, I will build two very cool Web controls that are vulnerable to this problem and then show you how to fix it. SQL Server 2005 Query Notifications Tell .NET 2.0 Apps When Critical Data Changes Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - May/Jun Release Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Quick ID: 0605061 One of the classic problems with database applications is refreshing stale data. Imagine a typical e-commerce site with products and categories. A vendor’s product list most likely does not change very often and their category list changes even less frequently. However, those same lists must be queried from the database over and over again every time a user browses to that Web site. This is an annoyingly inefficient use of resources and developers and architects have been stuck playing cat-and-mouse trying to reduce the waste. Creating a Generic Message Display Page for ASP.NET Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 17, 2006 Quick ID: 0603061 Creating messages in your Web application should be quick, easy, and most importantly, consistent.They should look like they belong with the rest of the application even if an error occurs. How often have you created a new page to display simple text or a notification message to your users? Wouldn’t it be better if you could reuse an existing template and simply pass in a few parameters to tell it to render an application-specific message? In this article I will show you how to create a reusable Message Display class that reduces displaying messages generically in your application to a single line of code. Using the Ajax.NET Framework Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 17, 2006 Quick ID: 0603051 What developer wants to spend hours manually writing Ajax pluming when the Ajax.NET framework does this for free? The Ajax.NET Framework presents a remarkably easy-to-use framework that will simplify Ajax development and allow developers to spend more time on implementation details and less time on parsing XML. Top-Ten Annotations and Remarks about the Wonderful and Powerful New Set of Features in ASP.NET 2.0 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 Quick ID: 0611141 You’ll still write a good deal of code in ASP.NET 2.0.Don’t completely trust those who say that ASP.NET 2.0 cuts 70% of the amount of code you’re called to write. You’ll end up writing more or less the same quantity of code, but you’ll write code of different quality. You’ll have more components and less boilerplate code to tie together pages and controls. Features like the provider model, data source controls, and master pages make coding easier and equally effective. But since there’s no magic behind, you have to learn the implications of each feature you employ. In the end, ASP.NET 2.0 comes with code behind, not magic behind. Custom Web Controls Demystified, Part 2 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 28, 2005 Quick ID: 0511051 In the first part of this article (CoDe Magazine, September/October 2005) you learned how to create an inherited Web control, as well as a fairly functional rendered Web control. In part two of this article you’ll learn three professional touches for your custom Web control. First, you’ll learn how to make all parts of your custom control resize correctly. Next, you’ll learn how to capture an event when the button is clicked or when text in the textbox changes. Finally, you’ll learn how to add basic styling. A Low Level Look at ASP.NET Architecture Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 28, 2005 Quick ID: 0511061 ASP.NET is a powerful platform for building Web applications, that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility and power for building just about any kind of Web application. Most people are familiar only with the high level frameworks like WebForms and WebServices which sit at the very top level of the ASP.NET hierarchy. In this article I’ll describe the lower level aspects of ASP.NET and explain how requests move from Web Server to the ASP.NET runtime and then through the ASP.NET HTTP pipeline to process requests.ASP.NET is a powerful platform for building Web applications, that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility and power for building just about any kind of Web application. Most people are familiar only with the high level frameworks like WebForms and WebServices which sit at the very top level of the ASP.NET hierarchy. In this article I’ll describe the lower level aspects of ASP.NET and explain how requests move from Web Server to the ASP.NET runtime and then through the ASP.NET HTTP pipeline to process requests. Custom Web Controls Demystified, Part 1 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Sep/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 25, 2005 Quick ID: 0509051 When ASP.NET was released in 2002, it gave Web developers a whole new design paradigm to work with; one that varied greatly from the classic Active Server Pages that many Web developers worked with in the past. At the heart of this new way of developing Web applications are components known as Web controls. Though most Web developers use them while developing ASP.NET applications, many Web developers have not yet dived into the world of creating custom Web controls, even after all this time, and all .NET developers will soon face another release of .NET. In this article, I will attempt to give you a head-to-toe understanding of how Web controls work, and how to create them for yourself. Using the New Security Controls in ASP.NET 2.0 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Sep/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 25, 2005 Quick ID: 0509081 ASP.NET 2.0 comes with several new security controls (located under the Login tab in the Toolbox; see Figure 1) that greatly simplify the life of a Web developer. Using the new security controls, you can now perform tasks such as user logins, registration, password changes, and more, with no more effort than dragging and dropping controls onto your Web form. In this article, I will show you how you can use these new controls to perform user authentication. Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Sep/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 25, 2005 Quick ID: 0509031 An effective use of CSS is an easy way to maintain and consolidate the visual aspects of Web development. Cascading Style Sheets are a Web standard that have been in existence for a number of years. Most modern browsers support CSS, so their use in your .NET applications should pose no cross-browser compatibility issues. However, like most things in the Web world, various browsers may behave differently depending on the CSS you feed it. Integrating PayPal into E-Commerce Applications with ASP.NET Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Sep/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 25, 2005 Quick ID: 0509061 E-commerce applications require user-friendly mechanisms for payment.Although e-commerce sites usually use full credit card processing gateways, offering PayPal for payment provides an option for those who don't want to send credit card information across the Internet. If you run a Web shop that uses direct credit card processing and you want to integrate PayPal, you'll find that using PayPal as a processing service is not as straightforward as using a payment gateway. In this article, I'll describe how you can minimize the external PayPal interaction and work the PayPal payment into your order processing workflow to provide a seamless interface using ASP.NET and C#. ASP.NET Development Through Web Controls and Declarative Programming Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 18, 2005 Quick ID: 0503051 ASP.NET WebControls do more than just allow you to write reusable components. They can provide an entire approach to Web application development, allowing you to bring a new level of OOP to the UI and letting you program declaratively.Lately I've come to notice that no other programming term has more definitions than declarative programming. In this article, I will attempt to explain it in terms of how it applies to .NET development, specifically ASP.NET through the use of WebControls. I'll do this by illustrating some real-world examples that I have used in my own projects. In the end, I hope to leave you with an understanding of what declarative programming is, how you can use it when developing ASP.NET Web applications, and how, with the help of WebControls, to use it as an approach to ASP.NET development. By the Skin of Your App Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 18, 2005 Quick ID: 0503091 Enable advanced skinning in your Web applications using an MVC pattern.MVC, or Model-View-Controller, is a design architecture that promotes separation among parts of an application, with particular focus on the presentation tier. The concept of MVC is inherent in the ASP.NET architecture and I'll show you how to take advantage of that in order to provide skinning or themes capability to your Web sites. What You Need to Know about Web Controls Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 18, 2005 Quick ID: 0503041 Knowing the flaws in Web server controls and how to work around them before you use them can save you hours of time. Localizing ASP.NET 2.0 Applications Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 18, 2005 Quick ID: 0503081 As we compete in the global economy, companies are increasingly developing applications for the world audience. Part of the challenges in globalizing is in understanding the language and culture of the local audience. An application written for the American market may not be useable in the Asian market. Hence, special considerations must be factored in when designing your application for the world market; in essence-you need to localize your application.As we compete in the global economy, companies are increasingly developing applications for the world audience.Part of the challenges in globalizing is in understanding the language and culture of the local audience. An application written for the American market may not be useable in the Asian market. Hence, special considerations must be factored in when designing your application for the world market; in essence?you need to localize your application. What You Need to Know about Web Controls Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 18, 2005 Quick ID: 0503041 Knowing the flaws in Web server controls and how to work around them before you use them can save you hours of time. Preparing for Indigo - Choosing the Right Technology Today Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 18, 2005 Quick ID: 0503031 Indigo is the next generation application connectivity and services from Microsoft, superseding the variety of .NET connectivity solutions available today: ASMX Web services, Remoting, and Enterprise Services. Since .NET debuted some five years ago, all three technologies have been inundated in either hype or misconceptions. With Indigo around the corner, it is time to take a long hard look at these three technologies, and separate fact from myth so that you will be best prepared for Indigo. This article starts by examining the existing technologies, describing their merits and shortcomings, putting them in the correct perspective of a modern distributed application, and suggests where to best apply them. Then the article briefly describes the Indigo programming model, and assesses how to best mitigate the cost of the migration. Free ASP.NET Goodies! Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - November/December Release Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 Quick ID: 0411041 Free. Marketing professionals have known for years the positive results that this word produces. They use the word free to lure you in so that they can sell you something else. Luckily for you, that will not be the case in this article. All of the goodies, resources, tools, and utilities I mention are all free. They won't cost you a dime.In this article, I will share with you the results of my search for zero-cost resources for the ASP.NET developer. Space restrictions limit the depth to which I can discuss each item that I've found, but my descriptions should be enough for you decide if you would like to research the material further. State Management Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - September/October Release Date: Friday, August 20, 2004 Quick ID: 0409061 The sun is shining and I am sitting at a large, umbrella-covered picnic table overlooking a shimmering pond, my state right now is pretty relaxed. I have been fortunate enough to have spent the last few days at a cabin in the northern part of Maine. The birds are chirping, kids are playing, and there's not a Moose in sight. The only state management I'm concerned with right now is my own state of mind, and right now I am feeling pretty good. State management, whether you are dealing with your own state of mind or if you are working with ASP.NET, is a very fundamental and important task.In this article I am going to cover the important and sometimes confusing topic of state management. I will explore the state management fundamentals, covering both client-side and server-side state management options. DotNetNuke 2.0 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - July/August Release Date: Sunday, June 20, 2004 Quick ID: 0407061 DotNetNuke 2.0 is the latest version of the increasingly popular, open-source, content management portal. It was originally released as an open source project on Dec 24, 2002. In the past fifteen months it has grown to over 50,000 lines of managed code. One thing is for sure, you won't be alone using it! The DotNetNuke support forum is one of the most active and dynamic forums on the www.asp.net Web site. There are currently over 45,000 registered users on the official DotNetNuke Web site and membership continues to grow at an exponential rate.In this article, Jim will cover some of the new features in DNN 2.0 as well as discuss upgrading portals from prior DNN versions. He also explores the new data access methodology and walks you through the steps involved in developing custom DNN 2.0 modules. ASP.NET: Creating an Application Configuration Class Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - Sept/Oct Release Date: Thursday, August 15, 2002 Quick ID: 0209081 Most of you are probably aware that the web.config file in an ASP.NET project controls the behavior of your Web site. If you make a change to one of the built-in settings in this file, ASP.NET automatically detects those changes and applies them immediately. Wouldn't it be nice if you could have your own settings in this file applied immediately as well? In this article you will learn how to do just that. You will also learn the difference between the Application object and creating your own Configuration class. Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - July/Aug Release Date: Saturday, June 15, 2002 Quick ID: 0207111 With over 45,000 topics, finding what you need in the Visual Studio .NET documentation can be a daunting task. The Doc Detective is here to help, utilizing his investigative skills to probe the depths of the documentation. The diminishing importance of HTML Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - July/Aug Release Date: Saturday, June 15, 2002 Quick ID: 0207031 HTML-based Web development has dominated application development for the last six years or so and there are no signs of that changing.However, things are changing as the .NET initiative takes hold. Although Microsoft has put a lot of effort into its Web-based interfaces, which include the powerful new ASP.NET Web Forms framework, I am guessing that there will actually be a push back to desktop-driven, forms-based applications once .NET takes hold. ASP.NET Caching Strategies Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - May/June Release Date: Monday, April 15, 2002 Quick ID: 0205071 ASP.NET provides developers with the ability to cache dynamically generated pages.This means that it is now possible to cache pages built on posted data and querystrings! For instance, an e-commerce site that generates the same catalog from the database over and over on nearly every user request can now simply cache the catalog pages. Caching saves precious database server CPU cycles and renders pages down to the client much faster. Of course, when the catalog data is updated, the cache can simply refresh itself. Furthermore, developers can define the length of time an item is to be cached, indicate cache dependencies, create cached versions per browser, and indicate where an item should be cached (client, server, proxy, etc.). Retrieving HTTP content in .NET Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - May/June Release Date: Monday, April 15, 2002 Quick ID: 0205081 HTTP content retrieval is an important component for applications these days.Although .NET reduces the need to explicitly retrieve content from the Web through built-in mechanisms in the Web Services framework, ADO.NET and the XML classes, there are still many needs to retrieve Web content directly and manipulate it as text or data downloaded into files. In this article, I will describe the functionality of the HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse classes and provide an easy to use wrapper class. The class simplifies the HTTP access and provides most of the common features in a single interface while still providing full access to the base functionality of the HttpWebRequest class. In the process, I will describe some sticky issues like string encoding and Cookie handling and some related topics like implementing events and running multiple threads to service Web requests. ACME Insurance - Building a .NET Application Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Saturday, December 15, 2001 Quick ID: 0201071 Part 3, The User Interface and the Rating Web ServiceWe are finally going to get our feet wet in Visual Studio .NET and start writing some real code! In this article, we're going to focus on two areas of the ACME application. First, we will talk about the user interface and how it's implemented in ASP.NET ? along with a few problems we overcame by utilizing the powerful object-oriented features of .NET. Next, we'll write a web service in Visual Basic .NET to rate policies based on their class codes. To demonstrate that web services can be used in a variety of ways, we'll consume the web service in both .NET and Visual FoxPro 7. Static Content in a Dynamic World Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2001 - Issue 2 Release Date: Sunday, April 15, 2001 Quick ID: 0102081 Web applications are essentially made up of functions that map inputs (requests) to outputs (responses).This article looks at a way to store the relationship between request and response and pre-generate responses, thus reducing the resources needed fulfill requests. Handling long Web Requests with Asynchronous Request Processing Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2001 - Issue 2 Release Date: Sunday, April 15, 2001 Quick ID: 0102091 Web Applications tend to be stateless, and running long requests can be problematic for Web backends. Long-running requests can tie up valuable Web server connections and resources. In this article, Rick describes one approach that can be used to handle lengthy requests. A polling mechanism and an Event manager class can be used to pass messages between a Web application and a processing server running the actual long task. Configuring IIS via code Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2001 - Issue 1 Release Date: Monday, January 15, 2001 Quick ID: 0101061 In this day and age, Web applications have become the norm. We've even come to the point where many development projects involve Web applications that must be installed on multiple servers.But even if you don't build vertical Web applications, it's useful to have a configuration utility that can recreate a configuration via code. This might be for backup purposes, or for high volume environments like load balancing, where multiple servers need to be configured. Building and using a SOAP Web Service with West Wind Web Connection Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2001 - Issue 1 Release Date: Monday, January 15, 2001 Quick ID: 0101051 Imagine that you need some specific information in your application, such as a shipping rate. You now go to a special "service" search engine and look up the type of service you need over the Web.Now, imagine that you can get this information easily from the service and simply plug it directly into your application. Sound too good to be true? Believe it or not, the technologies to make this possible are available today. Web Services provide this functionality by bringing to application development the same interlinked mechanisms that have made the Web so popular for Web browsing. By sharing data over the Web in standard formats, "Web Services" is becoming the new industry buzzword. Microsoft is talking about Web Services as the second life of the Internet. Web Services will tie together applications, just as the Web Browser and URL links have tied together Web pages. "The Web At Your Service" is the new mantra. In this article, Rick discusses SOAP and Web Services, then creates a sample Web Service and integrates it into an application. Scaling Web Applications with Windows 2000 Advanced Server's Network Load Balancing Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2000 - Fall Release Date: Sunday, October 15, 2000 Quick ID: 0003041 With ever-larger Web applications being built to service very large numbers of simultaneous users pounding away at Web sites, the issue of scaling applications beyond a single machine is important for Web application developers and network administrators.While hardware capabilities seem to be increasing to the point that high-powered single machines can handle tremendous loads, there will always be those apps that push beyond a single machine. In addition, for many administrators and IT planners, it's often not good enough to say that a server can handle x number of users. They want redundancy, backup and overflow support, so a Web server or hardware failure or an unexpected surge of visitors doesn't cripple the corporate Web site. In this article, Rick discusses the issues of scalability and how load balancing services can help provide redundancy and extra horsepower to large Web sites. Server-Side XML and XSL Merging Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2000 - Fall Release Date: Sunday, October 15, 2000 Quick ID: 0003051 Data in XML format will play a significant role for the foreseeable future.Moreover, it's clear that XML and XSL will play a significant role in most, if not all, of my future applications. Why is it, however, that almost everything we read talks about merging XML+XSL on the client side, which requires IE 5 or higher browsers? In this article, Steve shows how to apply XSL transformations on the server to get around this problem. XML Data Binding for IE5 clients Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2000 - Summer Release Date: Saturday, July 15, 2000 Quick ID: 0002041 You may be wondering, with all the hype over XML, what can XML do for me today?You see the power of XML but may be having a hard time figuring out where it belongs in your application development strategy. In this article browser based applications will be discussed from the perspective of using XML as the data transport mechanism. Load Testing Web Applications using Microsoft's Web Application Stress Tool Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2000 - Spring Release Date: Saturday, April 15, 2000 Quick ID: 0001091 Microsoft's Web Application Stress Tool provides an easy way to simulate large numbers of users against your Web application.This tool makes it possible to make intelligent decisions about hardware and software load incurred by your application and how much traffic a given machine or group of machines can handle. In this article Rick shows how the tool works and how to properly interpret the performance data it generates. Ultra-Fast ASP.NET: CHAPTER 3: Caching Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, January 01, 1753 Quick ID: 100013 Caching is an important cornerstone of high-performance web sites. You can use it to accomplish the following: Reduce round-trips: Content cached at the client or in proxies can eliminate web server round-trips. Content cached at the web server can eliminate database round-trips. Move content closer to clients: The farther away from clients content is located, the longer it takes to retrieve. Avoid time-consuming processes of regenerating reusable content: For content that takes a lot of time or resources to generate, system performance and scalability are improved if you can generate content once and then reuse it many times. Optimize state management: Caching state information at the client is more scalable than storing it in a central location (within certain bounds, as discussed later). Silverlight 2 Unleashed: Introducing Silverlight Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, January 01, 1753 Quick ID: 090023