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Building a .NET Console Application for Scheduled Tasks

This article walks you through the process of building a simple .NET command-line application that is designed to be scheduled to execute. The sample application will send an HTTP request to a web server and send the returned HTML as the body of an email message. Once the application is complete, the article will examine how to schedule it to run using Windows Scheduled Tasks.

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Designing N-Tiered Data Access Layer Using Datasets - Part 4

Part of the business logic encapsulated in the Typed DataSet is the ability to add specialized queries to the table adapters to retrieve the data with different filters. By manipulating the XML schema that defines the dataset and adding the correct XML metadata, Visual Studio will generate the added queries for us. In this article, filtering queries will be automatically added to each table adapter for each field that is indexed on the table in the database.

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Using OpenSearch to Create a Multi-Search Form

This article shows how you can build a search form that will search a number of different sources without the need for a different textbox for each. It even incorporates some basic OpenSearch functionality in order to allow the easy addition of new search providers.

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Managing FTP Transfers from an ASP.NET Web Page

While most of us are no strangers to FTP, performing file transfers from a web page is not that common of a requirement. Come to find out, .NET handles it quite well. The trick is keeping it simple.

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Extending the Win Forms Binding Source Component

The binding source component in Visual Studio 2005/2008 Windows Forms provides a valuable service for data driven applications by providing automatic data binding between controls and the data source. This article shows how the functionality can be extended to add a few features to make it even more useful.

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