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Visual Studio 2005 Windows Forms has some new extended provider components that allow ToolTips and validation error messages to be assigned to individual controls, but the process requires a fair amount of developer time in large projects. A better way is to automate the process to make the ToolTips and validation rules table driven so that non-developers can make changes easily and extend the Binding Source component to attach them to a form. [Read This Article][Top]
Having realized the need for efficient built-in support for XSLT processing, Microsoft has included in the .NET Framework 2.0 a set of classes that are highly optimized, robust, and scalable. This article will explore the rich XSLT support provided by the .NET Framework 2.0 by providing examples on how to use the XSLT related classes to create rich ASP.NET Web applications. [Read This Article][Top]
Sometimes the simplest things in ASP.NET 2.0 turn out to be the hardest things to implement. One example is trying to have a shared property across all your web pages. This article shows you how to subclass the System.Web.UI.Page class in order to build a master page that "knows" the user and let's you easily add page-wide properties. [Read This Article][Top]
With ASP.NET 2.0, caching can still be implemented as simply as it was in ASP.NET 1.x, but for those of you who want to do more, Microsoft has added a number of features which help make caching even more flexible and robust. In this article I'm going to give you a quick overview of the new caching features in ASP.NET 2.0 and show you how to use them. [Read This Article][Top]
In the first part of this article series, Ziran Sun introduced one of the new data-bound controls available in the .NET Framework version 2.0 -- the GridView. In this part, he'll continue to examine this versatile control and introduce you to some of its more powerful capabilities. [Read This Article][Top]
One of the most anticipated new features in ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 is SQL Dependency. This article will show you how to set up surrogate procedures so that you can use SQL Dependency to its fullest and bypass its limitations. [Read This Article][Top]
The data access tools made available in ASP.NET 1.x were far more powerful then anything available in classic ASP, but with that power came an additional level of complexity. With ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has taken things to the next level yet again by re-simplifying things. This article will introduce the new ASP.NET 2.0 GridView control and show just how easy it is to use it to build a basic data display page. [Read This Article][Top]
While some of you have been playing with Visual Studio 2005 for a while now, many of you probably either haven't found the time or are a little worried about messing up your current development environment. This article will give you a quick look at Microsoft's latest development environment and highlight some of the new features you can expect when you do get around to installing it. [Read This Article][Top]
When I first heard that Microsoft was planning a series of events to celebrate the launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006, I was all excited. It was late October and I knew that the products were due to ship any day. I'd be one of the first people to see all this great new technology and I'd finally get my hands on the actual release versions... or so I thought. [Read This Article][Top]
The .NET Framework version 2.0 introduces a new namespace named System.Net.NetworkInformation that encapsulates all of the network related features. This namespace exposes a number of classes that provide useful information about the network. In this article, Thiru Thangarathinam examines the classes and features available in the System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace and provides examples that show how easy they are to utilize in your .NET applications. [Read This Article][Top]
The first step to developing great applications using .NET Framework Version 2.0 is to get it installed and start exploring the many resources available in the Software Development Kit (SDK). This article will walk you through the steps involved and will hopefully relieve some of the anxiety involved for those of you who are new to the world of .NET. [Read This Article][Top]
This article is the second part of David Catherman's series on using Visual Studio .NET Wizards to create N-tiered applications. This time around David looks at new version of .NET and Visual Studio .NET 2005 which offer several enhancements that change the way database-centric applications are developed. [Read This Article][Top]
While the .NET Framework made building ASP.NET applications easier then it had ever been in the past, .NET 2.0 builds on that foundation in order to take things to the next level. This article shows you to how to construct an N-Tier ASP.NET 2.0 Web application by leveraging the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005.
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With the release of ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has greatly increased the power of ASP.NET by introducing a suite of new features and functionalities. As part of this release, ASP.NET 2.0 also comes with a host of new special files and folders that are meant to be used to implement a specific functionality. This article examines these new files and folders in detail and provides examples that demonstrate how to utilize them to create ASP.NET 2.0 applications.
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Alex Homer continues his detailed look at the major changes to the DataSet class. In this part, he looks at two features that allow developers to work with data in a more structured and efficient way when using the DataSet with a SQL Server 2005 database server.
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Alex Homer continues his detailed look at the major changes to the DataSet class. In this part, he looks at two features that allow developers to work with data in a more structured and efficient way when using the DataSet with a SQL Server 2005 database server. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Alex Homer looks at the changes between the version 1.x and version 2.0 DataSet and their associated classes, showing you how you can take advantage of the new features to improve your applications' capabilities and performance. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Alex Homer looks at the changes between the version 1.x and version 2.0 DataSet and their associated classes, showing you how you can take advantage of the new features to improve your applications' capabilities and performance. [Read This Article][Top]
In ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, you can quickly program custom authentication pages with the provided Membership Login controls. In this article, Dina Fleet Berry examines the steps involved in using the Login control with a custom SQL Server membership database.
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In this article, Thiru Thangarathinam examines .NET 2.0's new ClickOnce deployment technology that is designed to ease deployment of Windows forms applications. This new technology not only provides an easy application installation mechanism, it also eases deployment of upgrades to existing applications. [Read This Article][Top]
With ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has made great strides in increasing developer productivity and has made implementing previously complex solutions relatively easy. Where this version of ASP.NET really shines, however, is in its new administrative tools that allow developers to spend less time managing the configuration of the servers and software and more time developing great code. [Read This Article][Top]
Thiru Thangarathinam introduces ASP.NET 2.0's new TreeView control which provides a seamless way to consume and display information from hierarchical data sources. The article discusses this new control in depth and explains how to use this feature rich control in your ASP.NET applications. [Read This Article][Top]
