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Migration to IIS 6 can present itself as a daunting challenge. Depending on your existing hosting configuration, the process can number in hours, days, or even weeks. Careful planning and research is integral to achieve a successful migration. [Read This Article][Top]
Right now the latest buzzword around town is AJAX. AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and is a method used to implement remote calling. The problem is that AJAX is only implemented in ASP.NET 2.0. This article will show you one way to implement remote calling without using AJAX or the XMLHttpRequest object. The technique outlined can even be used from classic ASP and is sufficient for most remote calling needs. [Read This Article][Top]
Unlike text-based file formats image files aren't made up of words, which makes searching for an image file by keyword difficult. Instead of being able to simply open the file to see what it contains, we're stuck looking at the text around it and other metadata to determine the image's meaning. In this article, Ziran Sun shows you how to build a simple database-based image keyword system that allows you to associate keywords with images and use these keywords to make finding images easier. [Read This Article][Top]
You've heard the horror stories and maybe even have a few of your own. Web hosts that don't live up to your expectations, or even their own promises, can make running your web site a nightmare. If you've had it with your current hosting provider and are ready to move, this article outlines seven steps that will make the transition go smoothly and help you ensure that you're moving to the right place. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Joseph Poozhikunnel examines the importance of the three X's -- namely XML, XML Schema, and XSLT -- in a service oriented architecture (SOA). He then defines the design considerations that need to be adopted when designing a system based on SOA and examines the pitfalls that can arise if they're not followed. [Read This Article][Top]
Performance monitoring helps organizations identify performance bottlenecks. The problem is that with so many performance numbers available, how do you know which ones to watch? This article helps you identify which are the critical performance counters in a SharePoint Portal Server environment and explains how to monitor them. By monitoring performance regularly, organizations can recognize performance trends as they develop and prevent problems before they get out of hand. [Read This Article][Top]
This article is the third and final installment of Alex Homer's series covering the new XML support in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. In it he covers updating the contents of xml columns, comparing traditional XML update techniques with XQuery, and using XQuery in a managed code stored procedure. [Read This Article][Top]
In the second part of his series on SQL Server 2005's new XML support, Alex Homer looks at extracting data from XML columns, comparing traditional XML data access approaches with XQuery, and combining XQuery and XSL-T. [Read This Article][Top]
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 now offers great support for and close integration with XML as a data persistence format. In the first article of his series examining this new support, Alex Homer offers an overview of how SQL Server 2005 stores XML documents and schemas, examines how it supports querying and manipulating XML documents, and provides a simple test application that allows you to experiment with XQuery. [Read This Article][Top]
In the second part of his series on building N-tier web applications using ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005, Thiru Thangarathinam covers the business logic and user interface layers. In the process, he also examines some new features in ASP.NET 2.0 that greatly simplify the development process. [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. [Read This Article][Top]
Code reusuability is one of the major goals of any good object-oriented programmer. While the ASP.NET framework has made code reusuability easier and more elegant than it was in classic ASP, one area where reusuability could be improved is at the UI level. This article outlines a technique that you can use in ASP.NET 1.x that allows every page in your web application to inherit not only the functionality of a base page, but its UI as well. [Read This Article][Top]
In the second article of his series on Indigo web services, Chris Peiris explains how to host an Indigo web service and examines the IIS, self hosting, and Windows Activation Service hosting options. He then provides step-by-step instructions and sample code for an IIS-hosted and self-hosted Indigo web service. [Read This Article][Top]
In the final article of his series on reading and writing XML in .NET 2.0, Alex Homer looks at how the updated XML document store objects XmlDocument, XmlDataDocument and PathDocument can be used to read, persist and write XML documents and fragments more easily and more efficiently than in .NET 1.x. [Read This Article][Top]
In the final article of his series on reading and writing XML in .NET 2.0, Alex Homer looks at how the updated XML document store objects XmlDocument, XmlDataDocument and PathDocument can be used to read, persist and write XML documents and fragments more easily and more efficiently than in .NET 1.x. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Gayan Peiris looks at creating an ASP.NET web application that will display the usage details of a selected SharePoint site. Building such an application enables SharePoint administrators to gather all SharePoint usage data from a central location. [Read This Article][Top]
Alex Homer continues his series on reading and writing XML in .NET 2.0. In part one, we focused on the reading side of things, examining the XmlReader and XmlReaderSettings classes. In this article, we move on to look at the XmlWriter and XmlWriterSettings classes, and how they can be used to write XML documents and fragments more easily and more efficiently than in version 1.x of .NET. [Read This Article][Top]
Alex Homer continues his series on reading and writing XML in .NET 2.0. In part one, we focused on the reading side of things, examining the XmlReader and XmlReaderSettings classes. In this article, we move on to look at the XmlWriter and XmlWriterSettings classes, and how they can be used to write XML documents and fragments more easily and more efficiently than in version 1.x of .NET. [Read This Article][Top]
In the first part of his series on Microsoft Indigo, Chris Peiris examines the basics of SOA, explains how Indigo fits into the picture and the problems it solves. He then introduces Indigo's programming model and finishes by building a sample Indigo web service using the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0. [Read This Article][Top]
In the first part of his series on reading and writing XML in .NET 2.0, Alex Homer discusses the XmlReader and XmlReaderSettings classes. The XmlReader exposes several useful new features and the all new XmlReaderSettings class makes it easy to generate single or multiple instances of an XmlReader with a range of useful properties. [Read This Article][Top]
In the first part of his series on reading and writing XML in .NET 2.0, Alex Homer discusses the XmlReader and XmlReaderSettings classes. The XmlReader exposes several useful new features and the all new XmlReaderSettings class makes it easy to generate single or multiple instances of an XmlReader with a range of useful properties. [Read This Article][Top]
AJAX is an acronym that stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. AJAX's strong point is that it allows data on a page to be dynamically updated without the browser having to reload the page. This article offers a brief introduction and description of AJAX and then provides some sample code illustrating its usage. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Joseph Poozhikunnel defines an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that can be created to support any Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) adopted by an organization. The type of ESB required could vary as there is no "one size fits all", therefore the article examines a few of the mechanisms available that could be adopted to implement an ESB. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Gayan Peiris examines using the SharePoint Object Model
to access SharePoint site information from an ASP.NET web application.
It should be of particular interest to SharePoint administrators who
can use the included code as a starting point for development of
their own web-based SharePoint administration application. [Read This Article][Top]
This sample chapter from Packt Publishing's "Building Websites with VB.NET and DotNetNuke 3.0" illustrates how to build and use a custom module for DotNetNuke 3.0. DotNetNuke is a free, open source evolution of Microsoft's celebrated ASP.NET reference implementation, the IBuySpy Portal Solution Kit. It has developed into an advanced web content management system with tools to manage a dynamic and interactive data-driven website. [Read This Article][Top]
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. [Read This Article][Top]
This sample chapter from Packt Publishing's "Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit"
illustrates how to build a new module on top of the existing code in the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit (CSK).
Using a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) module as an example, it shows how creating a new module allows you
to add entirely new features which integrate seamlessly with the rest of the framework. [Read This Article][Top]
In the seconmd part of his series on building an end user defined data model, Peter Scheffler gets into the actual meat of the model and discusses real-world implementation details and the actual table layouts. [Read This Article][Top]
In the second part of of his article on using MySQL with ASP.NET, Ziran Sun covers how to add a new MySQL user to the database server, assign the user the appropriate permissions, connect to the database, and build a simple ASP.NET page to perform a query. [Read This Article][Top]
This article by Don Franke examines using a combination of C#, Javascript, an IFRAME, and SQL Server Reporting
Services to create a one-click web page for viewing all the reports for your web application. [Read This Article][Top]
In the first article in this series, Peter Scheffler introduces the concept of a rules-based database engine that allows clients to make changes to their database structure without breaking the applications that access the database. [Read This Article][Top]
In this case study, Dr. John Tunnicliffe relates the process Capco
went through when overhauling their corporate web-site. They wanted a flexible content management system (CMS) which fully utilizes XML as well as the very latest in ASP.NET-based development tools. [Read This Article][Top]
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]
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]
