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ADO.NET Entity Framework Tutorial and Basics
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mendhak - 09/03/2008
Discover an ADO.NET Entity Framework tutorial covering basic data operations for applications, including LINQ To Entities, Method Expressions, stored procedure mapping, and a little discussion about its usage in an enterprise environment.

Adding Attachments to Excel 2007 Email Hyperlinks
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Paul Kimmel - 08/29/2008
Learn to add attachments to hyperlinks that contain email addresses by using a little bit of VBA.

Exploring Net60
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Alex Gusev - 08/27/2008
Have you ever dreamt about porting your managed Windows Mobile application to Symbian OS? Or, maybe you wanted to develop a new one but were uncertain whether you need to learn a new paradigms and languages? Well, with Net60 from Red Five Labs, you may be relieved; you can continue your development in your favorite languages!

Is RFID Still Important?
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Bradley Jones - 08/26/2008
A short interview with Microsoft on RFID technology.

Accessing Business Data in WPF Applications
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Jani Järvinen - 08/19/2008
Many WPF demos focus on slick graphics and designer user interfaces. While this is all good, those regular business database applications will eventually make the transition from WinForms to WPF. Learn how to get started accessing business data in your WPF applications.

Using the TFS Build Process to Deploy Sharepoint Custom Applications
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Eric Landes - 08/18/2008
Learn how to customize your TFS build process to deploy Sharepoint custom applications. Delve into the pros and cons of using TFS to create these builds.

Explore the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework
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Alex Gusev - 08/13/2008
The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework, formerly known as Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT), is a powerful and flexible platform for rapidly creating embedded device firmware with Microsoft Visual Studio. Now is just the right time to explore this new world.

Visual C++ Thread Debugging
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Nick Wienholt - 08/06/2008
Thread debugging can be one of the more difficult debugging exercises for a Visual C++ developer. The Visual Studio 2008 debugger contains a number of improvements that make thread debugging more productive, enabling code issues in multi-threaded applications to be identified and remedied faster.

Working with Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) Using SQL Server and ADO.NET
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Bipin Joshi - 07/28/2008
Want to store documents or photos in SQL server? Learn how SQL Server and ADO.NET together can provide an elegant solution for storing and retrieving BLOBs.

Using Stored Procedures and Parameters.AddWithValue
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Paul Kimmel - 07/25/2008
Developers working at all levels of experience can take advantage of this technique. Discover how to invoke a stored procedure with parameters using the AddWithValue method of the SqlParameterCollection to define SQL parameters in one step.

Generics: Base Class Constraint
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Michael.Heliso - 07/22/2008
Generics represent the new type introduced in .NET Framework 2.0. By understanding generics, you gain the ability to create classes, interfaces, methods, and delegates that can manipulate any kind of data in type safe mode. Certainly, you have noticed that many times you had to implement some logical functionality in your application but for different data types.

Introducing Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Unit Testing
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Jeffrey Juday - 07/14/2008
Learn how to build Unit tests and generate sample data for your database development projects.

Avoiding Annoying Mistakes in Your ASP.NET Web Applications
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Jani Järvinen - 06/30/2008
Learn to avoid subtle, yet common, web application design mistakes, and how to best solve them in your ASP.NET/C# web applications.

Auditing in SharePoint 2007
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Gustavo Velez - 06/27/2008
Careful registration of information in a Portal can be vitally important to a company, not only internally but also for possible juridical consequences. SharePoint 2007 has the necessary infrastructure to gather and conserve the entries in a secure way.

Working with the XML Data Type of SQL Server
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Bipin Joshi - 06/25/2008
Store XML data directly in SQL Server. Use the power of the XML data type to store and manipulate XML data efficiently and easily.

Moving and Sizing Pictureboxes
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Richard Newcombe - 06/23/2008
Cover a simple problem that often takes the longest time to solve because of the math required.

A Database Driven Reporting Application
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Chi-Wei Wang - 06/16/2008
Discover how reporting applications can adapt to changing reports by shifting its report-related information into a database.

Windows PE 2.0 Tutorial
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Anpino - 06/12/2008
Learn how to build a custom Windows image running a windows application like Vista installation.

Improving Visual C++ Debugging with Better Data Display
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Nick Wienholt - 06/10/2008
Code is run in a debugger for two main reasons: examining the branches of code that are being executed, and examining data values to determine why the code is behaving in a certain manner. Inspecting data values can be significantly improved by customizing the debug information. See how that can be done in the Visual C++ debugger.

Leveraging Content Types in SharePoint Document Libraries and Lists
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Daan De Brouckere and Raj Agarwal - 06/04/2008
Many organizations are not fully realizing the power of content types when using SharePoint. Here you will learn how to leverage content types and use them properly through examples.

Controlling SQL Text Indexing Services with SQL Managed Objects and VB.NET
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Paul Kimmel - 05/28/2008
Control the SQL Server service from your VB code using SQL Management Objects (SMO).

Choosing Between MVC and MVP Patterns in ASP.NET
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Oleg Zhukov - 05/22/2008
Probe for ASP.NET developers and choose the right pattern between MVC and MVP, concerning all major differences between them.

Writing CDs with C# and Windows XP's ICDBurn Interface
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Hannes du Preez - 05/21/2008
Learn how to write data to a CD while utilising XP's ICDBurn interface.

Creating a DockablePanel-Controlmanager Using C#, Part 7
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JonnyPoet - 05/15/2008
Going on to design a dockable panel, discover some very interesting techniques, such as hooking the mouse and how to debug an application in such cases. Learn to unpin a docked panel so it slides to the border of the main application.

.NET Tip: Sort an ArrayList Using a Custom Comparer Class
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Jay Miller - 05/09/2008
Provide your own comparison algorithm when sorting by implementing the IComparer interface.

Custom Paging for GridView
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Harsh Gupta - 05/07/2008
Learn how to create user controls to provide a customized paging solution for GridView.

.NET Tip: Writing to the Event Log
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Jay Miller - 04/30/2008
Create a class to add Error, Warning, and Information entries in the Windows event log.

.NET Tip: Sort Your Objects by Implementing the IComparable Interface
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Jay Miller - 04/18/2008
Allow your classes to easily be sorted they way you would like by implementing the IComparable interface.

ASP.NET FTP with SSL
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Jereme Guenther - 04/11/2008
This code snippet and document show how to connect to an FTP server with SSL enabled using ASP.NET. The code is written in C#.NET.

Lazy Loading the ASP.NET AJAX TabContainer Control
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Mark Strawmyer - 04/04/2008
Learn how to avoid possible performance problems in your web applications when using the ASP.NET AJAX TabContainer by employing a technique known as lazy loading.

.NET Tip: String Literals Without Escape Characters
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Jay Miller - 03/26/2008
Use @-quoted strings to avoid escape characters in your string literals.

Client Application Services: Getting Started
03/19/2008
By Vikas Goyal - Client Application Services simplifies the access to ASP.NET Application Services and thus helps in managing the user information, authentication, and authorization at a common place for both web and Windows Applications.

Fix Performance Problems Fast: Advanced VSTS Profiler Use
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Nick Wienholt - 03/04/2008
For large and complex applications, dealing with the amount of data collected can be difficult. See how the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Developer Edition Profiler can do an excellent job of finding performance problems by simply pointing it at an application and allowing it to collect data.

Using Connection Pooling in ADO.NET
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Bipin Joshi - 02/25/2008
Learn how ADO.NET connection pooling works and how to configure it to suit your performance requirements.

Using SSH Tunneling in Your Application
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SFTP NET Components - 02/22/2008
Use SSH tunneling to secure MySQL connections.

.NET Tip: Receive Notification When a File is Updated
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Jay Miller - 02/19/2008
Do you need to know when a file or directory has been updated? The FileSystemWatcher class gives you a very easy means to monitor the file system.

Turn Image Hotlinking to Your Advantage
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mendhak - 02/12/2008
Don't block hotlinked images; instead, learn how to label them to bring visitors to your web site and increase your web presence, even if you are restricted by a shared hosting environment.

.NET Tip: Return File Contents as a String
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Jay Miller - 02/12/2008
What do you do when you need to read in an entire file and process it as a string? Here is a simple solution.

How to Achieve Operational Overloading in WCF
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Dinesh Tawar - 02/07/2008
Learn how to achieve operational overloading in WCF.

[Updated] Accessing the Registry with VB6 and VB.NET
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Hannes du Preez - 02/04/2008
Discover the main differences between accessing the Registry with VB 6 and with VB.NET.

Sanity Checks for Your ASP.NET Web Site
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mendhak - 02/01/2008
Discover a few points to keep in mind during and after the creation of your web site, such as form referrer check, URL canonization, and so forth.

.NET Tip: Creating a Thread-Safe Singleton
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Jay Miller - 02/01/2008
The singleton pattern can be used in a wide variety of situations. This tip will show you how to create a thread-safe version of a singleton.

C# Language Highlight: Using Keyword
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Mark Strawmyer - 01/30/2008
Learn about the dual-purpose of the C# using keyword. Examine why it can be extremely helpful in object management, and the syntax for its use.

Callback and Controls Rendering (Manual Partial Page Rendering)
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Muhammad Adnan Amanullah - 01/29/2008
Learn about callback, a lightweight technique used to call server-side methods asynchronously from JavaScript without any postback and reloading/rendering of unnecessary parts of the page or unnecessary code.

ICallback and JSON-Based JavaScript Serialization
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Muhammad Adnan Amanullah - 01/25/2008
Learn to use JSON, a lightweight data interchange format to make server-side class' objects easily parse able by client side code to show output on the browser.

Nesting Transactions with a Single SQL Server Database
01/23/2008
By Jani Järvinen - Learn to nest your ADO.NET 2.0 transactions correctly with the TransactionScope class, and see how this information can be used with SQL Server databases.

ADO.NET Trace Logging
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Bipin Joshi - 01/22/2008
Apply the advanced trace log features of ADO.NET and improve your data access code.

Exporting .NET DLLs with Visual Studio 2005 to be Consumed by Native Applications
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Sogartar - 01/22/2008
Learn how to create a DLL, implementing the Stdcall calling convention. This DLL wraps a .NET DLL, which then is imported in MetaTrader 4 through the wrapper.

Dependency Injection with Spring.Net
01/22/2008
By David Consdorf - Take a look at Spring.Net—a framework aimed at providing infrastructural support—and see how it implements the concept of Dependency Injection, otherwise known as Inversion of Control.

Securing Sensitive Documents in SharePoint
01/18/2008
By Daan De Brouckere - Learn how to set up an optimal SharePoint document library—one that is secure, reliable, scalable, and still maintainable—where users can privately view their respective sensitive documents within a SharePoint portal.

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