(Shash Anand, Aileen Guan, Walfrey Ng and Madeline Fok) Imagine the number of prospective clients that are searching for goods and services, such as yours right now. Is your company’s Web site designed to ensure that prospective clients can locate your site when using a search engine? More and more
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Themes and Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 – A Perfect Combination
(Steven Swafford) Themes are simply templates that allow you to define the look of your web forms and controls and they may be utilized in your web application to provide a consistent user interface. A skin is a template that contains a set of properties used to standardize the various attributes o
Top 10 Enhancements in SQL 2005 Notification Services
(Joe Webb) When Microsoft created SQL Server Notification Services (SSNS) as an add-on to SQL Server 2000, they endeavored to create a robust framework for developing and hosting scalable notification applications using technologies already familiar to many developers – XML, Transact-SQL, the .NET F
Caching Part II (Output Caching)
(Abey George) Output caching can be used when the content of your page is fairly static. It provides the capability to cache response generated from dynamic pages for the purpose of increasing the application performance. In order for a page to be cached using output caching it must have an expirati
Using Model-View-Controller Architecture with ASP 3.0
(Adeel Javed) Web applications are getting more and more complex day by day. With complexity, arise issues like difficulty in development, maintenance and scalability of the application. So in order to develop complex applications we have to keep these problems in mind. Software Engineer’s have been
Automate XML file updates, Part 1: XML process introduction and conversion stylesheet creation
(Tom Coppedge) This is the first part of a three-part tutorial series that describes a method for automating updates to a library of XML files so that they all conform to an updated XML schema. Here, in Part 1, you learn the steps in the entire process and then create an XSLT stylesheet to update th
Microsoft SQL Database Documentor
(gogglin) This project uses Crystal Reports to generate a database schema listing on a Microsoft SQL database. The listing includes extended column information including the column descriptions. This project requires Visual Studio 2003 or 2005, .NET Framework 1.1, and the Crystal Reports for Visual
10 steps to fortify the security of your MySQL installation
For those who wish to enhance or fortify the security of the MySQL installation the following technical 10 steps are a good start.
Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 6: Employ the Semantic Web
(Frank Coyle) The word semantic comes from semantikos, the Greek word for significant meaning. The vision of the semantic web is to infuse meaning to the innumerable pages, links, and resources that populate the World Wide Web. But, as with web services, we’re not just talking about meaning for huma
XMLSpy just keeps getting better
(Ed Tittel) Those who’ve been following my XML tips for any length of time will recognize that I have a penchant for XML tools and that Altova’s XMLSpy keeps popping up among my very favorites at least once a year. That’s why I recently read about SQL Server Magazine’s selection of this excellent to