(Scott Mitchell) While you, me, and other countless developers around the world have been learning and working with version 1.x of the .NET Framework over the last several years, the developers inside Microsoft have been hard at work on version 2.0. At the time of this article’s writing (April 27th,
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Not Quite Restful
(John E. Simpson) Nobody looks forward to forms. Stop a person on the street and ask them what they think about forms and you’ll get an earful. Curiously, though, in XML circles forms hold a great deal of interest. Admittedly, not the filling of forms per se, but the technology involved.
Encrypt Connection Strings in VS 2005 .config Files
(Paul Kimmel) In present editions of .NET, you can build connections with a .udl file, and copy and paste into a .config file. If you cleverly decided to encrypt your connection string, you could use the DataProtection (DPAPI) wrapper created in “Encrypt DataSets for Offline Storage”. All of these c
Classes
(Kendall Scott) This article will begin our look at the details of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) by exploring how we do basic modeling of things and concepts in the real world.
ASP.NET Development Through Web Controls and Declarative Programming
(Miguel A. Castro) Lately I’ve come to notice that no other programming term has more definitions than declarative programming. In this article, I will attempt to explain declarative programming in terms of how it applies to .NET development, specifically ASP.NET through the use of WebControls. I’ll
Picturing Program Design
(Kelli Wiseth) For millennia, people have been using graphical approaches—stick figures and the like—to communicate ideas. When the first programmers started creating applications for business users (and it quickly became clear that neither party understood the other’s language), once again stick fi
Programmability Features (Sample Chapter)
(Michael Otey) The new development features found in SQL Server 2005 are the accumulation of many man-years worth of effort both by the SQL Server development team as well as by the .NET Framework development team. The most significant of these new development features is the integration of the
Databases: Microsoft, IBM
(Barbara Darrow) If there is any doubt databases remain a tightly contested category, this year’s Channel Champions survey should remove it.
Golden’s Rules: Examining the growth of MySQL
(Bernard Golden) From my perspective, MySQL AB has come of age and is now reaping the rewards of pioneering and making a commitment to enterprise-level open source. (R)
Exploit Yukon’s XML Data Type
(Roger Jennings) Combining hierarchical XML content and relational columns in database tables is akin to mixing oil and water—the two data structures are unnatural partners. The original approach was to store XML documents as character large objects (CLOBs), which requires adding columns containing