(Scott Mitchell) Microsoft Visual Web Developer and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition make it easy to design, develop, and test ASP.NET web applications locally. In my books, tutorials, and classes, the explanations, examples, and assignments often use these tools to develop web applications locally.

(Arun Sundararaman) Just as with any other software application involving different technologies (such as the mainframe, Java or Microsoft), testing is a very crucial phase in the software development lifecycle for data warehouse/ business intelligence (DW/BI) projects. Testing for DW/BI carries uni

(Paul Kimmel) At some level, I suspect most programmers want the best of Windows development—rich clients—and Web development—high bandwidth and easy deployment. The fact is that many people and entities seem to be working on it, openly.

(Kathleen McGrath) One of my favorite features in the latest version of VSTO is the Ribbon Designer. The Ribbon Designer makes it easy to customize the Ribbon in your Office applications. In VSTO 2005 SE, you could add a Ribbon Item to your project and then add XML markup, along with code in callb

(Oleg Sobol) This article shows an implementation of a couple of custom viewstate providers using ASP.NET 2.0 Provider architecture and the Provider Model design pattern.

This article contains PHP function ae_bar_html for generating HTML/CSS based one-column bar charts. It is suitable for simple diagrams and does not require libgd.

(Justin Hay) Retaining the history of slowly changing dimensions, such as Store or Product, in the context of a star schema data mart is well documented. There are three approaches: –Update the existing row with the new value, –Create a new row for the new value, and –Create a set of field

(Tony Patton) An important topic when working with .NET directories is security; that is, you want the users who need to access a directory to have it and restrict other users from the directory. This article examines the details of controlling and setting security at the directory level.

(Adam Nathan) To finish Part I of this book, and before getting to the really fun topics, it’s helpful to examine some of the main concepts that WPF introduces above and beyond what .NET programmers are already familiar with. The topics in this chapter are some of the main culprits responsible for W

(Darryl K. Taft) Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community will announce the availability of the NetBeans 6.0 Integrated Development Environment Preview release at the company’s NetBeans Day prelude to its annual JavaOne conference.