(Michèle Leroux Bustamante) In May 2005, Microsoft introduced its vision for an identity metasystem that would reduce the complexities and risks associated with managing and exchanging digital identities. This vision-discussed in the article “Microsoft’s Vision for an Identity Metasystem” explains i

(Tony Patton) The past two weeks I have examined using ASP.NET 2.0’s GridView data control to view and manipulate data within a Web page. (You can catch up on parts one and two here.) While the GridView control makes it easy to work with sets of data, you often need to work with the data in individu

(Alejandro Gervasio) The mediator design pattern can help you achieve and maintain synchronization between a group of PHP classes. In this first of a two-part series, you’ll be introduced to the mediator pattern, how it functions, and how it can help you with your application development.

(Scott Lysle) Visual Studio 2005 includes the Toolstrip container and Toolstrip controls; used together, these controls allow the end user to drag and drop toolstrips to the edges of the screen such that at run time, the user can reposition the toolbars to the top, bottom, left, or right edges of th

(Billy Hollis) The most common type of data to manipulate in most applications is textual data, which developers usually store in strings. String handling has always been a strong point for the Basic family of languages, and the .NET version of Visual Basic gives you quite a few new tricks for manip

(Tess Ferrandez) I’m sorry I haven’t had a chance to write much lately because of a lot of different reasons. I moved houses and at the same time I started writing some managed debugging scripts for debugdiag 1.1 to allow it to automatically catch a lot of the issues that I’ve been writing about be

(Sanjit Sil) We can add any number of files and folders within the application without recompiling each and every time a new file is added to the overall solution. ASP.NET2.0 has the capability to automatically precompile ASP.NET application dynamically. In case of ASP.NET 1.0 or ASP.NET 1.1 everyth

(Scott Roberts and Hagen Green) At this point in the book, you not only know how to design form templates that look nice but you can also take advantage of most of the basic (and some not so basic) features available when using InfoPath in design mode. Now you can create professional-looking forms i

(Kathleen McGrath and Paul Stubbs) Code that runs within the .NET Framework is considered managed code. This includes applications written in languages such as Visual C# and Visual Basic 2005. Code that is not managed by the .NET Framework is typically referred to as unmanaged code. This includes ap

(Paul Kimmel) Relaxed delegates, one feature among the slew of new stuff coming in “Orcas” (VB 9.0 and .NET 3.5), provide more options for binding event handlers to events—even if the method/handler signatures don’t match exactly. Some relaxation of method binding was introduced in VB 8.0 and .NET 2