(Matthew David) Unless you’ve been sleeping, you’ve noticed a change in the way we architect solutions. The foundation for the post-Web 2.0 world is to leverage services, such as SOAP and WSDL, to connect to clients. The client can be a web browser, server, or client solution—Apple’s iTunes being th

(John Peterson) If you’ve been curious about what to expect in the next version of IIS, there’s no need to wonder any more. Microsoft quietly slipped the latest version of their web server, IIS7, into the recent release of Windows Vista. This article will give you a quick look at the all new managem

(Chris Hambleton) The GridViewDetailsView control is an ASP.NET user control that displays a fully-featured GridView-DetailsView (Master/Detail) Control with the capability to edit existing records, insert new records, and delete records, along with sorting, filtering, and paging. The control can be

(Jeff Cogswell) For many years, Microsoft Office products have made use of a type of file called structured storage. This file type, which will soon be moved to the wayside, is a proprietary format that has its roots in the precursor to today’s ActiveX technology (called OLE, or Object Linking and E

(Chad Campbell) With the introduction of the .NET 3.0 Framework, Microsoft made the DependencyObject and the DependencyProperty fundamental concepts, placing them at the forefront of development. Using these two items in conjunction enables .NET developers to expose some of the powerful features of

(Irina Medvinskaya) Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) may represent Web requests, FTP requests, files, news, and e-mail. Whenever you need to work with URIs and determine a particular portion of a given URI, you can utilize the System.URI class available in Visual Studio .NET. This class allows yo

(Scott Mitchell) One of the most sure-fire ways to improve a web application’s performance is to employ caching. Caching takes some expensive operation and stores its results in a quickly accessible location. ASP.NET version 1.0 introduced two flavors of caching: –Output Caching – caches the en

(Sahil Malik) Web applications today do a number of things. A Web site could be a banking site, a content management system, or a news center. In spite of this diversity, it almost always makes sense to break a Web page into smaller, reusable widgets that you can share in any other part of the site

(Mads Kristensen) In ASP.NET 2.0 it is now possible to create asynchronous pages in a very simple and easy way.

(Zach Smith) Interprocess communication, or “IPC”, allows one process to communicate with another process that is running on the same computer. Since the calls don’t have to travel over the network, IPC calls have much less overhead and are typically faster than calls that do travel over the network