(Brian Noyes) Windows Workflow Foundation (or WF for short) is a new technology that is part of the Windows Framework (WinFX — the new managed API for Windows). WF allows you to compose applications out of high-level building blocks representing the activities that the application performs. Using W

(Tom Archer) While data for professional-caliber applications is most typically stored in traditional database systems, sometimes the data your application must use is in text format. This includes situations where you are accessing a small amount of test data, as well as scenarios where another sys

(Patrick Santry) If you’re developing for the Web then you should familiarize yourself with some Search Engine Optimization or SEO concepts. The idea here is to make your ASP.NET application as friendly as possible for spiders, and the specific spider we’re talking about is Google.

(Joydip Kanjilal) Microsoft .NET is a framework for distributed, portable, scalable computing. This article discusses the features of the framework and the related terminologies, provides an insight to its architecture, and then discusses ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, Remoting, and the robust secu

(Dino Esposito) Should you use DataGrid or GridView in ASP.NET 2.0? Is SqlDataSource perhaps more appropriate than ObjectDataSource for building a data access layer? Are cookies evil or is a cookieless solution worse? These are only some common questions that developers will ponder as ASP.NET 2.0 ta

(Fritz Onion) I’m becoming more and more enamored with the declarative databinding model of ASP.NET 2.0 the more that I use it. One issue that it deals with rather nicely is the asymmetric nature of join queries and their corresponding update statements, which I find to be one of the most common que

(Raymond Lewallen) I see this topic quite a bit on newsgroups and in microsoft chats. People ask how and what to monitor to check out the performance of their application. First and foremost, I tell people to get CLRProfiler.

This walkthrough shows you how to use the DESCryptoServiceProvider class to encrypt and decrypt strings using the cryptographic service provider (CSP) version of the Triple Data Encryption Standard (TripleDES) algorithm. The first step is to create a simple wrapper class that encapsulates the 3DES a

(Deborah Kurata) Gaining the full potential of object binding requires more than just dragging and dropping your properties onto forms. In this article I’ll present a few tricks you need to know to get the most from your object binding.

(David M. Beazley) All the data stored in a Python program is built around the concept of an object. Objects include fundamental data types such as numbers, strings, lists, and dictionaries. It’s also possible to create user-defined objects in the form of classes or extension types. This chapter des