(James McCaffrey) The release of ASP.NET revolutionized Web development and made it easy to create full-featured Web applications. Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 will let you add even more functionality to your applications, but the more features a Web application has, the more important testing

(Alexander Wolfe) Microsoft is developing a home-grown version of the popular Python scripting language. Dubbed “IronPython,” the twist Microsoft is bringing to its implementation is that it will run on the .NET Framework, which is the Microsoft programming environment used to create Windows applica

(Christopher J. Williams) Many people use FrontPage to manage their hosted websites running on Microsoft IIS servers. Often times ASP applications such as the ones I sell at CJWSoft need a properly set up data connection in order to run. This means a System or DSN-Less connection must be set up and

(Graeme Simsion) Recently, I began a Data Modeling “Master Class” by asking participants to nominate the toughest challenges facing them in their professional work. Virtually all the responses were about “soft” or “political” issues: persuading project teams to include a data modeling phase, negotia

Refactoring is, very simply put, the revision of code in order to make it more efficient, maintainable and easier to work with. When code is successfully refactored, its performance in execution will be improved and it will be more accessible to a wider range of subsequent developers. This download

(Dimitrios Markatos) In simple terms data caching is storing data in memory for quick access. Typically information that is costly to obtain (in terms of performance) is stored in the cache. One of the more common items stored in a cache in a Web application environment is commonly displayed databas

(Dino Esposito) Partial classes are a hot new feature of the next .NET compilers.Specifically designed to overcome the brittleness of tool-generated code, partial classes are a source-level, assembly-limited, non-object-oriented way to extend the behavior of a class. A number of advantages deriv

(Tina Zuffoletti) InfoPath 2003 is Microsoft’s answer to the next generation of electronic forms that enables users to do business electronically. It is a powerful forms-creation tool and a key application released with the Microsoft Office 2003 suite that can be used as an interface to help gather

(Juval Lowy) Windows Forms intranet applications often resort to storing user credentials in a database even when deployed in a homogenous Windows environment. This stems from the limitations of using Windows accounts. For ASP.NET applications, the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 provides out-of-the-bo

(Dale Oberg) Convert code from Visual Basic for Applications to Visual Basic .NET when migrating to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System. This document highlights the reasons to migrate, the major code conversion issues, and additional resources for further details.