(David Chappell) Provides an architectural overview of “Indigo,” Microsoft’s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. The paper covers Indigo’s relationship to existing distributed application technologies in the .NET Framework, the basics of creating and consuming Indig

(Keith Brown) This chapter provides the ins and outs of delegation, the process by which a server impersonating a client attempts to use that client’s credentials to access remote resources in Kerberos.

(Rajeev Kasturi) If you work at one of the approximately 12,000 companies that run SAP applications on Windows servers, SAP and Microsoft’s joint release of a portal development kit (PDK) for Visual Studio .Net 2003 presents a new possibility for agile application integration-assuming the SAP Enterp

(Rob Hawthorne) Just about everyone implements a roll-your-own security mechanism for his or her software applications. I’ve done it, many software companies have done it, and I am sure you have as well. But guess what: you don’t have to! With the release of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft introduced

(Saradha Gnanavel) New to .NET, wondering what this buzz word .NET is today’s happening in the development of enterprise applications and Web Services on Windows platforms! Here is a precise introduction for you. Come on let’s party!

(Tony Patton) String concatenation is a common aspect of almost every development effort. However, the combination of single and double quotes, along with escape characters, text, and plus signs (+) can be a bit overwhelming. (R)

(Javid Jamae) The new Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 (the developer version number is 1.5 and the code name is “Tiger”) provides many new features, among them is the ability to annotate Java program elements and to create custom annotation types. Development and deployment tools can then read

(Wangming Ye) Weaving together Web services to create cross-organizational business processes requires all partners to program to the same standard model and to avoid exposing proprietary implementations. After many years of promoting the interoperability among vendors through joint efforts on stand

(Jeanette Burriesci) Business intelligence products focus too intently on data; they must open their eyes to business processes, according to research by Forrester principal analyst Keith Gile. Without process orientation, BI supports strategic decisions much better than operational ones.

(Rachael Schoenbaum) ASP.NET ships with a number of controls designed for displaying data, such as the DataGrid, DataList, and Repeater. While the DataGrid is, by far, the most robust of the three data Web controls, the DataGrid’s layout of its data is fairly rigid. That is, with a DataGrid each rec