Use FTP or HTTP POST to transfer files over the Internet with .NET. Also learn how to secure a database Connection string.
Learn how to create an RSS feed for publishing data to subscriber apps. You can use the handy RssGen sample component as a starting point for your own data feed generator.
- By Stan Schultes
- 04/01/2004
Use a template to create a consistent look and feel for a Web site that doesn't require the end user who updates the site to be a programmer himself.
Enhance the DataSet class with inheritance and extend its associated XML schema to hook validation checks and custom validation routines into DataSets declaratively.
- By Enrico Sabbadin
- 03/01/2004
Find out how Active Directory Application Mode and Windows Authorization Manager can simplify security, personalization, and configuration for your directory-enabled applications.
- By Enrico Sabbadin
- 03/01/2004
Use Word's spell check from within your .NET application.
- By Fabio Ferracchiati
- 02/01/2004
The XmlSerializer class provides a great way to convert objects to XML and back. However, it can be difficult to serialize collections such as Arrays and ArrayLists properly unless you know a few tricks.
Take advantage of the GDI+ graphics library to change the orientation of the label controls in an application; also, use Word's spell check from within your .NET application.
- By Fabio Ferracchiati
- 02/01/2004
The upcoming Windows version's refactored API and new graphics-presentation model, storage subsystem, and messaging services will bring development opportunities -- and challenges.
- By Roger Jennings
- 02/01/2004
Learn new features to jazz up your WinForms apps with this month's handy FileWatch utility. FileWatch monitors files and directories for changes, and runs as a task tray icon.
- By Stan Schultes
- 02/01/2004
Use the Lists Web service and CAML to update Windows SharePoint Services' MSDE database.
- By Roger Jennings
- 02/01/2004
Longhorn includes significant changes that will affect developers, from how it handles graphics to how it stores data. Learn how to create a simple Longhorn app.
- By Brent Rector
- 02/01/2004
New controls, enhanced data binding, and improvements to existing controls make WinForms programming with VS.NET's upcoming version easier and more versatile.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 01/01/2004
Version 2 of the .NET Framework introduces XML-to-relational data mapping, support for XQuery, and typed APIs. Find out why these changes are great news for B2B app development.
You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.
- By Bob Beauchemin
- 01/01/2004