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12 Steps Toward SOA

Emerging patterns might help you understand how to implement SOA.

.NET Provides Choices, Options

The difference between VB.NET and C# boils down to whether you like semi-colons. .NET promises an opportunity to choose the best language for a given task without sacrificing power.

Write Secure Web Services

Use WSE 3.0 to secure your Web services and send binary data.

Resources for Security

Check out these links for additional information on security.

Is C# the Only Language that Matters?

Is C# winning vs. VB.NET?

Build Serviced Components the Right Way

Take advantage of these practical guidelines for implementing serviced components properly and reduce coding and maintenance headaches now?and in the future.

Encrypt and Decrypt Data in Yukon

SQL Server 2005's engine-based data encryption functions protect confidential information from unauthorized access and disclosure, and offer native key management as a bonus.

The Incredible Shrinking Programmer

Even recently, programming was considered a hot profession with almost limitless opportunities for making it big. How quickly things change. Today, programmers typically need to beef up their skill sets just to remain viable in the workplace.

Simplify Coding With Visualizers

Take advantage of visualizers in Visual Studio 2005 to make yourself more productive; also learn how to create your own custom visualizers.

Determine Performance Requirements

Take advantage of the Windows Management Interface to correctly gauge your application's performance requirements.

Deploying Critical Solutions With .NET

Readers who have made the leap to .NET aren't looking back. They say they're developing and deploying reliable, mission-critical apps that pay for themselves quickly.

Isolate and Eliminate Performance Issues

Check out the latest upgrades to your favorite VS.NET add-ins, including a product that helps you isolate and eliminate performance issues and memory leaks.

Let Users Search Your Site Easily

Check out the latest VS.NET add-ins, including a tool for enabling users to search your site more easily; and updated tools for reporting, charting, installation, and more.

Integrate the Client and Server

Take advantage of a new tool for integrating client-side activities with server-side resources in ASP.NET 2.0 by exploiting the ability to have client-side code call server-side routines.

Good Riddance to Browser-Based Apps

Smart clients will replace browser-based applications because they offer both a better user experience and a way to write more secure applications.

Communicate Between ASP.NET Controls

You can make yourself more productive and simplify your application logic by creating Web Parts that pass data between themselves.

Different Rules for Big Developers

Microsoft's announcement of its upcoming anti-virus and anti-spamware service has this reader questioning the wisdom of selling both the OS and after-market security services.

Mobile Apps Go Faster, Smaller, Better

Get in on programming's current sweet spot.

What's in a Name?

Readers debate whether Visual Basic .NET needs to drop Basic from its name.

Convert Between VB.NET and C#

Conversion between VB.NET and C# involves much more than adding or removing semi-colons and curly braces. Learn about differences between the two languages and how to simulate unique features of one language in the other.

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