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 May 8, 2008 - Building a .NET Console Application for Scheduled Tasks
This article walks you through the process of building a simple .NET command-line application that is designed to be scheduled to execute. The sample application will send an HTTP request to a web server and send the returned HTML as the body of an email message. Once the application is complete, the article will examine how to schedule it to run using Windows Scheduled Tasks.
April 24, 2008 - Designing N-Tiered Data Access Layer Using Datasets - Part 4
Part of the business logic encapsulated in the Typed DataSet is the ability to add specialized queries to the table adapters to retrieve the data with different filters. By manipulating the XML schema that defines the dataset and adding the correct XML metadata, Visual Studio will generate the added queries for us. In this article, filtering queries will be automatically added to each table adapter for each field that is indexed on the table in the database.
April 11, 2008 - Using OpenSearch to Create a Multi-Search Form
This article shows how you can build a search form that will search a number of different sources without the need for a different textbox for each. It even incorporates some basic OpenSearch functionality in order to allow the easy addition of new search providers.
March 27, 2008 - Managing FTP Transfers from an ASP.NET Web Page
While most of us are no strangers to FTP, performing file transfers from a web page is not that common of a requirement. Come to find out, .NET handles it quite well. The trick is keeping it simple.
March 13, 2008 - Extending the Win Forms Binding Source Component
The binding source component in Visual Studio 2005/2008 Windows Forms provides a valuable service for data driven applications by providing automatic data binding between controls and the data source. This article shows how the functionality can be extended to add a few features to make it even more useful.
Microsoft Wades Deeper Into Systems Management
Microsoft said during its Management Summit today in San Diego that its System Center Operations Manager 2007 management application will be available this April 1.
Vista Sales Better Than Expected
Microsoft announced that early sales of Windows Vista are outpacing those that XP experienced, putting it on the road to become the fastest-adopted version of Windows in the company's history.
Ballmer Pushes The Dynamic in SaaS
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer concluded the company's Convergence 2007 conference on Wednesday with a demo of the upcoming Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live service, the first release of the company's Dynamics software as a service.
Microsoft Speeds Toward Office Standard Approval
Microsoft is today one step closer to seeing its Office Open XML (OOXML) format anointed as a standard.
Not Quite Office on Demand For Microsoft
Microsoft's definition of on-demand software is different from the conventional thinking. Rather than software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft executives like to talk about software plus services.
Caching Oracle Data for ASP.NET Applications
Narayan Veeramani shows how ASP.NET developers can improve application performance by caching data stored in an Oracle database and keeping the cached data in sync with the data in the Oracle database.
The Perfect Service - Part 1
The first article in this two-part series shows how to get Ambrose Little's .NET Service Manager running and then how to add plug-n-play services to it using drag-n-drop or XCOPY.
Advanced UI Design Using XML and XSL
Joe Slovinski explains how to use XML and XSL to create a Web-based folder tree. Using XML and XSL makes this tree low maintenance and when transformed on the client can reduce load on your server.
Using Open Source .NET Tools for Sophisticated Builds
Building an application can be more than pressing F5. With an increasing number of quality packages being released, developers for the .NET platform now have options to create a very sophisticated build process. Aaron Junod describes a sample build environment and shows how a number of tools can work together to make reliable, predictable, and value-added builds.
Tracing in .NET and Implementing Your Own Trace Listeners
Mansoor Ahmed Siddiqui explains debugging and tracing and shows how to create custom trace listeners to help ensure hassle-free development.
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