http://dotnet.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Mujtaba Syed Copyright 2008 .NET DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:57:00 GMT .NET DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/45543.htmhttp://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/45543.htm Tue, 06 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft is releasing a new version of SQL Server after a gap of five years. This version (SQL Server 2005) introduces a horde of new attention-grabbing features like native XML storage and querying (using XQuery), CLR integration, SQL Web Services, query notifications, and the Service Broker. Apart from these high-profile enhancements, SQL Server 2005 also comes with improved T-SQL support. http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/45135.htmhttp://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/45135.htm Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT The next version of the Windows operating system (codenamed 'Longhorn') has a new storage subsystem (codenamed 'WinFS'). In this article, we will try to understand the need for 'WinFS'; define 'WinFS', its type system, and its data model; and learn how to write applications that take advantage of 'WinFS'. http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/44390.htmhttp://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/44390.htm Tue, 06 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT Building security into intranet Web applications was always easy: just turn on Windows authentication in IIS. But considering the size of the user base for Internet Web applications, custom form-based authentication is the only scalable solution. http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/39067.htmhttp://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/39067.htm Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT The Internet is a large, heterogeneous collection of interconnected systems. To leverage the distributed computing opportunities that the Internet offers, developers had to agree upon a way to represent data that would be exchanged over the Internet. And that way is XML. http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/39014.htmhttp://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/39014.htm Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT The deep permeation of the World Wide Web into the life of the common man has lent itself to a variety of uses, most notably as a backbone for business-to-consumer (B2C) communication, creating a new business model called e-commerce. This article traces the lifetime of an HTTP request from its inception inside a Web browser to its interception by IIS 6.0, its processing by ASP.NET 1.1, and an HTTP response being sent back to the browser. http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/38986.htmhttp://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/38986.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT Unmanaged resources are expensive. Therefore, you can't afford to have managed objects that encapsulate unmanaged resources lying dormant in memory waiting for the garbage collector to finalize them.