I am sure that most of you have heard about or have had a chance to use Google Maps. It's a great service and I was really impressed by the responsiveness of the application and the ease with which users could drag and zoom maps from a Web browser. It has in many ways heralded the arri...

PowerBuilder 11.0 supports deploying existing PowerBuilder client/server business applications as an ASP.NET WebForm application. This greatly improves developer productivity without having to learn a new development language and preserves PowerBuilder development skills. Although the ...

Developer Express announced the immediate availability of its reporting platform for WinForms and ASP.NET – the XtraReports Suite v2008 vol 2. Built and optimized for Visual Studio, the DevExpress suite of reporting components allows software developers to deliver cutting-edge capabi...

One of the reasons that ASP.NET has become popular as a framework for Web developers is the availability of third-party controls and tools. This third-party product support means that, when you’re developing features and functionality in an ASP.NET application, you have "buy versus b...

Come see a no-slides, code-only presentation that starts with a blank directory and builds a data-driven, AJAX enabled, ASP.NET web application from scratch that implements common AJAX patterns with the rich set of AJAX Control Toolkit, accesses data with LINQ, and implements standards...

Have you ever wished you could run ASP.NET applications on Linux, without having to rewrite your code or leave the Visual Studio development environment? In this article, I show you how to port Steve Clements' AJAX ASP.NET RSS Reader to native Java and deploy it to Apache Tomcat on Lin...

ASP.NET developers are bored with traditional books that outline concepts in a lengthy way. These books are good if you like to learn the features in a detailed manner. However, by the time the book is read, a new version will be released. Hence, many learners including myself prefer s...

CLINQ v1.1 has been released. Some of you may have already downloaded some of the new builds, but here's a rundown of what the new release includes: Support for Continuous Aggregation. Now, in addition to being able to have your result sets automatically update themselves in response t...

As soon as ASP.NET systems grow to the point that more than a single Web server needs to be deployed, decisions need to be mode about where the session state will be held. By default, ASP.NET session state lives in the memory of the server hosting the application. The problem with this...

One of the big buzzwords that rose to fame in 2005 was 'Ajax.' The term 'Ajax' was first coined by Jesse James Garrett in his essay 'Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications' (www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php), and it refers to the use of asynchronous JavaSc...

In the past few months, the design pattern of combining Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) to develop highly interactive Web applications has been growing in popularity. High-profile Web applications such as Google Maps and A9 are currently leveraging the combination of these techn...

The new family of bound controls lets developers build data-driven applications almost without writing a line of code at page level, but there's more work to do to build really robust, fully featured controls. With the new version of .NET Framework, developers can extend base controls ...

You already know the sheer productivity advantages of developing applications that run on the .NET framework using the Visual Studio.NET IDE, and have likely developed and deployed one or more of these in the years since they became generally available. But did you know that you can do...

ComponentArt has released version 2006.1 of its next-generation 3D charting line: ComponentArt Charting for .NET. The release consists of WebChart for ASP.NET for web-based solutions, and WinChart for .NET for Windows Forms development, and the controls are available individually or to...

Web sites are based on a client-server model. While the client (usually a browser) can use client-side script such as JavaScript to do simple tweaking of existing data, getting new data requires a request to the server. The server does the heavy processing and makes a response back, wh...

On the eve of the official release of .NET 2.0, developers around the world were anxiously waiting and priming their PCs for a speedy download from MSDN. And who could blame them? Microsoft's .NET development platform has been a hit with the developer community ever since the first bet...

Recently, a number of Web sites have begun to raise some eyebrows within the developer community. What's unique about these sites is that they behave more like a desktop application than a Web application. As you interact with them, they quickly display an endless amount of information...

Before there were Web parts, DotNetNuke created installable private assemblies nicknamed modules to encapsulate the functionality desired within a modular environment. It doesn't take much experience developing modules for DotNetNuke before you start asking the age-old questions: I kno...

Did you know that the terminology known as skinning has been around for quite some time, but never in the hands of mainstream designers and Web developers in the content management space? Simple skinning or skin themes, which are more familiar, started back in the days of Windows when ...

One underutilized technique for maximizing code reuse and increasing developer productivity is the creation and utilization of ASP.NET Server controls. Even when the problem domain is well known and understood, each new project has many developers starting at square one, dragging and d...

I'm working on an application where I built a custom membership provider because of custom database scheme requirement. My custom membership provider is using the hashed format for passwords and user answers. I've got that working and now want to deploy the new application including th...

In December 2004 it was decided that DotNetNuke would break out its existing core modules into separate Projects so that they could be enhanced, released, and supported independently from the core Web Application Framework. It was further decided that some additional modules would also...

Over the past few years, a paradigm shift of monumental proportions has been quietly occurring on the World Wide Web. The traditional 'brand-builder' Web site whose sole purpose was the delivery of static marketing information to potential customers has finally lost its appeal. Fuelled...

RSS is the technology driving the blogging craze that's sweeping the Internet, but it's far more than a blogging technology. It's a prime foundation on which to build 'service-oriented' applications.

Since the introduction of CGI in 1993, the Web has become an increasingly popular medium for interactive content and application development. The evolution of Web programming has come a long way in 12 years, and new technologies are being introduced on an almost daily basis. As a devel...

While meeting with the development staff of a local company we began discussing a project that the CIO had assigned them earlier that morning. The project was actually the first in a series of about 15 planned Web sites scheduled over the next year. Each site was designed to expose sal...

This article is the third part of the series of articles in this journal to describe our Aspect.NET project an aspect-oriented programming (AOP) framework for Microsoft.NET based on a number of new ideas (for the first two articles, see #4 and 5 in the References section).

Since their conception, Web services have evolved into a core component of software architectures worldwide. The ability to easily distribute processing, allow access via the Internet, and componentize architectures makes Web services a compelling choice for interoperability among syst...

One of the most basic ways to navigate within an application is by use of a tab control. Tabs are easy to use and users are very familiar with them. There have been many implementations of tab controls for Web applications, but they had often required advanced client-side script that w...

Security is a very broad field. Even if you have been reading all sorts of security books, monitoring all SecurityFocus mailing lists, subscribing to various RSS feeds, and reading new security whitepapers, virus writers can still exploit the latest vulnerability and successfully carry...

Rapid application development can be greatly enhanced by using third-party toolsets. These toolsets let a developer add controls or classes whose capabilities represent months of development time in a matter of seconds. Infragistics, a market leader in user interface tools, enhances it...

Since the advent of Web development, Web developers have sought a way to provide a consistent look and feel across the Web application. This pursuit has resulted in different custom solutions. With the introduction of master pages in ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has finally brought the suppo...

The introduction of ASP.NET in 2002 signified a big change in Microsoft server-side technologies for building Web sites. It represented a shift from the interpreted Active Server pages (ASP) to compiled ASP.NET pages. The compiled ASP.NET Web applications were much faster than the inte...

Programmatically posting data to a traditional ASP page is an extremely useful and well-known technique. However, I recently discovered that posting data to an ASP .NET Web application from another program is not well understood and requires several new programming tricks.

ASP.NET has done an exceptional job of evolving the 3 and n-tier web model, in particular the business logic layer. .NET server controls such as DataGrids, DataLists, and Calendar controls provide adequate presentation- tier elements, but their reliance on outdated Web technologies lim...

ASP.NET version 1.0 and 1.1 were giant leaps forward in making data-driven Web sites easier to create. With only a few lines of code you can create Web sites that dynamically query and update databases, XML files, and more.

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.

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 ...

In the early days of .NET Web services, using a Web service to accept binary data required converting the data to something that could be represented in XML. Surely you remember those days - back before December 2002. With the release of Web Service Enhancements (WSE) 1.0, followed sho...

You have probably not escaped seeing the latest commercials for Microsoft Windows Server 2003, which urge listeners to 'do more with less'; this has been an aim of software engineering since the very beginning.