Complex data binding expressions in ASP.NET

Complex Data Binding Expressions in ASP.Net by Fritz Onion

New Patterns & Practices: Upgrading VB6 to VB.NET and VB 2005

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Microsoft's Patterns & Practices group has published a new guide in its series of books. The title is "Upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 2005."

This guide is intended for software technical decision makers, solution architects, and software developers who are involved in Visual Basic 6.0 application or component development. It helps individuals understand the issues and risks that go along with upgrading to Visual Basic .NET. It also provides steps for preparing your applications for a successful and cost-effective upgrade. Finally, it gives ideas and pointers about how advance your application after you successfully upgrade it to Visual Basic .NET.

The 700+ page book consists of 21 chapters and is organized into the following four parts:
General Upgrade Practices
Understanding the Upgrade Process
Manual Upgrade Tasks
Beyond the Upgrade

/Gill

patterns and guidance available for securing web services with WSE 3.0 and Indigo.

Web Service Security Guide

Brief Description
Scenarios, Patterns, and Implementation Guidance for Web Services Enhancements 3.0. This guide will help you quickly make the most appropriate security decisions in the context of your Web service's requirements while providing the rationale and education for each option.

Overview
This guide will help you quickly make the most appropriate security decisions in the context of your Web service's requirements while providing the rationale and education for each option. A scenario-driven approach is provided to demonstrate situations where different security patterns are successful. The guide also combines a series of decision matrices to assist you in applying your own criteria to use the Web service security patterns to meet the requirements of your environment.

CorasWorks Free Web Part - WSS Cross-Site Search

Todd from MindSharpBlog has posted on the free webpart for searching across website, which out of the box, WSS does not do.

Here is the download URL but please do the read the

Microsoft Uses Ajax To Web-enable Corporate IM

Microsoft Uses Ajax To Web-enable Corporate IM
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/180531/207397/3931/0/

Embedding SQL Server Express into Custom Applications

Embedding SQL Server Express into Custom Applications
By: Additional Articles (from MSDN Developer Community)

This white paper discusses how to integrate and deploy Microsoft SQL Server Express-based applications by using configuration files and the ClickOnce deployment technology in Microsoft Visual Studio.

Patterns & Practices: Enterprise Development Reference Architecture

Overview
The Enterprise Development Reference Architecture (EDRA) – previously code named "Shadowfax" – provides architectural guidance that an organization can use to standardize and improve the development of distributed systems.EDRA includes an extensible application framework, four QuickStarts, an application template, and supporting documentation. The Global Bank Reference Implementation (GBRI) is also available, which is a sample application that uses patterns & practices guidance (including EDRA) in an online banking scenario.

Did you know there Hands-On-Labs for EDRA? (from gotdotnet)
EDRA Hands On Labs (08/02/2005 • News) Southworks is pleased to announce the release of its EDRA Workshop material to the community! You can find the documentation in the workspace downloads section.

WinFX's Windows Workflow Foundation explained.

Dave's detailed post on the different types of workflow that WF supports and which to use when. This is good post to get started with WF.

Ten Essential Tools : Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now

Read the article from James Avery about Ten Essential Tools for VS 2003 and VS 2005 developers. James wrote a article last year on ".NET Tools: Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now" but those were stand-alone tools which did not integrate into Visual Studio.

The article this year, he is doing just that: talking about tools which are Visual Studio Add-Ins.

This year's top ten Visual Studio Add-In Tools are:

TestDriven.NET
GhostDoc
Paster
CodeKeep
PInvoke.NET
VSWindowManager PowerToy
WSContractFirst
VSMouseBindings
CopySourceAsHTML
Cache Visualizer

Last years top tool were:
Snippet Compiler
Regulator
CodeSmith
NUnit
FxCop
Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector
NDoc
NAnt
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