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Writing a Custom Membership Provider for the Login Control in ASP.NET

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:26:56 GMT

A solid article on how to write a membership provider for ASP.NET.

ClickOnce Deployment in .NET Framework 2.0

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:24:52 GMT

It is very common among the developers of previous generations to choose web applications over rich Windows UIs because of the deployment challenges associated with deploying a Smart Client Windows Forms application. However with the release of Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft has released a new technology named ClickOnce that is designed to solve the deployment issues for a windows forms application. This new technology not only provides an easy application installation mechanism but also enables easy deployment of upgrades to existing applications. This article will demonstrate how to take advantage of the excellent features of the ClickOnce deployment technology by discussing examples on how to utilize this new feature.

New Files and Folders in ASP.NET 2.0

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:22:35 GMT

With the release of ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has greatly increased the power of ASP.NET by introducing a suite of new features and functionalities. As part of this release, ASP.NET 2.0 also comes with a host of new special files and folders that are meant to be used to implement a specific functionality. In this article, we will get an understanding of these new files and folders by examining them in detail. Along the way, we will also look at examples that demonstrate how to utilize those files and folders to create ASP.NET 2.0 applications.

Web Applications: N-Tier vs. N-Layer

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:01:00 GMT

One of the best posts presenting the pro's AND con's of layers and tiers in an application. Additionally gives some solid references to external resources.

MSDN Beta Homepage

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:25:00 GMT

My MSDN is a gateway to a personalized view of Microsoft's online resources for developers: articles, knowledge base bulletins, webcasts, and downloads. With My MSDN, resources available on MSDN are intelligently filtered to display content on topics you're most interested in. As My MSDN grows, it will become the first place you'll want to look for information, solutions, and other resources from Microsoft.

Building a DAL using Strongly Typed TableAdapters and DataTables

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:31:00 GMT

Scott Guthrie walks us through using Visual Studio 2005 to build a data access layer for the Northwind database. He will be using the resulting DAL in soon to be published tutorials including master details, filtering, sorting, paging, 2-way data-binding, editing, insertion, deletion, hierarchical data browsing, hierarchical drill-down and optimistic concurrency.