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Textbox cursor is not getting displayed when right aligned.

2010-04-24T09:54:00.000-07:00

There is common issue that when we apply the style right align to asp.net text box or html textbox you can not see the cursor.

Solution:
Please apply following stylesheet

padding: 0 2px 0 0;

VB 6.0 to .NET conversion tools

2009-07-20T08:39:00.000-07:00

From the past few days I was searching for VB 6.0 to .NET conversion tools. Finally I tried to post some tools and some of the articles related to VB 6.0 to .NET conversion.

Tools:
vbTo
artinsoft
newcode

ispirer
Microsoft 1

Microsoft 2

Microsoft 3

Microsoft 4
vbMigration

Articles:
infosys White Paper

CodeGuru
MicroSoft

enjoy!!!

TechEd 2009 @ Hydrabad, India

2009-04-22T02:05:00.000-07:00

TechEd 2009 is starting from 13th May at Hydrabad.
Please visit following link to know more details.

http://www.microsoft.com/india/teched2009/

Visual Studio 2010 Overview

2009-01-28T08:54:00.000-08:00

Check the video for the Visual Studio 2010 at the following link.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Visual-Studio-2010-Overview/

SmallBasic : A New Language from MicroSoft

2009-01-27T08:54:00.002-08:00

MicroSoft Has launched New language for beginner programmers. You can find the video at the following link.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-The-Basics-of-SmallBasic/

C# and VB Coding Standards Reference Documents

2008-12-25T22:22:00.000-08:00

Clint Edmonson has gifted us for the holidays with free coding standards documents for C# and VB.

[You can get it here]

Thanks.

What is CAPTCHA?

2008-12-21T21:21:00.000-08:00

CAPTCHA is one of the spam blocking techniques. Click here to check the details of other spam blocking techniques.

A CAPTCHA is a type of word verification to ensure that the response is not machine generated.
The process usually involves server asking to enter user word displayed on the screen.

Ref - wikipedia

CAPTCHA in ASP.NET
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/CaptchaImage.aspx
http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2006/05/29/Preventing-Spam-With-An-ASP.NET-CAPTCHA-Control.aspx
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/community/aspnet/2/10061743/how-to-develop-word-verif.aspx

How to change the color of the infragistics ultrawebgrid cell on cell update

2008-12-19T04:27:00.000-08:00

Following is the JavaScript Code to change the cell color on update.
When we change the content of the cell CellChangeHandler gets called.
Hope this will help you!!!!

function UltraWebGrid1_CellChangeHandler(gridName, cellId){
//Add code to handle your event here.
var cell=igtbl_getCellById(cellId);
alert("Cell Changed. Cell Id :" + cellId);
cell.Element.style.backgroundColor="#87599F"
}

Run your .NET programs on Linux

2008-11-20T20:26:00.000-08:00

Novell has introduced Mono project which allows .NET programs to run on Linux.

Mono is the Mono is a cross platform, open source .NET development framework.

Click here to know more about mono.

perl ldap on windows xp

2008-11-13T21:31:00.000-08:00

Solution 1:
Using Windows 2000/2K3
Install the support tools for the OS. In 2000 run adsiedit.exe, in 2003, run mmc and add the snap-in for ADSI Edit (or run adsiedit.mmc?). Create a user with as
little permissions as you can and add this person to have read access on the domain by right clicking in adsiedit on
the domain and going to security.

Using Windows Server 2K3

Click Start->Run. Enter ldp. Click ok.
Click on Connection->Connect and connect to your AD server ip
Go to Connection->bind and connect with an admin-level password
Go to Browse->Modify and enter a DN like: CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=,DC=
Enter dSHeuristics as the attribute and 0000002 as the value. Click Enter. Click Run. Click Close.
Click View->Tree. Enter CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=,DC=.
Confirm that dSHeuristics now has the correct value.

For more information please click here.

Solution 2:Install cygwin then you can easily install the perl-ldap.

Hope this will help you Guys!!!

Round Function

2008-11-13T04:41:00.000-08:00

There are two modes for the math.round funtion.

1) This mode of rounding is known as MidpointRoundingToEven

If the one's digit is odd, it is changed to an even digit. Otherwise, it is left unchanged. This behavior follows IEEE Standard 754, section 4. It is sometimes called rounding to nearest or banker's rounding. It minimizes rounding errors that result from consistently rounding a midpoint value in a single direction.

2) The another available mode is MidpointRoundingAwayFromZero

The one's digit is always rounded up to the next digit. This is the most commonly known rounding method. It is known as symmetric arithmetic rounding.

Following URL might help you.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/library/ef48waz8(en-us).aspx

There is another approach rounding up and rounding down.

You can use these 2 function

1.Round down

' Rounds the number to specified number of decimal places
' with 0.5 rounded down.
Public Function RoundDown( _
ByVal numberIn As Double, _
ByVal roundTo As Integer) _
As Double
' Arguments : numberIn - The number to round
' roundTo - The number of digits to round to
' (positive for right of decimal, negative for left)
' Returns : The rounded number

Dim factor As Double
Dim temp As Double
Dim rounded As Double

factor = 10 ^ roundTo

temp = numberIn * factor
rounded = CType((CType(temp, Decimal)) / factor, Integer)

If Decimal.Subtract(CType(numberIn, Decimal), CType(rounded, Decimal)) > 0.5 / factor Then
rounded = rounded + 1 / factor
End If

Return rounded

End Function

2.Round up

' Rounds a number to a specified number of decimal places
' (0.5 is rounded up).
Public Function RoundUp( _
ByVal numberIn As Double, _
ByVal decimals As Integer) _
As Double
' Arguments : numberIn - The number to round
' decimals - The number of decimal places to round to
' (positive for right of decimal, negative for left)
' Returns : The rounded number

Dim factor As Double = 10 ^ decimals
Dim temp As Double = CType(numberIn * factor + 0.5, Decimal)

Return CType(temp / factor, Integer)

End Function

Connecting to VSS using VB.NET

2008-11-11T04:43:00.000-08:00

I have written a code to connect to VSS.

Hope this will help you.

Imports SourceSafeTypeLib

Private Function GetListOfDocs(ByVal projectVSSPath As String) As Data.DataTable
Dim vssDB As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSDatabase
Dim vssDBName As String
Dim doc As VSSItem
'Dim vssDocPath As String
'Dim fileNameToOpen As String
'Dim localDocPath As String
Dim usr As String
Dim pwd As String
Dim vssFolder As VSSItem
Dim docsFromVSSFolder As IVSSItems
Dim dtTable As Data.DataTable
Dim dtCol1 As Data.DataColumn
Dim dtCol2 As Data.DataColumn

Dim dtRow As Data.DataRow

Try
vssDB = New VSSDatabase

vssDBName = projectVSSPath
usr = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("VSSUserID")
pwd = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("VSSUserPwd")

'open sourcesafe db
vssDB.Open(vssDBName, usr, pwd)

'select the folder from which to list the documents
vssFolder = vssDB.VSSItem(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("FolderInVSS"), False)

'get the list of documents from the selected folder
docsFromVSSFolder = vssFolder.Items(False)

dtTable = New Data.DataTable
dtCol1 = New Data.DataColumn
dtCol2 = New Data.DataColumn
dtTable.Columns.Add(dtCol1)
dtTable.Columns.Add(dtCol2)

For Each doc In docsFromVSSFolder
'add the document names to datatable
dtRow = dtTable.NewRow()
dtRow.Item(0) = doc.Name

'add the projectvsspath to the datatable
dtRow.Item(1) = projectVSSPath

dtTable.Rows.Add(dtRow)
Next

Return dtTable

Catch ex As Exception
'Response.Write(ex)
'Response.Write("Documents not available!")
Finally
vssDB = Nothing
End Try

End Function
Regards,
Abhijeet Rajwade
Insurance SBU, Pune
L&T InfoTech Limited
Ph: +91 (20) 6641 6103
Blog: http://dotnetf1.blogspot.com/

JavaScript Enryption and Decryption

2008-11-10T19:47:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I found very much interesting article on Encryption and Decryption using Java Script.

You might find it interesting.

Check it out at JavaScript Enryption and Decryption

GridView with custom paging

2008-11-07T04:29:00.000-08:00

These are the different ways to implement the custom paging in the GridView. Hope this will help you in your coding. Happy Coding!!!!

Solution 1
Solution 2
Solution 3
Solution 4

Opening Excel file in browser window

2008-11-01T00:25:00.001-07:00

Sample code to write data in the excel format to the browser

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Overview

2008-10-26T03:41:00.000-07:00

Microsoft is planning to launch VS2010. To get the more information about it please click here.

Configuring VS2005 for debugging classic ASP

2008-10-19T21:54:00.000-07:00

In the migration projects like migration of classic ASP to .NET, we often need to configure the classic ASP on .NET environment. I am giving here step by step configuration to setup classic ASP in VS2005 environment.

1) Add the IWAM_machinename account to Debugger Users Group. Machine name is the name of your local development machine.

2) Ensure that the Debugger Users Group has Local Launch and Local Activation rights for the Machine Debug Manager.

3) Open the Component Services console (Administrative Tools -> Component Services) and drill down into the DCOM Config folder.
Select the Machine Debug Manager component and right-click to select Properties.
Select the Security tab and then click the Edit button in the Launch and Activation Permissions section.
If the Debugger Users group does not have Local Launch and Local Activation privileges then add it.

4) Enable that ASP debugging in IIS for the virtual directory.

5) Run iisreset from the command prompt just to make sure all settings take effect.

6) Attach the w3wp.exe process by selecting Debug -> Attach to w3wp process. Once the dialog appears, make sure the two check boxes at the bottom are selected otherwise you won’t see all the processes on the machine.

7 ) Select the w3wp.exe process that has a user of machinename\IWAM_machinename.
(If you don’t see this process it is because you’ve recently done an iisreset and the process hasn’t spun up.)

Now simply open a browser and navigate to one of your ASP pages and the process will start. You can then attach to it using the steps just described.
With this step completed you can now set breakpoints in either classic ASP code or ASP.NET 2.0 code and the debugger will stop on those breakpoints.

Hope this will help you guys!!!

Its time now to get connected with the Life.

2008-09-05T07:20:00.000-07:00

Join us at Virtual TechDays and discover how Microsoft can help you get more out of life.

Microsoft products and tools give you the productivity boost to quickly address your most time-consuming development, deployment and management challenges, which helps you better connect with life outside work. Don't take our word for it, though. Join your fellow colleagues and Tech Gurus at this online event and explore Microsoft products online, from the cosy confines of your workstations.

During the event, the Technical Experts from Microsoft will deliver 40+ free, in-depth sessions on latest Microsoft technologies that help you boost your productivity. Get set to access these online interactive sessions and provide instant feedback.

Be there at Virtual TechDays and learn about:

Register for Microsoft Virtual TechDays Sessions on September 17, 18 and 19 at http://connectwithlife.co.in/vtd

Singleton Object

2008-09-03T23:36:00.000-07:00

Singleton can be defined as a class which ensuresthat it has only one instance and provide a global point of access to it.

I got very interesting article which clearly explains it.

Please click here to read it.

Windows Mobile Basics : Useful links

2008-07-28T00:15:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends,

I would like to post this article conatining links which explains the basics of widows mobile.

Hope you will like it.

http://dotnetf1.blogspot.com/2008/01/mobile-application-basics-part-1.html

http://tamsppc.tamoggemon.com/2008/01/02/pointui-alternative-ui-for-windows-mobile/

http://www.developer.com/net/article.php/10916_3562346_1

http://www.pocketinformant.com/Forums/index.php?autocom=blog&blogid=1&showentry=54

http://www.mobileviews.com/blog/2007/11/20/back-to-basics-windows-mobile-battery-life/

http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/w-p/ce/pocketpc/article.php/c14573/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa454894.aspx

http://ilovevb.net/Web/blogs/vbmobile/default.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/zpong.aspx

If I get any more links I will post comment to this link.
Thanks,

How to enable scripting in your browser

2008-07-25T05:53:00.000-07:00

1) On the Tools menu, click Internet Options, and then click the Security tab.
2) Click the Internet zone.
3) If you do not have to customize your Internet security settings, click Default Level. Then do step 4. If you have to customize your Internet security settings, follow these steps:
a. Click Custom Level.
b. In the Security Settings – Internet Zone dialog box, click Enable for Active Scripting in the Scripting section.
4) Click the Back button to return to the previous page, and then click the Refresh button to run scripts.

How to merge cells in Excel while exporting from gridview?

2008-07-23T01:40:00.000-07:00

I am using gridview. I need to merge some cells into a single cell in excel when i export datagrid to excel
We can use the following solution for this.

Solution 1:
Select Sheet in the Excel file and then
Range("A1:E14").Select
Selection.Merge

Please share if you have anything other than this.

Happy coding.

Drawing charts using .NET

2008-07-22T03:18:00.000-07:00

I found this article describing how to build charts using .NET without using the third party components.

Solution 1
Soultion 2

Hope this will help you!!!

SQL Server Database Coding Standards

2008-07-19T04:52:00.000-07:00

I found this nice article describing different views needs to be taken into the consideration when doing the SQL Server Database coding (Queries, Stored Procedures, Query Optimization).

Click here to view the SQL Server Database Coding Standards.

convert word doc into PDF using c# code

2008-07-17T02:42:00.000-07:00

Following are the useful links to convert the Doc to the PDF file.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/library/giospdfnetlibrary.asp
http://csharp-source.net/open-source/pdf-libraries
http://csharp-source.net/open-source/pdf-libraries/itextsharp
http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/

Hope this will be useful to you.

Displaying tooltip with image

2008-07-09T05:04:00.000-07:00

I found this interesting article about how to display images in the tooltip. Hope this will help you.

1) Solution 1 by Alen
2) Solution 2 by Benoyraj
3) Solution 3 by Kumar S
4) http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-Tutorials/Images-Database.aspx
5) http://naveenj.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/image-from-db-as-tooltip-in-gridviewie-only/

Training on Windows Vista: Register for free!

2008-05-26T05:38:00.001-07:00

Visual Studio Stack

2008-04-09T02:16:00.001-07:00

The above diagram states the different phases of the .NET framework and visual studio.

Reference : Daniel Moth

Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls

2008-04-09T02:04:00.000-07:00

Scott Gu has just released his article on "Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silver light and WPF User Controls ".
In this article he has mentioned how to create silver light user control.
Please click here to read this article.

LINQ Basics

2008-03-18T23:15:00.000-07:00

"Why to have different languages for Query and Programming, Lets do it using the same programming language with the Power of LINQ"

1) The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations.

2) It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities.

3) LINQ defines a set of query operators that can be used to query, project and filter data in arrays, enumerable classes, XML, relational database, and third party data sources.

4) While it allows any data source to be queried, it requires that the data be encapsulated as objects. So, if the data source does not natively store data as objects, the data must be mapped to the object domain.

5) Queries written using the query operators are executed either by the LINQ query processing engine or, via an extension mechanism, handed over to LINQ providers which either implement a separate query processing engine or translate to a different format to be executed on a separate data store (such as on a database server as SQL queries).

6) The results of a query are returned as a collection of in-memory objects that can be enumerated.

7) Architecture of LINQ

-Standard Query Operators
-Language Extensions
-LINQ Providers

8) It uses System.Linq.Expressions

9) The term language-integrated query to indicate that query is an integrated feature of the developer's primary programming languages (for example, Visual C#, Visual Basic).

10) The standard query operators allow queries to be applied to any IEnumerable-based information source.

11) Third parties are also free to replace the standard query operators with their own implementations that provide additional services such as remote evaluation, query translation, optimization, and so on.

12) Using LINQ, The data to be queried can take the form of XML (LINQ to XML), databases (LINQ-enabled ADO.NET: LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Dataset and LINQ to Entities) and objects (LINQ to Objects).

13) LINQ has a great power of querying on any source of data, data source could be the collections of objects, database or XML files.

14)We can easily retrieve data from any object that implements the IEnumerable interface.

15) Microsoft basically divides LINQ into three areas and that are give below.
LINQ to Object {Queries performed against the in-memory data}
LINQ to ADO.Net
-LINQ to SQL (formerly DLinq) {Queries performed against the relation
database only Microsoft SQL Server Supported}
-LINQ to DataSet {Supports queries by using ADO.NET data sets and data tables}
-LINQ to Entities {Microsoft ORM solution}
LINQ to XML (formerly XLinq) { Queries performed against the XML source}

References
Video Anders Hejlsberg
technetbytes
MSDN

Sending email with .net 2.0

2008-03-14T02:08:00.000-07:00

We will be using system.net.mail namespace for sending the email through .net 2.0

Step 1: Please find the following code.

MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
message.From = new MailAddress("abhijeet@hotmail.com");
message.To.Add(new MailAddress("abhijeet@hotmail.com"));
message.CC.Add(new MailAddress("abhijeet@hotmail.com"));
message.Subject = "Hi";
message.Body = "Hello World";

SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
client.Send(message);

Step 2: You also have to do the following settings in the web.config file, so that asp.net will automatically retrieve the information from the web.config

a234@hotmail.com">

Thank you!!!

Online payment using paypal System

2008-03-10T23:51:00.000-07:00

In order to develop the online systems, the online payment is a crucial point. To make the developers life easy we can use paypal as a online payment processor.
Mr. Alexandr Golovanov has written a very nice article how to integrate paypal with ASP.net.
Please Click here to read that article.

New Features of VS2008

2008-02-26T01:53:00.000-08:00

Following are the new features that Microsoft has introduced in the VS2008.

1) LINQ Support
2) Expression Blend Support
3) Windows Presentation Foundation
4) VS 2008 Multi-Targeting Support
5) AJAX support for ASP.NET
6) JavaScript Debugging Support
7) Nested Master Page Support
8) LINQ Intellisense and Javascript Intellisense support for silverlight applications
9) Intellisense Support:
10) Organize Imports or Usings
11) Intellisense Filtering
12) Intellisense Box display position
13) Visual Studio 2008 Split View
14) HTML JavaScript warnings, not as errors
15) Debugging .NET Framework Library Source Code
16)In built Silverlight Library
17) Visual Studio LINQ Designer
18) Inbuilt C++ SDK
19) Microsoft Popfly Support
To get more information about these features click here

ASP.NET 2.0 Caching Features

2008-02-25T01:37:00.000-08:00

Application Cache OR Data Cache

1) This mechanism uses Cache Class.
2) It is private to each application.
3) The lifetime of this class is the lifetime of the application.
4) The cache object is recreated each time application is restarted.
5) The cache object is global.
6) We can add data to the cache object by using 3 methods -

- Simple Assignment
Cache("Key1") = "This is text number 1"

- Add Method
Cache.Add("Key2", "This is text number 2", Nothing, _
Caching.Cache.NoAbsoluteExpiration, _
System.TimeSpan.FromMinutes(2), _
CacheItemPriority.Default, Nothing)

- Insert Method
Cache.Insert("Key3", "This is text number 3")

7) This mechanism specifies the callback events which gets triggered when data is removed from the Cache.

Retrieving Data from the Cache object
If Cache.Item("Key1") IsNot Nothing Then
Label1.Text = Cache.Item("Key1")
Else
Label1.Text = "Cached item is removed"
End If

CallBack Function

This function will get trggered when any data is removed from the cache. We need to specify the addressof this funcation while declaring the cache object.

Partial Class _Default
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Dim OnRemove As CacheItemRemovedCallback

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
'Application Cache or Data Cache
If Not IsPostBack Then
OnRemove = New CacheItemRemovedCallback( _
AddressOf Key2Removed)
' you can add a new item to the cache object by many ways:
' first by simple assignment
Cache("Key1") = "This is text number 1"
' second by using the Add method
Cache.Add("Key2", "This is text number 2", Nothing, _
Caching.Cache.NoAbsoluteExpiration, _
System.TimeSpan.FromMinutes(2), _
CacheItemPriority.Default, OnRemove)
' Third by using the insert method
Cache.Insert("Key3", "This is text number 3")
End If
Cache.Remove("Key1")
If Cache.Item("Key1") IsNot Nothing Then
Label1.Text = Cache.Item("Key1")
Else
Label1.Text = "Cached item is removed"
End If
End Sub

Public Sub Key2Removed(ByVal Key As String, ByVal Value As _
Object, ByVal Reason As Caching.CacheItemRemovedReason)
Application.Add("Status", "The cached item " + Key + _
": " + Value.ToString + " was " + Reason.ToString)
End Sub

Protected Sub Button_Key2_Click(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button_Key2.Click
Label1.Text = Cache("Key2").ToString
Cache.Remove("Key2")
Label1.Text = Application("status").ToString
End Sub
End Class

OutPut Cache OR Page Cache
you can save or let us say you can cache dynamic pages and / or user controls for subsequent requests without the need to execute them every time.
You can use the @OutputCache directive to cache your web page or form in a declarative way.

The OutputCache directive has the following attributes:
Duration: Specifies how long the page will be cached, measured in seconds.
Location: Specifies the device you will cache on. Can be: browser, server, or any. (The default is any)
CacheProfile: The name of the cache settings in the web.config file, to associate with the page. (this is optional)
NoStore: A Boolean value that indicate whether or not to allow or prevent secondary storage of sensitive information
Shared: A Boolean value that indicate whether or not the page output can be shared with multiple pages.
SqlDependency: A String value that identifies a string of database name and a table name associated with the output cache of this page or control.
VaryByParam: a semi colon delimited list of strings that gives you the ability to cache multiple responses from a single web form
VaryByControl: A semi colon delimited list of strings that gives you the ability to cache portions of web forms.
Example
you need to add the following line in the HTML code below your page directive.
<%@ OutputCache Duration="60" Location="Server" VaryByParam= "None" %>

SQLCache Invalidation
Using this mechanism you can do the caching on the basis of the changes occured in the database.
1) The SQL Server based cache invalidation mechanism works with SQL Server 7.0 and above.
2) with SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, only Table level cache invalidation mechanism is supported.
3) SQL Server 2005 supports row-level cache invalidation mechanism.
Mr Thiru Thangarathinam has published a great article about this , please click here to read it.

Best Practices For deploying ASP.NET Application to Production Environment

2008-02-22T00:50:00.000-08:00

Mr. Kyle has published a nice article about the best practices for deploying your application to production.

Click here to read that article.

Chat application using WCF and WPF

2008-02-18T01:16:00.000-08:00

I found this article discussing about the peer-to-peer chat application which is developed using WCF and WPF.
The author has given step by step explanation of how we can develop it.
Source code is available for download.
Nice Article.
To read this article please click here

Getting started with Windows Workflow Foundation

2008-02-14T04:34:00.000-08:00

Windows WorkFlow Foundation provides an in-process workflow engine to process rules, a designer for VS 2005 to enable both developers and non-developers to define custom workflow processes graphically, and a new Workflow namespace to integrate these within code.

One of the goals of workflows in general is to make "logic", "business processes", etc more visible by having a graphical representation of these. At design time it's pretty easy to compose a workflow using the Visual Studio 2005 designer but to this extent a workflow.

You can use WorkFlow Foundation with VS2005. Installing WWF support with you VS2005 has already been discuss in my last post you can check that post here.

This article describes how to create a simple workflow.

STEP 1:

Click on the new project, select Sequential WorkFlow Console Application and Click OK.

STEP 2:
Then you will get the following screen.

STEP 3:
Drag a code element from the toolbox.

STEP 5:
Doubleclick on the code and you will get the "ExecuteCode" event of that element. You can write the following code over there.

Private Sub codeActivity1_ExecuteCode(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Try
Console.WriteLine("Life is too Good!!!")
Console.ReadLine()
Catch ex As Exception
End Try
End Sub
End Class

STEP 6:
Run the program you will get the following output.

Thank you!!!

Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison

2008-02-13T01:31:00.000-08:00

Microsoft has pucblished an article describing the differences between the various Visual Studio 2008 editions (Standard, Professional, Visual Studio Team System, etc).
Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison

Login Control in VS2005

2008-02-04T02:42:00.000-08:00

In order to use the login control (System.Web.UI.WebControls) we need to set three properties of this control.

FailureAction

DestinationPageURL

FailureText

We will now see how we can use this control.

Step 1:

Drag Login Control from ToolBox.

Step 2:

Set its failureaction property to redirecttologinpage.

(In order to use this property you need to rename your page to Login.aspx)

Step 3

Set DestinationpageURL property to the name of the destination page.

Step 4

Set Failuretext to whatever message you want to show.

Step 5:

Make the following change in the web.config

By default the authentication is set to windows, but since login control is used for the forms authentication we will set the authentication to "Forms".

Step 6:

Creating users using ASP.NET web administration tool.

Please open the web administration tool by clicking the menu "Website"-->ASP.NET Configuration

Or you can directly click on the ASP.NET Configuration Icon in the Solution Explorer.

Step 7:

Click on the Security link or Security Tab.

Step 8:

Click on the Create user link.

Step 9:

Enter the user data.

Step 10:

User is now created. And you can run the program.

After running the program just enter the user name password and you will get redirected to the destination page.

Thanks!!!

Video: Creating a Web Service with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

2008-01-21T01:18:00.000-08:00

Introduction
Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code-named "Indigo") is a set of .NET technologies for building and running connected systems.

It is a new breed of communications infrastructure built around the Web services architecture. Advanced Web services support in Windows Communication Foundation provides secure, reliable, and transacted messaging along with interoperability.

The service-oriented programming model of Windows Communication Foundation is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework and simplifies development of connected systems.

Windows Communication Foundation unifies a broad array of distributed systems capabilities in a composable and extensible architecture, spanning transports, security systems, messaging patterns, encodings, network topologies, and hosting models.

Windows Communication Foundation is available for Windows Vista™ as well as for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

ABC of WCF

Video: Creating a Web Service with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
In this video tutorial the presenter walk through the fundamentals of creating a WCF service exposed through HTTP and IIS.

Topics covered include defining a data contract using XSD schemas, generating data entity code using svcutil.exe, creating a service interface, implementing a service interface and consuming a service through a client-side proxy.

Watch the Video

WCF vs .NET Remoting 2.0

2008-01-21T00:26:00.000-08:00

Hi Guys you can find the differences between WCF and .NET Remoting 2.o at following link.

http://geekswithblogs.net/danielcarbajal/archive/2006/07/05/84160.aspx

Along with those difference following are some more differences:

WCF
•WCF services are click-once friendlier as they require less permissions on client machines, this is not the case with Remoting.

.NET Remoting
Deployment needs permissions on client machine.

Source Code for the Microsoft Framework base class Libraries is now available

2008-01-20T19:59:00.000-08:00

Microsoft has announced debugging support of Microsoft Base Class Libraries with Visual Studio 2008. Now you can browse and debug the source code for the following .NET Framework libraries:

.NET Base Class Libraries (including System, System.CodeDom, System.Collections, System.ComponentModel, System.Diagnostics, System.Drawing, System.Globalization, System.IO, System.Net, System.Reflection, System.Runtime, System.Security, System.Text, System.Threading, etc).
ASP.NET (System.Web, System.Web.Extensions)
Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms)
Windows Presentation Foundation (System.Windows)
ADO.NET and XML (System.Data and System.Xml)

Source code for the some additional libraries (including LINQ, WCF and Workflow) will be available soon.

Coding is Fun again!!!

Steps for enabling the debugging the sourcecode is given on the following blog of Mr Shawn Burke.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archive/2008/01/16/configuring-visual-studio-to-debug-net-framework-source-code.aspx

Thanks.

Mobile Application Basics: Part 1

2008-01-11T02:34:00.000-08:00

In this article we will see the basics of the Mobile Development feature of Visual Studio 2005.

Before Going Further You need to know what is Compact Framework, what are the different type of devices available in the Visual Studio for the application Development etc.
We will Start with the Compact Framework:

.NET Compact Framework (.NETCF)

The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework (.NET CF) is a version of the .NET Framework that is designed to run on Windows CE based mobile/embedded devices such as PDAs, mobile phones, factory controllers, set-top boxes, etc.

The .NET Compact Framework uses some of the same class libraries as the full .NET Framework and also a few libraries designed specifically for mobile devices such as Windows CE InputPanel.

In lay men's terms the .NET Compact Framework dose the same think for the Mobile devices what its Papa (.NET Framework) do for desktop and servers.

Types of Devices Supported by VS2005:

VS 2005 Mainly Supports Applications for the Following Devices:

1) Pocket PC

2) Smart Phone

2) Windows CE Devices

Note: VS 2005 does not support Symbian OS.

Following is the Screen Shot of the Project Window of the VS2005.

1) Features of the Pocket PC

- A Pocket PC, abbreviated P/PC or PPC, is a hardware specification for a handheld-sized computer (Personal digital assistant) that runs the Windows Mobile operating system. It may have the capability to run an alternative operating system like NetBSD or Linux. It has many of the capabilities of modern desktop PCs. (Wiki Definition)

- It runs on Windows CE

- We can use a stylus (for touch screen)

- JScript and Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) are available on all Pocket PCs to provide access to the script engines in applications such as Pocket Internet Explorer.

- The Internet Explorer for Pocket PC is known as PIE (Pocket Internet Explorer).

- HTML is Supported on Pocket PC but XHTML, CSS and Dynamic HTML are not Supported.

- Multiwindows application are not supported.

- Following is the screen shot of the emulator of Pocket PC available in VS 2005.

2) Features of the Smart Phone

- A smart phone is a mobile phone offering advanced capabilities beyond a typical mobile phone

- Do not have touch screen or stylus.

- It uses buttons for operating the applications

- Do not have resizing of windows

- Following is the screen shot of the emulator of Smart Phone available in VS 2005.

3) Features of the Windows CE

- Windows CE is a collection of operating system components, which is available to developers and device manufacturers to create customized embedded devices.

- Windows CE is a set of components that an OS developer uses to build a proprietary OS.

- Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who purchase Windows CE use Platform Builder, an integrated development environment, to assemble and compile an OS image.

- The image includes Windows CE and custom components, and custom device drivers.

- The OS image is then programmed into the read-only memory of a microprocessor chipset.

- Windows CE is not restricted to Pocket PC devices.

- It is appropriate for cash registers, cellular telephones, medical instruments, and any other appliance that requires a small, embedded OS.

Differences Between Pocket PC and the Windows CE

- The Pocket PC OS is a custom version of Windows CE developed by Microsoft.

- Pocket PC OS contains APIs and applications that are not included in Windows CE 3.0 itself.

- Windows CE contains components that are not included in the Pocket PC OS.

- Pocket PC devices do not all use the same Pocket PC OS, either.

- OEMs who build these devices make custom versions of the Pocket PC OS to add features specific to their devices.

- a Pocket PC device from one OEM might include different applications or device drivers than a Pocket PC from another OEM.

Differences between the Windows CE 3.0 OS and the Pocket PC OS

- The OSs for these device families are based on different versions of Windows CE.

- The Palm-sized PC is based on Windows CE version 2.11

- The Pocket PC is based on Windows CE 3.0. Palm-sized PCs include the Compaq Aero

- The Pocket PC OS takes advantage of more recent hardware improvements and incorporates improvements in Windows CE itself.

References:
http://www.microsoft.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/default.mspx
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/files/misc/WindowsCE_PocketPC.doc

Enabling the Paging in the GridView and the PageIndexChanging Event

2008-01-10T03:46:00.000-08:00

In my last article we have seen, how to bind the SQL server data to grid view. You can find that article over here
http://dotnetf1.blogspot.com/2008/01/manually-binding-data-to-gridview.html

Now if you want to enable the paging in the gridview then you need to do the following things.

STEP 1:
Set the allowpaging property of the gridview to true. If you also need the sorting mechanism then you need to set the allowsorting property to true.

STEP 2:
Add the PageIndexChanging event of the grid view.

STEP 3:
Add the following code in the PageIndexChanging event.

Protected Sub GridView1_PageIndexChanging(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewPageEventArgs) Handles GridView1.PageIndexChanging
Try

GridView1.PageIndex = e.NewPageIndex
GridView1.DataSource = ds
GridView1.DataBind()
Catch ex As Exception

End Try
End Sub

Note: Since we are referring to my last article, before making the above changes in the code given in the last article , you need to declare dataset as a global variable so that we can assign it again in the PageIndexChanging event.

Manually Binding data to the GridView Control in ASP.NET 2.0

2008-01-09T02:18:00.000-08:00

In my last post we have seen how to bind the xml data to the GridView control, today we will see how to pragmatically bind the sql server data to the Grid View.

Also we will see the couple of new things like how to access the the connection string from the Web.Config file etc.

We are going to use the default database of the SQL Server which is Northwind database.

STEP 1:

Put the following connection string in the web.config, we are going to use the windows authentication.

"Data Source=INFPU01718;Initial Catalog=Northwind;Integrated Security=True"
providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"

To Access this connection string from the code behind we need to use the following code

Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("myConnectionString").ConnectionString

Note: MyConnectionString is the key name in the web.config file under the connection string section.

STEP 2:
Add a GridView control to the web page.

Make the autogeneratecolumns property of the GridView equal to False by default it is set to True. After doing this the Gridview will look like this ,

Also You need to add some code in the HTML of GridView in order to manually add the columns since we have disabled the property "autogeneratecolumns"

(Double click on the image to enlarge it)

STEP 3:
I have written the Code for the BindGV method, which you need to call on the page load.

Private Sub BindGV()
Try
'Create a SQL Connection
Dim myConnection As New Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection (Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("OCP_ONSITEConnectionString").ConnectionString)

'Create a SQL DataAdapter
Dim ad As New SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter("SELECT
categoryname FROM
categories", myConnection)

Dim ds As New Dataset

'Fill the DataSet
ad.Fill(ds)

'Assigning Dataset to GridView
GridView1.DataSource = ds

'Bind Gridview
GridView1.DataBind()

Catch ex As Exception
End Try
End Sub

Thank God there is no STEP 4. You are Done !!!

Just Run the application and you will see the following screen.

Its that Simple.

Binding XML Data to GridView in ASP.NET 2.0

2008-01-08T01:31:00.000-08:00

As per the Goldern Rule of Programming "Simpler the Better" the GridView (VS2005) provides us very simple way to bind data to the control.

In this article I will show you how to bind xml data to the Grid View Control.

STEP 1:

Create a new ASP.NET Application by clicking File - > New Website

Click on the ASP.NET Website and click OK.

STEP 2:
Create a XML file.

While creating the XML File you need to keep in mind that XML should be well-formatted and it should be like database i.e. it should contain the data in the format of the records.

Lets consider the following example, the root node is the Company and in the company node the child node is employee having the attributes Name and the Department.

Creating XML File and VS2005.
1) Open the Solution Explorer.
2) Right click on the on the root node in the Solution explorer and click on add new item.

3) The above dialogue will open, select XML file from the above dialogue.
4) Just paste the following XML and save it.

STEP 3:
Drag the Grid view on the Web page and you will get the following screen.

STEP 4:
Select the data source for the grid view. Click on the New data source, and you will get the following screen. Select XML File as a data source. and Click OK.

STEP 5:

Configure the XML Data source.

You need to browse to the XML file. And very important thing you need to give the XPATH query. Click OK.

Note:
XPath is a standard (XPath 1.0) and can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/.
The working draft of XPath 2.0 can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xpath20-20011220/.

You are done!!!!
You will see the following screen in the design mode.

When you run your web Application you will get the Following screen.

Thanks!!!

heroes happen here...

2008-01-01T20:56:00.000-08:00

heroeshappenhere is the new initiative by Microsoft to share and appreciate tips and tricks of VS 2008.

You can share your stories over here. Also you can download the beta version of VS2008, Windows server 2008 and SQL Server 2008.

http://heroeshappenhere.co.in/

How MicroSoft deploy there site on IIS 7.0 ?

2007-12-26T03:55:00.000-08:00

Some details about Microsoft.com

- the 5th most trafficked site in the world
- the 4th most trafficked site in the USA
- supported by 80 Web servers approx
- entertains 287M unique users daily
- +300k concurrent connections at a rate of over 10k requests per second
- Still Microsoft.com is the #1 most available site on the Internet (Referred by Keynote)

How they do that?
The Operations team for Microsoft.Com had been playing with IIS7 since its early beta builds and recently finished deploying the new Web server in Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 to all its production servers.

Lets check it out in the video. Its really interesting.

http://wallpaper.iis7.org/mscom/mscom_vid.wmv

Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks to Make You a More Productive Developer

2007-12-25T22:36:00.000-08:00

I got this interesting article on the following blog discussing about different kinds of tips and tricks which can be used in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE

e.g. Keyboard Shortcuts,

Automate with Macros and Visual Studio Automation,

Type Ahead (Incremental Search) in Lists,

using Code Snippets,

Making New Shortcuts,

using Regular expression more efficiently.

Blog Address
http://www.chinhdo.com/20070920/top-11-visual-studio-2005-ide-tips-and-tricks-to-make-you-a-more-productive-developer/

.Net Framework 3.5 Block Diagram

2007-12-19T23:43:00.000-08:00

Following are the things I liked about this diagram.

1) Very comprehensive diagram about the .net framework 3.5.

2) List almost all the commonly used types and name spaces.

3) Gives the high level differences diagram between 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 Framework.

4) It is really a good reference for the developers.

You can download this diagram from

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/a/3/4a3c7c55-84ab-4588-84a4-f96424a7d82d/NET35_Namespaces_Poster_LORES.pdf

Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP

2007-12-19T23:13:00.000-08:00

1) These tools used to help developer to develope applications for the framework 3.0 using Visual Studio 2005.

2) These tools are provided as an early preview of technology being considered for the Orcas release of Visual Studio.

3) These tools are not supported by Microsoft but provided as is to enable early adoption of the .NET Framework 3.0 platform.

4) You can download it from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=F54F5537-CC86-4BF5-AE44-F5A1E805680D&displaylang=en

Using .net 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005

2007-12-19T22:46:00.000-08:00

You dont have to wait for Visual studio 2008 to use to features of the framework 3.0.

You simply need to install the .net framework 3.0 and you will get .net framework options in the project window as shown in the following screen shot.

and you are done!!!

ASP.net 3.5 Videos

2007-12-18T05:20:00.000-08:00

Getting started videos for

Visual Studio 2008 Videos
.Net 3.5 Videos
Asp.net 3.5 Videos

http://asp.net/learn/3.5-videos/

Reasons to upgrade to SQL Server 2005 Management Studio

2007-12-17T22:59:00.001-08:00

1) In SQL Server 2005 Management Studio we don't have separate Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer rather both are combined into one common interface, allowing you to manage the server as well as write Transact SQL.

2) SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Provides you concept of project and solutions. You can create projects and solutions in SQL Server 2005 Studio in the same way like Visual Studio.

A Project can contain .sql, .mdx, .xmla, and .dmx scripts. You can add other files (e.g. XML, CSV etc) to project.

3) Object Browser in SQL sever 2005 Management Studio allows you to run both OLTP and OLAP queries from the same tool.

4) Linking to errors in the body of your script from the error message in the Message pane.

5) Template Explorer - That lays out the structure structure of more than 100 objects and tasks in Transact SQL, including administrative tasks like backing up and restoring databases.

6) SQL Server Management Studio can run through the SQL Server Distributed Management Objects (DMO) as well as the SQL Management Objects (SMO), which are the preferred management objects for SQL Server 2005.

This means that you can administer SQL Server 2000 and MSDE databases using the SQL Server Management Studio.

7) You can register the database by IP Address but still give the computer name and even add a description of the server. the name and the description will show up on the Registered Servers pane.

8) SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) allows you to manage all services in one consistent UI.
SSIS is the replacement for DTS in earlier versions of SQL Server and also utilized by the new Maintenance Plan Wizard.

9) You can manage your reporting services and administer them through the Object Explorer.

VB 6.0 to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Connectivity

2007-12-17T21:28:00.000-08:00

Steps to Connect to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Through VB 6.0

Step 1:

You can used either Windows Authentication or SQL Server Authentication.

Step 2:

By default the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 does not allow remote connections.

You need to make configurations in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for remote connections to work.

To Enable remote connections for SQL Server 2005 Express or SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition please do the following tasks.

By Clicking

1. Start > All Programs > Microsoft SQL Server 2005 > Configuration Tools> Surface Area Configuration

2. Select Surface area Configuration for Sercies and Connections

3. Click Root Sql Express > Database Engine > Remote Connection .

Select Local and Remote Connection

Select Using both TCPIP only

Click OK/Apply

Difference between "throw" and "throw ex" in .NET

2007-11-22T21:45:00.000-08:00

Exception handling seems to be a common problem for .NET developers, particularly younger developers. We pretty much all know that you should wrap operations that have the potential for failing in a try/catch block if you are interested in being able to do something about the error that occurred. I'm not going to talk about the rules and guidelines for using exception handling. Instead I'm going to focus on a particular aspect of exception handling, which I tend to call exception bubbling.

Exception bubbling means that even though you are catching the exception and doing something with it, you want that exception to "bubble" up from your code to the calling code so it has a chance to do something with that exception. This is a fairly common scenario, but it has the potential to cause some major problems when you are debugging.
I'm sure most of the exception bubbling code you've seen looks similar to this

1: try
2: {
3: // do some operation that can fail
4: }
5: catch (Exception ex)
6: {
7: // do some local cleanup
8: throw ex;
9: }

This code looks perfectly reasonable and does the job. It properly catches the exception, does some local cleanup and then bubbles the exception up the chain. (A side note here is that you really shouldn't catch a general exception like this. I'm doing this for simplicity in the examples, but you should be catching specific exceptions and only those that you can do something about.)
However, how many of you have seen code that looks like this

1: try
2: {
3: // do some operation that can fail
4: }
5: catch (Exception ex)
6: {
7: // do some local cleanup
8: throw;
9: }

There is a subtle difference between these two calls that won't be apparent until you are trying to debug the problem. That difference is in the stack trace information that gets sent with the exception.
In the first case, the stack trace is truncated below the method that failed. What this means is that when you look at the stack trace, it will look as if the exception originated in your code. This isn't always the case, particularly if you are bubbling up a CLR generated exception (like a SqlException). This is a problem known as "breaking the stack", because you no longer have the full stack trace information. This happens because you are in essence creating a new exception to throw.
By using "throw" by itself, you preserve the stack trace information. You can confirm this by looking at the IL generated for these two code blocks. This makes the difference very obvious since in the first example the IL instruction called is "throw" while in the second the instruction is called "rethrow".
Before you run and change all of your code, there are still places where "throw ex" is appropriate. There are times when you want to add information to the exception that was caught or change it into a more meaningful exception. In these instances you actually want a new exception to be thrown. Again, there are two ways you can do this. The most common way that I have seen is

1: try
2: {
3: // do some operation that can fail
4: }
5: catch (Exception ex)
6: {
7: // do some local cleanup
8: throw new ApplicationException("operation failed!");
9: }

However, this still suffers the problem of breaking the stack. Here you are generating a completely new exception and loosing any of the stack trace information from the original exception. What you really want to do is

1: try
2: {
3: // do some operation that can fail
4: }
5: catch (Exception ex)
6: {
7: // do some local cleanup
8: throw new ApplicationException("operation failed!", ex);
9: }

By passing the original exception to the ApplicationException you are preserving the original exception, and it's stack trace information, as the inner exception to your ApplicationException.
To wrap everything up
1. Only catch exceptions if they are important to you and you need to do some sort of cleanup as a result.
2. If you need to bubble an exception up the chain, use "throw" by itself.
3. If you need to add information to the exception or repackage it, always pass the original exception as the inner exception.

Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)

2007-11-22T21:44:00.000-08:00

Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) is an integrated development environment coming with Visual Studio family of products. Some of the features of VSTS include the following:

• Use as a source control system or version control system (replacing VSS and similar tools)
• Use a bug tracker software (replacing other bug tracking software).
• Create work items and assign to members of the team
• Design and modeling tools for development and software design.
• Setup Unit tests (replacing NUNit).
• Analyze code for potential problems and coding standard violations.
• Setup and create automated build process (replacing NAnt and other similar tools).
• Create and run manual tests, Web tests, and load tests
• Generate various reports to track the progress of project.

Windows Workflow Foundation

2007-11-22T21:42:00.000-08:00

Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on Windows. It consists of a Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0 (formerly WinFX) namespace, an in-process workflow engine, and designers for Visual Studio 2005. Windows Workflow Foundation is available for both client and server versions of Windows. Windows Workflow Foundation includes support for both system workflow and human workflow across a wide range of scenarios including: workflow within line of business applications, user interface page-flow, document-centric workflow, human workflow, composite workflow for service oriented applications, business rule driven workflow and workflow for systems management.

A workflow is a set of activities stored as a model that describe a real world process. Work passes through the model from start to finish and activities might be executed by people or by system functions. Workflow provides a way of describing the order of execution and dependent relationships between pieces of short or long running work. While it is possible to write a workflow completely in code, workflow is often best viewed graphically. Once a workflow model is compiled it can be executed inside any Windows process including console apps, forms- based apps, Windows Services, ASP.NET web sites and web services.

Features of NET Framework 2.0 and NET Framework 3.0

2007-11-22T21:32:00.000-08:00

.NET Framework 2.0

• A new hosting API for native applications wishing to host an instance of the .NET runtime
• Full 64-bit support for both the x64 and the IA64 hardware platforms.
• Language support for Generics built directly into the .NET CLR.
• Many additional and improved ASP.NET web controls.
• New data controls with declarative data binding.
• New personalization features for ASP.NET, such as support for themes, skins and webparts.

.NET Framework 3.0

• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), formerly code-named Avalon; a new user interface subsystem and API based on XML and vector graphics, which will make use of 3D computer graphics hardware and Direct3D technologies.
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), formerly code-named Indigo; a service-oriented messaging system which allows programs to interoperate locally or remotely similar to web services.
• Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) allows for building of task automation and integrated transactions using workflows. • Windows CardSpace (WCS), formerly code-named InfoCard; a software component which securely stores a person's digital identities and provides a unified interface for choosing the identity for a particular transaction, such as logging in to a website.

Microsoft Upcoming Live Webcasts

2007-11-22T21:19:00.001-08:00

Microsoft Upcoming Live Webcasts

2007-11-22T21:19:00.000-08:00

.NET Framework 3.0 Virtual Labs

2007-11-22T20:55:00.000-08:00

.NET Framework version 3.0 is Microsoft’s managed-code programming model for developing software on the Windows platform. It builds on .NET Framework 2.0, combining the power of the existing Framework 2.0 application programming interfaces with new technologies for building applications that provide visually stunning user experiences, seamless interoperable communications, and the ability to model a range of business processes. .NET Framework 3.0 includes Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Windows CardSpace technologies. It provides a consistent and familiar development experience, bringing new technology to the millions of developers programming in managed code today.

For more information about the .NET Framework, please go to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework

What Is BizTalk Server?

2006-11-22T21:49:00.000-08:00

With the introduction of BizTalk Server in 2000, Microsoft sparked a revolution in the integration industry proving that integration and process automation technology didn’t have to be prohibitively expensive or hard to use. Today, over 7,000 organizations rely on BizTalk Server to integrate systems and automate processes across global supply chains. With the introduction of the fifth full version, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 builds upon the Business Process Management and SOA/ESB capabilities in prior releases to help organizations extend core process management technologies even further with new capabilities like native support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), AS2 and RFID, and close alignment with the upcoming releases of 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista, including key .NET Framework technologies such as Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation.
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 puts real-time, end to end supply chain management within reach of every customer, spanning systems, people and processes, both within and across organizational boundaries. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 empowers customers to make informed business decisions with real-time data from geographically dispersed, yet integrated systems – putting you one step ahead of the competition. All this coupled with the confidence of an enterprise class infrastructure, regardless of your company size. Your Business, Connected.