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Sanity Checks for Your ASP.NET Web Site
Rating: mendhak - 02/01/2008 Discover a few points to keep in mind during and after the creation of your web site, such as form referrer check, URL canonization, and so forth.
Partial Methods
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 10/24/2007 Learn how to implement partial methods and know where to expect them.
De-Sludging ASP.NET Pages with PageAdapter
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 07/06/2007 Think you know about VIEWSTATE within ASP.NET? Learn how to fully implement VIEWSTATE in new and efficient ways in ASP.NET 2.0.
Creating a Custom DataGrid Paging Control
Rating: mendhak - 02/06/2007 Create your own custom DataGrid paging control over which you, the developer, will have more control.
.NET Framework 3.0 Released
Rating: none Bradley Jones - 11/08/2006 The current version of the .NET Framework is 3.0.
Refactoring VB in Visual Studio 2005
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 12/21/2005 Refactoring can improve the internal structure of your VB code without changing its external behavior. Use it to remove the subjectivity of what is good code and what is less-good code.
Creating Custom Server Controls in ASP.NET
Rating: Bill Hatfield - 01/13/2005 Bill demystifies the process of creating your own server controls and gives you a strong foundation for building your own user interface masterpieces.
Configuring Session Cache Servers
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 10/23/2002 There are a number of ways to manage the session state of a Web application. Learn the steps you need to take to configure your server and to work with session state.
The Big ASP.NET DataGrid Article, Part 3
Rating: Karl Moore - 03/03/2004 Implement the likes of paging and sorting into your DataGrids, but first, start off with the most gruesome of tasks: adding an editable drop-down box to your DataGrid!
The Big ASP.NET DataGrid Article, Part 2
Rating: Karl Moore - 02/26/2004 Look at using HTML, hyperlinks, and formatting in your DataGrid, plus figure out color-coding and the many different ways of allowing the user to select rows.
Using Gradient Shading in Web Pages
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 03/03/2006 Cascading Style Sheets have all kinds of filters that add neat effects to your Web pages. Learn how the gradient filter adds gradient coloring.
Write an FTP Client with VB.NET to Bridge Legacy Software
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 10/20/2004 Paul Kimmel gives you all you need to write a complete implementation of an FTP client in managed code. Once you create a socket and an IPEndPoint, and decipher the data you will receive from the other end point, you are well on your way to writing connected software.
HTML Syntax Highlighting
Rating: none David Hoyt - 01/29/2004 Create a usercontrol that can be added to a form to provide HTML syntax highlighting in a RichTextBox. (Added: 2-May-1999)
Your Free Search Engine: Microsoft Indexing Server
Rating: none Klaus Salchner - 05/18/2005 Learn how to set up Microsoft's powerful indexing and searching engine, Microsoft Indexing Server, to search its index from within your Web or file-based applications.
Part I: How Did Google Become a Verb?
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 02/18/2004 Learn how to incorporate searching into your Web site. Specifically, see how to configure and prepare the Indexing Service.
Internet
Using XML and Word for Mail-Merging
Rating: none Franky Braem - 01/29/2004 Use XML records and Microsoft Word to create a mail-merge application. Requires VB6, IE5, and Microsoft Word (Added: 4-Apr-2000)
Client Server programming with the Winsock.dll
Rating: none Chris Aliotta - 01/29/2004 Use the Winsock DLL to program a client server application using a simple BAS module. (Added: 2-Nov-1999)
Open URL in existing IE Window
Rating: none Chris Eastwood - 01/29/2004 Learn how to open a URL in an existing IE instance. (Added: 31-Oct-2000)
Virtual Fab Email address Checker 1.0
Rating: none Fabio Violino - 01/29/2004 Learn to use DNS lookups to check if Email addresses are valid. Callable from Win9x / NTx, ASP and/or VB ! (Added: 10-Aug-2000)
An Internet Browser Program
Rating: none Grant Skolos - 01/29/2004 Use the Microsoft Internet controls to produce your own fully functioning WebBrowser. (Added: 24-Sep-2000)
Checking For An Internet Connection 11/26/2003 Learn the best method for checking for an internet connection from a Visual Basic application.
Using a Sync/Async Retrieve HTTP Component
Rating: none Adrian Bacaianu - 05/22/2003 Discover WIN32'—How to use a sync/async retrieve HTTP component in your ASP and VB projects.
SMTP / eMail
Create a GUI for an FTP Client with VB.NET
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 10/29/2004 Paul Kimmel demonstrates the implementation of a Windows GUI for an FTP client, and along the way, presents the skills you need to complete the FTP solution or similar kinds of applications.
Cool Chat - A Chat Program written in VB6
Rating: Michael Sharp - 01/29/2004 Learn about a two-user chat program that shows how to check for and send emails in the same program. (Added: 30-Jul-2000)
Which Program Handles that File Extension? 12/10/2003 Discover how you can have your Visual Basic .NET programs automatically open files in their default applications for you.
Cleaning Your Address List
Rating: John Alessi - 08/02/2002 Discover how to clean up your bad e-mail addresses using bounced back messages.
Web Services
Talking Web Clients with JavaScript and the Speech API
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 07/16/2007 See how to make your web clients read or play content to its users. You will experiment with JavaScript from the command line, learn a JavaScript debugging technique that might be useful, and see how to load the Speech API and ask it to read the ALT (text) attribute of HTML controls.
Introduction to the Google Maps API
Rating: none Nicholas C. Zakas - 05/04/2006 Discover how easy it is to begin developing sites incorporating maps from the Google Maps API.
RSS, So Simple with Visual Basic 2005
Rating: Josh Fitzgerald - 11/30/2005 Displaying RSS feeds or channels is very easy using Visual Basic 2005. In no time, you can build a simple RSS viewer that takes a user-entered RSS feed URL and retrieves the title, description, and link for that channel.
Combine Polymorphism and Web Services
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 01/14/2005 Have you wondered how to apply polymorphism across Web services? Wonder no more. Paul Kimmel reviews polymorphism, demonstrates XML Web services, and most importantly, shows you how to combine polymorphism and Web services.
Remoting or Web Services, How Do I Decide?
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 12/31/2004 Choosing between XML Web services and .NET remoting isn't a hard decision. Just use XML Web services almost all of the time, says Paul Kimmel.
.NET Remoting and Event Handling in VB .NET
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 12/29/2004 Using .NET Remoting, learn how to configure a remote server, define remotable objects, and define custom event arguments and delegates. Do all of this while creating a simple chat application!
Objectifying an XML Node with an IConfigSectionHandler
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 08/25/2004 Implement a section handler that coverts an XML node from a bunch of spurious individual values into a strongly typed object.
Part II: How Did Google Become a Verb?
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 03/02/2004 A further exploration into a reusable class, a couple of UserControls, and a Web page that can be used on any Web site.
Querying the Amazon.com Web Service
Rating: none Karl Moore - 09/18/2003 Amazon.com has made its mass database of information available to developers through Web services. Learn how to access and harness this powerful tool.
Using Web Services with VB.NET
Rating: none Jayesh Jain - 03/11/2003 Create an application in Visual Basic .NET to create a customized search and a spelling checker that uses the Google Web APIs Service. Learn to add a Web Service to a VB .NET application.
Getting The Words For A Given Number
Rating: none Subraya Hegde - 12/04/2002 Convert a given number into its equivalent in words by using this Web service. For example, you can convert $43.25 to words such as Forty-three dollars and twenty-five cents. This can be used in accounting packages, invoices, and more.