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Data & I/O

Caching and Peformance


Building a Windows Workflow SQL Server Integration Services Activity
Rating: none
Jeffrey Juday - 10/27/2008
Learn to how to make SQL Server Integration Services a part of Windows Workflow Foundation.

Working with Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) Using SQL Server and ADO.NET
Rating: none
Bipin Joshi - 07/28/2008
Want to store documents or photos in SQL server? Learn how SQL Server and ADO.NET together can provide an elegant solution for storing and retrieving BLOBs.

When to Pass VB.NET Arguments as Reference Types Versus Value Types
Rating: none
Bill Hatfield - 04/02/2007
When you pass arguments to a subroutine or function, you absolutely must know whether the type is a value type or a reference type. Only then can you determine which keyword to use to pass the data.

Database Tip: Managing Transactions with a Stack
Rating: none
Eric Smith - 03/12/2007
In development scenarios where you make multiple changes to the database, consider using transactions and, optionally, nesting transactions.

Implement Caching to Give Your .NET Applications a Performance Boost
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Thiru Thangarathinam - 11/15/2005
Caching can dramatically improve the performance of a database-driven .NET application. The Enterprise Library caching block encapsulates the plumbing code required to implement caching in a reusable block.

Data Access Application Block Streamlines Your Data-Access Layer
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Thiru Thangarathinam - 09/26/2005
By encapsulating the plumbing code in the data-access layer of applications, the Data Access Application Block, part of Microsoft's Enterprise Library, frees you from the tedious details of data access and allows you to concentrate on the business logic in your applications.

Improving Your Web App's Performance with Aggressive Data Caching
Rating: none
Mike Amundsen - 10/15/2004
Data access can be a real bottleneck when you work on Web applications that use dynamic content. Luckily, the ASP.NET runtime offers data-caching services that can help. Learn how to effectively implement them without over-complicating your code.

Using the ASP.NET Application Cache to Make Your Applications Scream
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Jeff Prosise - 10/07/2002
Does your C# ASP.NET application scream or does it trip along? In the newest installment from industry leader, Jeff Prosise, you learn to use the application cache to make your applications scream.


Data & I/O


VIDEO: Using Stored Procedures in Entity Framework
05/13/2009
By Dan Rigsby -
Working with Custom Stored Procedures in Entity Framework.

A First Look at the VS2008 ReportViewer
12/20/2007
The Visual Studio team has taken a first step toward integrating the BI (Business Intelligence) Report Wizard—a baby step.

Introduction to Maintaining User-Specific Data Using Isolated Storage and C#
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Jon Steven White - 12/26/2002
The .NET framework provides a very useful feature that allows an application to store and retrieve data on a per-user basis. This new Isolated Storage mechanism replaces the previous methods of storing such data in Windows .ini files and the system Registry.

Simple ADO Database Read, Insert, Update and Delete using C#.
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John McTainsh - 07/13/2001
Accessing databases is a common part of most applications and with the introduction of C# and ADO.NET, has become quite simple. This article will demonstrate the four most basic database operations.

Calling Unmanaged Code: Part 1 - simple DLLImport
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Vyacheslav Biktagirov - 07/12/2001
Calling an unmanaged DLL from C#.


Searching


Building a Regular Expression Stream Search with the .NET Framework
Rating: none
Jeffrey Juday - 01/04/2008
Learn to implement a Regular Expression search for .NET Streams.

An Introduction to Vista's Integrated Search Capabilities
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Matt Goebel - 05/18/2007
Windows Vista adds brand new search capabilities directly from the OS itself. By using OLE DB and SQL, you now can add this functionality to your own applications.

User Profiles and Audience Targeting in SharePoint 2007
Rating: none
Sahil Malik - 02/14/2007
Organizations struggle with communicating only relevant information to its members, especially when that information lives in disparate systems that do not talk to each other. SharePoint 2007 provides an answer with user profiles and audience targeting.

Creating an Ajax Search Widget
Rating: none
Jeremy McPeak - 08/11/2006
See how easy it is to integrate a search widget on your site using Ajax with this detailed example from Professional Ajax author Nicholas C. Zakas.

Full-Text Searching with IFilters
Rating: none
Klaus Salchner - 08/03/2005
Indexing Server, SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server, and Windows Desktop Search provide full-text search capabilities. Each utilizes so-called IFilter components to index the content and then allows clients to search the index. Learn how IFilter components are utilized and how full-text searching works in each of those products.

Administrate Indexing Server from Within Your Application
Rating: none
Klaus Salchner - 07/13/2005
Learn to programmatically administrate Indexing Server; for example, create a new Indexing catalog and then add folders to be indexed by this catalog.

How to Link Different Data Sources Together
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Klaus Salchner - 06/17/2005
Learn to link SQL Server with many different data sources. See how to link SQL Server to a directory like Active Directory Application Mode, a Microsoft Indexing Server catalog, a Microsoft Access database, and a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

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.

Named and Non-Capturing Groups in .NET Regular Expressions
Rating: none
Tom Archer - MSFT - 03/21/2005
Learn how to better isolate your regular expressions patterns from changes. You can name the groups and make your patterns more efficient by defining them as "non-capturing."

Search Strings for Patterns with the Match Classes
Rating: none
Tom Archer - MSFT - 02/25/2005
Learn how to use the Match and MatchCollection classes to enumerate found literals and strings with .NET regular expressions.

Find File Content Using the .NET IO Class
Rating: none
TH Mok - 07/18/2003
A simple application that uses the .NET I/O class to search the files' content in a directory. Use the DirectoryInfo class, a FileInfo array, and more.


Streaming


How To Retrieve EMC Centera Cluster/Pool Capabilities
Rating: none
Adel Eddin - 10/19/2007
Learn to use the EMC Centera SDK and the .NET wrapper being developed as an open source project to store "fixed content" on the EMC Centera storage appliance.

Redirect I/O to a TextBoxWriter in .NET
Rating: none
Paul Kimmel - 04/17/2006
Have you ever wanted basic output to go somewhere besides the console in .NET? Learn how to redirect Console output streams to a TextBox instead of the command window.

Streams and .NET
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Richard Grimes - 10/01/2002
Richard Grimes illustrates the classes that .NET provides to use streams, starting with basic stream access, encoding and stream readers and writers, serializing objects to streams and finally how to programmatically create a stream.


Tutorials


ADO.NET Entity Framework Tutorial and Basics
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mendhak - 09/03/2008
Discover an ADO.NET Entity Framework tutorial covering basic data operations for applications, including LINQ To Entities, Method Expressions, stored procedure mapping, and a little discussion about its usage in an enterprise environment.

Encrypted .NET Serialization to a SQLite Database
Rating: none
brettg - 07/03/2007
Learn how to encrypt and save BLOB data to a SQLite database using SQLitePlus.

.NET Serialization to a SQLite Database
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brettg - 06/27/2007
Learn three ways to serialize .NET objects or any BLOB data to a SQLite database by using SQLitePlus.

Transactions in the .NET 2.0 Framework
Rating: none
Joe Duffy - 05/04/2006
Learn about the importance of transactions and key transaction management features in .NET 2.0 from JOe Duffy, author of Professional .NET Framework 2.0.

Writing Your Own GPS Applications: Part 2
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Jon Person - 12/29/2004
In part two of the series, the author of "GPS.NET" teaches developers how to write GPS applications suitable for the real world by mastering GPS precision concepts. Source code includes a working NMEA interpreter and sample high-precision application in C# and VB.NET.

[Updated] Writing Your Own GPS Applications: Part I
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Jon Person - 12/29/2004
What is it that GPS applications need to be good enough to handle in-car navigation? Also, how does the process of interpreting GPS data actually work? This two-part series will cover both topics and give you the skills you need to write a commercial-grade GPS application that works with a majority of GPS devices in the industry today.

Accessing Files and Directories
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Mark Strawmyer - 09/09/2003
Explore how to interact with files from within .NET. The topics covered will include how to get the properties on files in a directory as well as how to use a number of classes in the System.IO namespace.

Inside C#, Second Edition: File I/O with Streams - Part 1
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Tom Archer - MSFT - 03/07/2003
As part of the exploration of the streams framework, you will see the different types of stream, types of file system objects, and potential application environments, including Microsoft Windows-based and Web-based environments.

Viewing and Writing XML Data With ADO.NET DataSets
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Nalaka Withanage and Martin Kropp - 11/08/2002
Understand how to handle XML data in .NET using C# Datasets and Data Views.


XML


Take the Pain out of Creating Word Documents by Using C# and XML
01/23/2009
By Chris Bennett - Learn how to create Word documents in your application without using Office Interop or third-party libraries.

LINQ to XML
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Mark Strawmyer - 11/17/2008
Gain an understanding of LINQ (Language Integrated Query) to XML and see why you'll never want to use the DOM again.

Dynamically Building Windows Presentation Foundation DataTemplates
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Jeffrey Juday - 09/15/2008
Discover how to use the XamlReader to dynamically create a Datatemplate. Then, see how you can bind to a Dataset and display the data in a ListView control (via a sample application pointing to the Northwind database).

Inferring an XML Schema from an XML Document
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Paul Kimmel - 09/03/2008
Let the .NET Framework write your XML Schema document (XSD) for you.

Accessing Business Data in WPF Applications
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Jani Järvinen - 08/19/2008
Many WPF demos focus on slick graphics and designer user interfaces. While this is all good, those regular business database applications will eventually make the transition from WinForms to WPF. Learn how to get started accessing business data in your WPF applications.

Working with the XML Data Type of SQL Server
Rating: none
Bipin Joshi - 06/25/2008
Store XML data directly in SQL Server. Use the power of the XML data type to store and manipulate XML data efficiently and easily.

Developing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Packs
Rating: none
Jeffrey Juday - 04/14/2008
Learn to build a Management Pack to monitor your application.

An Introduction to BizTalk 2006 R2 Development
Rating: none
Jeffrey Juday - 03/12/2008
Learn about BizTalk 2006 R2's core features housed in the BizTalk Messaging Engine and what they can do for you.

How to Create a Custom XSL Map for Use in BizTalk 2006
Rating: none
Drew Block - 01/18/2008
Discover when and why you may want to use a custom XSL document for mapping rather than the BizTalk Mapper.

You've Got the BizTalk POP3 Adapter
Rating: none
Jeffrey Juday - 12/05/2007
Leverage the BizTalk POP3 Adapter to manage an inbox.

Building a BizTalk Pipeline Content Enricher with SQL Server 2005
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Jeffrey Juday - 11/05/2007
Learn how to implement the Content Enricher integration pattern using BizTalk 2006 R2 and SQL Server 2005.

Business Data Catalog in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Object Model
Rating: none
Gustavo Velez - 10/17/2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) 2007 introduced a mechanism to integrate back-end systems and Line of Business processes with the Portal infrastructure, bringing external data inside the Portal. In addition to creating XML schemas manually, with SharePoint's Object Model the BDC can be generated programmatically.

BizTalk Pipeline Dreams Become Reality
Rating: none
Jeffrey Juday - 08/16/2007
Learn how to more easily extend, re-use, and configure a BizTalk Custom Pipeline Component.

The WCF MessageEncoder Decoded
Rating: none
Jeffrey Juday - 06/01/2007
If you're already familiar with the fundamental aspects of Windows Communication Foundations, learning about MessageEncoders can take your application to the next level.

Generating Custom XML from SQL 2005
Rating: none
Scott Hanselman - 05/01/2007
See how to take advantage of some new XML features in SQL Server 2005 that will come in handy in your ASP.NET development in this update from Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition by Scott Hanselman.

[Updated] Read and Write Open XML Files in MS Office 2007
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ZeljkoS - 01/02/2007
Learn how to read and write Open XML files (MS Office 2007).

Ajax and the Yahoo! Connection Manager
Rating: none
Nicholas C. Zakas - 04/21/2006
Discover how to use the new Yahoo! Connection Manager — one of the most popular new Ajax libraries.

My Feature in VS 2005: Storing Application and User Settings
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Paul Kimmel - 01/20/2006
Using XML to store configuration settings is a great idea, and thanks to the My feature, you don't have to learn XML to do so.

XML Queries and Indexing in SQL Server 2005
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Mike Gunderloy - 11/28/2005
For the first time, SQL Server 2005 offers a native XML data type. See how you can store and query XML documents as part of a SQL Server table, and how to use XML indexes to make queries against these columns more efficient.

XMLFileWatcher Windows Service
Rating: none
Venkata Kancharla - 08/16/2005
A windows service which monitors the directory changes, writes an entry in the event log about the change, notify the changes to the users by sending mail and also converts the input XML file into Dataset

Reading XML Files with the XmlTextReader Class
Rating: none
Tom Archer - MSFT - 05/13/2005
Learn how to use the .NET XmlTextReader class to sequentially read through and parse the nodes of an XML document/file.

Writing XML Files Using the XmlTextWriter Class
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Tom Archer - MSFT - 05/06/2005
Learn how easy it is to generate XML files by using the XmlTextWriter class from Managed C++.

Manipulate XML File Data Using C#
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Anand Narayanaswamy - 03/14/2005
Learn how to display, add, edit, and delete data from a single XML file by using C# console applications. With a little effort, you can implement these techniques in Windows-based applications.

Building Distributed Apps? Use XML Web Services, Not Remoting (Mostly)
Rating: none
Paul Kimmel - 12/15/2004
When choosing between .NET Remoting and Web services for your distributed applications, XML Web services are the right call most of the time. Learn how to produce and consume these Web services.

Work with XML Data Type in SQL Server 2005 from ADO.NET 2.0
Rating: none
Thiru Thangarathinam - 09/10/2004
Learn how to work with the XML data type column in SQL Server 2005. Along the way, you also will see how to read and write values into the XML columns from ADO.NET 2.0.

Using Open XML Schema with .NET
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Mickey Williams - 08/18/2004
Visual Studio .NET simplifies the use of XML messaging in your applications. Learn how to use the XML Schema to simplify your work.

XSLT Tutorial
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sirgilligan - 07/30/2004
Often, an XML document needs to be converted to a new structure. That is where XSLT comes in.

Document .NET Libraries with XML Comments
Rating: none
Mike Gunderloy - 07/06/2004
Distribute your .NET class libraries with professional-looking documentation for consumption by other developers by adding XML comments.

[Updated] How to Bind Nested XML to a Repeater Control with Container.DataItem
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Sonu Kapoor - 05/21/2004
Learn how to use the Container.DataItem method to retrive XML elements.

An Easy Guide to Using the XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter Classes
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Sonu Kapoor - 05/12/2004
Learn how easy it is to use the XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter classes.

Validation of XML with XSD
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Syed Hameed - 03/24/2004
Discover how to validate XML document with XSD schema. The validation is performed by checking whether the XML document is a well-formed one by programmatically using .NET classes in C#.

Tutorial of LBXML Operator, a C# API-Based Tool for XML Insertion, Modification, Searching, and Remo
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Bing Li - 03/19/2004
LBXML Operator runs over the .NET platform. 2.0, the latest version of LBXML Operator, has been tested successfully over the .NET 2003 platform.

Introduction to LBXML Operator, A C# API-Based Tool for XML Insertion, Modification, Searching, and Removal
Rating: none
Bing Li - 02/11/2004
Using this API, you can touch or return any particular value between tags in an XML file after specifying conditions using C# rich data structures.

Document Validation in XML.NET
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Dino Esposito - 11/11/2002
Is your XML valid? The XmlValidatingReader class provides you the means to verify the validity of your XML documents and fragments. Dino Explains the details.

A Simple Way to Write XML in .NET (XmlTextWriter)
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Bradley Jones - 10/16/2002
Writing XML from a .NET application can be done quickly and easily. This article briefly introduces the .NET Framework's XmlTextWriter class and illustrates its use from C#.

Generating Wrapper Classes from an XML Schema
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Simon Sprott - 05/28/2002
This article describes how to take an XML schema and generate a set of wrapper classes from it that allow you to manipulate an XML document via simple strongly typed objects, thus removing the need for developers to get bogged down in the complexities of schemas or deal with the nuts and bolts of MSXML.

Writing XML SAX Parsers in C#
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Sanjay Ahuja - 05/14/2002
Get a head start on writing XML parsers in C#.

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