Cross-Page Postback in ASP.NET 2.0
The upcoming cross-page posting feature lets you post the content of a form to another page, even to pages belonging to other applications
April 26, 2005
.NET Scripting Hosts
This month we'll look at declaring an interface for developing an Active Scripting host in C# using the IActiveScriptParse and IActiveScriptSite interfaces.
April 25, 2005
Gates' 64-Bit Pitch
The performance benefits of 64-bit Windows are compelling, but companies must decide whether they're ready to take the plunge.
April 25, 2005
Linking VS Team System to Eclipse?
A small, grass-roots development effort could presage better connections between Microsoft and the open-source community.
April 22, 2005
VS 2005 Beta 2 and SQL Server 2005 Preview Released
Microsoft rolled out another round of prerelease versions of Visual Studio 2005, .Net Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 as it strives to hit its revised ship dates during the second half of the year.
April 22, 2005
Wiping Out Sensitive Data
Deleting files doesn't mean they're erased. Here's a .NET class that wipes a file by writing zeros in place of each byte of allocated space prior to calling the regular file-deletion API.
April 22, 2005
Managing COM Errors with Macros
Macros can be used to handle rich error information from a COM object, and a well-designed one won't add bulk to the compiled code.
April 22, 2005
Allchin Talks Turkey About Longhorn
A new preview release of Microsoft's next-generation operating system is coming at the company's WinHEC conference later this month, group vice president Jim Allchin says, and beta versions are due this summer.
April 15, 2005
Microsoft Hints at Longhorn Embedded
A few details of the Longhorn Embedded operating system were revealed during a developer chat on MSDN: "Longhorn Embedded will share the same code base as Longhorn Professional, so any developer skills or tools for one will work for both," one Microsoft employee noted. It was also revealed that "the ability to build from a command line is high priority."
April 14, 2005
IP Battle Threatens Longhorn Release
A preliminary injunction granted to data-networking firm Alacritech Inc. prevents Microsoft from distributing its Chimney TCP offload architecture, which is part of the Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003 and expected to be included in Longhorn as well.
April 14, 2005
Microsoft Schedules 8 Patches
Microsoft will release eight patches for Windows, Office, Exchange, and MSN Messenger, at least half of which will be marked "critical," the company said late Thursday.
April 12, 2005
Using Multiple Forms in ASP.NET
ASP.NET pages can contain no more than one HTML form and can post only to itself, but you can work around this limitation to add extra input forms
April 11, 2005
Rich Error Handling
Here's how to determine first if an object supports rich error handling and then how to retrieve and process that error data.
April 7, 2005
Microsoft Ends Free Support for VB6 Coders
Support services for Visual Basic 6 will be provided until 2008 but only for a fee, a move that has angered some developers and prompted one development-tool vendor to offer a competing product at no charge.
April 5, 2005
Python Moves to .NET
Microsoft has released its "pre-alpha" version of the popular Python scripting language dubbed "IronPython".
April 5, 2005
Collaborative Web Surfing
Cosurfer is a peer-to-peer GUI application that lets two users chat and surf the Web together.
April 1, 2005
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