New Features in VB.NET Whidbey, Part 1  Microsoft has recently released the Community Preview of the next Visual Studio .NET, Whidbey. One of the enhancements in Whidbey is the new improved VB.NET language. Wei-Meng Lee shows you what is in store with the new language features.   [ONDotnet.com]

Liberty on Whidbey
DataGrids, Improved  In Jesse Liberty's book Programming ASP.NET, he was unable to begin the discussion of DataGrids without first describing, in some detail, the ADO.NET object model, including DataAdapters, DataTables, DataSets and DataReaders. In this, the first column on Whidbey, he shows how to use Whidbey's new ASP.NET DataGrids.   [ONDotnet.com]

New Language Features in C# 2.0, Part 2  The first part of this series introduced three new C# language features: anonymous methods, iterators, and partial types. In this second part, Matthew MacDonald tackles the last and most exciting new feature: Generics.   [ONDotnet.com]

Introducting WiX  Microsoft recently surprised quite a few people by releasing the WiX toolset under an open source license (the Common Public License, to be precise) and hosting its source code on the premier open source community site SourceForge. In this article, Mike Gunderloy gets you started with WiX.   [ONDotnet.com]

New Language Features in C# 2.0, Part 1  Four years ago, a new upstart language named C# surprised the development world with its elegance and consistency. Now that Microsoft has released a technology preview version of Visual Studio 2005 (formerly codenamed Whidbey), .NET's favorite language is back, with some new innovations. In this two-part servies by Matthew MacDonald, you'll get a first look at three of the four major language refinements in the latest version of C#.   [ONDotnet.com]

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Writing Managed Wrappers with Managed C++  The second article of this series focused on the ability to mix managed and unmanaged code in the same module, which is an ability that is unique to Managed C++. In this latest installment, Sam Gentile takes this one step further to show you how to take existing legacy unmanaged C++ code and make it usable from any CLR language in the managed world.   [ONDotnet.com]

Create Project Item Wizards  In a recent project, my team had to produce a platform that included a set of base classes that other developers could use to develop Windows forms in Visual Studio .NET 2003. As we worked on the base classes, it became clear that our developers would be able to crank out their forms a lot faster if we could also generate stubs and skeleton code for all the methods they needed to override in their own classes. Niel Bornstein explains how to do it.   [ONDotnet.com]

WinFX in Detail
Graphical Composition in Avalon  Longhorn introduces significant new graphics technology, codenamed "Avalon." Avalon renders an application's visual elements onto the screen using a much more sophisticated approach than Windows has previously used. In this article, Ian Griffiths show how this new graphical composition model solves various limitations of Win32, what new user interface design techniques this enables, and what it means to developers.   [ONDotnet.com]

Serialization in .NET, Part 2  In a previous article, Dan Frumin discussed the benefits of using .Net's built-in serialization support in your applications. As you probably realize, the objects offered to us by .Net are quite powerful and useful. However, not every core class within .Net implements serialization, so sooner or later you're going to run into its limitations. In this second article, Dan shows you a solution.    [ONDotnet.com]

Developing Web-Service-Driven, Smart Mobile Applications  Working with web services and other network protocols that were designed with broadband in mind can become a real burden to making applications really mobile. But there is hope. Michael Yaun walks through the design and implementation of a complete end-to-end mobile application that solves these difficult problems.   [ONDotnet.com]

Cooking with C#, Part 2  In this second and final batch of recipes excerpted from the recently released C# Cookbook, learn how to obtain the HTML from a URL and how to efficiently synchronize the reading and writing of a resource.   [ONDotnet.com]

Effective Forms Authentication, Part 2  In the first article in this series, we introduced the basics of forms authentication in ASP.NET. By the end of the article, you saw how to use code in a login page to authenticate users according to various custom schemes, and how to use additional code to build custom principal and identity objects to fully identify users and their roles. That earlier solution, while complete, is a bit unsatisfying. In this second article, Mike Gunderloy explains how to make authentication more than satisfying.   [ONDotnet.com]

ADO.NET Connection Pooling Explained  Because the .NET managed providers manage the connection pool for us, using shared database connections is as easy as a summertime splash in the kiddie pool. But if those connections unexpectedly become invalid you could find yourself floundering in the deep end. In this new article, James Still will have you doing laps in no time.   [ONDotnet.com]

Cooking with C#  In these sample recipes from C# Cookbook, learn how to convert a string returned as a Byte[ ] back into a string, and how to handle an exception that occurs within a method invoked via reflection.   [ONDotnet.com]

Effective Forms Authentication, Part 1  ASP.NET offers several possibilities for authenticating users, but when you come right down to it, there's only one reasonable alternative for most applications: forms authentication. Mike Gunderloy takes you step-by-step through creating a forms authentication project and helps you avoid the potholes.   [ONDotnet.com]

Serialization in .NET, Part 1  Serialization of data using built-in .NET support makes persistence easy and reusable. Dan Frumin reviews the support available for serialization and look at a couple of scenarios for using it.   [ONDotnet.com]

WinFX in Detail
Inside XAML  One of LonghornÂ’s most interesting technologies for developers is its new XML-based markup language, codenamed XAML (short for eXtensible Application Markup Language, and pronounced "Zammel"). User interfaces in Longhorn applications are typically built using XAML. Ian Griffiths looks at how XAML relates to the underlying support provided by WinFX.   [ONDotnet.com]

Cooking with ADO.NET, Part 2  In O'Reilly's ADO.NET Cookbook, you'll find more than 150 solutions and best practices for everyday dilemmas. This week, we're offering two more recipes from the book that show how to create and then synchronize a master-detail pair of DataGrid controls, as well as how to improve performance when a user pages through a large result set in a data grid.   [ONDotnet.com]

New Data Controls in ASP.NET Whidbey  One of the design goals of the next release of ASP.NET, codenamed ASP.NET Whidbey, is to reduce the amount of code you write for common tasks such as data access. Wei-Meng Lee discusses two new controls that drastically reduce the amount of code you typically need to write in ASP.NET.   [ONDotnet.com]

Using the Security Controls in ASP.NET Whidbey  Forms authentication in .NET has been a godsend, making general authentication a whole lot easier. But Microsoft is not stopping there. Wei-Meng Lee shows how the new Whidbey Security Controls makes simple authentication even easier.   [ONDotnet.com]

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