How to Develop a Location-Based Application on a Pocket PC Phone Edition by Using Microsoft MapPoint Location Server 1.0   28 Feb 2005 08:00 GMT
Create a Pocket PC Phone Edition application that will get the real-time location of one of your contact's mobile devices and present a map of the location with MapPoint Location Server.
Source: MSDN

How to Build a Mobile Book Catalog with Visual Studio .NET 2003 for Pocket PC   28 Feb 2005 08:00 GMT
Learn how to use Visual Studio .NET 2003 to develop applications for Pocket PCs that use a Web service while both in online and offline states.
Source: MSDN

.NET Rocks! - Mark Miller   25 Feb 2005 08:00 GMT
Mark Miller returns again and is in the studio with Carl talking about his sordid past with Delphi, some development choices he's made, pair programming, and GDI+.
Source: MSDN

Using Microsoft Tablet PC Input Panel Correction in Custom Recognition Scenarios   24 Feb 2005 08:00 GMT
Learn how to use the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Input Panel's text correction capabilities in applications that collect and recognize ink outside of the Input Panel. The corresponding samples are written in C#.
Source: MSDN

An Introduction to the Microsoft Enterprise Library   23 Feb 2005 00:00 GMT

One of Microsoft's efforts over the past couple of years has been to provide developers with useful code libraries that illustrate best practices. This achieve this goal the Patterns and Practices Group has been tasked with developing numerous application blocks, which are open-source libraries aimed at solving common tasks. As discussed in a previous 4Guys article, An Introduction and Overview of the Microsoft Application Blocks, the aim of the application blocks is to reduce development cost and increase confidence. Costs are reduced because integrating the application blocks into a project saves the development time that would otherwise be required to build the functionality, and confidence in the application is increased because the application blocks are well tested and have been used by thousands of developers around the world, meaning any bugs are likely to have been discovered and squashed.

Past articles on 4Guys have examined two of the existing application blocks, the Data Access Application Block (DAAB) and the Exception Management Application Block (EMAB). The DAAB provided a wrapper class for accessing data from a SQL Server database. It's set of methods essentially reduced data access down to one line of code, thereby reducing the tedious amount of code that it typically required when working with database data. The Exception Management Application Block provides a simple, yet extensible way to record exception information. (For more information on these application blocks be sure to read Examining the Data Access Application Block and Examining the Exception Management Application Block.)

The DAAB and EMAB were only two of a number of application blocks released by the Patterns and Practices Group. While all of the application blocks provided useful techniques for accomplishing common tasks, each application block was, in a way, an island unto itself. There was no shared unity between the application blocks. To rectify this, in January 2005 the Patterns and Practices Group released the Enterprise Library, a collection of seven application blocks that share a common design and code base.

This article provides an overview of the Enterprise Library along with a quick demo showing how to use the new Data Access Application Block in an ASP.NET Web application.
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Source: 4GuysFromRolla

Liberty on Whidbey: Data Binding in ASP.NET 2.0   22 Feb 2005 05:00 GMT
Not only has Microsoft made radical changes in how data binding is done between ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0, but it has also created significant differences between how it is done in Windows Forms and ASP.NET in 2.0. This keeps life interesting (Jesse Liberty says, gnashing his teeth). In this new column, he dives into data binding in the new Web Forms.
Source: O'Reilly

XML Reader with Bookmarks   18 Feb 2005 08:00 GMT
Helena Kupkova discusses the XmlBookmarkReader. It provides the ability to set bookmarks in an XML stream and then navigate between them, combining random access to the XML with the XmlReader API.
Source: MSDN

Encrypting Connection Strings in Web.config   15 Feb 2005 05:00 GMT
One of the best practices in ASP.NET is to save your database connection strings in the Web.config file instead of hard-coding it in your code. It's not such a good idea to save your connection strings as plain text in Web.config – you should ideally encrypt the connection strings so it leaves no chance for a potential hacker to easily get more information about your database server. In ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has taken this further by allowing you to encrypt the connection strings in Web.config, all without much plumbing on your part. In this new article by Wei-Meng Lee, he shows you how it works!
Source: O'Reilly

ASP.NET: Combine Web and Windows Services to Run Your ASP.NET Code at Scheduled Intervals   14 Feb 2005 08:00 GMT
Combine Web and Windows Services to Run Your ASP.NET Code at Scheduled Intervals
Source: MSDN

Web Services: Increase Your App's Reach Using WSDL to Combine Multiple Web Services   14 Feb 2005 08:00 GMT
Increase Your App's Reach Using WSDL to Combine Multiple Web Services
Source: MSDN