Sample Application: FFAssist Using Crystal .NET for Visual Studio 2005 - Part 3   18 May 2005 00:00 GMT
Third part of the sample application FFAssist to demonstrate new features of Visual Studio 2005 and Crystal Reports that is included with Visual Studio 2005.
Source: AspAlliance

patterns & practices: Threat Modeling Web Applications   17 May 2005 07:00 GMT
Model your threats. Identify vulnerabilities. Design for security. Adopt threat modeling to design secure Web applications
Source: MSDN

Build a TreeView Control in Less Than Two Minutes with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2   17 May 2005 00:00 GMT
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 provides a wide variety of new features and enhancements. One in particular that you may find useful is the TreeView control. In this article, Steven Swafford demonstrates how to build such a control in less than two minutes.
Source: AspAlliance

Hacking Visual Studio   16 May 2005 04:00 GMT
Author James Avery has selected five hacks from his recently released book, Visual Studio Hacks. Learn to create comments faster using GhostDoc; to refactor your code with Visual Studio 2005's new Refactor menu; and more.
Source: O'Reilly

Mythbuster: Normalizing with Integers is Always Best   16 May 2005 00:00 GMT
It is common sense that using artificial integer keys and lookup tables are a best practice for data normalization, but does that dictum hold true under fire? Read more to find out.
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Download the Snippet Editor for Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2   13 May 2005 18:07 GMT
Are you eager to produce your own Visual Basic Code Snippets but prefer not to think in terms of angle brackets? The Visual Basic Snippet Editor is a Windows Forms application with UI for creating, editing, testing VB code snippets.
Source: MSDN

Get Refactoring Support for Visual Basic 2005   13 May 2005 18:07 GMT
Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2 is a free plug-in from Developer Express Inc., in partnership with Microsoft, that enables Visual Basic developers to simplify and re-structure source code inside of Visual Studio 2005, making it easier to read and less costly to maintain.
Source: MSDN

Deploying a Crystal Reports Application to a Remote Server   13 May 2005 00:00 GMT
When deploying a Crystal Reports application written in ASP.NET, must the remote server have the Crystal Reports .NET server components installed? Ben Higgins from the ORCS Webteam addresses a common misconception.
Source: AspAlliance

Where Did My Icons Go?   12 May 2005 07:00 GMT
Review the host of improvements and new features that make the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 integrated development environment (IDE) even more impressive than its predecessors.
Source: MSDN

Improving Application Performance by Implementing Paginated Lists   12 May 2005 07:00 GMT
Describes how Ameripay has implemented the "How To: Page Records in .NET Applications" section of the Microsoft patterns & practices book Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability.
Source: MSDN