Extending the Time Tracker Starter Kit   19 Sep 2005 19:45 GMT
Learn how to extend the new Time Tracker Starter Kit, which is an available installable project type for Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition.
Source: MSDN

Advanced Basics: A Match-Making Game in Visual Basic   19 Sep 2005 19:43 GMT
Duncan Mackenzie builds a memory game in Visual Basic .NET to explore some GDI+ concepts and random number generation.
Source: MSDN

Stay Alert: Use Managed Code to Generate a Secure Audit Trail   19 Sep 2005 19:29 GMT
Windows Server 2003 provides features that let you enable a wide range of applications to make use of auditing functionality. This article describes a sample managed code implementation that will allow you to add auditing to your own server applications.
Source: MSDN

OpenMP and C++: Reap the Benefits of Multithreading without All the Work   19 Sep 2005 19:17 GMT
If your application is not coded to take advantage of computers with multiple processors, you may not reap the benefits. OpenMP helps you create multithreaded C++ applications quickly so that the benefits of multithreading can be realized.
Source: MSDN

Memory Models: Understand the Impact of Low-Lock Techniques in Multithreaded Apps   19 Sep 2005 19:15 GMT
Low-lock techniques significantly increase the likelihood of introducing hard-to-find bugs into your applications. Vance Morrison demonstrates the limitations and subtleties of these techniques so that you can use them correctly if you use them at all.
Source: MSDN

Custom Cultures: Extend Your Code's Global Reach with New Features in the .NET Framework 2.0   19 Sep 2005 19:15 GMT
The .NET Framework 2.0 adds a number of globalization features that address the important issues of extensibility, standards support, and migration. Michael Kaplan and Cathy Wissink explain what these features mean to your your globalization efforts.
Source: MSDN

Migrating from ADO "Classic" to ADO.NET   19 Sep 2005 19:03 GMT
Bill Vaughn discusses the process of converting Visual Basic 6.0 ADO code into code that can be used in a .NET application to perform roughly the same operations.
Source: MSDN

Read about Atlas - Ajax for ASP.NET   19 Sep 2005 18:20 GMT
ASP.NET "Atlas" is a package of new Web development technologies that integrates an extensive set of client script libraries with the rich, server-based development platform of ASP.NET 2.0.
Source: MSDN

An Extended Look at the Profile Object - Part 1   19 Sep 2005 00:00 GMT
There are many reasons to store information about a visitor to your web application. The ASP.NET 1.1 Session object was helpful, but had a number of limitations. Bilal Haidar shows you how the ASP.NET 2.0 Profile object stores user-specific information for both anonymous and authenticated users, and automatically persists this information across separate visits to your website.
Source: AspAlliance

Updated ShowContexts and Request.LogonUserIdentity   18 Sep 2005 09:25 GMT
In ASP.NET you have to deal with several security contexts. This little tool makes it easier.
Source: O'Reilly