Deploying Microsoft .NET Framework Version 3.0   01 Jul 2006 02:10 GMT
Learn about .NET Framework 3.0 and its relationship to earlier versions of the .NET Framework, including information on installing and deploying the Framework, and how to detect whether the .NET Framework 3.0 is installed.
Source: MSDN

Write a Custom Outlook Add-In with Visual Studio Tools for Office   01 Jul 2006 01:19 GMT
Microsoft's Office software is ubiquitous, highly extensible, and mostly underused. Find out how to capitalize on these features using Visual Studio Tools for Office and start extending Office into new and more productive areas.
Source: DevX

Widen Your Opportunities with 64-Bit Compilers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005   29 Jun 2006 05:36 GMT
Explore the capabilities and feature set of AMD’s 64-bit compiler solution contained in Microsoft’s Visual Studio.
Source: DevX

Discovering the 64-bit Tools in Visual Studio 2005   29 Jun 2006 04:50 GMT
Visual Studio 2005 is ready, willing, and able to create a 64-bit application for your AMD processor. The only problem is that many developers don't even realize that this capability exists. To enable the 64-bit support when writing a managed application with a language such as C# or Visual Basic, all you need to do is change a few settings.
Source: DevX

SQL Server 2005 Query Notifications Tell .NET 2.0 Apps When Critical Data Changes   28 Jun 2006 23:45 GMT
.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 combine in Query Notifications to notify applications when critical data changes occur and eliminate the need to repeatedly ask the database, "Has it changed yet?"
Source: DevX

New Training Kit for Developers on Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0   28 Jun 2006 20:51 GMT
Get in-depth exam preparation for Exam 70-536, a core MCTS exam for the new Microsoft Technology Specialist and Professional Developer certifications, and build real-world job skills. Includes test questions, reviews, case studies, code samples, and more.
Source: MSDN

Register for the Lang .NET 2006 Symposium   28 Jun 2006 20:45 GMT
Lang .Net 2006 is a forum for discussion on programming languages, managed execution environments, compilers, multi-language libraries, and integrated development environments. The conference will be held on the Microsoft Campus, July 31 through Aug. 2.
Source: MSDN

Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications   28 Jun 2006 03:22 GMT
Eager to dabble in remote scripting, but don't know where to start? Let AJAX guru Matthew Eernisse be your pilot -- his aerial tour will give you a bird's-eye view of the basics of building AJAX applications. Then it's back to the workshop to develop the foundations of an AJAX library on which you can glide to the dizzy heights of Web 2.0 success!

Source: SitePoint

Have it Your Way: Customizing Work Items in Team Foundation Server   28 Jun 2006 02:56 GMT
Find out how to customize Team Foundation Server's process templates, altering work items to suit your team's needs.
Source: DevX

Creating a Step-by-Step User Interface with the ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control: Improving and Customizing the User Experience   28 Jun 2006 00:00 GMT

One of the many new Web controls available in ASP.NET 2.0 is the Wizard Web control, which takes the user through a series of discrete steps in order to accomplish some task. As discussed in Creating a Step-by-Step User Interface with the ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control: The Basics, the Wizard control is made up of a collection of <asp:WizardStep>s, with each step containing properties (such as its Title and StepType) along with HTML and Web controls specific to that step. The navigational user interface - the Next, Previous, Finish, and Complete buttons that appear at the bottom of the various steps - are automatically added by the Wizard control and are determined by the step's StepType property.

In Creating a Step-by-Step User Interface with the ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control: The Basics, we examined creating a Wizard control that broke down the process of adding a new employee to a database into four steps. The first step included instructions; the second prompted the user for the new employee's first and last name; the third step provided a TextBox and Calendar control for the employee's salary and hire date; and the final step included the TextBoxes to collect the new employee's contact information (address, phone, and email). We then created an event handler for the Wizard control's FinishButtonClick event where we added programmatic logic to insert the new employee record into the database.

While our demo worked, it had a couple of limitations and annoyances, such as not automatically setting focus to the first Web control when moving to a new WizardStep. Furthermore, the demo didn't explore some of the more advanced features of the Wizard control, such as adding a Complete step. Such a step appears after clicking the Finish button and summarizes the action(s) just performed. Additionally, the navigation user interface automatically created by the Wizard can be customized through templates and the sequence of steps can be customized based on user input. In this article we'll see how to accomplish all of these more advanced features. Read on to learn more!

(If you've not yet read Creating a Step-by-Step User Interface with the ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control: The Basics, please do so before continuing on with this article...)
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