Improve Code Quality with Unit Testing in Visual Studio Team Edition   28 Jul 2006 19:17 GMT
Learn to use Visual Studio Team Edition's built-in unit test generation and code coverage analysis capabilities to ensure all your code gets tested.
Source: DevX

Potential of RFID in the Aerospace and Defense Market   27 Jul 2006 17:03 GMT
Describes the opportunities and business benefits of RFID in the Aerospace and Defense sector. It looks at various scenarios where RFID is and can be used to solve business problems.
Source: MSDN

Readings in Service Orientation   26 Jul 2006 23:30 GMT
This book presents an interesting set of classical papers on architecting services by a variety of well-known authors in the architectural space.
Source: MSDN

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005: Productivity Study   26 Jul 2006 22:03 GMT
Microsoft commissioned VeriTest, the testing division of Lionbridge Technologies, to measure the potential improvements in developer productivity realized between the development platforms of ASP and ASP.NET 2.0.
Source: MSDN

The Ultimate SEO Checklist   26 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
Search Engine Optimization should be considered, and implemented, throughout the planning, design, development, and maintenance stages of your site's evolution. But where should you begin? And how will you stay on track? This complete checklist will show you how to conquer the challenge of SEO in your next project.

Source: SitePoint

The Ultimate Testing Checklist   26 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
Two of the most costly web project mistakes are to delay testing until just before launch, or not to test at all. Save dollars, your sanity, and possibly your job, with this comprehensive checklist. It'll make sure you don't overlook any aspect of a stringent testing regime focused on quality results.

Source: SitePoint

JUST RELEASED! Web Service Software Factory   26 Jul 2006 00:44 GMT
This cohesive collection of guidance enables architects and developers to design and build higher quality services and achieve more predictable results in less time by applying proven practices and patterns directly within Visual Studio 2005.
Source: MSDN

Sending Email in ASP.NET 2.0   26 Jul 2006 00:00 GMT

Email serves as a ubiquitous, asynchronous notification and information distribution system. Not surprisingly, there are many web development scenarios where server-side code needs to generate an email and scuttle it off to the intended recipient. The email may be destined for a user of the website, informing them of their newly created user account, reminding them of their forgotten password, or emailing them an invoice. Or it may be destined for a web developer or site administrator, providing information of an unhandled exception that just transpired or user feedback.

Fortunately, ASP.NET makes sending email a breeze. The .NET Framework version 1.x included a number of classes in the System.Web.Mail class that allowed programmatically sending an email with a few scant lines of code. While this namespace and these classes still exist in the .NET Framework version 2.0, they have been deprecated in favor of new mail-related classes found in the System.Net.Mail namespace. (For an article on sending email in ASP.NET version 1.x, see Sending Email from an ASP.NET 1.x Web Page or consult www.SystemWebMail.com.)

In this article we'll look at the classes in the System.Net.Mail namespace and see how to send an email from an ASP.NET 2.0 page's code-behind class. We'll also look at specifying relay server information in Web.config and how this information can be used in some of the built-in ASP.NET server controls for sending emails (such as when a user creates an account or needs a password reminder/reset). Read on to learn more!
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Add a Fresh Set of Records to a Dataset   25 Jul 2006 23:41 GMT
When you execute a new query and populate an existing dataset, the newly retrieved records are appended to the existing records in the dataset.
Source: DevX

The Baker's Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Remoting in Visual Studio 2005   25 Jul 2006 05:35 GMT
Remoting is a powerful technology for implementing distributed applications. Interfaces make it possible to access external code in a strongly-typed manner. Generics in Visual Studio 2005 simplify the process even further.
Source: DevX