Making Delicate Decisions   29 Jun 2007 01:44 GMT
Learn how to use decision trees to model just about any problem.
Source: DevX

Download the Sandcastle June CTP - Documentation Compilers for Managed Class Library   28 Jun 2007 22:54 GMT
Documentation Compilers for Managed Class Library Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. Sandcastle enables Microsoft teams customers to efficiently produce Help documentation for products. Sandcastle ships as a standalone download and as a part of the Visual Studio SDK. The Sandcastle engine’s modular design provides many extensibility points that allow users to customize it for different product needs.
Source: MSDN

Download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1   28 Jun 2007 18:17 GMT
Visual Studio 2008 is the next generation development tool for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and the Web. Download and try this early release of the next version of Visual Studio.
Source: MSDN

Health Monitoring in ASP.NET 2.0: Raising Custom Events   27 Jun 2007 00:00 GMT

Health Monitoring Basics - explores the concepts and advantages of the Health Monitoring system and looks at logging events to a Microsoft SQL Server database.

Notifications via Email - looks at security-related events and shows how to alert an administrator to failed authentication attempts by "logging" events to email.

Raising Custom Events - learn how to create and raise custom Health Monitoring events.

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A Multipart Series on ASP.NET 2.0's Health Monitoring System
The Health Monitoring system in ASP.NET 2.0 is designed to monitor the health of a running ASP.NET application in a production environment. This article is one of an ongoing series on the Health Monitoring system.

As discussed in previous articles in this article series, ASP.NET 2.0's Health Monitoring system is designed to monitor the health of a running ASP.NET application in a production environment by recording event information to a specified log source. The Health Monitoring system includes a plethora of pre-defined events and the ASP.NET runtime will automatically raise certain events during the course of an application's lifetime. However, there may be times when we need to raise these events programmatically through our own code. Moreover, we can create our own custom events for scenarios not already accounted for by the Health Monitoring system.

In this article we will examine how to create a custom event and then how to programmatically raise it. As with other Health Monitoring events, when the event has been raised the Health Monitoring system will consult the configuration information in Web.config to determine what log source(s) to record the event's details. For this article we will create a custom event and write code to record log in attempts on a locked out user account. Read on to learn more!
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Exploring Secrets of the .NET DataGridView and Dynamic Data Manipulation   23 Jun 2007 02:13 GMT
Find out how to use a single DataGridView to display dynamic queries, adjusting columns automatically, and how to format individual cells exactly the way you want users to see them.
Source: DevX

ASP.NET Configuration and Group Policy, Part 3: Using the Enterprise Library Manageable Configuration Extensions   22 Jun 2007 02:22 GMT
This last installment of a three-article series discusses how to apply centrally imposed Windows Group Policy settings using the Manageable Configuration Provider.
Source: DevX

Write Your Own Windows Services   21 Jun 2007 03:53 GMT
If you're using Windows, you're no stranger to Windows services, but do you know how to write one of your own? In this article, you'll learn not only how to build your own Windows service, but how to build a client with which to control it.
Source: DevX

Accessing and Updating Data in ASP.NET 2.0: Deleting Data   20 Jun 2007 00:00 GMT

Data Source Control Basics - explores the concepts and advantages of data source controls, and compares their usage in ASP.NET 2.0 to data access techniques in ASP.NET 1.x.

Accessing Database Data - shows how to use the SqlDataSource and AccessDataSource controls to query data from a relational database.

Filtering Database Data with Parameters - learn how to retrieve just a subset of database data based on hard-coded values and values from the querystring, other Web controls on the page, session variables, and so on.

Retrieving XML Data with XmlDataSource Control - see how to retrieve both remote and local XML data and display it in a data Web control.

Creating Custom Parameter Controls - learn how to create your own custom, declarative Parameter controls for use in the data source controls' parameters collections.

Examining the Data Source Control's Events - explore the events raised during a data source control's lifecycle.

Declaratively Caching Data - learn how to cache data to the data cache simply by setting a couple of data source control properties.

Programmatically Accessing Data using the Data Source Controls - programmatically retrieve, insert, delete, and update data using the SqlDataSource and AccessDataSource controls.

Inserting Data - learn how to insert data using a SqlDataSource control. Also examines how to retrieve the IDENTITY column value for the just-inserted record.

Deleting Data - see how to delete data using a SqlDataSource control. Also looks at how to programmatically cancel a delete.

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A Multipart Series on ASP.NET 2.0's Data Source Controls
ASP.NET 2.0 introduced a number of new Web controls designed for accessing and modifying data. These controls allow page developers to declaratively access and modify data without writing any code to perform the data access. This article is one in a series of articles on ASP.NET 2.0's new data source controls.

ASP.NET 2.0's data source and data Web controls make working with data much easier than in previous versions by allowing for a declarative approach to working with data. In short, the data source controls make it possible to retrieve, insert, update, and delete data without having to write the tedious dedata access code that was so commonplace in ASP.NET version 1.x. (A previous installment of this article series examined using the SqlDataSource to insert data into a database.)

In this article we will focus on using the SqlDataSource control to delete records from a database. Specifically, we will look at three examples: using a SqlDataSource and a bit of server-side code to delete a record selected from a drop-down list; and using the GridView Web control's built-in deleting support; and how to programmatically cancel a delete operation. Read on to learn more!
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Layered Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Dependency Inversion   18 Jun 2007 18:33 GMT
Building loosely coupled application architectures requires more than just separating your application into different layers.
Source: DevX

ASP.NET Configuration and Group Policy, Part 2: Creating and Using Group Policy-Aware Providers   14 Jun 2007 21:14 GMT
The second installment of this three-article series discusses how to set Windows Group Policy at both the machine and domain level to control application configuration settings from a central location.
Source: DevX