Exploring Secrets of .NET Diagnostics   15 Mar 2008 04:55 GMT
Instrumenting an application with tracing has become increasingly sophisticated as the .NET framework has matured. Find out how to use tracing in your applications, how to fine-tune tracing to your needs with custom listeners, and how to gain field-level and robust formatting control over the output.
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Book Excerpt: Visual Basic 2005 with .NET 3.0 Programmer's Reference   12 Mar 2008 23:36 GMT
Find out how to develop VB.NET applications on Vista using .NET 3.0. Chapter 24, "Printing," covers a topic that nearly every developer needs, but few understand well.
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Explore Open Source with Microsoft Technologies   12 Mar 2008 01:35 GMT
Many developers aren't aware that Microsoft offers an impressive assortment of tools and languages for open-source developers and has become an increasingly popular platform for open-source development projects. If you're part of that group, read this overview of what Microsoft has to offer.
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Importing an Excel Spreadsheet Using Typed DataSets and TableAdapters: Displaying the Uploaded Excel Spreadsheet   12 Mar 2008 00:00 GMT

In Building the Importer Web Page and Uploading the Excel Spreadsheet we created an interface for users to upload an Excel spreadsheet to the web server with the end goal being that a user could import the uploaded spreadsheet's data into the application database. Before importing the data, it would be prudent to display the contents of the uploaded Excel spreadsheet to give the user one last time to look over the data and verify that they want to import it.

The contents of an Excel spreadsheet can be programmatically queried with code and syntax similar to that used when querying a "regular" database, like Microsoft SQL Server. In this article we will see how to bind the contents of the uploaded Excel spreadsheet to a GridView. Read on to learn more!
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Never Write an Insecure ASP.NET Application Ever Again   11 Mar 2008 01:14 GMT
Learn to take advantage of the inner workings of ASP.NET's security model to help eliminate security vulnerabilities from your web applications.
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Book Excerpt: Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for .NET Framework 3.5   07 Mar 2008 22:25 GMT
This revamped book covers developing with the latest release of WCF in Visual Studio 2008 on the .NET Framework 3.5, giving practical advice, numerous examples, tips and tricks, and ways to avoid the "pain points" of WCF development. Chapter 9 covers WCF Diagnostics.
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Direct3D, Part 3: Using Meshes to Save and Load Complex Scenes   05 Mar 2008 23:25 GMT
Direct3D's Mesh class lets you manage, save, and load complex scenes quickly and easily.
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What's New in Visual Basic 9.0? Part 1   05 Mar 2008 04:56 GMT
The release of Visual Studio 2008 updates Visual Basic to version 9.0, with several key language enhancements and LINQ support. Part one of this series will walk you through using nullable types, type inference, the If operator, and other time-saving enhancements.
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Importing an Excel Spreadsheet Using Typed DataSets and TableAdapters: Building the Importer Web Page and Uploading the Excel Spreadsheet   05 Mar 2008 00:00 GMT

This article is the second in a series of step-by-step tutorials by Nannette Thacker that show how to build an ASP.NET page to import an Excel spreadsheet into a database using Typed DataSets and TableAdapters. Last week's article, Building the Database, started with an overview of the system. We then created the ASP.NET website project, the database, and the two database tables, Members and Category.

In this installment we will build the ASP.NET page for importing the Excel spreadsheet. This entails creating the page's user interface and file upload capabilities. At the conclusion of this article we will have created a page that enables users to upload their Excel spreadsheets. Read on to learn more!
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