Add MS AJAX Extensions to a Visual Studio 2005 Setup Project   01 Jul 2008 02:04 GMT
MS AJAX Extensions is an assembly (DLL) that must be present on the target system in order for your AJAX-enabled ASP.NET application to work
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Eight Key Practices for ASP.NET Deployment   28 Jun 2008 00:40 GMT
Discover some best practices for deploying ASP.NET applications as well as a few useful procedures that you can follow to improve your application's performance.
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Faster Search Results with the VS.NET IDE's Incremental Search Feature   25 Jun 2008 00:18 GMT
Learn about a search method that is faster than using the Find dialog search.
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Examining ASP.NET 2.0's Membership, Roles, and Profile - Part 11   25 Jun 2008 00:00 GMT

Many websites that support user account allow anyone to create a new account, but require new users to undergo some form of verification before their account is activated. A common approach is to send an email to the newly created user with a link that, when visited, activates their account. This approach ensures that the email address entered by the user is valid (since it is sent to that user's email address). This workflow not only ensures the valid data entry, but also helps deter automated spam bots and abusive users.

In past installments of this article series we've seen how to use the CreateUserWizard control to allow users to create new accounts. By default, the user accounts created by the CreateUserWizard control are activated; new users can login immediately and start interacting with the site. This default behavior can be customized, however, so that new accounts are disabled. A disabled user cannot log into the site; therefore, there needs to be some manner by which a newly created user can have her account enabled.

There are many ways by which an account may be activated. You could have each account manually verified by an administrative user. If your site requires users to pay some sort of monthly fee or annual due, you could have the account approved once the payment was successfully processed. As aforementioned, one very common approach is to require the user to visit a link sent to the email address they entered when logging on. This article explores this latter technique. Read on to learn more!
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Configuring WCF Services and Getting Them Ready to Ship   24 Jun 2008 04:25 GMT
Get your WCF services production ready by learning all the configurable entities that make a WCF service rock solid and ready to ship.
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Getting Started with the Windows Live Tools   21 Jun 2008 02:32 GMT
Windows Live Tools brings a set of Windows Live services right into your Visual Studio development environment.
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Enable WPF/Windows Forms Interoperability with WPF Commands   20 Jun 2008 01:10 GMT
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) can interoperate with Windows Forms, letting you add legacy controls to your new interface—or new WPF controls to your existing Windows Forms applications. Either way, you need to make them play nicely together.
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Build Occasionally Connected Systems Using Sync Services for ADO.NET v1.0   19 Jun 2008 02:47 GMT
When workers aren't always connected, Occasionally Connected Systems (OCS) can help. Find out how Visual Studio 8's Sync Services for ADO.NET enables OCS, synchronizing databases between different devices and computers.
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The VS.NET IDE's Command Window: A Tutorial   18 Jun 2008 00:26 GMT
The VS.NET IDE Command Window (Ctrl+Alt+A) has more features than is commonly realized.
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Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Using the Timer Control   18 Jun 2008 00:00 GMT

Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX framework ships with a mere five Web controls: the ScriptManager and ScriptManagerProxy; the UpdatePanel; the UpdateProgress; and the Timer. Previous installments in this article series have examined all but one control, the Timer. As we've seen from the first installment, all web pages that use the framework must have precisely one ScriptManager control on the page. The UpdatePanel control defines a region on the screen whose content is updated via partial page postbacks, and the UpdateProgress control provides visual feedback during the execution of a partial page postback. The Timer control, which is the focus of this installment, raises a postback every time a specified number of milliseconds has elapsed.

The Timer control is useful in scenarios where a portion of the screen needs to be updated every so often. For example, many financial websites display stock quotes that are refreshed periodically. Prior to AJAX, refreshing the stock quote entailed reloading the entire document, which would result in a screen flash and necessitate the browser re-downloading the entire content of the page (even though the only change that has occurred is the stock quote). Using AJAX techniques we can have the page asynchronously communicate with the server to get the latest quote every n millisconds and seamlessly update the quote on screen. The Timer control, along with the UpdatePanel, make implementing such scenarios a breeze.

This article shows how to use the Timer control to trigger a partial page postback every five seconds. It also shows how to start and stop the Timer through both server-side and client-side code. Read on to learn more!
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