RIA & Web Tutorials & Articles
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Color Mixer
by James P. GuptaThis shows you how to create a pop-up color mixer which converts to hexadecimal format
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Selecting, Confirming & Deleting Multiple Checkbox Items In A DataGrid/GridView - Part 2: Maintaining CheckBox State Acr
by Dimitrios MarkatosIn this article, we will examine how to create a fully functional DataGrid and GridView in .NET 2.0 with all the features you'd find set up on Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL Mail, and further demonstrate how you can multi-select items across pages and batch delete them all.
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Test-Driven Development in .NET
by Peter ProvostAn article presenting benefits and techniques for using test-driven development in .NET, specifically examining the NUnit testing framework.
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Typography on the Web
by Roan LaveryCrucial to the ethos of the web is providing information in a way which is easy to read. It sounds simple, but there are many design considerations which factor into this, one of the most obvious being: "Which font do I choose?"
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Moving from Tables to CSS
by Roan LaveryLearn how to migrate your existing sites from tables to CSS, and how to start including more CSS based design into your workflow. Why? Because I still think many people find learning to build CSS layout sites from scratch difficult. There's a steep learning curve associated with CSS design, much more so than tables, and getting consistent results across different browsers is tricky, even for the more experienced.
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Web Services Interoperability between J2EE and .NET - Part 3
by Wangming YeExplore the source of the common interoperability challenges facing Web services integration across platforms. This third part in a series describes how the different naming conventions between J2EE technology and .NET can cause difficulty in Web services interoperability.
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XML and Web Services by design
by Mike JamesWith XML as an integral part, SQL Server 2005 has enhanced its status as a natural platform for web-based applications.
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SWT and JFace, Part 1: A gentle introduction
by Barry FeigenbaumIn this first article of an SWT and JFace series, find out how to create a simple Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) application using Java™, Eclipse, and the SWT and JFace libraries. Also learn how to create simple SWT GUIs using basic controls and layouts.
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Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF Documents in .NET
by Jonathan HodgsonThis article presents VB.NET code to create thumbnail images from a directory of Adobe Acrobat PDF documents using the .NET Framework.
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Web Services Interoperability between J2EE and .NET - Part 2
by Wangming YePart 2 of this series explores the source of common interoperability challenges facing Web services integration across platforms. Follow along as Wangming Ye analyzes the interop failures resulting from the use of certain data types and ways to overcome them such as collections, arrays, or primitive data types.
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Implementing AJAX in ASP.NET
by Karl SeguinAsynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) has recently become the craze thanks, in no small part, to Google’s usage of it in Google Suggest as well as Google Maps. Karl looks at how it works, and how we can implement it in ASP.NET using a free AJAX.NET wrapper.
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Web Services Interoperability between J2EE and .NET - Part 1
by Wangming YeWeaving together Web services to create cross-organizational business processes requires all partners to program to the same standard model and to avoid exposing proprietary implementations. However, the ultimate goal of making Web services interact seamlessly is still a frequent concern and a hot discussion topic. The first part of the series stresses the importance of WSDL design and analyzes the strength and pitfalls of the traditional RPC/encoded style in Web services interoperability.
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Dynamic Column Sorting and Paging in ASP.NET
by Dimitrios MarkatosDemonstrates how to enable your visitors to sort your datagrid by columns, and implement paging.
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.NET Applets
by M KenyonMark walks you through how you go about creating a ".NET Applet" - a Windows Forms control hosted within a web page.
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Building a Full-Featured Custom DataGrid Control
by Dimitrios MarkatosIn this article, we will demonstrate how you can build your very own Datagrid control component, one that you will be able to customize, and more importantly reuse. Based on this ability, you will then end up with one powerful control that will have many implementations, from which you could learn about creating almost any other types of custom controls.
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How to access Outlook and post to a blog using C#
by Simon SoanesAn article for all those like Robert Scoble who would like to be able to drag and drop an item to a folder in their Outlook and post it instantly to their Blog. We also briefly cover web services and talking to Outlook.
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Implementing two-way Data Binding for ASP.NET
by Rick StrahlASP.NET simplifies many things but data binding simple controls like textboxes and checkboxes leaves a lot to be desired. Databinding is one-way only and you end up doing lots of repetitive work to publish your data. In this article I'll show you how simple databinding in .Net works and then show how to create custom controls that implement two-way binding to make short work of creating databound forms.
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SQL Injection Attacks by Example
by Stephen J. FriedlSteve Friedl takes a look at how your site could be vulnerable to SQL injection attacks - complete with numerous examples - and the action you can take to prevent them.
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Tree structures in ASP.NET and SQL Server
by James CrowleyTakes a look at how tree structures can be usefully stored in a relational database such as SQL Server, and how to implement web directory-like features such as breadcrumbs.
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Implementing HTTP Handlers in ASP.NET
by Michael FlanakinASP.NET uses HTTP handlers to process all requests - and we can use these to interact with HTTP requests before they get to a web page. This article is an in-depth discussion on the topic of HTTP handlers including pros, cons, and a sample implementation that you can extend.