RIA & Web Tutorials & Articles
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Creating a Generic Site-To-Rss Tool
by Roy OsheroveI’ll show how to use regular expressions to parse a Web page’s HTML text into manageable chunks of data. That data will be converted and written as an RSS feed for the whole world to consume. Finally, I’ll show how to create a generic tool that enables you to automatically generate an RSS feed from any website, given a small group of parameters.
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XML transformations in .NET - Part I
by JLogicAn introduction to using XSL transformations on XML documents, and how to perform these in VB .NET using the XslTransform class.
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Introduction to Microsoft's .NET Platform
by Nakul GoyalASP.NET is not just another upgrade or the next version of ASP. It is a unified web development platform that provides necessary services for developers to build Enterprise Web based Applications. ASP.NET allows you to use a full featured programming language such as C# or VB.NET to build web applications easily.
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Building a Web Service - The Beginning
by Bruce JohnsonTo create an intelligently designed web services, it is important to understand the architecture that is available to support them. This article lays out the foundation on which our sample web service will be based.
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Creating tables in HTML
by baillieThis tutorial will take you through the process of creating tables in HTML, from the easy, ones to the more complex.
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Creating a Template
by Robert J. WalkerSick of having to change every page whenever you want to change the navigation or other aspects of your site? In the past, frames have been the traditional (but clunky) solution to that problem. Unfortunately, they make it difficult to properly bookmark pages, and search engines will often skip your frames when they index your pages. The better solution is to create a template, and it's easy.
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Implementing a template based website
by James CrowleyHow to implement your own template based web site using php
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CSS and round corners: Boxes with curves
by Trenton MossOne of the main reasons for having to use images on any web page is to create curves and round corners. It's currently impossible to create any kind of curved shapes using just HTML, so images need to be used. Putting these images into the HTML document with a table layout can create a large amount of superfluous code. Using the power of CSS we'll create the following box with round corners, without an <img> tag in sight.
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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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Custom ASP.NET Datagrid Paging With Exact Count
by Dimitrios MarkatosA demonstration on creating custom DataGrid paging such that we actually know the total number of pages for a result set - something that the default paging for the DataGrid doesn't tell us.
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An Introduction to PHP
by Gez LemonA complete introduction to the basics of PHP, including operators, control flow to forms, server variables, cookies and HTTP headers.
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Searching XML using a DataSet & DataView
by Chris ScottSometimes you need the basic features of a database but don't want the hassle, and possibly cost, of creating one for a small application. With the .NET DataSet object and a simple XML document we can emulate the basic features of a database.
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A Real-Time VB6 ActiveX News Control
by Mitchell HarperA while back, Mitchell wrote an article about MoreOver.com and their XML news sources (which are free for developers using them for non-profit purposes). Today, Mitchell takes that idea one step further and creates an ActiveX component that uses the MoreOver.com news feeds in a similar way. The component uses the XMLHTTP library and the MSXML parser to retrieve and process the news. This article also acts as a good introduction to ActiveX controls if you have never created one before.
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Simple DOM Access
by David NishimotoThe Simple DOM Access (SDA) provide a very abstract perspective for interacting with an xml structure. In this tutorial, David demonstrates how to use the Microsoft XMLDOM ActiveX object and JavaScript to provide simple DOM access to an XML document.
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Web Enable your C# Program
by Kamran ShakilHow to use your C# program in a web server (without using ASP.NET)
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Using Components and Objects in ASP
by Talal Ahmed SiddiquiAn introduction to COM objects, and their use in ASP
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Writing Help
by James CrowleyLearn how to write help files for your applications, and why you should bother!
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REST and .NET 3.5 Part 1 - why REST based services?
by Richard BlewettWhy has REST been getting so much attention recently? It's no accident that Yahoo, Google and Amazon have chosen not to use SOAP to expose their APIs. Learn some of the issues of using SOAP, and how a RESTful based architecture can resolve some of these.
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OpenXML - Open for business
by Matt NicholsonThe new file format introduced with the 2007 Microsoft Office System opens up many business opportunities. Matt Nicholson finds out who is doing what.
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Developing your first Visual WebGui gateway
by Guy PeledAn introduction to using Visual WebGui gateways which are the Visual WebGui way to bridge WinForms development to web development.