Web App Installer centralized management of ASP.NET and PHP-based open source Web apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/16/2008
Peter begins to explore the usability of Dynamic Data and Entity Framework by adding the simplest possible data model to his application.
Silverlight 2, the latest version of
Microsoft's cross-platform browser plug-in for multimedia
applications, will be available on Oct. 14, company officials
announced on Monday.
Microsoft's tools for building rich Internet applications (RIAs)-ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight 2-promise to help take the "developer ugly" out of line-of-business software.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/09/2008
What's in SP1 for ASP.NET developers? At least one bug fix, a couple of enhancements and -- perhaps -- something that will change your life. But Peter is suspicious.
Is it time to move from classic Web apps to Silverlight clients?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/01/2008
Peter shows you how to make a Master-Detail page that will work right and save your users a lot of grief.
Jabber introduces JabberWerx Client Libraries, a set of libraries for .NET and AJAX programmers working with XMPP.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2008
In a tip of its hand toward open source software development, Microsoft announced on Sunday that it will incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET.
Developers can get prepared for the next version of Microsoft's rich Internet application platform by grabbing Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 developer runtime edition, which became publicly available on Thursday of last week.
Peter stumps for the Cache, despite developers' worries over stale or lost data.
The ASP.NET Cache object could be the secret to speeding up your application if you just started using it more.
Redmond on Tuesday rolled out four critical fixes, as expected, for as many as eight remote code execution exploits for various Windows applications.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2008
Peter answers a reader's question by showing how to access data inside the individual controls of the various DataViews.
Microsoft on Thursday released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Service (IIS) Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks.
Want to give your users personalized pages without giving up control? It's easy with Web Parts. Peter shows you how.
Microsoft released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/11/2008
Peter shows a "code-lite" way to handle exceptions when using DataView to update data.
If Silverlight 2 wins the gold in Beijing, will it be ready to light up your rich Internet apps?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/01/2008
This is one big problem that's simple to fix. Peter shows you two solutions.