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.
Seriously, don't. Here are two reasons why record locking is simply a bad idea.
Optimistic concurrency doesn't work for most tables, but Peter shows you how to change that.
Don't worry, ASP.NET developers: Siverlight 2 controls aren't so different from what you're used to, as Dan shows.
Client-side debugging is better, but IntelliSense still has a few issues to be worked out.
MySQL gives Microsoft a nod from the open source community at the MySQL Conference and Expo.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2008
Microsoft late last week launched a revamped iteration of its highly trafficked resource sites for developers and IT professionals.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/29/2008
This week Microsoft released the latest preview version of its model view controller (MVC) architecture for Web application frameworks.
Peter shares what he likes -- and doesn't -- in Visual Studio 2008 and ASP.NET 3.5
It's good news, bad news if you're upgrading an existing site to ASP.NET 2.0 or 3.5. But it can be done.
Telerik launches updated version of RadControls, which supports Office SharePoint Server and DotNetNuke, among other platforms.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/15/2008
In theory, PreviousPage lets you access data on the page the user just requested. In practice it doesn't work if you're also using Master Pages unless you understand ASP.NET naming containers.
Adding some bizarre punctuation marks to the tags in your ASPX file gives you an easy way to move data out of custom properties and into your page.
IBM launches new mashup tools WebSphere sMash and Mashup Center.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/01/2008
Microsoft is finally tuning up its Microsoft Developer Network site and promises to resolve long-running frustrations developers have encountered working with it.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2008