Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 bring some significant changes to services. Many of these features are focused on making it simpler to produce services that are more secure, but among the non-security-related service features are a few aimed at...

The IIS 7.0 architecture is designed to be extensible from top to bottom, allowing you to replace any part of the built-in feature set with a custom implementation that suits your needs. As a result, IIS 7.0 implements all of its own features on top of...

Mobile devices often do not have static IP addresses or dynamic DNS entries that follow them around, making it difficult receive data pushed down from servers. But the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 solves many of these problems with two new binding elements...

What's compelling about Windows Workflow Foundation in the .NET Framework 3.5 is that it provides true integration with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). This integration means that workflows can now more easily consume and coordinate services and...

Dialog boxes have been around in Windows for a long time, and they do have their advantages. But if you want your Web application to have dialog boxes, you're basically stuck with popups, and, as you know, most users disable them with popup blockers....

The Launch 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/08/LA/ . As you can probably guess from the name, this issue highlights the launch of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. In our lead...

Last month, Dino Esposito discussed how ASP.NET input controls such as textboxes and buttons could be enhanced by using AJAX control extenders via the .NET Framework 3.5 and the newest version of ASP.NET. In the February issue of MSDN Magazine , Dino...

The Entity Framework is an exciting new technology for ADO.NET developers that enables you to view data using a logical model instead of a physical model. At the heart of the Entity Framework is the Entity Data Model (EDM), which defines the entity types...

You may already know the fundamentals of security programming with Windows and ASP.NET security, but how well do you know the security layer that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) adds on top? In the February issue of MSDN Magazine , Ted Pattison...

The .NET Framework 3.0 enabled developers to build both sequential workflows and state machine workflows. State machine workflows, when designed and implemented correctly, they are just as valuable as sequential workflows. Furthermore, this style of workflow...

Enterprise Library 3.0 introduced the Policy Injection Application Block (PIAB) to solve the problem of implementation concerns leaking into the services -- a problem not only in service-oriented design, but in object-oriented design as well. To leverage...

As I mentioned in a recent editor's note , one topic that you said you would like to see more of is database development. While this request was not entirely unexpected, it's not all that clearly defined in my mind either. I think that the reason has...

Visual Studio 2008 and the underlying .NET Framework 3.5 offer new tools and support for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), extending the functionality and making WCF easier to use in your own applications. In the February issue of MSDN Magazine...

There are several techniques you can use to test the user interface of a Windows application such as the System.Reflection classes or Win32 API functions such as FindWindow. But the development of the UI Automation library may be one of the most important...