"The .NET Pet Shop application is designed to show the best practices for building enterprise, n-tier .NET 2.0 applications that may need to support a variety of database platforms and deployment scenarios. The goals of the .NET Pet Shop 4 project...

One of the new scenarios enabled by SQL Server 2005 is the ability to store and search XML documents. This series of posts will describe techniques for loading the XML documents into the database. To start with, we will simply load the document from...

This is the second in a series of posts. You can find the first post here . Now that we've loaded our XML document into a variable, we need to extract the id and year information from it. As can be seen in the following sample , this is done use the...

Last year I did 3 screencasts on building .NET solutions agains the Active Directory data store, and recently there was a couple of requests for the code from those webcasts. Although, I don't have the code seperated into the 3 segments to follow the...

Are you unsure of what the right presentation layer technology is for your applications? Tim Sneath does a good job of breaking down ASP.NET, Atlas, Windows Forms, and the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to help you out. Check it out here . ...

Subtitle: “What is Windows Communication Foundation, and why should I care?” [Brace yourself, it's a long blog entry] So, I was thinking about doing a couple of blog entries on building “Connected Systems” using Windows Communication Foundation...

I've been getting emails about VS2005 from MSDN media kits asking for a Product Key during installation. These products are preconfigured with the product key associated with your MSDN subscription. However, if a previous version of VS 2005 (trial or...

Business Intelligence is, in my opinion, one the most under implemented capabilities in applications. What do I mean? Well I guess I’d have to level set what I mean by BI. BI is one of those many overused buzz words in an industry of “I’m cool cause I...

Robert has blogged about code snippets in Visual Studio 2005 a couple times now. He mentioned http://www.gotcodesnippets.net which is a community resource for additional code snippets. One of the things we hear often is "Why aren't the code snippets that...

"The Client Team at patterns & practices will be hosting a 2.5 days, instructor-led training event for the upcoming Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit based on: - Composite UI Application Block (CAB) - Enterprise Library 2.0 and the...

I've been talking to Jeremy Kadlec about the Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group. He asked me to spread the word to our Federal customers. Here is the announcement for the upcoming meeting. -Marc Everyone, Good afternoon. The...

For those of us who have fallen in love with the new "Code Snippets" feature of Visual Studio 2005, but really wish there was some way other than marking up XML to build them, check out the "Snippy" tool. It is a simple yet elegant UI tool for building...

The long awaited ASP.NET 2.0 "How do I" series of short videos has been posted. See Brian's post for more info: http://blogs.msdn.com/bgold/archive/2006/02/20/535869.aspx -Darryl

With all the momentum and interest around BizTalk Server 2006 post launch, here's a new all day event: The First Look Clinic for BizTalk Server 2006 teaches you how BizTalk Server 2006 can help solve your business integration scenarios. Through a combination...

I just saw an email from JD via Brian that provided a single list of all the ASP.NET 2.0 Security Guidance work they've produced in recent months...it's an impressive list which I thought was valuable to share: Key Recommendations/Guidelines: ASP...

Learn about Visual Studio from Microsoft through the Visual Studio Webcast Series Webcast will run 12:00 – 1:30 PM, EST Audio will be by conf. call March 8, 2006 – SDLC Process Support in VSTF Description: Team Foundation is a set of tools and technologies...

This user group provides information on connected systems, workflow, and business process integration on the Microsoft platform. The technology focus is on Microsoft BizTalk Server, BizTalk adapters and accelerators, Windows Communication Foundation,...

This is the third in a series of posts. You can find the previous posts here ( 1 , 2 ). So far, I haven't used namespaces in my sample document. I've updated doc2.xml to include a default namespace. If you run the previous sql example against this...

Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 NOTE: An XBOX will be raffled off at the end of the dinner! But there is limited seating and registration . Register today! http://www.microsoft.com/usa/events or call 1-877-MSEVENT (1-877-673-8368) and reference 1032291056...

There were some architects from Hitchen Designing systems in the kitchen. They said with a smile The model doth compile! And that's why Architect edition's a rich-un! And if you think that’s funny, check out the movie Broadway Danny Rose for even better...

Here's a teaser video that introduces InfoCards -- a newly announced solution to deal with the problem of identity on the Internet. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060209InfoCardKC/manifest.xml See Kim's blog at http...

One of the recurring discussions I seem to have with customers lately is "Why doesn't ClickOnce do..." It is important to understand that ClickOnce was designed for a specific set of scenarios and is not intended to be a replacement for Windows Installer...

Head on over to http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=163166 and watch a recent interview C9 did with BillG... -Darryl

The latest edition is now online...check it out at: http://www.thecoderoom.com/vegas/ -Darryl