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=============== THE LATEST NEWS =============== Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with C# (3/27/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9176 [new book] This book shows you how to create and deploy business web sites that do extensive database processing and take advantage of all the best features in ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. $52.50

EasyQuery.NET (WinForms) released (3/27/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9171 [new] EasyQuery.NET is a unique set of .NET classes, components and controls that provides an ability to include end-user- oriented query builder into your Windows Forms application and allows your users to describe their requests in natural language. $249

ClickOnce: Bringing Ease and Reliability to Smart Client Deployment (3/27/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9177 [article] Who said client deployment has to be difficult? The ClickOnce technologies baked into Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 make distributing your application either online or offline much easier.

New Publish Feature with VS 2005 Web Application Projects (3/27/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9178 [article] We are finishing up the final week of work on the feature-complete build of the VS 2005 Web Application Project option. This build has a ton of new features and functionality, and fixes all of the bugs reported with the last preview. We are in the process of verifying the build with a number of private beta testers now, and will make it available for everyone to download early next week.

Working with Spring .NET (3/27/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9180 [article] In this article, Vishal examines how to work with Spring .NET application framework with the help of examples.

Observing the world - how to build a reuseable implementation (3/27/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9181 [article] An article about the techniques to pour reusable design (a design pattern) into reusable code with an example of the observer pattern.

AlphaGradientPanel, an extended panel (3/27/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9182 [article] A panel that has rounded borders, gradients, and transparency.

Microsoft Brings .Net to the Mac (3/27/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9183 [article] The software giant fashions a challenge for Flash. Plus: Nine steps to great links.... Mozilla's Lightning falls short for Outlook users. In Monkey Bites.

ComponentSpace FTP for .NET 2.0 released (3/28/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9184 [update] ComponentSpace has released FTP for the .NET framework 2.0. The product now ships with FTP components for .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 plus examples for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005. $199

CodeSnip: How to Create a BoundField Dynamically Using GridView (3/28/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9186 [article] In this code snippet, Sushila examines how to create and add a BoundField column to the GridView control dynamically, based on the user selection.

CLR Inside Out: Ensuring .NET Framework 2.0 Compatibility (3/28/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9187 [new] Compatibility is much more than avoiding breaking changes. Get an inside look at how the .NET Framework and Visual Studio teams focus their compatibility efforts.

Lesson 5 - Using Data and Serializing to Files (3/28/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9188 [press] Our program for this lesson is the first of two versions that will save the information in the About Visual Basic Signature Block to a file instead of just trying to keep it internally in the program. We're going to need a file to improve the program later, but for now, we're just going to try out a few options of the many data storage options available in VBE.

Colorizing the Scroll Bars of Your Application's Window (3/28/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9189 [article] I was searching for a technique to colorize the scroll bars of the windows of my application, to make the appearance of the UI a bit more attractive, especially for the UI that I developed in VC++. As you know, to get anything done in MFC, you need to do a lot of work. But, you can find mountains of resources on the Internet to help you do whatever you want. That's what I did to bring this article very close to a beginner VC++ developer's level. I will show you how to get a scroll bar attached statically to the application's main window and, more interestingly, how to colorize it.

Automated-SQL-Builder v3.2 released (3/28/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9179 [update] SBS Development have just released Automated-SQL- Builder v3.2. The popular ActiveX control now supports alias table and field declarations, as well as various performance enhancements. $499

EASendMail SMTP Component 1.0 Released (3/29/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9185 [new] EASendMail is an SMTP email component that enables your C#, VB.NET, JScript.NET, ASP.NET or other .NET framework applications to send rich TEXT/HTML email based on SMTP/ESMTP protocol. Featured samples are included. $79.95

One More .NET Exam Goes Live in March (3/29/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9190 [press] Last week Microsoft announced the pending release of Microsoft exam 70-529 TS: .NET Framework 2.0 - Distributed Application Development on Friday, March 24. The exam counts toward the MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 - Distributed Applications title, and is among five exams required for the vaunted Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise Application Developer certification.

Learn VB 6 and ASP (3/29/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9191 [article] This quick tutorial shows you how to activate your web pages with Visual Basic and ASP or Active Server Pages. You can develop an ASP application with only a copy of Windows using the free Personal Web Server (PWS) from Microsoft. If you have Windows 2000 or NT, you can also use the IIS web server that comes with those versions.

Karamasoft Released UltimateCallback 1.0 (3/30/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9192 [new] UltimateCallback is an ASP.NET server control to provide AJAX callback functionality in your web applications. It allows you to make web pages more responsive by exchanging data with the server behind the scenes. Every time the user initiates a callback request UltimateCallback refreshes only its own contents instead of reloading the entire web page as in the case of a regular postback to server. $249

Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Trial Edition (3/30/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9193 [article] Team Foundation Server enables development teams to work by integrating the most critical aspects of software development, version control, work item tracking, and reporting, together into a single, secure collaboration platform.

Mini-Tools Adds VB.NET Support and Integrated Help (3/30/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9194 [press] Mini-Tools announces upgrades to its line of .NET software components to offer full Visual Basic .NET support and help files integrated into the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment.

Microsoft Code Advisor for Visual Basic 6.0 (3/30/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9195 [press] The Code Advisor for Visual Basic 6 is an add-in used to review your code to ensure that it meets predetermined coding standards. The coding standards are based on best practices developed by Microsoft to produce robust and easy-to-maintain code.

Learn VB - Serializing to a File (3/31/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9196 [article] The example program that is being built in the Learn VB course has a problem that needs some sort of program storage to solve. In Lesson 5, we experiment with one way to solve the problem ... serializing the data to a file.

Using .NET Windows Forms Controls (3/31/2006) http://vbwire.com/nl?9197 [article] The previous chapter introduced the Control class and the methods, properties, and events it defines for all controls. This chapter moves beyond that to examine the specific features of individual controls. It begins with a survey of the more important .NET controls, before taking an in-depth look at how to implement controls such as the TextBox, ListBox, TreeView, and ListView. Also included is a discussion of the .NET drag- and-drop features that are used to move or copy data from one control to another.

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