.Net Developer Journal July 2006

Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005 and Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005
This is a big book weighing in at over 1,200 pages. Note the "Pro" in the title. If you want to learn how to design Web sites, this book is not for you; it"s meant for the professional Web designer needing to build serious, real-wor…

BizTalk Application Styles
BizTalk is a broad and inherently flexible product that can be used to build a large variety of applications; however, it exists to solve very complicated problems, it has a long ramp-up time associated with it, and many people simp…

A Primer on Mcft Atlas
Ever since the advent of the Internet, Web applications have lagged behind desktop applications in terms of interactivity and responsiveness. One of the biggest drawbacks in the conventional Web model has been the cycle of inactiv…

ASP.NET 2.0 - Is It Really This Easy?
ASP.NET 2.0 contains a raft of new features that reduce the code you need to write and save you time and effort when building dynamic and interactive Web pages and applications. To illustrate this, and so that you get a better fee…

Refactoring Your MSBuild Scripts
Some things change how you fundamentally program. Automation is one of those things. It is what will save you from wasting your weekend stepping through tedious and error-prone processes like regression testing (unit, integration, …

DDL Triggers
A number of years ago, I worked for a company that was developing internal applications with SQL Server 2000. We didn"t have any real database administrators. I was given that responsibility, but I was really a developer, one of m…

Summer of Code Projects Announced
The Mono project celebrates its 5th anniversary this month. The Mono project was launched in July 2001; I started following Mono in the press almost immediately, and soon started checking the homepage. In November I downloaded the…