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Keeping Secrets: A Guide to VB .NET Cryptography

he indisputable appeal of Web services will drive most organizations to evaluate development platforms such as .NET. However, security concerns have always made organizations reluctant to embrace new technologies. Fortunately,

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Two Critical Tips for Unit Testing in Java

evelopers write unit tests to check their own code. Unit testing differs from integration testing, which confirms that components work well together, and acceptance testing, which confirms that an application

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Upgrade Your INI Files to XML with .NET

he INI (application INItialization) file format became popular because it provided a convenient way to store values that might change (such as file locations, user preferences, etc.) in a standard

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Dealing with DllImport (Part 1 of 2)

Learning to program for the .NET Framework has been an interesting experience. I use the term “interesting” loosely: it has sometimes been amazingly easy, and sometimes unexpectedly frustrating. For instance,

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Generate and Execute Dynamic Script With .NET

What You Need To build the samples you need Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework (sp1). You should have an understanding of the .NET Framework and scripting on the

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Getting Started with Remoting in .NET

Remoting is a means by which one operating system process, or program, can communicate with another process. The two processes can exist on the same computer or on two computers

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Dealing with DllImport, (Part 2 of 2)

In the first part of this article, I explained the basics of calling functions in unmanaged DLLs from managed .NET code. In this part, I’ll show you how to use

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How To Launch CDs with HTML Applications

his article describes how to use an HTML Application (HTA) file that you can use to launch CD’s. Developers have had the ability to create HTML applications since the release

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Coding for a Time-based Medium

As Flash MX becomes an integral part of enterprise applications and rich-media interfaces, developers must learn to incorporate Flash into their established software development processes. A few years ago, Flash’s

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Review: Visual Data Solution’s SmartCombo Control

Quick Facts SmartCombo Control 1.0Visual Data SolutionWeb: www.vds.us.comPrice: $120.00Quick Facts: SmartCombo is a COM control for Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual C++, and any other Windows development environments that support COM

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Internationalize Your ASP.NET Applications (Part 1 of 3)

The Internet was originally used primarily by English-speakers, but the percentage of non-English speakers is increasing as Internet penetration increases. With huge populations in Asian countries coming online and European

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Creating Windows Services in .NET

uppose that your company’s field reps regularly upload files to the server, and the proper people need to be notified when these files arrive. Perhaps you need to monitor and

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Get Started with Multithreading in .NET

The concept of threads is central to the inner workings of most operating systems, including Windows, but relatively few programmers even know what they are?let alone how to take advantage

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Designing Resizable Windows Forms in Visual Studio .NET

Most of you have heard of?and probably used?the new anchoring and docking properties available to Windows form controls. They enable controls to automatically resize or reposition themselves as the form

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Extending ASP.NET with HttpHandlers and HttpModules

ASP.NET provides a robust framework for your Web applications. However, at times it becomes necessary to go beyond the out-of-the-box functionality. For example, when you request a resource such as

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Writing Advanced .NET Remoting Clients

The .NET framework has a number of powerful Remoting features to make working with remote objects simple especially in the client side code. You can use factory patterns to enable

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Insert Explicit Values into the Identity Column of a Table

For inserting explicit values into the identity column of a table, IDENTITY_INSERT property is set to ON. Table tblName has got following fieldsCompanyID INT IDENTITY(1,1)CoName VARCHAR(75) And following the data:

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Serve Business Graphics from Any XML Source

Editor’s Note: The Visual Studio project included in the source code for this article requires ‘Office XP Web Components’ (OCW10). The development and run-time machines must have these installed. You

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The Help Generator add-in

This add-in tries to generate a complete HTML project from your VBproject forms. It iterates over the forms in your VB project and generates an htm file for all the

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Serialization and Events

Andrea Zanetti Riccardo Munisso Downolad code from here Introduction Serialization is a very powerful characteristic of the .NET Framework. Serialization make the task of object persistency very easy but there

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Handle child XML nodes with care

When you work with XML documents loaded into an XmlDocument class, you often need to examine the contents of child nodes. The XMLDOM programming interface purposedly provides the ChildNodes property.

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Automatically hyperlink URLs in ASP.NET Pages

Suppose that your ASP.NET pages display contents read from database fields. Suppose also that some of those fields may contain URLs or email addresses. A typical example is when you

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A better way to query for a single node

In the XmlNode class, that is the class that provides node functionality in an XMLDOM representation of an XML document, the SelectNodes (and the ancillary SelectSingleNode) method exploits the XPath