2006 - November/December
The November/December 2006 issue of CODE Magazine Focuses on Emerging Technologies
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ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part Infrastructure
Web applications today do a number of things. They could be a banking site, a content management system, or a news Web site. In spite of the diversity of Web applications available today, it almost always makes sense to break a Web page into smaller, reusable widgets
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ClickOnce for the Real World, Not Hello World
After four years of trying out every iteration of Web server application deployment that Microsoft created for .NET, ClickOnce has finally allowed me to succeed in deploying one particularly complex smart client application. But I still had to tear a few more hairs out before I got it working and came to love ClickOnce. I’m writing this article to share some of the not-so-obvious ways (including a hack or two) to use ClickOnce for application deployment.
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Fundamentals of WCF Security
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for the .NET Framework 3.0.With WCF, SOAP messages can be transmitted over a variety of supported protocols including IPC (named pipes), TCP, HTTP and MSMQ. Like any distributed messaging platform, you must establish security policies for protecting messages and for authenticating and authorizing calls. This article will discuss how WCF accomplishes this.
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Fun with RFID
In "Fun with RFID," Wei-Meng Lee explains the fundamentals of RFID technology and guides readers through building Windows applications using two affordable RFID readers: Parallax's RFID Reader Module and PhidgetRFID. Lee demonstrates how to integrate RFID for practical uses like employee attendance tracking, detailing setup, programming, and handling of RFID data. The article compares the readers in terms of cost, ease of use, and flexibility, highlighting RFID's advantages over barcodes and encouraging developers to explore RFID integration in their projects.
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The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Generating PowerPoint Presentations
This installment of “The Baker’s Dozen” finds the Baker expanding from pastries to eye candy: generating PowerPoint output. Many power users build presentations using data from Excel or other data sources. This article shows how to automate Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 from within a Visual Studio 2005 application. The article presents a class called GenPPT, which creates several different types of slides, including slides that integrate tables and charts. GenPPT is written in Visual Basic 2005, and the demo program that calls it is written in C#: this demonstrates using multiple .NET languages in a solution.
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Heard on .NET Rocks!: Microsoft Pundits
November/December 06 .NET Rocks Carl Franklin
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Ask the Doc Detective
Doc Detective (Doc D) guides readers through finding practical solutions in the large Visual Studio 2005 documentation, answering reader questions about: swapping a DataGridView LinkCell to a TextBoxCell at runtime (by assigning a new DataGridViewCell), setting custom icons for file shortcuts in Setup projects via the shortcut's Icon property, and controlling text wrapping when printing a grid by adjusting StringFormat; he also recommends MSDN forums and reporting missing docs to the VS docs team.
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.Finalize() - Profiles from Afar
Ken Getz November December 06 finalize column.