Instrumenting Your .NET ApplicaitonAs they refine the .NET story, Microsoft seems to be getting more and more serious about pushing into the "enterprise" space. One of the latest pieces of evidence of this push is the release of the Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF), a set of...
Introducing ASP.NET Web MatrixBack in the days of ASP 2.0 and 3.0, developers generally had two choices when it came to building Web applications. One was to use Visual InterDev, which came with Visual Studio 6.0. Another was to code everything by hand using a text editor. I didn...
Introduction to ASP.NETASP.NET is a managed framework that facilitates building server-side applications based on HTTP, HTML, XML and SOAP. To .NET developers, ASP.NET is a platform that provides one-stop shopping for all application development that requires the...
Introduction to ASP.NETASP.NET offers a novel programming model and infrastructure that facilitates a powerful new class of applications. ASP.NET is a compiled. NET-based environment, so one can author applications in any .NET compatible language, including Visual Basic, C...
Introduction to System.DirectoryServices, Part 1The .NET Framework System.DirectoryServices namespace is a robust and flexible API for querying and manipulating objects in an LDAP directory, such as Microsoft's Active Directory. The System.DirectoryServices namespace contains several classes, many...
Introduction to System.DirectoryServices, Part 2In Part 1 of this two-part series, I showed how easy it is to read individual objects from an LDAP directory with the System.DirectoryServices namespace's DirectoryEntry class. Now, let's look at how to search with the DirectorySearcher class. The...
Learning to Love WSDL: Web Services Real-World ScenarioLearn about the contracts that XML Web services describe between systems using standard XML technologies (XML, XSD, WSDL, and SOAP), and dig into exactly how XML Web services are implemented in ASP.NET. Burrow through the layers and understand the...