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VS.NET 2005

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SQL Server 2005

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Vistual C#.NET/2005

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Clinic 2551: Introduction to Visual Studio Team System

Summary: This clinic will provide both Business Decision Makers (BDMs) and Technical Decision Makers (TDMs), Architects, Developers, Testers, and Project Managers with an introduction to Visual Studio Team System. This introduction will explain what the product is, how it relates to the software development lifecycle and how processes such as MSF fit it.
Audience: Developer
Available Offline: Yes
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Course 2913: Creating Your First Microsoft® ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application

Summary: This three-hour online course covers the entities that form the foundation of Web applications written with ASP.NET 2.0. This course is a great starting point for anyone who has not worked with Visual Studio 2005 or ASP.NET 2.0 before.
Audience: Developer
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Course 2924: Building Data Components in Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005

Summary: This course provides students with a focused, hands-on environment to experience the new features and functionality related to building Data Components in Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005. The course includes free bonus content that provides an introduction to the new enhancements to Microsoft Visual Basic® and Microsoft Visual C#®, and the new features in the Visual Studio® 2005 Beta 2 Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
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Course 4336: Upgrading from Microsoft® Visual Basic® 6.0: Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework

Summary: This three-hour online learning course teaches the Visual Basic 6.0 developer about the .NET Framework 2.0 including the Common Language Runtime, the Common Type System, Garbage Collection and COM interoperability. The course also introduces the .NET Framework namespaces and base classes. This training is designed with the Visual Basic 6.0 developer in mind to allow for a simple transition to the .NET Framework.
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Microsoft Developer Information

·         Microsoft Developer Security Resource Kit The new Microsoft Developer Security Resource Kit brings together a host of valuable references and resources for developing more secure applications.

·         Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets IntelliSense Code Snippets are reusable, task-oriented blocks of code. Visual Studio 2005 includes code snippets covering tasks ranging from creating a custom exception, to sending an e-mail message, to drawing a circle.

·         ASP.NET "Atlas" First Look Nikhil Kothari provides a brief overview of ASP.NET "Atlas", a framework to build rich Web apps on top of ASP.NET 2.0. The demo shows an app that uses the new server controls from the December CTP to incrementally enrich standard ASP.NET pages and an app that shows client-centric app development.

·         The WinFS Files: Divide et Impera WinFS enables developers to think about data as data, not as specific data formats. Sean Grimaldi explores the implications of being able to unify your data.

·         Migrate a SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services cluster to a SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services cluster

·         Take Total Control Of Your Networking With .NET And UDP In this article, the author will discuss the pros and cons of using UDP in your applications. Also, the author takes a look at the design considerations for UDP-based applications, including the details and pitfalls of implementing those applications in C#. Lastly, the author will also offer a preview of exposing UDP Web services through Windows Communication Foundation.

·         A Visual Studio Add-In That Converts C# Code To Visual Basic There are a number of Web-based code converters available, so I wanted to architect the Paste as Visual Basic add-in so that the user can choose whichever converter he wants to use.

·         CLR: Improving Application Startup Time Over the few past months, the CLR performance team met with several customers to investigate performance issues in some of their applications. One recurring problem was client application startup time. So in this column, I'll present lessons we learned analyzing these applications.

·         Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 This page provides an overview of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0. The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on enterprise development projects.

·         User Interface Controls in Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic 2005 Convert Visual Basic 6 UI controls into Visual Basic 2005 easily and efficiently.

·         C#: Create Elegant Code With Anonymous Methods, Iterators, And Partial Classes Fans of the C# language will find much to like in Visual C# 2005. Visual Studio 2005 brings a wealth of exciting new features to C#, such as generics, iterators, partial classes, and anonymous methods.

·         Coding 4 Fun: Kid’s Programming Language: Asteroids! Have you seen the previous articles here at Coding4Fun about KPL, the Kid's Programming Language? The overview is here, and the article on KPL Pong is here. KPL is not just for kids; it's for anyone who wants to code fun stuff fast. Proving the point, this is the second of a series in which we are recreating classic video games in KPL code—in this article, Asteroids! Asteroids is a big step up from our Pong example—a lot more code here. Next in the series, by the way? Missile Command—just like the old days!

 

·         Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 1 Service Pack 1 for Visual FoxPro 9.0 can be installed directly on top of your Visual FoxPro 9.0 RTM (released to manufacturing) version. You can also install SP1 directly over an installed SP1 public beta for Visual FoxPro 9.0 (the final SP1 components will be installed over the SP1 public beta files).

·         Query Notifications in ADO.NET 2.0 Learn how to use the new notification technologies in ADO.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 to handle ad-hoc data refreshes.

·         Windows Workflow Foundation Core Concepts (Video) Windows Workflow Foundation is a programming model, run-time engine, and tools for building workflow functionality into .NET applications. James Conard and John Evdemon, evangelists for Windows Workflow Foundation, explain the architecture and core concepts of Windows Workflow Foundation.

·         Simplify Development With The Declarative Model Of Windows Workflow Foundation WinFX includes a technology called Windows Workflow Foundation that allows programs to be expressed as declarative, long-running processes called workflows. Unlike traditional Microsoft .NET Framework programs, workflow-based programs are typically specified in a declarative Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) document that specifies the structure of the program in terms of domain- specific activities. These activities are typically implemented in a traditional common language runtime (CLR)-based programming language such as C# or Visual Basic.

·         Exploring New Speech Recognition And Synthesis APIs In Windows Vista Windows Vista includes a built-in speech recognition user interface designed specifically for users who need to control Windows and enter text without using a keyboard or mouse.

·         A First Look at APIs For Creating XML Paper Specification Documents This article provides an overview of the XPS Document format and how you can create and access XPS Documents programmatically.

·         Web Service Security To design, develop, and deploy secure Web services, architects and developers must learn new technologies, and consider new threats associated with exposing functionality on potentially hostile networks. To prepare you to meet these challenges (both now on Web Service Enhancements 3.0 and in the future with Windows Communication Foundation), patterns & practices has created the Web Service Security guide.

·         Top Ten UI Development Breakthroughs In Windows Presentation Foundation The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), which is built on the .NET Framework, provides new techniques for developing applications, and makes better use of current hardware and technologies. In this article, we'll show you 10 of the most significant advances that make WPF superior to its Win32 forebears.

·         What's in Visual Basic 2005 for the Visual Basic 6.0 Developer Review the exciting new changes in version 2.0 of the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET framework that make the switch for Visual Basic 6.0 developers an easy and functional move.

·         Smart Client - Composite UI Application Block This page provides an overview of the Composite UI Application Block. This application block is a reusable, source code–based component based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. It provides proven practices to build complex smart client user interfaces based on well known design patterns such as the Composite pattern, in which simple user interface parts can be combined to create complex solutions, but at the same time allowing these parts to be independently developed, tested, and deployed.

·         Moving Your Legacy Hardware Code to Visual Basic 2005 The author shows you what's new with serial and parallel communication in Visual Basic 2005 and what it takes to migrate your legacy Visual Basic 6.0 hardware code to Visual Basic 2005.

 

Microsoft SQL Server

·         Planning for Scalability and Performance with Reporting Services This paper provides information about the scalability characteristics of different Reporting Services implementation architectures. It also offers guidelines, suggestions, and tips for running your own performance tests with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services.

·         Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor analyzes instances of SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 in preparation for upgrading to SQL Server 2005. Upgrade Advisor identifies feature and configuration changes that might affect your upgrade, and it provides links to documentation that describes each identified issue and how to resolve it.

·         SQL Server 2005 Books Online (December 2005) Download an updated version of Books Online for Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Books Online is the primary documentation for SQL Server 2005. The December 2005 update to Books Online contains new material and fixes to documentation problems reported by customers after SQL Server 2005 was released. Refer to "New and Updated Books Online Topics" for a list of topics that are new or updated in this version. Topics with significant updates have a Change History table at the bottom of the topic that summarizes the changes.

 

·         SQL Server 2005 System View Map The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 System View Map shows the key system views included in SQL Server 2005, and the relationships between them.