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Web 2.0 is being used to label a new approach that addresses business failures associated with traditional web applications. This flavor of Web 2.0 espouses business approaches more in line with those of viral marketing and customer evangelization advocates.
In the upcoming ASP.NET 4.0, instead of the current behavior where naming containers successively concatenate identifiers into the names of your rendered object IDs, we'll now be able to have some control over how those IDs should be rendered on the server.
To be successful far into the future developers need to assess how they can add strategic value to their organizations, and how they can best engage the entire IT department in the most efficient creation, deployment, and operation of software.
What happens when those responsible for improving a product don't take constructive feedback from the customers who love it?

Michael K. Campbell's article on web brower privacy in WindowsDevPro Update on September 4, 2008 discusses Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 8.0 and Google Chrome.
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 enhancements such as IntelliSense for JavaScript, an improved rendering engine, and LINQ make this programmer much more productive.
After months of silence, the Internet Explorer team is starting to leak some details about what Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) will look like. And while most of what I’m seeing looks good, some developers are crying foul.
The ASP.NET Model View Controller has enhanced implementation details and benefits, such as improved fine control over markup and better intrinsics, that developers need to be aware of.
Learn how to create a data-processing extension that will wrap around the default SSRS data-process extension to prevent complex queries or queries with large estimated result sets from running.
The new Model View Controller (MVC) due out from Microsoft later this year represents a paradigm shift in ASP.NET development that Web developers will want to know more about. This article critiques controls and notes a shift in thinking on object oriented programming.
What's your opinion about consultants? Here's one perspective on joining the ranks of development consultants by a developer/systems administrator who surveyed the scene and saw that he could add a lot of value.
Although every developer knows that development is all about the abstraction, there are some abstractions that are frustrating and unnecessary—these are labeled Abominable Abstractions. A few of them are discussed here, with overflow to our forums to hear about more of them.
Some additions to SQL Server 2008 of interest to developers including the .new MERGE statement, table-valued parameters, some date/time updates, IntelliSense the new hierarchyID are reviewed. Code samples are included.
Virtualization eliminates the need for a test machine when testing installer apps. With Virtual PC 2007 or VMware Workstation you can run an OS with installed apps on a second window on your dev machine. You can also test multiple versions of an app on one machine.
Side by side execution of an assembly without touching the client application or application settings. Consider the scenario where there is an assembly vendor. You are usin
JScript and .Net languages potentials cannot obviuosly be compared. But there's at least one thing JScript have while VB.Net and C# have not: the Eval() funxtion. Eval is able to evaluate complex exp
Data modeling: the words bring chills to some and visions of 14 hour days to others but with the tools available today such as UML (Unified Modeling Language) XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and CIM
Hi,   Last week I was working on a web interface, Where I wanted to ge
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Reading Text File using ODBC Driver in .NET When the Text driver is used, the format of the text file is determined by using a schema information file. The schema information file, which is
     
     

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Michael K. Campbell

Michael K. Campbell

Michael K. Campbell is the president of OverAchiever Productions, a consultancy dedicated to technical evangelism, mentoring, and quality solutions. Michael specializes in SQL Server, ASP.NET, IIS, .NET and related technologies. He's been a professional developer, Web master, and a production DBA for several well-known companies. Michael is the principal writer on the bi-weekly Windevpro Update newsletter. He's an ASPInsider, and has written articles for a variety of magazines and Web sites including SQL Server Magazine and ASPAlliance.com. He is active on the SQLAdvice.com newsgroups.


Shelia Molnar

Sheila Molnar edits the WinDevPro.com site and the WinDevPro UPDATE newsletter. She's executive editor for development, with a focus on SQL Server Magazine and WinDevPro.com. Formerly she managed developer and IT pro content teams at Microsoft.

 

     
     
     
     

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